- What does it cost?
- College Admissions Mentorship starts at $18,000 and continues through admission decisions. Research & Competition Coaching starts at $18,000 on an annual engagement. Starting prices are published here, so nothing about the cost waits for a call; the scope above a starting price is settled on the consultation, not after it.
- How much time does this take each week?
- Weekly working sessions for the length of the engagement, plus the student's own writing between them. A family that cannot commit to a session every week gets less out of it, and we say so on the consultation rather than after it.
- Do you work with students who are not local?
- Yes. Sessions run online, so where a family lives does not change the engagement or the people running it.
- Which engagement is the right one?
- College Admissions Mentorship works with the student's real timeline — a senior applying in this cycle, or an underclassman with years to build — and continues through admission decisions. Research & Competition Coaching is for a student with a research project to run, on an annual engagement. The consultation ends with a plain recommendation — including, when it is the right answer, the recommendation not to work with us.
- When should we start?
- Early Decision deadlines close November 1; Regular Decision closes January 1. Starting later does not move those dates; it compresses the plan around them, and the early portion is the part that gets squeezed.
- Can you promise an admission result?
- No. Admissions decisions belong to the schools. No one can promise an admission result, and we don't. What we commit to is the work described on this page, done every week, with named people accountable for it. The outcomes published above appear with the methodology behind them.
