Do hours expire or roll over between application rounds?

Advanced Planning hours are valid for one calendar year from the date of purchase. That’s intentional — open-ended engagements with no expiration tend to lose focus, and unfocused work doesn’t serve you well.

Within that year, usage is flexible. You and your consultant decide how to allocate the hours: how many sessions, how long, what cadence. Some candidates front-load the strategic work. Others spread it more evenly as milestones arrive. The structure adapts to your situation.

For application packages, the engagement is inherently round-driven. Your package covers the schools and rounds you’re applying to. If you need to add a round or extend into a subsequent cycle, that’s a conversation — not an automatic rollover, but not a dead end either. We’ll work with you on what makes sense.

The underlying principle is the same across all service types: the hours you pay for are real consulting time with real people. They’re not tokens in a vending machine. Use them with intention, and they’ll produce results.