Hiring an independent educational consultant, one who is a member of a professional organization such as IECA, ensures that you will work with a professional who has proven expertise, is fully vetted, and demonstrates the highest standards in education, training, ethics, and experience to help craft your future.
You might ask yourself: why hire an independent educational consultant? Applications to universities have become complex with most institutions requiring personal statements and accounts of extracurricular engagements. Your school guidance counselor’s job responsibilities do not extend to this most critical piece of the admission process – the application and the many essays that are required.
At Select College Admissions, we work individually with each of our students, planning ahead, brainstorming, strategizing, revising and hand-holding.
With quality credentials and a good track record, we instill in our students good writing, analytical, advocacy and time management skills, as well as strategies helpful for success in university admission and beyond. What we bring to the table is the benefit of our experience with hundreds of students. We guide the adolescents trusted in our care to complete applications and essays while keeping them on track and ahead of deadlines, making sure opportunities are not missed. We relieve parental stress and provide realistic advice to families and students at a critical stage in their journey towards adulthood.
Our individualized approach supplements the work of the high school staff. In the final analysis, we augment rather than replace the university guidance students will receive from their high school. A well-coordinated double-team approach works far better than a disjointed one!
Given the affordability of Canadian universities, most students who are applying to US universities are targeting highly selective institutions. The US university admissions process is particularly competitive and complex, requiring several years of preparation, especially for students wishing to gain admission to these most selective universities given that admission to some of the Ivy League universities or the likes of Stanford and Caltech are in the single digits. For students with competitive academic and extracurricular credentials, the presentation of your case in the application and supplemental material often determines admissions success.
Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, University of Chicago, Caltech, Rice and Stanford, are a few of the selective campuses to which our students have successfully gained admission. We also work with students applying to Canadian or U.K. universities who require help with completing their application forms and the editing of their university and scholarship essays.
Contact Select College Admissions for all of your university admissions needs and to benefit from the expertise and personalized service of our team members for a smooth transition from high school to university.