Services & pricing

Highly personalized coaching, built around your ideas and goals.

I provide individualized guidance for college essays, AP Literature, and Academic Reading & Writing. The process is built around your goals, your voice, and the skills that will serve you after the immediate assignment is finished.

Primary service

College essay coaching

$100 USD per hour

We begin with the student’s ideas and develop an essay that remains unmistakably their own. I guide the planning, drafting, revision, and final refinement—and, when needed, help organize several essays and deadlines.

Application planning

Organize essays and deadlines across colleges and establish a manageable plan.

Story and purpose

Find the experience or idea worth sharing, then develop it and clarify what it reveals.

Focus and structure

Build a workable center and shape the essay around it.

Purposeful drafts

Revise through multiple drafts, each with a clear goal.

College-specific development

Shape each essay for the particular college and prompt without forcing it into a formula.

Final refinement

Strengthen language and flow, then check grammar, spelling, formatting, and submission readiness.

Individual college essays

Complete support for one college-application essay, from first ideas and organization to a polished, application-ready draft.

You always make the final edits and decisions before submitting.

Each fixed price covers one essay and its agreed scope, rather than a set number of hours. I also help students organize the work and stay on track with deadlines.

Over 500 words$500 USD

Under 500 words$300 USD

AP Literature tutoring

$100 USD per hour

Ongoing work: five one-hour sessions, $450 USD · ten one-hour sessions, $850 USD

For students who need stronger close reading, literary analysis, timed writing, or focused exam preparation. I taught AP Literature for twenty-three years and have served for more than twenty years as an official AP Reader for the College Board, evaluating over 25,000 AP Literature essays.

Poetry and prose analysis
Thesis, evidence, and commentary
Timed-writing practice and revision
Exam strategy without shortcuts

Academic Reading & Writing

$100 USD per hour

Ongoing work: five one-hour sessions, $450 USD · ten one-hour sessions, $850 USD

For secondary, university-bound, and university students who need sustained work in argument, organization, research, revision, and independent thinking. Longer-term mentoring is accepted as availability permits.

Analytical and argumentative essays
Source evaluation and research questions
Outlining, evidence, and citation
Long-term reading and writing development

About the rates

Rates may be updated. The fee confirmed in writing before work begins is the fee that applies. Payments in Colombian pesos are accepted at the current exchange rate on the date of payment.

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