Paul C.

I’m an editor, teacher, and clinician with seventeen years of experience working with adolescents, twelve editing college applications, and a decade tutoring writing, philosophy, and the social sciences. Whatever the assignment, the work is the same: I help students figure out what they actually think and how to say it clearly, whether that’s a personal statement due in four months or a term paper on Thursday. A college personal statement asks a seventeen-year-old to write honestly about thei…