Courses/Programs offered
event_available College Admissions Counseling
Admission Allies offers holistic college admissions services, by leveraging our extensive resources and expertise to help you find the college that fits your personality, academic goals, and future career plans.
For younger students, we provide guidance for course planning, extracurricular activity guidance, summer activity planning, AP and other standardized testing planning, and more.
For students applying to college, we offer extensive research services, admissions process planning and organization, campus visit planning, interview prep, essay writing, and application preparation, including FAFSA help, and timing considerations surrounding early and regular decision deadlines. We foster close mentor/student relationships that make the application process easier on you, and our counselors remain in touch with students into their college careers.
event_available PSAT/SAT/ACT Test Preparation
Admission Allies provides comprehensive and customized standardized test preparation services meant to help you achieve your best score in as little time as possible. Unlike other test-prep tutoring services, Admission Allies does not rely on a one-size-fits-all tutoring method.
We begin with a comprehensive assessment that determines which standardized admissions test is the best fit for you (ACT or SAT) and then design a customized tutoring plan for each student that incorporates personalized content review, individualized testing-strategies, and builds on Admission Allies’ unique and highly-effective test-prep tutoring method. As always, we bring our “whole-student” coaching philosophy to the test-prep tutoring process by providing special support and strategies for students who struggle with common testing performance issues like testing anxiety, perfectionism, and confidence issues.
event_available College Application Essay Coaching
Admission Allies makes the college essay writing process a personally and intellectually enriching experience for each student. Beginning from the initial brainstorming process and continuing all the way through final edits, our program focuses on self-reflection and creative thinking, as well as the student’s values, long-term goals and aspirations. We help student's get in touch with their true passions, values, and purpose, and help them to articulate a vision of themselves and where they fit in the wider world. This leads not only to stronger essays, but also a more interesting and enriching essay-writing process for students.
event_available Common App Essay Bootcamp
Our signature essay writing bootcamp takes you from topic selection all the way to a polished draft that’s ready for your application. We center our approach to essay writing on teaching students to be a better storytellers and readers in general, and supply them with creative strategies for presenting their goals and achievements in only 650 words. Inspired by the Oxford tutorial teaching style, students learn how to strategize their essay topic to supplement and strengthen the other parts of their application in multiple one-on-one sessions with their Harvard PhD instructors and receive at least two rounds of extensive feedback on their essay drafts.
