What’s Your Application Strategy?
Myth: Hard work and excellent grades will ensure a spot in a good college.
Reality: Colleges do not admit students. They admit applications. They are looking for something special in your application. Will they find it?
Our clients get into the college of their dreams, and most of them with merit scholarships averaging $80,000.
Our Consulting Packages
College Match Consulting Services helps students gain admission to kindergarten-through-12th grade private schools, colleges, and graduate programs. Our services are customized to fit the individual needs of students and range from single year to multi-year packages, tailored to each family’s budget.
Each package includes an initial consultation that is applied to the total cost of the consulting package. The first meeting includes a comprehensive review of the student’s educational and extracurricular history, including transcripts, school profile and academic performance (rank), special considerations (for example, the age of the student and type of placement sought), testing results (College Board testing, boarding school entrance exam, PSAT, SAT and Subject Tests, ACT, AP and IB, etc.), list of out-of-class activities, awards and honors, and samples of the student’s written work.
Our clients get into the college of their dreams, most of them with merit scholarships averaging $80,000.
Platinum Package: Ivy League, MIT, Caltech, Stanford Program
This package offers admission consulting to students beginning as early as the 9th Grade. This service is dedicated to those students who wish to gain admission to some of the world’s most exclusive colleges and universities. Acceptance to our program is selective and based on a range of criteria including, but not limited to, grades, test scores, extra-curricular profiles and written ability. To find out more about this exciting service or to apply, please contact email or call us: [email protected] - (877) 658-4400 • (206) 799-4986 • (415) 601-6955
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Gold Package: Full Service Package
This package is for students who are beginning the college planning process and are considering a range of colleges. This service provides full support in terms of finding the right colleges, academic coaching (grades and entrance tests, SAT, ACT, etc.). These students require help developing extra-curricular activities, including performing arts, advanced scholarship, and leadership skills. Students may have special needs or talents such as performing arts or sports that require further development. This package is for students who have done research on their own, are motivated and write essays easily; these students’ extra-curricular activities already have focus and depth, and these students work well independently and can benefit from coaching. Contact us to schedule an initial consultation: [email protected] - (877) 658-4400 • (206) 799-4986 • (415) 601-6955
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Performing Arts Package
This package is for clients with significant skills in the areas of drama, music, musical theater, dance. Our nationally-recognized performing arts consultants work with your student to identify the most suitable college match and to develop a performing arts portfolio that highlights key skills that both liberal arts and performing arts programs value in their admission processes. This includes guidance in developing a portfolio and auditioning including, a performing arts resume, selection of monologue pieces, recordings, video to be presented to admission committees. Performing arts programs are among the most difficult to gain admission to, and this service looks at the student from a holistic standpoint by aligning life goals with performing arts schools. Contact us to schedule an initial consultation: [email protected] - (877) 658-4400 • (206) 799-4986 • (415) 601-6955
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College Application Academy
For rising seniors, College Match Educational Consultants offers an intensive, three-day College Application Academy in August as an alternative to the months of stress and anxiety surrounding the college application process. At the end of these three days, students who take advantage of this opportunity will have developed a final list of schools designed to match the strengths of each student’s application profile; polished all of their application essays and personal statements; submitted their applications to most or all of the schools on their lists. In other words, students who attend the Academy can be done with their college applications before the start of senior year. Moreover, based on our track record, Academy participants can take comfort in the knowledge that they enjoy more than a 90% chance that they will be admitted to at least one of their top choices. This is an excellent opportunity, one which will be limited to only 15 participants. For exact dates and locations please contact us at [email protected] - (877) 658-4400 • (206) 799-4986 • (415) 601-6955
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College Admission Essay Service
Writing the undergraduate admission essay can be daunting. Colleges identify the essay as the most important part of a student’s application after grades and class rank. A successful essay makes a strong, personal connection with the admissions officer reading your file. College Match’s writing coach is an award winning creative writing instructor who helps bring out the best in each student’s essay. College Match Educational Consultants do not write essays for our students – but our proven method generates ideas, hones essays and ultimately lets students find their authentic voice to write essays that get noticed [email protected] - (877) 658-4400 • (206) 799-4986 • (415) 601-6955
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Graduate School Package
Learn tips from from leaders in the field of graduate admission and gain insights into top graduate school admission by working with College Match’s graduate school consultants. We help graduate-bound students who are looking to attend professional schools of law, business, and medicine, as well as master of arts/ science and Ph.D. programs across a spectrum of subjects. Our consultants have attended competitive graduate schools and have the necessary experience to help you carefully navigate this increasingly competitive process. The service includes matching you with the best programs that suit your life’s goals and career interests. We help you develop personal statements and position each application to stand out from the pack during the admission process. For more information please contact us: [email protected] - (877) 658-4400 • (206) 799-4986 • (415) 601-6955
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Financial Strategies to Lower Costs
Families are increasingly alarmed at the rising costs of higher education and rightly so given the significant financial commitment required, especially if there are multiple students in the household. The financial strategies to lower costs service helps families understand and calculate their expected family contribution (EFC), which is the amount of money they are expected to pay for their student's education. Fortunately there are many financial strategies that can help defray the cost of an education or lower the EFC. College Match Educational Consultants help families understand the different EFC assessment rates and IRS spending rules & tax rates and illustrate different costs scenarios based on the implementation of appropriate strategies for their unique situations. Through a better understanding of the subject and specific suggestions, our service equips families to use the tools available to control the costs of sending their students to the right colleges. Please contact us: [email protected] - (877) 658-4400 • (206) 799-4986 • (415) 601-6955
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Waitlist/ Deferral Strategy
If you are on a waitlist or deferred from early admission to regular admission by your favorite college you may wish to seek advice on the best way to reverse this course. There are steps that you may take to gain control of your situation.
Our nationally-recognized admission strategists can help. College Match Educational Consultants offer a thorough evaluation of your situation and advice on next steps by phone and email. Please contact us: [email protected] - (877) 658-4400 • (206) 799-4986 • (415) 601-6955
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