Results & Outcomes
No hype, no inflated claims. Placements, scholarship totals, and anonymized case studies — with a clear note on how each number is counted.
200+
Ivy League placements
$38M+
in scholarships secured
~50
high-touch clients per year
2 mentors
per student — an Ivy student and a career professional
Ivy League & Ivy Plus
200+ placements
Admits across Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Cornell, and Dartmouth — plus Ivy Plus peers including Stanford, MIT, Duke, and the University of Chicago.
Scholarships
$38M+ secured
Cumulative merit and need-based awards reported by client families — including full-tuition and full-ride offers at top-30 institutions.
Transfer Outcomes
CC → Top 25
Community college and lateral transfer students placed at Michigan, UVA, and other top public and private institutions through GPA-first transfer strategy.
Top Public Flagships
Berkeley to UNC
For families optimizing cost and outcome, placements at flagship honors programs with significant merit support.
Selected Case Studies
All case studies are anonymized; identifying details are altered to protect client privacy.
Narrative Repositioning
Starting point
Junior with a 3.4 GPA, strong work ethic, no obvious hook, and a scattered activities list.
Strategy
Rebuilt the application around applied entrepreneurship — a small business the student ran was moved from the bottom of the activities list to the center of the narrative. Essays, recommenders, and interviews were aligned to one story.
Admitted to USC, Boston University, and Northeastern.
Signal Development
Starting point
Exceptional STEM student with top scores but a profile indistinguishable from thousands of similar applicants.
Strategy
Paired with an Ivy student mentor in the intended major and a research-track career mentor. Built one deep, documented independent research thread and rewrote supplementals around intellectual direction.
Admitted to an Ivy League institution, Class of '28, with merit support.
Transfer Strategy
Starting point
Community college student with no counseling support and no roadmap for the transfer process.
Strategy
GPA-first sequencing, a transfer-specific school list, and essays that framed the community college start as a deliberate, disciplined decision rather than a fallback.
Admitted to the University of Michigan and UVA as a transfer.
Scholarship Optimization
Starting point
Strong student; family unwilling to pay full sticker price and unsure how to weigh prestige against cost.
Strategy
Rebuilt the school list around documented merit-aid behavior, layered in honors-college applications, and sequenced early applications to maximize negotiating position.
Over $240K in cumulative merit offers; enrolled at a top-30 institution on a near-full scholarship.
How We Report Outcomes