Margaret has been editing college essays (and loving it!) for over a decade. Her educational background includes a B.A. in Comparative Literature from Princeton, an M.A. in East Asian Languages and Civilizations from Harvard, and a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from the University of Michigan. She taught English for two years at Tianjin, University in Tianjin, China, and led teams of English teachers for five summers to Shanghai and Tianjin. Together with her husband of 28 years, she has raised five children, one now finishing up at Harvard Law, a second in UM Medical School, the third in a Social Work Master’s Program at UM, a fourth at UM, and the fifth at MSU Engineering. She has coached students accepted at many colleges, including Stanford, all of the ivy league colleges, Vanderbilt, U Chicago, MIT, UC Berkeley, Georgia Tech, Northwestern, MSU, and UM.