Services

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College Advising

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We help parents and students navigate the college preparation and admission process, ensuring that the best, and most appropriate, academic, extracurricular, and social-emotional learning decisions are made.  We meet students' needs, whether it is a four-year roadmap, essay instruction, or individual coaching. 

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The key to a successful process is having a supportive, encouraging, relationship and providing a clear outline of the expectations, which includes comprehensive management of the admission process, year-by-year, and timeline management and deadlines of standardized testing, college applications, and financial aid applications.

Over the course of the high school experience, we meet students regularly in-person and during the coronavirus outbreak via video conferencing to optimize the following:

• Course Selection & Rigor

• GPA Maximization 

• Academic Eligibility: Ivy League, UC’s, and selective top-tier schools

• SAT/ACT Plans and Strategies

• Extracurricular Opportunities: academic, leadership, and community service 

• Summer Enrichment  

• Gap Year Options (if requested)

• College Lists: a curated range of safety, target, and reach schools 

• College Majors

• College Essays

• College Visits and Research

• College Costs & Affordability Options

• Scholarships & Financial Aid Information & Options

• Financial Aid Application

• Interview Preparation

• Letters of Recommendation

• Choosing Between Multiple Acceptance Packages

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English Tutoring

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We work with middle and high school students on essay structure, literature analysis, and organization.

Our students attend schools in San Francisco and the East Bay:

• Acalanes

• Bay

• Benicia

• Bentley

• Campolindo

• Galileo

• Las Lomas

• Lowell

• Miramonte

• Sacred Heart Cathedral Prep

• Saint Ignatius

• San Ramon

• Stuart Hall for Boys

• Town School for Boys

• Waldorf

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SSAT Tutoring

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We meet with middle school students at their home or school and prepare them for the SSAT by taking them through diagnostic exercises, practicing test questions, and identifying test-taking skills.  Sessions are personalized; we meet students at their level and build their confidence through a series of successful learning cycles.  Individual or package rates apply.

Acceptances  

      2021, so far!

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• Lehigh University, full 200K Scholarship

• Lewis & Clark, 80K Scholarship

• Reed College

• School of Mines

• University of Arizona

• University of British Columbia

• UC Santa Cruz

• Whitman College: 48K Scholarship

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      2020 

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• Amherst College

• Bates College

• Bowdoin College

• Colby College

• Connecticut College

• Duke University

• Oberlin College

• Occidental College

• Stony Brook University

• Swarthmore College

• Smith College

• Tufts University

• University of British Columbia

• UC Berkeley

• UC Davis

• UCLA

• UC San Diego

• UC Santa Barbara

• UC Santa Cruz

• University of Illinois

• University of Michigan

• Williams College

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       2018

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• Chapman University

• Colorado School of Mines

• Cornell University

• Gonzaga University

• Harvard University

• Illinois Institute of Technology

• Lewis and Clark College

• Northeastern University

• Occidental College

• Purdue University

• UC Berkeley

• UC Davis

• UC Irvine

• UCLA

• UC Santa Barbara

• UC San Diego

• University of Seattle

• University of Washington

       2019 

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• Clark University

• Connecticut College

• Knox University

• Lewis and Clark College

• Loyola Marymount University

• Mt. Holyoke College

• Seattle University

• Stanford University

• Tulane University

• UC Berkeley

• UC Davis

• UC Irvine

• UCLA

• UC Riverside

• UC San Diego

• UC Santa Barbara

• UC Santa Cruz

• University of Puget Sound

• University of San Francisco

• University of Washington

• Whitman College

• Whittier College

• Willamette University

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