HelloCollege

While our packages are assembled to provide comprehensive college planning, we are able to tailor our offerings to fit your needs. We can create a custom package comprised of an a la carte picking of our services to serve your goals.

An integral part of our program involves a college major career assessment that measures a student’s interests, aptitudes, and personality. We review these results with each student and put a plan together to explore these options in ‘real life’ through summer programs, research opportunities, mentor networks, or online courses. These experiences help students explore, eliminate or pivot their career path options before choosing a major. Changing majors is one of the primary reasons students take longer than four years to graduate college, with only 24% of college students graduating on time. Our program helps students zero in on the right major so they make efficient use of the time and money devoted to college. 90% of the students we work with graduate in four years!

We work with students nationwide using video conference, phone, email, text, a robust online portal, online tools, workshops, and resources. Since March 2020, we have worked with more than 1,000 students on a fully virtual basis, including more than 330 in the class of '21, who wrapped up the most successful admissions class in our history. We have learned virtual college counseling and fully remote servicing are effective and efficient for meeting the goals of our families. Here's why: We help families save time, reduce stress and provide more personal 1:1 time with your student through a virtual setting. This enables us to meet more often and have more "check-in" calls to help your student stay on track without taking up a lot of their day. In short, we have seen the convenience of virtual meetings result in more students accepted to the nation's top schools, more selected to Honors programs, more financial aid awards offered, and more options to choose from.

Being that choosing a college is one of the most important and impactful decisions in life, it is worth providing your student with the most opportunities to get the best results from their college career. Many families heavily invest in their student’s extracurricular activities. A similar investment in your student’s college application process is a worthwhile backing of their future that will ultimately result in significant savings in the long run. HelloCollege’s services pay off in terms of a solid college choice for your student: a school that’s a good fit, knowing what major is right for them, and graduating on time to pursue a defined career path. HelloCollege’s holistic approach maximizes your student’s admissions potential and odds of getting into their dream school. Students that work with HelloCollege are four times more likely to get into a highly selective college or university.

HelloCollege offers both AP & standardized test prep for the SAT &/or ACT. View more in the Services section of our website, SayHelloCollege.com.

It’s our goal to ensure that every family has affordable & effective college planning. We offer options ranging from a single essay edit to comprehensive college planning programs, ranging anywhere from several hundred dollars to several thousand dollars, depending on your needs and when you get started. Your free consultation will allow us to assess your needs and determine what program would be the best fit for your family. To make our services attainable to every family, we offer a variety of payment plans and options to fit differing financial situations. We also offer free workshops and resources for families that prefer to tackle the confusing, expensive, competitive college planning process on their own.

Students can begin college planning once they start high school. It’s never too early to start. Beginning early in high school enables your student to position their Freshman & Sophomore years to set them up for success in their Junior and Senior years when college planning goes into full swing. It also allows your student to spread their college planning tasks over a longer period of time, which many students find decreases stress.