GoSaySo

For Independent Secondary School Admissions

Help your student walk into their interview with confidence.

GoSaySo is a structured interview-preparation program for students applying to independent secondary schools. Each week of practice produces a written report on your student's progress, delivered directly to your inbox.

Built by a Hotchkiss alum and former Wellington Management Managing Director. Advised by Anthony Gray, Ph.D. (MIT).

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The Problem

Interviews carry real weight in admissions decisions.

Independent secondary school interviews are often the deciding factor in admissions. Most students arrive underprepared — not from lack of intelligence, but from lack of practice under realistic conditions. GoSaySo gives students the structured, repeatable practice their preparation deserves.

How It Works

Practice. Feedback. Reporting.

Practice on a Curated Question Set

Students answer interview questions drawn from a proprietary corpus developed for independent secondary school admissions — not generated on the fly, not pulled from a chatbot.

Multi-Dimensional Feedback

Every response is evaluated across weighted components: opening, structure, anticipation, closing, reflection, and presence. Students see precisely what to refine.

Reporting Built for Parents

Each week, a structured report arrives in your inbox. You see what improved, what to refine, the most articulate lines your student said this week — and the trajectory of their preparation over time.

What Parents Receive

A weekly report on your student's progress.

Each week, a structured report lands in your inbox. Below is a representative excerpt from a sample student report.

Interview
Preparation

Student : Charlie Patterson

Score	Usage	Sentences	Words	W/S	Run-On	Alignment
67.8%	6	2.4	78.3	32.6	High	0.31

Opening	Details	Anticipation	Closing	Reflection	Deflection	Growth
Fair	Fair	Weak	Weak	Weak	1	Fair

Summary

Strengths: Genuine warmth and authenticity in personal stories (see Q3) and Willingness to share real moments rather than rehearsed answers (see Q4).
Needs Work: Sentences run together without clear stopping points (see Q1) and Answers describe what happened but rarely show what the candidate took from it (see Q2).

Narrative Profile

Charlie communicates with sincerity but often without structure. Strong moments — and there are several — get lost inside long, unbroken sentences that don't give the listener room to absorb the point. Reflection is present but tends to stay at the surface; the candidate describes events without yet articulating how those events shaped them. There is a likable, grounded student here whose responses do not yet do justice to who he actually is.

Interviewer's
Perception

The candidate is genuine, kind, and clearly comfortable in his own skin — qualities that come through despite presentation challenges. His examples are real and his warmth is unforced, particularly when he speaks about his family and teammates. However, the responses currently work against him: long run-on sentences blur the listener's attention, and reflective moments end before reaching the insight that would have made them memorable. An interviewer in a 20-minute conversation will likely come away with a positive impression but few specific things they could later cite. With targeted practice on structure, pacing, and closing each answer with a clear takeaway, this candidate's interview presentation could match the substance that is already there.

Tips for Parents

Charlie has substance — what he needs is shape. Help him practice answering questions in three movements: one clear opening sentence, two or three specific details, and one short closing sentence about what the experience taught him. The closing sentence is where most students lose the interviewer; it is also where Charlie has the most ground to gain.

At the dinner table, ask him a question that requires a story — "tell me about a time you helped a teammate" — and gently coach him to land on a takeaway when he finishes. Ask him: "What did that teach you?" If he doesn't have an answer, that's the work. The habit of finding the takeaway is the single skill that separates a strong interview from a forgettable one.

When practicing, listen for the word "like" and the phrase "kind of." These are not small things. Admissions interviewers are attuned to verbal hedging because it signals a candidate who is unsure of his own perspective. Charlie's perspective is good. The presentation is hiding it.

Memorable Lines

"I think I'm pretty regular but I also think that's okay."

"My grandfather always says you should leave a place better than you found it and I try to do that mostly."

"I don't really know what I'm great at but I know I work hard."

Language Habits
& Biases

Charlie's responses contain patterns that admissions interviewers are specifically trained to identify. Each is correctable with practice.

Verbal hedging — 11×. Frequent use of "like," "kind of," "I guess," and "sort of." These words signal uncertainty even when the candidate is confident in his answer.
Run-on sentences — 7×. Average sentence length 32.6 words, well above the conversational target of 18–22. When sentences run together, the strongest part of the answer often gets buried in the middle and is missed entirely.
Vague intensifiers — 6×. "A lot," "really," "pretty much," and "stuff" appear repeatedly in place of specific language.
Trailing closings — 5×. Five answers ended without a clear takeaway sentence. The interviewer is left to infer the candidate's growth rather than hearing it directly.

"He's been hitting his interviews out of the park this week. His confidence before and after your program has been stark."

— Parent of an 8th-grade applicant

Enrollment

Begin with a Complimentary Week

Every family is invited to begin with a complimentary first week — a private, founder-led introduction to the program.

A 30-minute onboarding call with the founder
Full access to the interview module for seven days
A complete parent report at the conclusion of the week

After the first week, families continue at one of two levels.

Standard

$250

per month, cancel anytime

For families preparing in advance of the admissions cycle.

Families who begin in June and July arrive at their interviews having built the habit. Families who begin in October are still building it.

Daily access to the interview module
Weekly parent reports
Monthly progress recap
Cancel anytime

Crunch

$500

for 30 days, one-time

For families with interviews scheduled within the next 30 days.

Daily access to the interview module
Daily parent reports
Direct line to the founder
One-time engagement, no auto-renewal

Founder

Built by someone who has sat on both sides of the interview table.

GoSaySo was built by Brian Logan — Hotchkiss alum, Union College, and a 25-year veteran of Wellington Management, where he interviewed hundreds of candidates as a Managing Director. He built GoSaySo for his own children. Anthony Gray, Ph.D. (MIT), Director of Strategic Research at the University of Toronto, serves as advisor.

We work with a limited number of families at a time so each receives the attention the preparation requires.

Begin When You're Ready

A complimentary first week, founder-led, with a complete parent report at the end.

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