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Barbara Shulgasser-Parker is a novelist, screenwriter, critic and journalist who has been helping high school and college students write effective college and graduate school application essays for years.

She's written and edited for Vanity Fair, The New York Times, The Chicago Tribune and The San Francisco Examiner.

As the parent of a college student, she knows that getting an early start on essays can help relieve the stress, for both students and parents, that is built into the admissions process.

Her own essay earned her admission to the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism.

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  • "Barbara’s assistance took the parental anxiety of wielding a red pen from us and took our daughter’s essays to new levels."

    — Jami H. (Parent)

  • "She was always able to understand exactly what message my daughter was trying to convey with her essays and her suggestions were invaluable.."

    — Ronna G. (Parent)

  • "Writing has never been my strong suit and writing my college essays was something that I dreaded for a long time. ...... Barbara made the whole process not only bearable but actually quite enjoyable."

    - Claudia G. (Student)