Choose where to apply
Build a college list around academic goals, admission outlook, program requirements, cost, and the experience you want.
Private college advisory
Get expert help with your college list and applications.
Work one-to-one to choose colleges with a clear reason, strengthen every part of the application, and review the complete submission before it goes out.
Where individual guidance helps
Make every part of the application support the same story.
Make every section work together
Connect courses, activities, intended major, recommendations, and writing so each part adds useful evidence.
Strengthen the writing
Develop essays from the first idea through focused revisions, with direct feedback on what is convincing and what still feels generic.
Review before submission
Check requirements, positioning, consistency, and unfinished details before each application is submitted.
The practice
More than 200 families over 15 years
The practice has advised more than 200 families over 15 years on college selection, application strategy, essays, and a final review of every application before it is submitted.
Founded by Jack Wang, a Duke alumni admissions interviewer who spent his earlier career on Wall Street.
Read about the practice →- 15 years advising students on college applications
- More than 200 families advised
- Duke alumni admissions interviewer
- A Wall Street career before advising
Advisory packages
Choose the scope that fits your application season.
Every engagement begins with your current materials, college list, and deadlines.
Essay Intensive
- Who it is for
- A student who has a workable college list and wants close help with the writing.
- What the work covers
- Develop the personal statement and up to four sets of supplemental essays, from the first brainstorm through final review.
- Scale
- Typically 10–12 hours of advising and editing.
ED/EA Complete
- Who it is for
- A student preparing a complete early application strategy.
- What the work covers
- Includes college-list strategy, the activity list, résumé, essays, interview preparation, and a final submission review for up to eight colleges.
- Scale
- Covers Early Decision and Early Action work.
Full Season
- Who it is for
- A student who wants continuity from the first college-list decisions through January.
- What the work covers
- Includes the complete early-round work plus regular-decision strategy, writing, and submission review through January.
- Scale
- Covers the full application season.
Regular Decision Reset
- Who it is for
- A student reconsidering the plan after a December deferral or denial.
- What the work covers
- Rebuild the college list, prepare a deferral response where appropriate, and revise regular-decision supplements on a three-week schedule.
- Scale
- Offered in December.
How it begins
Bring the work already in front of you.
Your college list, deadlines, academic record, activities, and any writing already underway. The first conversation identifies what needs attention and which of these fits.
Scope, scheduling and fees are confirmed in a separate written agreement. Admission outcomes cannot be guaranteed.
Start with a conversation
Talk through your college plan.
Send a short request. The reply offers a free 15-minute call and says which type of support fits, if any.
Schedule a free consultation