College Admissions Consulting
国产第一福利影院草草 is a team of college admissions counselors, academics, and former admissions officers dedicated to guiding students and families through the college admissions process.
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Why 国产第一福利影院草草?
Families have been selecting 国产第一福利影院草草 for 15+ years to get admissions counseling done right by actual counselors.
Many larger firms dangle access to a 鈥渇ormer Ivy League admissions officer鈥 as an implied silver bullet to a highly competitive admissions landscape. While many of our counselors do have Ivy League backgrounds and admissions experience at elite colleges, we鈥檝e learned that this is not what makes a counselor great at guiding your child into the right college. Spending a couple of years reading applications at a single university simply does not translate to being able to provide high-quality college counseling for students applying to dozens of schools.
Unlike most other college admissions consultants, 国产第一福利影院草草 counselors have worked on 鈥渂oth sides of the gate鈥 鈥 as high school counselors and administrators, and as college admission representatives. We are also the only college planning company in the country to have contributed articles to higher education鈥檚 top journals and to have published two best-selling books, and our annual guide .
In sum, our background and experience allow us to offer unique insight into the context and trends that impact college-related decisions. As a result, we know how colleges 鈥 at all levels of selectivity 鈥 approach the admissions process, and we know why students achieve college success.
国产第一福利影院草草鈥 Services
We provide college admissions consulting and essay coaching to high school students of all ages including:
Private College Counseling
for 9th and 10th Graders
Provides guidance for all essential college planning tasks during the first half of high school, including:
- Academic advising and course selection for all grades
- Extracurricular planning
- Summer activity planning (including support for summer program essays)
- Resum茅 building
- Diagnostic standardized testing and score assessment
- Preliminary college visits and demonstrating interest
Private College Counseling
For 11/12th Graders and Prospective College Transfers
- College list development
- Preliminary review, assessment of chances, and strategic positioning
- Course selection
- Extracurricular planning
- Essay coaching (for personal statements and supplemental essays)
- Activities list and resume development
- College interview prep
- Standardized testing strategy
- Letter of recommendation strategy
- Financial aid and scholarship guidance
- College decision guidance and college transition support
College Essay Coaching
- Brainstorming support & assistance
- Topic selection
- Content, structural, and syntactical development
- Grammatical proofreading and editing
- Detailed feedback on each draft, provided within 48 hours
- One-on-one virtual meetings
- Virtual writing platform access
- Essay prompt organization and strategy
- Writing schedule creation
- Email support for essay-related questions and advice
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Results
Over the past several years, 98% of our students have been admitted into one or more of their top three choices; and our students are approximately 6x more likely to be admitted into America’s most selective colleges and universities.
BUT these results do not tell the entire story. Our success is due, in large part, to our students, many of whom come to us with strong academic credentials. We are NOT miracle workers鈥攏o college admissions consultant is鈥攂ut we do turn our students into better applicants and have the track record to prove it.
Acceptances
Class of 2025
Representing 39 states, 6 countries, and 157 different high schools, the 国产第一福利影院草草 Class of 2025聽was our largest, most diverse, and most accomplished yet. With support from our team of counselors, 国产第一福利影院草草 students earned admission offers from more than 200 colleges and universities. We have included a sampling of our most popular schools below. Institutions listed in bold accepted five or more of our students in the past year.
| Row A | Row B | Row C | Row D |
|---|---|---|---|
| Amherst College | American University | Auburn University | Babson College |
| Barnard College | Bates College | Bentley University | Binghamton University |
| Boston College | Boston University | Bowdoin College | Brandeis University |
| Brown University | Bryn Mawr College | Bucknell University | Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo |
| California Institute of Technology | Carnegie Mellon University | Case Western Reserve University | Carleton College |
| Claremont McKenna College | Clemson University | Colby College | Colgate University |
| Colorado College | Colorado School of Mines | College of William & Mary | Columbia University |
| Connecticut College | Cornell University | Dartmouth College | Davidson College |
| Denison University | Duke University | Emory University | Elon University |
| Florida State University | Fordham University | Franklin & Marshall College | Furman University |
| George Washington University | Georgia Institute of Technology | Georgetown University | Hamilton College |
| Harvard University | Haverford College | Imperial College London | Indiana University |
| Johns Hopkins University | Kenyon College | King鈥檚 College London | Lafayette College |
| Lehigh University | London School of Economics | Loyola Marymount University | Macalester College |
| Massachusetts Institute of Technology | McGill University | Middlebury College | New York University |
| North Carolina State University | Northeastern University | Northwestern University | Occidental College |
| Ohio State University | Penn State University | Pepperdine University | Pomona College |
| Princeton University | Purdue University | Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute | Rhodes College |
| Rice University | Rochester Institute of Technology | Rutgers University | Santa Clara University |
| Scripps College | Skidmore College | Smith College | Southern Methodist University |
| Stanford University | Stevens Institute of Technology | Syracuse University | Swarthmore College |
| Texas A&M University | Trinity College | Trinity College Dublin | Trinity University |
| Tufts University | Tulane University | United States Air Force Academy | United States Miliary Academy |
| United States Naval Academy | Union College | University College London | University of British Columbia |
| University of California, Berkeley | University of California, Davis | University of California, Irvine | University of California, Los Angeles |
| University of California, Merced | University of California, San Diego | University of California, Santa Barbara | University of California, Riverside |
| University of Cambridge | University of Chicago | University of Colorado Boulder | University of Connecticut |
| University of Delaware | University of Denver | University of Edinburgh | University of Florida |
| University of Georgia | University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign | University of Maryland, College Park | University of Massachusetts Amherst |
| University of Miami | University of Michigan | University of Minnesota, Twin Cities | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill |
| University of Notre Dame | University of Oxford | University of Pennsylvania | University of Pittsburgh |
| University of Richmond | University of Rochester | University of St Andrews | University of South Carolina |
| University of South Florida | University of Southern California | University of Texas at Austin | University of Toronto |
| University of Vermont | University of Virginia | University of Washington | University of Waterloo |
| University of Wisconsin-Madison | Vanderbilt University | Vassar College | Villanova University |
| Virginia Tech | Wake Forest University | Washington and Lee University | Washington University in St. Louis |
| Wellesley College | Wesleyan University | Williams College | Worcester Polytechnic Institute |
| Yale University |
Reviews & Testimonials
Explore real stories from real students and parents and learn what sets 国产第一福利影院草草 apart.
