“What editors find, day in and day out, is simply the same dull, obvious, shoddy stuff, the same banal and threadbare ideas set forth in the same flabby and unbeautiful words. They all seem to write alike.”
H. L. Mencken, Authorship as a Trade, 1920
Admissions officers read thousands of essays a cycle, and most of them sound exactly the same. That was true a century before anyone had a chatbot to blame.
33 words left.
Outside the 16 sessions.
Office hours
- 8 hours of one-on-one with a special mentor
- Direct feedback on the spot
- Help with essay argumentation
Alumni network
- Networking with students at top universities
- Referrals to internships at top firms
- Peer reviews from Agora alumni, and free bootcamps
Guest lectures
- Top students on their personal-statement journey
- How they found their topic
- The structures they actually used
Where they got in.
- NYU Abu Dhabi ×2
- Full ride
- KAIST ×2
- Full ride
- University of Kyoto
- Full tuition
- HKUST
- Full tuition
- Connecticut College
- Full tuition
- NYU Shanghai
- Full tuition
- CUHK
- Full tuition
“I was just saying: admit me for who I am. Then I learned that universities are like banks. They invest in people who will create impact. There are 10,000 students saying ‘admit me for my story.’ Agora taught me how to prove I was worth the investment.”
“To me, writing is like drawing on a canvas: language is the tool that shapes the final picture. Before Agora, I had the ideas but didn’t know how to build them. Now I actually have the tools to make them real.”
Pioneer Research Program (3 admits), Lumière Research Program (5 admits), Tashkent International School (2 full scholarships), and many others, including Said, now at KAIST. Every one of them wrote their own essays. We do not promise admission, and you should be careful with anyone who does.
$500, or $400 from SATashkent. Closes Sunday, October 18.
“My English isn’t good enough.”
If you can follow an SAT class, you can follow ours. The first month isn’t essays at all. We work on sentences and paragraphs, and most people find out the problem was never their English. Nobody had ever made them cut anything.
“I can just use ChatGPT.”
You can, and so can every other applicant. We’d rather teach you to write the one essay it can’t, because it has to come out of your own life.
“$500 is a lot.”
It is. It’s $400 if you’re from SATashkent, and you can pay in parts. That covers 16 sessions and 8 hours alone with your special mentor. If you are not a fit, we tell you on the call and suggest something better.