College Admissions Consultants & Assistance

 

 

Our college admissions counseling is one-on-one and customized to help you get into the best colleges.

If you’re applying to top colleges, our college admissions consultants and college admissions experts will help you with:

Personalized college admissions counseling	Admissions essays
Custom academic reports and admissions probabilities	Designing summer activities / internships / jobs
Completion of admissions applications	Curriculum counseling
Specific academic recommendations	Getting off the Wait list

Here’s a list of some of the schools our college admissions consultants can help with:

• Ivy League Schools Admissions – Brown, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Harvard, Princeton, Penn and Yale
• All Top 100 Colleges and Universities (USA)
• All Top 100 Public Universities
• All Military Academies

Tips and Strategies to Get Accepted

How our College Admissions Counseling Works

Our college admissions counseling is like having a private coach to help you win the game. Beyond test scores, there are many things to consider. What kind of internship or summer job could enhance a possible weakness in your application? What is the common application and how should you approach it? When is an individualized application better? What are the tricks to writing a stellar college admission essay? We can help with all the nuances of the admission process, including:

• Personalized college admissions counseling
• Help with admissions essays
• Selecting and designing the appropriate extracurricular activities and internships
• Curriculum and academic counseling
• Getting off the wait list
• Completion of admissions applications

Master the Common App

The common application makes it easier to apply to a greater number of universities and colleges; over 200 private academic institutions accept it, and last year 2.5 million college applications were filed. However, since it creates one universal application that will be used again and again, it is absolutely essential to get it right. Once a form is submitted, it cannot be retrieved or edited.

Don’t think of it as an exercise in futility. Approached in the right spirit, completing the application will give you valuable skills that you will use again and again, in applying to programs and for jobs, and in creating a representative sketch of your skills for a resume or CV. The application should be a snap shot of your high school career.

Get organized and plan ahead. Print the common application out early and familiarize yourself with it. The common application can be competed online, but having a hard copy to start with will help you. Begin early on to identify experiences and accomplishments that you wish to highlight on the application. The goal is not to list every single experience and accomplishment, but to strategically highlight those that paint a representative picture of a balanced and comprehensive academic career.

Proofread and fact-check. Be absolutely sure your application is free from grammatical and factual errors. Make sure you know the difference between a weighted and non-weighted GPA and be careful to self-report your academic test scores accurately. Go over the application several times, and don’t trust just your own eyes. Get help editing and reviewing your application several times before you turn it in. Don’t submit the final draft right away, but check it over again a few days later. You should be the last person to look over your final essay before submitting it. Even after your application has been proofread and corrected several times, even by people who are professional college counselors, you should always have the last look.

Tips for Writing a Great College Admissions Essay

The admissions essay is a great place to shine with those writing skills you’ve been carefully polishing. College will involve a great deal of writing, so the essay is a great place to show that you’ve got what it takes. You only have a few words. Don’t bother with a lengthy introduction or conclusion. Instead opt for a strong opening hook and elegant, brief close. Normally you will have a choice of themes or topics. Before you begin, carefully evaluate which topic will best balance out your application.

Follow the word count guidelines and craft an original essay rather than reworking an old favorite of yours. Admissions administrators are looking for a consistent voice, which is nearly impossible to attain by editing an older essay.

Remember that part of writing is rewriting. Never submit the first draft. Put it down, walk away, work on other things, then come back to revise and edit. Take out all repetitive ideas, make your transitions stronger, and use language that is alive and vibrant. Do all of your sub-points support the main theme?

Use active voice instead of passive. “Fun was had,” is the sort of passive construction that will take your reader right out of the flow and engage their critical engines. “I had fun,” may sound like an admission of guilt, but your academic judges are people too. They will be on your side as long as your writing is candid and upbeat.

Be original, be yourself, be confident. There is only one of you and you are the only expert on that subject. Write from your own experience and you may even amaze yourself. If you are struggling to know where to start, know that you are not alone. Start with an experience that you expected to turn out badly but somehow things worked out in the end. Take a few passes at it and choose the best.

Be clear and use unambiguous sentence structures. A sentence that stretches on for a page is great for French literature, but a real killer for your admissions essay. The average admissions counselor spends eight minutes devoted to your essay. Don’t force them to spend your eight minutes untangling one unwieldy, convoluted sentence. Like your sentences, keep your ideas simple and straightforward.

Here’s how our college admissions counseling works: