In Person College Consultations

In Person College Consultations May 31 Are biscuits worth the price of admission to your dream college? Likely not. If you want to be served biscuits during in-person consultations, were certain you can find a mediocre, local college consultant. Or you can work with the worlds leading college consultant, Ivy Coach, where we will not serve you biscuits. Parents sometimes ask us if we can meet with them (and their children) in person. The short answer is that we generally just dont do this and the reason for that is that its  not a great use of time for any of us. Do we do it on occasion? Yes. We occasionally meet with students in New York, Los Angeles, or Miami. But  would it surprise you to know that we have not met the vast majority of our students over this past decade face-to-face? Occasionally, a student admitted to Columbia will stop by our New York office during their freshman year to meet us and say thank you or theyll drive down from Caltech to meet us in LA. But we work almost exclusively via Skype, phone, and email. How does a face-to-face meeting aid in essay revisions? It wont! If you want to know what we look like, Skype with us! Many of our clients ask to Skype with us first but then for every subsequent conversation, they prefer phone calls because they no longer need to go to the trouble of signing on to Skype to see us when an easy phone call will do just fine! It kind of says it all. And of course, we exchange many, many emails with students and parents once theyre our clients. We are a 21st century business. Working via Skype, phone, and email is our model. If youd prefer to work with a local college counselor in your area, thats fine. Do it. Meet face-to-face with this counselor. Maybe theyll pour you tea and give you biscuits. But those biscuits arent going to help your child get into a highly selective college. Why choose a regional, self-proclaimed expert when you can work with the worlds leading college consultancy, Ivy Coach? Its certainly your call but are biscuits really worth the price of admission to your dream school(s)? Likely not. But we imagine the biscuits are tasty! If youre a student in India, we can work with you. If youre a student in China, we can work with you. If youre a student in Texas, we can work with you. If youre a student in Ethiopia, we can work with you. If youre a student in the United Arab Emirates, we can work with you. If youre a student in Arkansas, we can work with you. Are you beginning to get the idea? We imagine so!