Single Edit
Edit Once entails a single written round of editorial feedback followed by a proofread for grammar, punctuation, and typos. You can choose from among three types of edits:
- An overall critique
- A sentence-level edit
- Editor’s choice
An overall critique is best for applicants with early drafts who are willing not just to revise but to re-envision their essays. We’ll evaluate your overarching narrative, identify what’s working and what’s not, and discuss your options for revision. We may advise radical cuts, a new outline, or even a new topic.
A sentence-level edit is best for applicants who are no longer interested in making major revisions. Beyond identifying and correcting errors, we may identify awkward phrases, finesse your transitions, and advise you to clarify, expand, or delete certain sections.
Editor’s choice may include elements of both an overall critique and a sentence-level edit—or it may not. This is the best choice for applicants who want us to figure out how to help them best.
How Proofreading Works
We’ll send you our main round of feedback without a proofread. This gives you a chance to revise your essay without worrying about introducing new errors. Note, then, that the draft we return to you may have errors.
You can send your essay back to us within fourteen days of receiving our feedback for a thorough proofread. We’ll look at grammar, punctuation, spelling, and usage mistakes, but we won’t comment on your changes or perform a second round of substantive feedback.
Unlimited Editing
Unlimited Editing entitles you to as many rounds of editing as you need in order to brainstorm, draft, polish, and proofread one essay. Most people spend about a month with us, but anything from three weeks to three months is common.
If you hire us for help on a personal statement that you haven’t started, we’ll begin by sending you a list of prompts. When we see your answers, we’ll schedule a phone call to continue brainstorming and outline your essay. Afterward, we’ll play ping-pong: you’ll send us a draft, we’ll send it back to you with notes, and so on. Our feedback tends to focus first on big-picture issues of structure and story before funneling down to more specific issues of language and tone, ending finally with a triple proofread: first by you, then by us, then by a third-party professional proofreader. Note that you’ll work with one consultant throughout.
You can use Unlimited Editing for any sort of essay or résumé, not just a personal statement, and we’re happy to work on essays that you’ve already drafted.
Unlimited Editing is one of our foundational products. We believe that editorial guidance lies at the heart of any consulting service—you are, after all, presenting yourself to an admissions office via essays—and we tend to hire consultants with a deep background in creative writing and editing. This product is about as far into our wheelhouse as you can get, and it’s what many of us are doing in our free time: brainstorming ideas for stories, then refining, revising, and re-envisioning them until they shine. We won’t spoon-feed you sentences or help you realize our vision for your personal statement: we’ll try to make your essay more itself.
If you’re looking for advice and guidance on every aspect of your application—including all essays—you should consider Admissions Consulting, but Unlimited Editing is a great choice for price-conscious 7Sagers who want to take advantage of our core expertise.
Admissions Consulting
Our Admissions Consulting packages entail start-to-finish help on five different applications, including unlimited edits on every essay, unlimited strategy sessions, and unlimited access to your consultants. Depending on the package you purchase, we'll match you with a professional writer or a former law school admissions officer or with a team of two: a professional writer and a law school admissions officer.
We’ll begin by discussing your strengths, weaknesses, goals, and work style, then sketch out a rough timeline, to-do list, and overall narrative. Our goal is to tell a single story with the diverse components of your application. Together, your personal statement, résumé, and optional essays will present a picture of your candidacy that’s more compelling than the sum of their parts.
As we work on your documents, we’ll provide continuous guidance and support about everything related to your applications, including recommendations, recruitment events, revisions to your school list, decisions about retaking the LSAT, and communication with admissions offices. Before you submit your applications, we’ll check them twice. First, we’ll read them for a total impression to make sure that each is coherent, compelling, and memorable. Finally we’ll reread them for details, making sure that you haven’t made any small mistakes.
If you add After-the-Application Support, we’ll also help you prepare for interviews, navigate waitlists, request more financial aid, and make a final decision.
You can read the full list of services below.
Start-to-finish help on all written materials:
- Personal statements
- Diversity statements
- Résumés
- “Why X” essays
- Optional essays
- Character and fitness addenda
- LSAT and low-GPA addenda
- Employment-gap addenda
- Scholarship essays that are included on law school applications
- Short-answer application questions
- Correspondence with admissions officers before submission
Inside advice:
- Data-driven guidance on timing, early decision, LSAT retakes, and school-list selection
- Strategies for splitters, international students, K-JD applicants, non-traditional students, applicants with character and fitness issues, and more
- Tactics to highlight your strengths and minimize your weaknesses
- Consultation about recommendations
- Tips about engaging admissions officers at recruitment events
Even more:
- Admissions course
- 48-hour turnaround
- Expert proofread of every document
- Final application checks
Included with an additional purchase of After-the-Application Support:
- Interview prep
- Waitlist consultation
- Editing of letters of continued interest
- Advice about increasing your financial aid
- Editing of scholarship reconsideration requests
- Deposit and deferral consultation
- Editing of all correspondence with admissions officers
Examples of Our Work
Our admissions course contains many samples of our editorial feedback. You can also see two examples of our work with real critiques here.
About 7Sage Editors
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Aaron Thier
Director of Admissions Services
Aaron Thier
Director of Admissions Services
Aaron received a BA in Literature from Yale University and an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Florida, where he taught both creative and expository writing. He is the author of three novels: The Ghost Apple (a semi-finalist for the Thurber Prize), Mr. Eternity (a finalist for the same award), and The World is a Narrow Bridge. His essays and criticism have appeared in The Nation, The New Republic, The Los Angeles Review of Books,Lucky Peach, and other magazines, and in 2016 he received a Literature Fellowship from the National Endowment from the Arts.
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Dan Grossman
Admissions Sales Manager
Dan Grossman
Admissions Sales Manager
Dan Grossman holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the University of Florida and a BA from Williams College, where he graduated summa cum laude and won the Arthur Kaufmann Prize in English. He has published short stories, book reviews, travel pieces, and cultural essays in a variety of publications such as Jewish Currents, Marginalia, and The Millions. His hobbies include baseball, chess, and old films.