Candidacy Building and Application Coaching

This combination Candidacy Building and Application Process  Package comes with approximately 25 cumulative hours of counseling. Typically, they're virtual meetings through Zoom, Facetime, Skype, Microsoft Teams or Google.  However, they can also be in person, by phone, or through email.  It's important to note that with  package plans come minor homework assignments that help us cover more ground during our 1-on-1 meetings. Throughout each year, we track your progress on a college evaluation sheet to ensure timely advancements are made towards your goals. The suggested structure and highlights of the plan are as follows; however,  we realize each of our clients are unique, so we modify accordingly depending on specific needs and start time. 

Freshmen Year:

• Develop a vision and roadmap to help you stand out from your peers.
• Develop a plan to pursue leadership opportunities.
• Find the right mentors and collaborators for higher level endeavors
• Achieve your first milestones
• Pick the right sophomore year classes and summer activities

The 1-on-1 meetings  approximately are once a month during the school year with quick emails and check-ins as needed in-between.

Sophomore Year:

• Deepen your capabilities
• Widen your impact and strengthen your profile
• Work through obstacles and challenges
• Establish your standardized test-taking strategy and dates
• Begin the financial aid process, if applicable.
• Pick the right junior year classes and summer activities

 The 1-on-1 meetings begin to focus more on widening impact and establishing legacies. 

Junior Year:

• Pursue a legacy project
• Cultivate letters of recommendation
• Determine a testing schedule
• Research best-fit  colleges
• Build a college list and visiting schedule
• Explore potential majors
• Brainstorm ideas for personal statements and any supplements
• Pick the right senior year classes and summer activities

By the end of the junior year, student's are ready to begin the college application process.

Senior Year:

• Finalize a balanced list of colleges based on the student’s needs and desires
• Keep students on task to timely complete all components of the college application
• Brainstorm, draft, edit and revise the personal statement and any supplements.
• Finalize cohesive and compelling applications.
• Develop a strategy regarding early action, early decision if applicable
• Evaluate offers of admission and develop a strategy for waitlist and deferral decisions
• Select a major 

Depending on when you start, approximately 25 hours gets most students through this plan. Additional hours can be added at a discounted hourly rate to accommodate students with conditions that require extra care and attention.