Third Floor Advisors
Overview
Liz and Matt are a mother and son team who help students reach their academic goals through the college and graduate school admissions application development process. They believe in helping students identify the principal themes that have motivated their curricular and co-curricular experiences and highlight those themes in their applications.
For close to two decades, Liz has informally advised students in the college and graduate school admissions processes. She has worked with students to shape their application narratives, prepared students for interviews, and reviewed and discussed application essays. Liz has helped many students discover and express the narratives that serve as the throughlines in their academic and professional application processes.
Having recently successfully applied to college and law school, Matt brings the student experience and perspective to Third Floor Advisors. A desire to help other students maximize their academic opportunities led Matt to serve as a peer writing tutor during high school and an LSAT tutor currently. Matt also brings his editing expertise and experience to bear on the student essay development and writing processes.
Service Providers
Elizabeth Brody Gluck
Liz is a lawyer, a writer, and a teacher. She practiced law for 25 years, including close to a decade in a large national law firm, five years in a medium-size firm, and two stints as in-house counsel, one for a national economic and strategy consulting firm and the other as general counsel for a large nonprofit organization. Her private practice work focused on corporate healthcare law and higher education law. She also served on the hiring committee and as a mentor for junior associates. While practicing law, Liz also taught in the First Year Writing Program at Boston University School of Law. Prior to law school, Liz worked as a writer for nonprofit and for-profit companies. She has been an alumni interviewer for her alma mater, Dartmouth College, for over 30 years. Currently, Liz teaches contract drafting for upper-level law students at BU Law. She has advised many high school and college students on their college and graduate school applications, focusing on essay development and interview preparation. Liz graduated from Dartmouth College cum laude and Northeastern University School of Law.
Matthew Gluck
Matt recently graduated from Dartmouth College as a salutatorian of his class, summa cum laude and Phi Beta Kappa. He was accepted to Harvard Law School through the Junior Deferral Program and will matriculate there in the fall of 2025. Matt works as an associate editor for the national security law magazine, Lawfare, where he edits and writes about national security developments. Matt has also served as a peer writing tutor and currently works as an LSAT tutor.
Our Services
We believe that crafting applications is about describing applicants’ curiosities and how they engage with them. We help applicants articulate and frame their interests in compelling and digestible narratives that illuminate the most salient components of who our clients are as thinkers and as people. This framing may take place in the midst of application drafting, at the beginning of an admissions cycle, or even well before students become applicants—as they develop and refine their personal educational directions.
Essay Assistance
We offer essay assistance throughout the essay-drafting and -review process. Our emphasis is on supporting applicants in the development of meaningful essay topics and helping them refine the structure and organization of their essays to help ensure that their narratives come through clearly.
Interview Preparation
We provide personal, detailed, and thoughtful preparation for admissions and job interviews. Before, during, and after conducting mock interviews with our clients, we engage in discussions that help applicants prepare for their interviews with a thorough understanding of the context and likely lines of questioning they may encounter. We run through scenarios that may arise and offer suggestions that allow applicants to feel prepared to respond to a wide variety of interview questions. We provide specific advice relative to the particular context and category of the interview, including tips and traps that are particularly helpful for in-person and virtual interviews.
LSAT Tutoring
Matt is our resident LSAT tutor. He carefully tailors LSAT preparation to the strengths and needs of each student. In addition to instructing students on the substance of the LSAT, Matt sets out detailed, flexible personal study plans that provide students with rigorous but manageable study targets that keep them on track throughout their LSAT preparation. Matt scored a 174 on the exam and was admitted to Harvard Law School through the school’s Junior Deferral Program.