- IEC Essay Review
- Harry Bauld IEC Essay Mentoring
- Harry Bauld Other IEC and Counselor Services
- Recommended Reading List for Counselors
IEC Essay Review
“This is incredible! I have read through all the comments a couple of times already, and I am excited to continue absorbing them. I will lean into the writing style of the paragraph both [Stephanie] and Linda liked, so there was less distraction for the reader and more space for details and information about her.
I’m so happy that I was able to hear from other professionals on this essay in particular–it’s like you were an essay angel sent to me this summer in particular! I greatly appreciate your time and generosity, and I absolutely loved this experience!”
– Sharon, IEC
Challenged by a student whose work is falling short of where it could be? Not sure that their essay is doing its job?
New Bridge’s IEC (Independent Educational Consultant) Essay Review offers you a top-level essay analysis with editing guidance and notes on how to implement changes with your student so you will have certainty by the end.
New Bridge provides a comprehensive essay review that critiques your student’s storyline and elements of writing within the context of admissions. Each essay is evaluated to exacting standards, resulting in precise, knowledgeable, and individualized feedback on style, voice, clarity, and story logic that you can use to strengthen your student’s subsequent revisions.
The New Bridge IEC Essay Review includes encouraging commentary for the student writer highlighting what works, and a more critical evaluative commentary for the IEC to understand why the essay has gone wrong and how to redirect the essay’s focus to optimize clarity and effectiveness. Because the essay review is not simply an edit, but is intended as a teaching tool for you to learn key concepts that you can implement in your own consulting practice. You will grow as an essay reviewer and be able to apply this knowledge to future essay evaluations. Therefore, the IEC Essay Review goes beyond what a student would get on their own in a New Bridge Essay Evaluation.
While this is a full review, the document is for your eyes only. You decide what to use and what to share with your student.
For IEC specialists, New Bridge offers a 30% discount on regular prices. The discount is reflected below.
| Essay Reviewer | Turn-around Time | Cost | Add-on Review of Revised Essay | Supplemental Essay Review |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Linda Lowen and Stephanie Bartling | 7-14 days | $350 | $210 | $210 |
| Harry Bauld | 7-14 days | $525 | $280 | $280 |
For IECs who want to utilize the New Bridge Essay Review with more than one student’s essay, or on an ongoing basis, we offer a partnership program with a further discounted price rate with Harry Bauld at $450, and Linda Lowen at $250.
Harry Bauld IEC Essay Mentoring
An IEC can partner with Harry Bauld to work through a student’s college essay. Harry will guide your student through a 1-hour essay development meeting, with both the student and IEC present.
You will learn through observing Harry utilize his innovative methods of working with students to bring out their most creative and individualized voice. Immediately after the 1-hour essay development meeting, Harry and the IEC will discuss major takeaways from the session and how to apply techniques to your work with students. The IEC will have time to ask questions to help improve their essay services to the student, and to all of their clients.
Harry also offers IECs other mentoring options, such as:
- Write your own essay with Harry
- Meetings to discuss essay coaching process, review essay drafts, or address any challenge that prevents you from offering your best essay services to clients
Harry Bauld Other IEC and Counselor Services
Harry Bauld is available for presentations within these topics and more to students, teachers, counselors, and IEC professionals:
- How Students Can Craft an Outstanding College Admissions Essay
- How Students Can Navigate Supplement Essays
- Professional Development for English Teachers Who Teach College Admissions Essays
- Professional Development for English Teachers Who Teach Personal Narrative Writing in the Classroom
Recommended Reading List for Counselors
On Writing the College Application Essay, 25th Anniversary Edition: The Key to Acceptance at the College of Your Choice, by Harry Bauld
Harry Bauld’s Reading List
- The Best of Brevity, Rose Metal Press 2020, ed. Bossiere and Moore
- In Short, Norton, ed by Kitchen and Jones
- Short Takes: Brief Encounters with Contemporary Non-fiction, ed by Kitchen
- In Brief: Short Takes on the Personal, ed. by Kitchen and Jones
- Brief Encounters: A Collection of Contemporary Non-fiction, ed. by Kitchen and Lenney
- Storyworthy: Engage, Teach, Persuade, and Change Your Life through the Power of Storytelling, Matthew Dicks, New World Library, 2018
- How to Tell a Story: The Essential Guide to Memorable Storytelling from The Moth, Crown 2023
Linda Lowen’s Reading List
- Wired for Story: The Writer’s Guide to Using Brain Science to Hook Readers from the Very First Sentence by Lisa Cron, Ten Speed Press, 2012
- The Pocket Muse, Monica Wood, Writer’s Digest, 2004
- Heating and Cooling: 52 Micro Memoirs, Beth Ann Fennelly, W.W. Norton, 2018
- Tiny Love Stories: True Tales of Love in 100 Words or Less, ed., Daniel Jones & Miya Lee, Artisan, 2020.
Stephanie Bartling’s Reading List
- 25 Great Sentences and How They Got That Way, Geraldine Woods, W. W. Norton & Company, 2020
- This I Believe
- Modern Love by The New York Times