Getting in isn’t really the hard part. Getting it right is.
Twenty Five plus years inside higher education. Now on your side of the desk. A school where your student belongs and graduates career-ready.
Admission Counseling Service
Stage 1 - Know Your Student
Most students build their college list and apply to college without a clear sense of who they are, and it shows in every essay, every school choice, every interview. We start by fixing that.
The A2C Career Assessment and Career Profile. Before a single school goes on the list, the student completes the 48-question assessment and receives a Career Profile: interests, values, strengths, aligned with possible majors, matched to career directions.
Stage 2 - Building your college list.
I encourage you to carefully consider your choices. Building your college list and finding the right fit involves more than rankings, campus visits, or reputation. Choosing a mismatched school can cause academic issues or lead to dropping out, which good planning can help prevent. Using the student’s Career Profile to identify potential career paths and majors, we create a balanced list of schools that interest your student, offer the right major, and ensure they graduate prepared. This includes reach schools with lower acceptance rates, match schools fitting their profile, and safety schools with high acceptance chances.
Stage 3 - Applying with Purpose
Working together, we will produce an application that doesn’t read like everyone else’s, an essay that isn’t generic and demonstrates your interests, values, or strengths, and makes a stronger impression than one with rehearsed responses about ambition and hard work.
Your student isn’t just applying to college. They’re applying with purpose to schools you’ve already confirmed they feel they “fit” and will prepare them for a career. That changes everything about how the application reads.
Stage 4 - Decide with Confidence
By decision time, every school on your list should be one you would confidently choose. This shifts the experience from hoping for a good outcome to selecting among strong options. You are choosing a school based on the best fit for your student, not external impressions. You are selecting a school that will prepare them for the future by developing the expertise, skills, and experience needed to start a career, not just earn a degree.