Everything a parent wants to know first.
Straight answers on who the mentors are, what's included, and what happens if it's not the right fit.
The objections, answered straight.
If you're skeptical of a $200 price tag in a $10,000 industry, you should be. Here's the honest version.
$200 for the whole month. What's the catch?
There isn't one — there's just no overhead. Our mentors are current college students, not full-time consultants with an office, a sales team and a marketing budget. They earn real money per package and we keep the operation small. That's the entire reason this is $200 instead of $5,000.
Do you guarantee admission?
No — and be careful with anyone who does, because that is not a claim a person can honestly make. Here is what we do guarantee: four 45-minute sessions with the same mentor, and the real application materials that got them accepted, in your student's hands before the first session.
My kid already has a school counselor.
The average U.S. public high school counselor carries around 380 students; the recommended caseload is 250. Even a great one has minutes per student per year, spread across transcripts, schedules and crises. This is four dedicated hours on the application itself, from someone who just got into the kind of school your kid is aiming at.
How do you know the mentors are real?
Every mentor submits their actual Common App or UC application, their acceptance record and their résumé before they are allowed on the platform, and a person reviews all of it. What you see on a mentor's profile is drawn from those documents — not a bio they wrote about themselves.
What exactly does my student walk away with?
Their mentor's real Common App essay, real UC application and all four PIQs, and their activities and awards list — the exact materials that got that mentor accepted. Plus four 45-minute one-on-one sessions working on your student's own version of each.
Can we book more than four sessions?
Yes, and most families do. Four sessions is where everyone starts. If your student wants to carry the application all the way through with the same mentor, you book another round at the same rate — as many as you want, whenever you want. There is no subscription and no commitment either way.
How long does the whole thing take?
The four sessions run once a week, so about a month. How far the application gets in that time depends on your student — where they're starting, how much they write between sessions, and how many schools they're applying to. Some finish a Common App essay and a full activities list in four sessions; others use the time to build a plan and then book more. We won't put a number on it, because anyone who does is guessing.
What if it isn't the right fit?
Tell us and we'll re-match. We pair on two axes — the path your student is on and the specific thing that is broken — so a mismatch is rare, but it isn't your problem to solve if it happens.
The application gets submitted either way.
The only question is whether it’s the one your student could have written, or the one they did. Four sessions. $200. Start with a free 7-minute call and decide from there.