Our Approach
Great College Advice helps students discover the educational alternatives that are right for them.
An Approach as Unique as You
We specialize in YOU and your educational journey. At Great College Advice® we believe that all students should be firmly in charge of their educational future. We provide the tools and guidance for students to make their own decisions about what is important to them as they explore their options, weigh family priorities, and navigate the admissions process.
We don’t have right answers. We don’t have a list of the “right” colleges. Rather, the counselors at Great College Advice help students discover the educational alternatives that are right for them. Then we give them the tools to plot their course to arrive at their chosen educational destination.
Furthermore, we don’t approach this process as a one-size-fits-all solution to college counseling. Each student is different, and each family situation is different. Therefore, we carefully customize each student’s program to match the student’s needs, abilities, and aspirations. Our comprehensive counseling services provide everything necessary for a student to be successful.
Ultimately, this process is less about winning a particular prize than it is about growing and learning about oneself. Our goal for each student is to create opportunities in which the student will be happy, successful, and (eventually!) prosperous.
Our Company
We advise students and their families for selective college admissions. Since 2007, the team of college admissions consultants at Great College Advice® has provided affordable and comprehensive guidance to hundreds of students from across the United States and around the world.
Our Success
At Great College Advice, we measure the success of our college admissions counseling in the happiness and satisfaction of our students and their families. Each of our students is different, and each pursues his or her own path. Not every student is headed in the same direction. So it is difficult to quantify or develop meaningful statistics that express our success in advising our students.
That said, in the past three years, 97% of our students have been admitted to one of their top three choices.
In addition, while not every one of our students is aiming for the most selective colleges and universities in the country, Great College Advice has had great success in helping students get into the top tier schools in the country, including the Ivy League (Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, and the University of Pennsylvania), Stanford, Tufts, Northwestern, University of Chicago, and many others. Our students gain admission to these schools at 3 to 10 times the normal admissions rates.
While we are proud of our statistics, we are prouder of the individual victories and triumphs each of our students experiences along the road to college.
The results are important, but the process is paramount. Great College Advice delivers a transformative college preparation process with long-lasting effects.
Please review our Testimonials to learn more about our impact on our students’ lives.
A Record of Success
The Great College Advice team is comprised of highly educated college admissions consultants. While we have had a variety of educational and professional experiences, we all have attended some of the most selective colleges and universities in the country, including Dartmouth, Stanford, Tufts, and the University of Pennsylvania. All of us have earned graduate degrees or have received advanced training in education.
Please visit our Team Page to learn more about each of our college admissions consultants.
Our Reach
As a national and international firm, Great College Advice has had the pleasure of working with students in all sorts of contexts. We have worked with students attending some of the premier public high schools in the United States, including Cherry Creek High School (CO), Lexington High School (MA), Millburn High School (NJ), Pacific Palisades High School (CA), Stuyvesant High School (NY), Radnor Senior High School (PA), and many, many others. However, we have also guided students from rural areas and small towns in Texas, Alabama, Tennessee, Wyoming, and other states. Students from urban and suburban high schools in 47 of the 50 states have partnered with Great College Advice (we’re still hoping to work with students from Alaska, Mississippi, and Kentucky).
Great College Advice has guided students attending some of the most prestigious private boarding schools, including Philips Andover, Philips Exeter, Choate Rosemary Hall, the Emma Willard School, Northfield Mount Herman, the Hill School, the Cate School, Lawrenceville Academy, and many others.
Among the international high schools our students have attended are the Chinese International School (HK), the Island School (HK), Hong Kong International School, Centre International de Valbonne (France), Geelong Grammar (Australia), Istanbul International Community School (Turkey), Harrow School (UK), Tonbridge School (UK), Beijing 101 High School (China), Shanghai American School (China), Jumeirah English Speaking School (Dubai), and the International School of Kuala Lumpur (Malaysia), as well as several campuses of the United World College. We have provided guidance to students from over 45 countries.
For more about our college admissions advice, please see our Services page.
No matter your background, experience, nationality, or native language—and no matter how you define educational success—we can help you map your college journey.
