Do you guarantee admission to any schools?

No — and you should be cautious about any firm that does. A guarantee in admissions consulting is either a misleading promise, a hedge wrapped in fine print, or a sign that the firm only takes clients who were already going to succeed on their own. None of those scenarios actually serve you.

Here’s the reality: admissions decisions involve variables no consultant controls — institutional priorities, class composition targets, reader subjectivity, yield modeling. What we can control is the quality of the application, the strength of the strategy, and the story the committee encounters when they open your file. Our job is to maximize your competitiveness, build a smart range of schools, and make sure nothing in the application is working against you that shouldn’t be. When we do that well — and we’ve maintained a 96%+ success rate at the comprehensive package level — the outcomes follow. But attaching a guarantee to a process with inherent uncertainty wouldn’t be honest, and honesty is the foundation of everything we do.