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Comprehensive Application Support: Up to 12 Schools

Comprehensive Application Support: Up to 12 Schools

Offered by Simi K.

5.0

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College Admissions Expert | Columbia MBA | 16+ Yrs of Ivy & Top 25 Admits

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Description

Full-service application support for juniors and seniors applying to a balanced school list of up to 12 schools. For families building a more comprehensive strategic mix of reaches, targets, and likelies, and who want full essay and strategic support across the entire list, with real options at decision time. We begin with a comprehensive intake and narrative discovery session, where I work with your student to surface the stories, themes, and angles that will anchor every application. From there, we build the school list strategically: a balanced mix of reaches, targets, and likelies that reflects your student's profile honestly, paired with an ED/EA/RD timing strategy that maximizes the odds across the list rather than betting everything on one school. The bulk of the engagement is full-service application work across all 8 schools. The Personal Statement gets the depth of attention it deserves: topic exploration, brainstorming, drafting, and unlimited revisions until the essay is genuinely strong (typically 5–8 substantive drafts). For each of your 12 schools, I provide complete supplemental essay support, every prompt, every draft, every revision, typically running 20–30 supplements depending on which schools are on the list. Alongside the essays, we handle the Common Application end-to-end: activities list, Additional Information, resume crafting, and recommendation letter strategy (who to ask, when, and how to brief them so the letters work in concert with the rest of the application). Before each application is submitted, I do a final review to catch anything that needs polish. If interviews are part of any school's process, interview prep is included. If your student is deferred or waitlisted at any school, I provide strategy support through those decisions as well. Throughout the engagement, your student has direct messaging access for time-sensitive questions, and we meet live for strategy work and substantive drafting sessions throughout the cycle — with session frequency stepping up significantly during peak season (August through November) as deadlines approach.


What you'll get from this package

A polished, finalized Personal Statement that authentically represents your student's voice

Fully drafted and revised supplemental essays for all 12 schools — every prompt covered

A balanced, strategic school list spanning reaches, targets, and likelies — built around your student's actual profile

A school-by-school strategic positioning document tailored to each of the 8 schools

A locked-in ED/REA/EA/RD timing strategy across the full school list

A fully completed Common Application, reviewed and ready for submission

A strategic activities list and Additional Information section, optimized for impact

A finalized resume formatted for college applications (where required)

Interview preparation for any school that interviews & Waitlist or deferral strategy support for any relevant school

A clear recommendation letter strategy — who to ask, when, and how to brief them


Simi K.

Offered by Simi K.

Joined February 2024

5.0

College Admissions Expert | Columbia MBA | 16+ Yrs of Ivy & Top 25 Admits

I've spent the last 16+ years helping ambitious students get into the country's most competitive colleges, including Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Columbia, MIT, UChicago, NYU, and UCLA. Across 300+ college applicants, 95% have been admitted to at least one of their top-choice schools, and over 75% have placed at Top 25 universities. I work best with students who are coachable, motivated, and ready to put in real work - students who arrive with strong but scattered material and need help putting it all together. That's where I add the most value: helping students find a clear narrative across their application, build a school list that's strategic (not aspirational), and write essays that actually sound like them. The goal is applications that feel inevitable instead of cobbled together. I work with students from freshman through junior year, with tailored support depending on where they are in the process: early profile-building and direction in 9th and 10th grade, strategic execution in 11th, and full application support heading into senior year. The earlier we start, the more leverage we have. I graduated from NYU and earned my MBA from Columbia Business School in 2020, which gives me a current, first-hand perspective on what selective US adcoms are actually looking for. My career started in test prep and admissions consulting in Singapore, where I helped expand the company I worked for into Shanghai before returning to New York to found my own practice. I work with both US-based students and international applicants navigating the US system for the first time, particularly the kinds of students who often have the strongest stories but the hardest time articulating them. If you want a structured, strategic partner for your college process, let's talk.

Coaches professionally

100+ people coached for College

Open to working with clients outside the U.S.

$15,500

60h–70h of coaching