Kaashvi Jain
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Kaashvi’s intro
I’m a junior at Dartmouth, where I study Economics and Quantitative Social Science with a minor in Creative Writing. I went through this process myself not long ago (I was admitted to Dartmouth, Vanderbilt and Duke) and I’ve spent the three years since on the other side of it: first with a private consulting firm during my gap year and my first two years of college, and now through my own practice, which runs almost entirely on referrals from families I’ve worked with before.
I’ve worked with more than 25 students in that time, on over 300 applications. The reason I enjoy this work is that the application is one of the rare moments in high school when a student is asked to stop and take stock of what they’ve actually cared about and what changed them along the way. In my experience, most students come to me certain they have nothing worth writing about. But I have a secret to share: with enough prompting, every single one of them finds it. A lot of my job is asking the right questions until your child hears that story in their own voice, and then helping them shape it into something coherent and meaningful. I took a gap year before college to work a parliamentary internship which is where I first started thinking about the stories we tell and how we tell them. I wrote a long narrative essay making sense of my experience that year, and it’s still one of my favorite things I’ve written.
I can take a student through the whole season or just the part they’re stuck on: narrative strategy and brainstorming, building the college list, the activities section, the personal essay, supplemental essays, the honors and additional information section, letters of recommendation, interview prep, and scholarship applications.
Lastly, families I work with also get access to over thirty guides I have written (some specific to the admissions process and some craft guides on writing with real introspection rather than plain reportage) during my time working in this field.
How Kaashvi works
We collaborate through a combination of online meetings and asynchronous in-line editing. I typically respond to emails in 6 hours, and return deliverables in 24 hours.
Common questions
Before you book
What does this cost?
We are flexible, and there is a plan here that fits your family. We share pricing on the free call, it is the same for every counselor, and it is in writing before anything is agreed. What changes between plans is the kind of experience in the room: a current undergraduate at a school your student is applying to, someone who interviewed applicants for a university as an alumni volunteer, or a former admissions officer who read files and sat in committee. Every one of them is somebody we would put in front of our own family.
Do we need to know what we want before the free call?
No, and most families book before they have decided anything. That is the useful time to listen. It costs nothing, and you leave knowing what we can do for your student.
How many students does one counselor take?
Few enough that the person you meet is the person who reads the drafts. Every counselor sets their own cap and prints it on their page, so you know exactly how much of their year you are getting. If your first choice is full we will introduce you to someone on the roster who suits your student just as well.
Our student is already a senior. Is it too late?
It is not too late. Several counselors here run compressed engagements and take seniors into the autumn, and there is usually more still open in a file than a family expects. Ask about your student in the small room and we will tell you what we can do with it.
Free one-on-one call
How the call is booked.
Kaashvi reads your student’s file and builds the plan. The first call is one-on-one on Google Meet and costs nothing.
Meet KaashviOr text Kaashvi firstKaashvi reads what you tell us about your student before the call, so it starts there rather than at the beginning.
If something changes
The agreement is held by Aristo Scholars rather than by Kaashvi personally. If Kaashvi cannot finish the cycle we move your student to another counselor on this roster at the price you were already quoted, and everything written down so far moves with them.
Where Kaashvi’s students got in.
Aristo Scholars is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Dartmouth or any other institution named on this page. Kaashvi Jain is an undergraduate at Dartmouth, speaking only as an individual, with no role in its admissions office and no influence over any admissions decision.