Sheet 02 · Who you work with
Jeannine Sherman, Ph.D.
Hi, I'm Dr. J — Stanford alumna, curriculum expert, and founder of Spherically. With a Ph.D. and over twenty years in academic coordination, curriculum design, and high-level instruction, I help ambitious students stand out to top-tier universities. My coaching is high-touch and personal, which is exactly why I keep the roster small.
Stanford alumna & Ph.D.
Academic rigor, with insider insight
Two decades inside curriculum and instruction, and a first-hand read on what elite universities are actually looking for behind the published criteria.
20+ years in education
Curriculum design and direct coaching
Academic coordination, curriculum development, and high-level instruction — the long view on how a four-year record becomes a coherent story.
Narrative & essay mastery
Turning achievements into a voice
Selective admissions asks for more than grades and scores. It asks for strategic vision, sharp narrative focus, and real intellectual depth. That is the work.
Why the roster stays small
Every session is with the founder.
Not an associate, not a junior coach. That is the reason the roster is small, and the reason the comprehensive package costs what it does.
It also means capacity is genuinely limited rather than theatrically limited. When a month’s places are taken, this site offers a waitlist instead of pretending otherwise.
Students I've worked with have been admitted to
Stanford University
McGill University
Full scholarship
University of Washington
Four years from now your student is walking under stone arches — late for something, sure of themselves, deep in an argument about a book with someone who will be at their wedding. That is what all of this is actually for. Not the applications. The life waiting on the other side of them.
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