Do you offer hourly or a la carte services?

Yes — and there’s a reason we’re thoughtful about how we offer them. Hourly and à la carte work can be genuinely valuable in the right situations, and genuinely limited in the wrong ones.

These options work best for students who already have a coherent strategy and need a targeted second perspective: pressure-testing an essay, sanity-checking a school list, or preparing for a specific interview. In those cases, a focused engagement can deliver exactly what’s needed without fitting anyone into a larger package that doesn’t make sense.

What hourly work isn’t designed to do is replace comprehensive consulting. If what you actually need is someone diagnosing the full picture, shaping the narrative, and guiding the process over several months, a one-off session won’t deliver that — and pretending otherwise would be doing you a disservice. We’re careful about this distinction because we want your expectations to align with what’s actually possible.

We offer flexibility because some families truly need only a narrow slice of help. Our job on the consultation call is to be honest about whether that’s your situation. If it is, we’re happy to meet you there. If it isn’t, we’ll tell you that too — before you spend money on the wrong solution.