Essay coach
Asks the questions that pull out your student's best story. Your student does the writing.
From the first brainstorm to the final read, the Essay coach helps your student write essays that sound like them and support their Core Narrative.
Builds the pillars
- Character
- Future and fit
What it does
The method for great essays
The secrets and techniques behind essays that admissions officers remember, taught step by step, from finding the story to the final read.
Find the story only your student can tell
A brainstorming tool that uncovers the moments, values and ideas in your student's own life that make the strongest topics.
A feedback coach on every draft
Sharp feedback on story development, grammar and spelling, so each draft is stronger than the last and still sounds like your student.
Every essay under control
Every essay and topic in progress, with word counts and versions, so nothing is forgotten or written twice.
A look inside.
Maya is a fictional student, just to illustrate the actual product experience.
Connected to everything else.
Essay coach reads your student's profile and Core Narrative, and shares its decisions with the other modules, so every part of the application tells the same story.
Uses decisions from
Shares decisions with
What it will never do
Pursiva guides. Your student decides, and the work stays theirs.
- Write the essay on behalf of your student
- Invent experiences or motivations
- Flatten your student's voice into generic prose
Start with Essay coach. Get all eight modules.
$49.90 a month, every module included. Cancel anytime.
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