Sean V.

Hello! My name is Sean, and I am a Cambridge graduate and former admissions reader at the University of California, Irvine. Having sat on both sides of the admissions table—as both an applicant to the world’s most elite institutions and an evaluator for a major public research university—I have developed a deep, ""insider"" understanding of what truly makes an application successful. Since 2021, I have read hundreds of applications, learning exactly how to distinguish a stand-out candidate from a…