Custom support for families navigating the selective admissions process. With a deeply personalized approach — strategy, then execution — we focus on finding the right-fit environment where your child can thrive.
For the critical junior and senior years, we offer three programs — each designed for a different level of access, personalization, and orchestration. They represent the highest level of support we provide, reserved for families who want absolute clarity and confidence in the admissions process.
Build a complete, strategic foundation before advising begins.
When
9th / 10th grade — or any time before Core Consulting begins
Deliverable
A personalized plan
Timeline
4–6 weeks
Core Consulting — Junior & Senior Year
End-to-end college counseling and application execution.
When
Winter of Junior year through Senior year
Deliverable
A completed, well-strategized application across up to 16 schools
Timeline
Approximately 18 months
Direct access to our experts on the question in front of you right now.
When
Booked individually as needed
Deliverable
Clarity on a single decision or deliverable
Timeline
Individual sessions
A program for rising college freshmen to start strong with executive functioning, preparedness, and systems.
Strategy and timing for recruited athletes and boarding school candidates.
Long-arc support that doesn’t end at enrollment.
A four-week field guide to starting college well — co-authored by Mary Miele and Sarah Bergin. Twenty strategies, four systems, designed to last four years. Getting in is the easy part; thriving is a different skill entirely.
Paperback · Kindle companion planned · Summer 2026
Getting into a top-choice college is more competitive than ever — and the right plan, with enough time to do it, makes all the difference. The 5 parts of the application, exact steps to strengthen each, and a year-by-year high school timeline.
Every family in Core Consulting completes one. Many add the second. We help you decide which fits — and we read the results with you so the data turns into a plan.
A neuroscience-based assessment of memory, attention, processing speed, reasoning, and executive functioning. We use it to predict ACT vs. SAT fit, surface hidden learning strengths, and design a study plan that matches how your child actually thinks.
Best for: 8th–11th grade
An interest and aptitude inventory that maps a student to specific majors, career paths, and the college environments that support them. Especially useful when “I don’t know what I want to study” is getting in the way of building a real list.
Best for: 10th–12th grade
With a background in education, Sarah helps students and parents stay organized, confident, and clear about what comes next. She runs the college practice end-to-end — list strategy, application orchestration, and the family conversations in between — and she’s the one most of our college families work with directly.
Her work with students sits where it should: somewhere between coach and counselor, with a steady hand on the calendar and a real eye on the child behind the application.
A step-by-step framework for moving past rankings — how to weigh fit, finances, academic match, and follow-through, with worksheets your student can actually fill out. The same approach we use inside Core Consulting.
