I’m Niranjana (Nina) Iyer, and I’m a college admissions essay consultant, an editor, and a nationally-published writer, based in the San Francisco Bay Area. I am the founder of The Compelling Story, a writing consultancy where I work with new writers to help them understand the process and requirements for creating memorable, powerful stories--whether for a novel or for a college admissions essay.
College Essay Coach
I work one-on-one with students to help them understand what colleges look for in admissions essays, and then enable them to put forward their best, most appealing stories. My students have been admitted to the following universities (and more).
American
Amherst
Arizona State University (Barrett Hons)
Babson
Barnard
Baylor
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin
Brown
Caltech
Carnegie Mellon
Case Western
Chapman
Claremont Mckenna
Colby
College of William and Mary
Colorado School of Mines
Cornell
Drexel
Georgetown
Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
Emory
Fordham
FSU
Georgia Tech
George Washington U
Harvard
Harvey Mudd
Indiana University (Kelley)
Loyola Marymount
MICA
Lehigh
MIT
Middlebury
Mount Holyoke
Muhlenberg
Northeastern
Northwestern
New York University
Notre Dame
Oberlin
OSU
Occidental
Penn State (Schreyer Hons)
Pepperdine
Pitzer
Pomona
Pratt
Purdue
Reed
Rice
RIT
RPI
Rutgers
Santa Clara University
Scripps
Skidmore
Southern Methodist University (Cox)
Stanford
Swarthmore
Syracuse
Tufts
Tulane
Texas A&M
Union College
University of Arizona
University of California Berkeley
University of California Davis
University of California Irvine
University of California Los Angeles
University of California Merced
University of California San Diego
University of California Santa Barbara
University of California Santa Cruz
University of Chicago
University of Colorado Bolder
University of Connecticut
University of Delaware
University of Florida
University of Georgia
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Iowa
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Minnesota
University of Maryland College Park
University of Michigan Ann Arbor
University of North Carolina Chapel Hill
University of Oregon
University of Pennsylvania
University of Pittsburgh
University of Rochester
University of Southern California
University of Texas Austin
University of Vermont
University of Virginia
University of Washington Seattle
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Vanderbilt
Vassar
Virginia Tech
VCU
Villanova
Washington U. St. Louis
Wellesley
Wesleyan
WPI
Yale