The courses that you take in high school will play a big part in helping to identify colleges that will be good fits. Starting in middle school and ongoing throughout high school, we meet with your student to create and maintain an academic plan that balances the nuances of a complex admissions landscape, the student’s academic and personal interests, and being appropriately challenged along the way.

A big part of the college process is how you spend your time when you aren’t writing that English paper or finishing a physics problem set. While it may be as a result of these things that many students discover passions, the time away from them is where students have the experiences that will distinguish them in college applicant pools. As part of our college planning process, we help students figure out what extracurricular activities during the school year as well as during breaks will align with their interests and enhance their profiles.

Especially with the nearly universal shift to a test-optional admissions model, application numbers are growing at unprecedented rates. Thus, interviews have become an even more essential tool in helping applicants stand out in applicant pools. Our interview prep team, comprised of Alex, Trey, and Nichole, provides individualized training tailored to create symmetry between the student and the specific school at which they are preparing to interview.

Through careful research and close consultation with Kim and Alex, students will spend their sophomore and junior years building a list of schools that represent an optimal intersection of fit and selectivity.

Your middle and high school years are a storyboard of experiences. The essay writing process, from the Common App main essay right down to even the most seemingly inconsequential supplemental essay, distills those experiences down, turning them into lenses that provide insight into the most authentic elements of who you are. As part of our essay process, you’ll work one-on-one with an assigned writing instructor who, under the supervision of Kim and Alex, helps you to identify and tell your story.

There’s a strategy to how you fill out the applications themselves – the best activities to list (and the order to put them in), whether it will be to your advantage (or against it) to fill out an optional essay question, or if you should indicate that you plan to submit test scores or not. These are just a few of the myriad nuanced situations that can arise. We are here to strategize around all of them and help you not only with filling out and submitting your application but also to provide guidance on tracking your application once it’s in.