College Applications and Tutoring

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Eric Gudas really helped me to refine my college application essays. He got me to better understand the prompts and how I could better adhere to them while guiding me in finding and developing the weaker parts of my essay to bring it together as a strong cohesive piece of writing. I deeply enjoyed working with him and look forward to working with him in the future.

—Faith, UC Berkeley, class of 2026

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Dr. Gudas helped me review and strengthen my Common Application and UC essays, along with essays for my AP English class. Ultimately, I was accepted into UCLA, USC, UCI, UCSB, and other colleges. Without the assistance of Dr. Gudas, my college application essays would definitely not have been as refined. During sessions, he really helps you understand the prompts and find your own ways to answer them. He is also skilled at grammar-fixing and sentence-structuring. Furthermore, Dr. Gudas has a great personality and is enjoyable to work with. I would recommend Dr. Gudas to anybody looking for any sort of help with writing, especially college application essays.

—Jason Ni, UCLA, class of 2027

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Dr. Gudas helped me articulate my innermost thoughts into written form. He helped my writing sound genuine and concrete through helping me articulate my experiences and thoughts into words. Dr. Gudas is genuine and he especially emphasized that his job was to guide, rather than altering the structure of my personality and writing style. He is great at grammar-checking and has a good eye for catching small errors. I’m now at UC Berkeley and my writing has developed far greater than it was during college application season. I highly recommend his help and wouldn’t trade it for the world.

—Former student, UC Berkeley, class of 2028

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Dr. Gudas helped me to achieve a 4 on the AP Language and Composition test. I went from not understanding the structure of the test and having difficulty writing compelling arguments to having confidence in both those areas, all in the span of a couple of months. As for college essays, I received thorough criticism each week when reviewing each essay. Dr. Gudas helped me to take the most important parts of my experiences to craft the essays that got me into my desired schools (UCI, UCSB, UCSC, UCD).

—Sophia T, UC Irvine, class of 2028

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Eric has been an amazing essay tutor. His way of approaching person statements for UCs is unique and makes it extremely easy to organize my ideas/experiences. I had difficulty in the beginning with turning my experiences as a student into a compelling essay for others to read. His feedback and edits were extremely insightful and by the end I had great personal statements to submit to colleges!! Very glad I got the chance to work with him.

—Zachary Louie, UC San Diego, Halıcıoğlu Data Science Institute (HDSI) - Data Science (BS), class of 2027

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Dr. Gudas helped me greatly through the college essay writing process, from concept to polishing my final drafts. He is understanding, his comments and suggestions are insightful, and his eye for grammar and syntax are superb. Dr. Gudas helped me create no less than four stellar essays that helped me gain entry to many colleges. Also, Dr. Gudas was able to encourage me to write essays that had me in them, so I was able to show the colleges who I am. Dr. Gudas’ help is one of the reasons I’m going to college today, and Dr. Gudas is an exceptional person and writer.

—Pierce, University of Florida student, class of 2027

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I entered my sessions with Dr. Gudas with the belief that my content and topic writing were already nuanced and well-put. Nevertheless, through his guidance, we were able to further fine-tune my writing in such a way that the final product surpassed its prototype by several markers. Comparing my finished work to what I had before, I noticed that my writing appeared more robust and presented itself with more clarity, while maintaining that sought-out narrative richness that makes one's writing appear more natural and stronger. —SR, UC Berkeley, class of 2028, Economics major

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We really appreciate your help with our son’s college essay writing. After working with you, he started to put real effort into the writing. As I read his drafts at different stages, I began to appreciate the value of essay writing as part of college application. I am glad you were guiding him during this process. Your guidance will have a long-term effect on him. I also listened to your podcast, and got some good advice for parents.

—Parent of UC Davis student, class of 2027

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If you are looking for a writing tutor, I’d like to recommend Eric Gudas, Ph.D. My daughter was assigned an essay in her English Literature class. Dr. Gudas was knowledgeable about the novel (he has years of teaching experience so he’s familiar with all the standard ones they teach in schools). He helped my daughter develop a solid thesis statement and carefully walked her through the evidence and commentaries for the body paragraphs to ensure they supported the thesis. He didn’t write the essay for her. He has a keen eye for noticing inconsistencies, ambiguous statements, weak arguments, etc. My daughter did well on the two assignments he helped with and she ended up with an A in the class for the semester. All the sessions were over Zoom and they worked really well. In addition to school assignments, he also specializes in the college admission essay. He’s very familiar with the University of California and Common Application topics. We are definitely going to ask for his help for our children on their college essays.

—Tom, Irvine, California, “Parents Looking for Tutors” Facebook group