About Us

GradeSaver was founded in April 1999 by Nick Smith and Olivia Verma, both attending Harvard University and living in Eliot House at the time. After having spent years helping each other edit class essays, they realized that students all around the world would benefit from having someone edit, revise and offer suggestions on their essays before submitting them to the intense scrutiny of their professors and teachers.

With the recruited help of a fellow student and friend, David Ramsey, an initial website was set up and GradeSaver was launched. The summer of 1999 involved a great deal of work on developing the site, creating the Writing Resource section, and setting up the editing services.

During the fall of 1999 GradeSaver grew at a tremendous pace. The submissions were increasing weekly, and the company began to recruit other Harvard students as editors. As the number of essays edited by GradeSaver increased, it soon became obvious that many students needed good literature resources on the internet to help them with their essays.

GradeSaver soon decided to create classic literature study guides and put them on the internet for free. This quickly turned into ClassicNotes, written exclusively by Harvard students. With millions of users each month and over 300 titles, ClassicNotes ranks among the largest academic resources available online.

Now in its eighth year, GradeSaver is one of the top editing and literature sites in the world. We have received international recognition from USAToday, The Guardian (London) and Die Zeit (Germany) as well as many other local papers across the US and UK. As we continue to grow and expand, we depend more and more on feedback from our users. If you have suggestions for improving our site, please write to us at readers@gradesaver.com. If you like what you see, please suggest our site to the major web directories so we can continue to increase our visibility on the net. If you would like to advertise on our site, please contact Burstmedia.

Good luck with your writing and we hope to hear from you soon!

Yours,

Olivia Verma and Nick Smith