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Steve, Parent
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Kristin, Parent
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Rishi, Student
鈥淚鈥檓 so pleased to have had 国产第一福利影院草草 as a guide throughout the strenuous college application process. Now, two years after I first reached out I am a happy and proud student at The College of William & Mary.鈥
Emma, Parent
鈥淭he 国产第一福利影院草草 team was nothing less than amazing! They are very knowledgable about the application process. Their help in reviewing my essays, giving feedback and recommendations were priceless and very productive.鈥
Hagar, Student
鈥淭he 国产第一福利影院草草 team have been beyond awesome! Their expertise is top notch, but beyond that they are very responsive, approachable and have provided great coaching due to their insights to our family.鈥
Santiago, Parent
Our Team
国产第一福利影院草草 is a team of counselors, academics, and former admission officers. Click on an image for a full bio.
Andrew Belasco, PhD
CEO
Dave Bergman, EdD
Director of Content
Michael Trivette, PhD
Director of Operations
Kelsea Conlin
Director of Writing Support
David
Counselor
Kim
Counselor
Rebecca
Counselor
Sarah
Counselor
Kate
Counselor
Mark
Counselor
Emily
Counselor
Adrienne
Counselor
Frequently Asked Questions
Below are some common questions about our services. If you still have a question, please feel free to contact us.
We adopted a remote model in order to reach a broader range of families and better accommodate our students, many of whom have extremely busy schedules during the week, and as such, need to meet on short notice and/or during nights and weekends. We communicate through email, phone, and most often video chat (Zoom, Google Meet), responding to our families鈥 needs more quickly and offering greater flexibility and availability than what could be offered in a traditional 鈥渂rick and mortar鈥
model.
In the past ten years, we have provided remote services to students residing in nearly every state and more than a dozen countries. Ultimately, our long-term success has been due to our responsiveness and unique knowledge set, rather than our location or proximity to certain students.
Families researching the pricing and plans of multiple companies will soon find that our rates are equal to or lower than nearly every comparable provider. We keep rates relatively low because we can and because we want to. Initially, as school-based counselors and higher education researchers, we sought work more practical and lucrative than that available in an academic setting, but that still enabled us to do what we loved: helping a diverse group of students enroll and succeed in higher education.
Over the past decade, we have been able to develop an online presence and remote-based model that allows us to deliver services in an effective and efficient manner, while serving an increasingly broad array of families. Ultimately, we have been fortunate enough to build a business that contributes to more than one bottom line.
Our rates are about average for our industry; however, we are sensitive to the reality that not all families can afford to pursue private college counseling. Therefore, in order to make our knowledge and expertise available to a broad range of students, we engage in a large number of pro-bono activities; operate a very extensive award-winning blog; publish books and blogs; and devote a substantial amount of time to building , which offers comprehensive information and data on hundreds of colleges and their admissions and financial aid policies. For those who can afford services, but are still undecided about whether college counseling is a wise investment, we encourage you to consider the many ways in which we ultimately save our families money.
The bulk of our work together will occur in grades 11 and 12. However, 9th and 10th grade students can benefit from early planning鈥攊n the areas of high school academic advising, extracurricular planning, and major/career exploration, for instance.
We encourage prospective college transfers to contact us at least six months before their applications are due, but we can and do take on students throughout the transfer admission cycle.
国产第一福利影院草草 counselors are available weekdays, weeknights, and weekends. We work according to your schedule, and are fully committed to providing you with responsive and convenient support.
No. Maintaining your privacy and safeguarding your confidentiality is of the utmost importance to us. We do not release any identifying information about our families unless our families explicitly instruct us to do so.
No. We work with students of all abilities and academic backgrounds. At 国产第一福利影院草草, we believe that we should be evaluated on our ability to guide all students to 鈥 and through 鈥 鈥済ood-fit鈥 colleges, and not on our ability to get a few select students into a few select institutions. Do we take pride in guiding past clients into every Ivy League institution as well as other elite colleges? Absolutely. However, we take equal pride in guiding others to a wide range of excellent yet less competitive public universities and private institutions.
The short, quantifiable answer is that, in a typical year, 94-97% of our clients are admitted into one of their top-3 choice institutions. Further, our school-specific acceptance rates are generally between 4 and 8 times higher than the overall acceptance rate for the general population.
However, it is important to note that statistics of this nature from our company (or any other college counseling provider) have significant limitations. A portion of our success is, of course, due to the immensely talented group of students with which we have the privilege of assisting. Additional factors like the financial ability to apply via Early Decision can also be highly impactful.
Personally, the 国产第一福利影院草草 team defines its success more holistically. We take our greatest pride in seeing our clients discover their dream schools, refine their academic/career aims, and ultimately鈥攎atriculate into good-fit colleges that will set them up for success over the next four years and beyond.
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