High School Students:
We charge $350/hour for work with your student or family or work done on your student's behalf. This work can include building college lists, reviewing essays and recommendation write-ups, course advising, resume development, creating test plans, developing application work plans, and phone updates/discussions with students or parents.
We offer a Get Acquainted meeting at no charge for freshmen, sophomores, or fall-semester juniors.
Since we immediately begin work with seniors and second semester juniors, we do not offer those students a Get Acquainted meeting.
Transfer & Graduate/Professional/Medical School Students :
We charge $375/hour for work with high school graduates who are applying for transfer, admission to graduate school, or special summer programs or internships. Generally, these students require fewer hours of support.
How many hours might be required?
Realistically, this varies depending upon the student’s goals, needs, and challenges. The degree to which your student is capable and willing to complete assigned tasks outside of meetings can significantly affect the time required. You know your student, and you are in the best position to evaluate his or her capacity and willingness to complete work independently.
Sophomores
We generally meet for 2 - 5 hours during the school year.
Juniors
With students who worked with us as sophomores, we generally work 2 - 4 hours during the fall semester and 6 - 10 hours during the spring semester.
Rising seniors: June through December of senior year -- College application season!
We generally work for 10 - 30 hours on the college application process, including meetings, list development, recommendation support, feedback on essays, and cost/financial aid/scholarship discussions.
Students who start later in the process still need to complete all of the steps other students completed earlier in high school, and this requires more time. Recruited athletes and students in the arts have greatly accelerated and more complex processes.
Students who may need less time include those who have:
Students who may need more time include those who have:
We are committed to providing each student and family with the individualized support for a successful college planning process.
We charge $350/hour for work with your student or family or work done on your student's behalf. This work can include building college lists, reviewing essays and recommendation write-ups, course advising, resume development, creating test plans, developing application work plans, and phone updates/discussions with students or parents.
We offer a Get Acquainted meeting at no charge for freshmen, sophomores, or fall-semester juniors.
Since we immediately begin work with seniors and second semester juniors, we do not offer those students a Get Acquainted meeting.
Transfer & Graduate/Professional/Medical School Students :
We charge $375/hour for work with high school graduates who are applying for transfer, admission to graduate school, or special summer programs or internships. Generally, these students require fewer hours of support.
How many hours might be required?
Realistically, this varies depending upon the student’s goals, needs, and challenges. The degree to which your student is capable and willing to complete assigned tasks outside of meetings can significantly affect the time required. You know your student, and you are in the best position to evaluate his or her capacity and willingness to complete work independently.
Sophomores
We generally meet for 2 - 5 hours during the school year.
Juniors
With students who worked with us as sophomores, we generally work 2 - 4 hours during the fall semester and 6 - 10 hours during the spring semester.
Rising seniors: June through December of senior year -- College application season!
We generally work for 10 - 30 hours on the college application process, including meetings, list development, recommendation support, feedback on essays, and cost/financial aid/scholarship discussions.
Students who start later in the process still need to complete all of the steps other students completed earlier in high school, and this requires more time. Recruited athletes and students in the arts have greatly accelerated and more complex processes.
Students who may need less time include those who have:
- Strong independent work skills
- Effective personal-essay writing skills and who can incorporate feedback from drafts
- Completed thorough research on their colleges
- College lists that include only in-state public colleges or less-selective out-of-state public colleges
Students who may need more time include those who have:
- Inconsistent work skills
- A history of anxiety
- Highly specialized college requirements
- Extensive college lists including selective schools with many supplemental essays
- A list of colleges requiring several different application forms -- Common Application, Coalition Application, individual state or private institution applications
- Struggles with effective first-person storytelling necessary for college essays
- Weak grammatical and editing skills
- Complex issues related to paying for college
- Academic or disciplinary issues
- Athletic-recruiting goals
We are committed to providing each student and family with the individualized support for a successful college planning process.