Stacey Brook

Stacey Brook

Background

Stacey Brook is an accomplished writer and admissions expert who has spent over two decades helping students conceptualize, edit and refine their college essays. During her college years, Stacey discovered she had both a knack for consistently reinventing the creative personal statement and a perverse love of bridging the gap between stressed-out teenagers and their parents. She received her first exposure to the admissions process in the Dean’s Host program at Boston University’s College of Communication, serving for two years as the program’s coordinator. She has a degree in Communications/Public Relations and, fittingly, has always viewed the college essay as an exercise in personal branding. 

Expertise

Stacey has since spoken at schools around the world on the subject of the personal statement and has advised thousands of students through the process of composing winning college essays. She currently advises a select number of students each year through College Essay Advisors, and is dispensing her college essay expertise to applicants around the world via her book, The Uncommon College Essay: An Approachable Guide to an Intimidating Process. Stacey’s writing has also been featured in publications including The New Yorker, Teen Vogue, Oprah, Condé Nast Traveler, and more. She lives in New York, NY where she spends most of her spare time eating her way through the city like it’s her (second) job.

College Essay

Stacey’s own college admissions essay involved a contrived The Wizard of Oz metaphor comparing her life journey at 17 to the yellow brick road. Though it successfully secured her admission, in retrospect she kind of wishes she had hired an essay consultant.