Just weeks before learning where I would go to college, the head coach of one Ivy League's Track & Field program called me.  They told me their college admissions staff had been passing around my essay because they were so impressed with what I'd written.

 

I didn't quite know what to make of this.  What impressed them?  Which essay even was it?

 

What did this say about me?

 

Months later, I graduated from Shady Side Academy.  It wasn't until years later, after acceptance to the Honors English Program at Harvard and as a Staff Editor for its newspaper (the Crimson), that I understood this phone call.

 

See, while my qualifications may have been impressive, thousands of applicants had better ones.

 

As I continued to use my passion for writing and editing to earn various accolades—a perfect 6.0 score on the computer-graded GMAT essay, the role of "Assistant Professor of Managerial Writing" at Duke's Fuqua School of Business—it became clear what this said.

 

"Tekky can really write a story."

 

So, amidst the corporate stints my education has afforded me, I founded a copywriting and copyediting consultancy where I have advised and shaped the story writing of many founders, authors, and university applicants.

 

Yes, I received hundreds of five-star reviews and testimonials, and for a few years made a living editing and advising people's writing.

 

But this "About Me" is actually about you.

 

How you receive it.  How this all makes you feel about your own story writing.  What action this compels you to take.  Why you would accept me as your college essay consultant.

 

The essays and applications that got me accepted to all eight selective colleges I applied to were, naturally, about me.

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And your application will be about you, naturally. I help with how to have the things "about you"—your successes, your interests, your ambitions, etc.—jump off the page and resonate deeply with admissions offices.

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About me?  No.  What about you?  Literally...what about you is going to impress admissions officers across the country?  And how do you want your story to read?