How should we prepare for the first meeting?

However works for you. You can show up with a detailed dossier of transcripts, test scores, and a ranked school list — or you can show up with nothing but a vague sense that you need help and aren’t sure where to start. Both are fine. Meeting you where you are is our job.

If anything, come with questions. As many as you can get through. About our process, about your specific situation, about things other firms told you that didn’t quite sit right. We’d rather spend the call addressing what’s actually on your mind than walking through a scripted overview you could have read on the website.