High School Admissions
Lifelong success starts early and it is imperative that parents and students understand all of their options and opportunities. Our services provide comprehensive support that addresses every aspect of choosing where to attend high school so as to ensure our students find the right fit that helps them succeed academically, socially, and culturally. Our services include:
High School Prospecting and Finding Your Best Fit
Visits and Demonstrating Interest
Essays and Personal Statements
Interview Preparation
Scholarships and Financial Aid
Resumes
Course and Extracurricular Selection
Letters of Recommendation
Finding Your Best Fit
Understanding the available options is the first step in the private school admissions process. Important factors such as reputation, size, location, school culture, cost, extracurriculars, and more all need to be considered. Our intimate knowledge of the top schools across the state of Colorado, coupled with our research tools enable us to guide families through this process to guarantee they apply to schools that meet all of their wants and needs.
Shadowing and Asking The Right Questions
Visiting a high school in person empowers students and families the opportunity to get a better feel for a school and discover if it is a good fit. However, it’s important to go beyond the basic campus tours and marketing brochures in order to evaluate each institution objectively. By creating detailed plans with the right questions to ask and what exactly to look for, our families arrive for their visits feeling prepared and excited to explore the potential of each school on their list.
Essays and Personal Statements
Elite high schools read thousands of essays every year. With an increasing emphasis on this character-based component of the application, its imperative to know exactly what admissions teams are looking for and how you can stand out. We guide students through all of their essays by helping them develop their voice and share their stories in a way that resonates with both admissions and scholarship committees.
Interview Preparation
Many selective middle and high schools require interviews as part of the admissions process — and strong interviews can play a major role in acceptance decisions. Through personalized mock interviews, coaching, and preparation for common student and parent interview questions, we help families approach the process with confidence, clarity, and professionalism so students can communicate who they are and leave a lasting impression.
Scholarships and Financial Aid
With tuition costs continuing to rise, understanding the true financial commitment of a high school education has become increasingly important for families. We help families navigate financial aid applications, merit opportunities, scholarships, and school-specific assistance programs while evaluating the full cost and long-term value of each option. Our goal is to help families make informed decisions and identify opportunities that can significantly reduce the overall cost of attendance.
Resumes / Brag Sheets
In many applications, whether for elite high schools or scholarships, students will need to list their achievements. These should include clubs and extracurricular participation, work and volunteer experiences, and even pertinent coursework. We work with students to gather this essential information, format it correctly, and write engaging descriptions that fully encompass the work they’ve done.
Course and Extracurricular Selection
Selecting the right courses that put students on a path to honors, advanced (AP/IB), and/or concurrent enrollment starts as early as their freshman year of high school. Simultaneously, participating in extracurriculars that explore academic and career interests while also preparing for leadership opportunities is crucial. We work with students to help make these important decisions as early as possible in order to guarantee they are on the right path for academic and leadership development.
Letters of Recommendation
Strong letters of recommendation can play a major role in high school admissions, scholarship opportunities, and competitive academic programs. We help students thoughtfully identify the teachers, mentors, coaches, and community members who can best speak to their character, strengths, leadership, and potential. From planning outreach and timelines to organizing accomplishments and preparing recommendation materials, we ensure students approach the process professionally and strategically while helping recommenders write informed, personalized letters that authentically reflect the student’s growth and achievements.