Private College Advising
Serving 10th - 12th Grade Students Since 2012
How will you actually help my teen?
Our goal is to bring peace of mind to your family in the application process.
We make the process as stress-free as possible, while simultaneously helping your student grow and develop the ability to think introspectively about her academic goals, needs, and desires.
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We spend time researching and visiting colleges to bring our knowledge of schools to your family and assist your teen in their college search process.
We spend time getting to know and mentor your teen and we advocate for their best interest every step of the way.
We want to make advising accessible.
As a non-profit organization, we work hard to ensure we increase access for first-generation and low-income students. That’s why, for every college counseling package purchased, we’re able to gift our standard package to a student who qualifies for Free and Reduced Meal Service at no cost to that family.
We also offer 10% off all our packages to first-generation students and military families.
PLANS & PRICING
Our College Advising Packages
We offer three packages for 10th–12th-grade students, tailored to the level of support and mentorship you and your teen desire until they graduate.
STANDARD
9-12
Total College Applications
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3 Ivy League / Highly Selective Schools
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All Honors College Applications
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Financial Aid Guidance
ADVANCED
13-15
Total College Applications
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5 Ivy League / Highly Selective Schools
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Athletic Recruitment Tracking
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Visual and Performing Art Portfolio Review
IVY+
16-18
Total College Applications
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6+ Ivy League / Highly Selective Schools
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7 Strategy Sessions With Sydney
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Passion Project Support
*8th–10th grade students typically meet 1x/month​​
*Additional essay support is available at $250/hour
*Passion project add-on to non-Ivy+ packages at $250/hour
We also offer 10% off all our packages to first-generation students and military families. Payment plans are available.
Students work closely with a small, experienced advising team — made up of former admissions deans, directors, officers, and professional college counselors — who take the time to truly get to know each student, with strategic oversight from our founder to ensure thoughtful, high-quality guidance throughout the process.
On average, each college has 2–3 supplemental essays in addition to the Common Application essay. With our essay review process, students typically write an average of 3 drafts per essay, with detailed feedback and line edits provided by our advising and essay review team. We work with our students to strategically plan their content so that they work smarter, not harder, when working through all their college essays.
**We consider the following list of schools in our count of Ivy League/Highly Selective schools because these schools tend to have a lot of supplemental essays and very low admissions rates. There are a lot of fantastic schools not on this list below because they have fewer supplemental essays that can be easily derived from other essays. ​ ​
Ivy League
Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, University of Pennsylvania
Highly Selective
MIT, Stanford, CalTech, Georgetown, Duke, University of Chicago, University of Southern California, Johns Hopkins, Vanderbilt, Washington University St. Louis, Michigan, UC Berkeley, UNC Chapel Hill, Carnegie Mellon
