Services

Jackie offers a full range of services, allowing students to gain successful outcomes. Here are some of the tasks on which Jackie has worked with students:

Early mentoring for 9th and 10th graders

• Work with students throughout their high school career.

• Evaluate transcripts and courses, guiding students and making suggestions where appropriate.

• Evaluate activities and summer programming opportunities. 

• Create an SAT/ACT testing strategy.

• Utilize YouScience to help guide students towards appropriate careers and majors.

• Help students apply to various summer programs and internships, helping to edit essays and applications.

• Help students develop resumes, both for summer opportunities and for college applications.

• Based on student interest and strengths, help create a preliminary college list (with reaches, targets, and safer schools).

• Help students exhibit Demonstrated Interest (through touring, online tours and information sessions, answering emails, attending open houses, and other programming).

• Help students develop and practice interview skills.

• Help students pare down their preliminary list to a final, balanced list of colleges.

• Help create an application strategy, using Early Decision, Early Action, Rolling, and Regular Decision programs. Help to maximize strengths. Ensure that students apply to a full range of colleges.

• Help students complete the Common App (and other application platforms if necessary, such as those in the University of California system).

• Help students with International Applications, using the UCAS, Minerva, and other international platforms.

• Help students articulate and highlight their own story.

• Help students craft the Common App essay (with multiple drafts).

• Help students complete each college's application. (along with supplemental college essays).

• Help students with crafting supplemental college essays, making sure that they are all clean, well-written, and edited.

• Make sure that students stay on track with all deadlines.

• Help students with up to 25 applications (UC Universities all count as 1).

• Help students fill out the Self-Reported Student Record (SSAR) (if necessary).

• Make sure that students complete high school tasks by each school's deadline (such as requesting that materials be sent by early deadlines).

• Make sure that students ask for recommendations in a timely manner. 

• If necessary for performing or visual arts students, help students keep track of art assignments/portfolios for admissions.

• Help guide performing arts students with audition Prescreening deadlines for conservatories.

• Help students with managing SlideRoom (or other platforms) for visual arts portfolios.

• If necessary for athletes interested in recruitment, help students with contacting college coaches and creating athletic film.

• If deferred or waitlisted, help students with Letters of Continued Interest.

• Help students with selecting the best/most affordable school.

• If necessary, help students with scholarship applications/essays.

• If necessary, help students with gaining admission to Post Graduate (PG programs).

• If necessary, help students with taking a Gap Year.

• If necessary, help students with transfer admissions.