I’m Charlie Tercek. As an ad agency creative director, Hollywood TV writer, newspaper columnist and private school English teacher, I’ve mastered the art of writing stuff that engages and resonates. (Whether it’s a magazine ad for Disneyland, a web video for Toyota or a TV show like “Sabrina, the Teenage Witch,” at some point in your life you probably read or watched something I wrote.)

Now it’s your turn. I founded Personal Statement Academy to help high school seniors write the essays that earn them admission to schools like The University of Chicago, Tufts, Brown and Harvard. Could you use a hand with your personal statement and the college application process? We can help.