Help!!! I Don't Know Where to Start!

You're stuck. You don't know where to begin, what to include, and how to end. You're afraid that your less-than-impressive writing abilities will hurt your essay and your chances of admission.

Or ...

You're not stuck at all. You write well and have some idea of what you want to put in your personal statement and application essays. You just want to make sure your essays are as good as you can make them.

In either case, you want to further your education in the most rewarding and stimulating environment you can find, one that will prepare you for the challenges of your ideal profession. Rejection because of a poor personal statement can prevent you — needlessly — from attending the top school or pursuing the career that you choose.

Our package program can help you to write an outstanding personal statement. With this program, we help you to develop your personal statement: choose a topic, define your thesis, outline the essay, create a captivating lead and forceful conclusion and edit it.

Have an advantage over your competition.

We have been helping students write thoughtful, clear, polished personal statements since 1992. Our clients have been accepted to top undergraduate and graduate programs as well as law, business, and medical schools including: Oxford, London School of Economics, The University of Kent at Canterbury, Yale, Harvard, Berkeley, UCLA and U.S.C. for graduate study; Harvard, Stanford, Yale, UCLA, Boalt, Columbia, Michigan and Georgetown Law Schools; Stanford, Wharton, MIT, Harvard, Columbia, Kellogg, Darden, Stern, Michigan, Indiana, Haas,and Anderson Business Schools; and Stanford, UCSF, UCLA, UCSD, Mayo,George Washington, Tulane, NYU, University of Rochester, University of Texas — Southwestern, Vanderbilt, and Tufts Medical Schools. We help our clients to produce something others lack: the best personal statement they can write.

Save time.

Frequently a student will ask us to "just edit" his or her personal statement. Unfortunately, all too often we read the statement and realize that, despite the student's heroic efforts, the essay is a confused cure for insomnia. We then discuss the essay and what it should be. We help the applicant develop a thesis, outline, lead, and conclusion. He or she goes home and has to write it all over again. The student's earlier work was for naught; all that time goes down the drain. If you come to us before you write your personal statement, you can save yourself hours of frustration in front of a keyboard.

Distance is no barrier.

We have clients throughout the world and work with them via phone, fax, and e-mail. Although the drive or flight to Southern California may be beyond your ability, you don't need to be left behind. We can work together so that you can write a superior essay.

Satisfaction guaranteed.

We are so sure we can improve your personal statement that we guarantee it: If at the end of our first session you are dissatisfied for any reason, there is no charge.

Make an investment in your future.

You spend years and thousands of dollars to obtain a degree (and GPA) that qualifies you for further study. You spend hours and hundreds of dollars preparing for the SATs, GMATs, MCATs, LSATs, GREs, etc. Don't take an "it'll-have-to-do attitude" towards the part of the application that increasingly determines who is accepted: the personal statement. Make sure yours is your best.

Get the help you need!

Remember, you can have all the help you need developing and editing your personal statement for only US$575.00 for the first essay; US$425.00 for each subsequent essay*. No extra charges. No clock ticking. Plus you will receive a FREE copy of the booklet, How to Write an Outstanding Personal Statement, when you register for the complete package.

Call 310-815-9553 or e-mail to arrange for help with your personal statement and ask any questions you may have.

Special offer for MBA applicants: Purchase seven packages and receive the eighth regularly priced subsequent essay package FREE! A US$425 value!!!

* Stanford essays are priced slightly differently.

Yes! We want help as quickly as possible.

Great! Just submit your registration or inquiry online, e-mail or call 310-815-9553 to set up an appointment. Or print out and fax our credit card authorization form to us (310-815-9554 ), and we will call you to set up the appointment.

I am interested, but I have some questions:

Will you write my essays for me?

No.

How do we work if we don't live in the Los Angeles area?

Good question. We have clients throughout the world, and as long as we don't gloat about our mild weather during the winter, we work well with our out-of-town clients

First we set up a telephone appointment. This appointment is usually lengthy — typically lasting one to two hours. Its purpose is three-fold:

1. We get to know you, your goals, and your past experiences.
2. You choose a theme for your essay(s).
3. We consult with you regarding an outline for your essay(s).

You then write the essay(s) on your own, though if you have any questions you can call or e-mail us. When finished writing, you either e-mail or fax the drafts to us, and we edit them and return the edited versions to you. We then encourage you to show them to others. After getting their feedback, you send us the revised versions. We edit them again. We go through the back-and-forth of editing as many times as you feel is necessary. It is all included in the flat-rate price.

Aren't you guys expensive?

Not at all. The fees you pay to Accepted.com could be one of the best investments you'll ever make! Consider the possibility of increased earnings if you attend a more highly ranked school as opposed to the cost of Accepted.com's one-on-one assistance. "Ah," you say, "but you don't know if I would be accepted without your help." True. And we cannot guarantee your acceptance. But a brief look at our testimonial page will tell you that many of our clients are convinced they would not be in their top choice schools without Accepted.com's editorial help. They repeatedly and emphatically state that we are worth the money.

Furthermore, even if on your own you can write essays that would get you into the schools of your choice, do you want to?

The Businessweek Web site provides insight into the time required to write compelling essays in the form of a journal entry written by Bob Morse, an MBA student at Stanford Business School. Mr. Morse has no connection or affiliation with Accepted.com and never used its services. The clearly talented Mr. Morse states that he spent over 150 hours preparing his essays for MIT, Harvard, and Stanford. That's over a week of full-time effort on each school!

Accepted.com clients write their own essays and definitely spend time on them, but we estimate the typical client applying to those same three schools spends at most half the time Mr. Morse invested in his essays and frequently less. Let's do a little exercise: Calculate the amount of time it would take you to brainstorm, agonize, draft, write, edit, revise, rewrite, proof, and perfect your essays. Then cut that estimate in half and multiply the result by your hourly rate. That result represents your estimated savings from using Accepted.com - even if you could write winning essays without our help. Mr. Morse could possibly have saved 75 hours. Since Mr. Morse was a highly paid investment banker, he could have saved multiples of Accepted.com's fees had he used its services.

Accepted.com is a profitable investment!

What if we want the package deal for some essays, but only want editing on others?

That's fine. We try and work with your needs, wants, and budget. So if you want the package for one essay and just editing for others, we charge the flat rate on the first and our hourly fee for the rest. We aim to please.

When can we start?

Submit your registration or inquiry online or e-mail, call 310-815-9553 , or fax the credit card authorization form to 310-815-9554 .