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Your College Guide
Services

Strategies to optimize the student’s

college admissions results

  • Review of the student’s academic performance and course options with recommendations to enhance the high school transcript

  • Exploration of the student’s extracurricular interests, achievements, and opportunities 

  • Recommendations about summer experiences that could help the student with career choice, resume development, and college selection

  • Guidance about creating or revising the student’s college résumé

  • Development of a standardized testing strategy with a suggested timeline and test preparation options

Preparation for College Interviews

  • Offering practice interviews, sample questions, and feedback before the student’s actual college interview

College Application and Essay Assistance

  • Answering the student and family’s questions about the Common Application,University of California application, and Cal State application

  • Providing brainstorming and writing tips for college application and/or scholarship essays

  • Delivering essay critiques and suggested edits to the student

Guidance for the student and family about choosing a college

  • Decision Day Support

Creation of the student’s customized College List

  • Understanding the priorities of the student and family regarding specific college factors, like major, affordability, size, location, student culture, academic requirements, etc.

  • Collaborating to develop an initial list of colleges for the student to research, visit, and consider

  • Advising the student and parents/guardians about each college on the College List, and college selection

  • Recognizing the value of having a variety of college choices that have different likelihoods of admission

  • Identifying merit aid and scholarship opportunities (for families seeking financial assistance) at colleges included in the student’s College List

Collaboration to create a plan if the applicant is deferred or wait listed

  • Strategizing next steps, brainstorming options, and providing suggestions about writing letters of continued interest

Financial aid and scholarship decisions

  • Offering negotiation strategies for maximizing awarded merit and financial aid, especially at first-choice admitted college

Your College Guide offers a free 45-minute consultation for any student and family who would like to learn more about how Beth could help you.

With Your College Guide, you have a choice of two service options:

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hourly services for 

targeted support

A  Comprehensive

Package with Integrated Support

  • A possible starting option for new students

  • Helpful for short-term assistance with

    • Essay support

    • College-list building

    • Consultation with parents/guardians about recommended resources and referrals

    • Guidance with admission deferral, waitlist strategies, and college selection

  • Families can purchase as few as 2 hours at once

  • For continuing services, families can add more hours over time

  • Recommended for 9th, 10th, and 11th grade students

  • A wide variety of services, which could include:

    • Advising about high school course selection

    • Extracurricular activity options

    • Resume development

    • College list-building

    • Application and essay support

    • Strategies for deferral and waitlist outcomes,

    • Understanding financial aid options

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  • Begins with a mutually agreed-upon start date and could extend into June of the student’s senior year of high school

What Your College Guide Clients are saying

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It’s people like you that really make a difference in how far he goes. We would be so far behind in the whole process if not for you.
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