Private College Advising
Serving 10th–12th Grade Students Since 2012
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, Barrier Breakers®, Inc., we work hard to make sure that we’re increasing access to first-generation, minority, and immigrant students. That’s why we’re proud to offer our Give the Gift Matching Program.
For every college counseling package that is purchased, we’re able to gift a 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.
Our College Advising Packages
We offer three packages for 10th - 12th-grade students based on the amount of support and mentorship you and your teen desire!
Meetings typically occur once every other month during sophomore year, once a month during junior year, and 2-3 times per month during the college essay-writing process.
On average, each college has between 2-3 supplemental essays in addition to the common app essay. With our essay review process, students typically write an average of 3 drafts per essay. We work with our students to strategically plan their content so that they work smarter and not harder when working through all their college essays :)
*Additional essay support is available at $250/hour
We also offer 10% off all our packages to first-generation students and military families. Payment plans are available.
**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.
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Ivy League: Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Dartmouth, Cornell, Columbia, Brown, University of Pennsylvania
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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