Services

The Comprehensive Service

One Package. Unmatched Support.

We offer a single, all-inclusive consulting package that guides students and families through every step of the college application process. No hourly limits. No surprise fees. Just clear, expert support from start to finish.

Whether you’re just beginning or deep into applications, we help you move forward with clarity, confidence, and far less stress.

Trusted by Families. Proven at Top Schools.

We’ve guided students to successful admissions at Harvard, Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, MIT, Duke, Brown, Northwestern, and other highly selective institutions.

We intentionally work with a limited number of students each year to provide the highest level of personal attention and strategy.

Exceptional Essays. Award-Winning Coaches.

Your child’s voice is their most powerful tool—and we know how to make it shine.

Our writing team includes published fiction writers, poets, and editors with decades of experience. We help students craft unforgettable essays that are emotionally authentic, structurally elegant, and strategically smart.

This is not template-based coaching. This is storytelling at its best.

A Whole-Child Approach

We care about outcomes, but never at the expense of your child’s well-being. Our process is designed to reduce anxiety and support emotional health while helping students grow in self-awareness, independence, and confidence.

Authenticity Over Artificiality

We don’t believe in resume padding. We believe in nurturing real passions—and teaching students how to present those passions with clarity, purpose, and power.

College applications shouldn’t feel like a performance. They should feel like a reflection of who your child truly is.

Tuition: $13,400

  • Unlimited access to our full team of advisors

  • Strategic planning for every component of the application

  • Essay coaching with professional writers

  • Interview prep, activity list curation, and application review

  • Ongoing, responsive support for parents and students alike

We work with a small number of families each cycle to ensure exceptional care and results. Ready to learn more? Contact us for a free consultation.

We help your child….

Create a timeline and game-plan for all standardized tests
(SAT, ACT, AP)

Form a list of prospective colleges based on student/family preferences, academic ambitions, and career goals

Encourage and develop extracurricular activities to showcase student’s passion, goodwill and leadership

Brainstorm/edit/revise ALL essays and supporting materials

Practice for admissions interviews

Depth Over Performance. Strategy Over Hype.

There’s a common myth that top colleges are looking for “superhero students” with impossibly full résumés. In truth, admissions officers are seeking thoughtful, high-achieving applicants who demonstrate depth, authenticity, and a clear sense of purpose.

We help students position their strengths where they matter most—at the intersection of personal identity and institutional fit. Our advisors work closely and patiently with your child to ensure each application highlights not just what they’ve accomplished, but who they truly are.

A Steady Hand in a High-Stakes Journey

The college application process can feel overwhelming—even for the most capable students and well-prepared families. With countless deadlines, complex decisions, and high expectations, it demands far more than strong writing and organization.

That’s where we come in.

Think of us as your family’s trusted guide and strategic partner—clear-eyed, calm, and deeply experienced. We bring structure to uncertainty, help students shine authentically, and quietly remove the weight of stress that can so often overshadow this season. From start to finish, we’re by your side, ensuring no detail is overlooked and no opportunity is missed.

What Sets Us Apart

Julio brings a rare blend of editorial excellence and mentorship. He doesn’t just help students write exceptional essays: he teaches them how to think more deeply, express themselves more clearly, and grow more confident in their own voice.

Celeste offers families an uncommon level of strategic insight, responsiveness, and care. She leverages her extensive personal knowledge of admissions policy to make sure that every detail—from timelines to positioning—is handled with precision, and that every student feels seen and supported throughout the journey.

Working together, our team provides a level of guidance that’s both highly personalized and profoundly effective. Our clients often tell us it’s not just the results they value—it’s the transformation they see in their children along the way.

Read our
students’ results!

Your questions answered

  • The story of college admissions today is a simple one: increased demand has led to increased selectivity. The number of graduating high school seniors is increasing while the number of seats available at top universities and colleges remains slim. Additionally, high school students are earning better grades and scoring higher on standardized tests than ever before. In other words, it’s more difficult than ever for students to stand out. Alas, the college application—especially the essays—offers students a tremendous opportunity to distinguish themselves from students who have similar grades and test scores.

    ‘But I have a high school college counselor, right?’ Yes, that’s true. However, unlike your child’s high school counselor who deals with an extremely large pool of students and parents (not to mention infinite tasks unrelated to college advising), our advisors focus solely on college admissions and devote our time, energy and expertise to only a handful of students each year.

    Our team provides step-by-step around-the-clock support through all aspects of college planning and applications.

  • In most cases, a student’s college counselor simply matches a student’s profile (GPA and test scores) with a generic list of computer-generated colleges and universities. Rarely are key student attributes and family preferences taken into consideration. Additionally, if a student has high grades and test scores, that student is encouraged to apply wherever he or she wants with little or no regard for the key factors involved in each college’s admissions process.

    The bottom-line is that other counselors and services cannot offer the same level of personal attention and expertise to help students stand out, tailoring applications to each individual college in order to dramatically increase a student’s chances of acceptance.

    What are your goals and expectations? If you’re aiming for an elite college or university, or you desire expert assistance in organizing and completing the application process, then you’ll find our services absolutely worth the price.

  • Sometimes it’s the “WHAT” of a person’s story that makes his or her essay interesting. In other words, it’s the plot of a person’s life or perhaps a single moment that jumps off the page. In other cases, however, it’s the “HOW” of the person’s story that makes him or her so fascinating. In other words, you get lost in how this person’s story is written or told. In the most unique and memorable of cases, it’s both the WHAT as well as the HOW that makes a person shine and stand out on paper. This understanding and approach is one reason why our students are able to gain entry into their dream colleges.