Our Success Rate
98.7% of the students who fully completed our college application packages have been admitted to one or more of their top 3 choice colleges, with the remaining 1.3% still being admitted to a top 20 ranked college for their desired major, as long as their grades and tests scores were simply above the bottom 25th percentile of their admitted peers.
Revealing the Right Windows Into Your Life Maximizes Your Chances
“There have been two experiences in my life that triggered massive quantum leaps in my intellectual awakening. The first was working with College Zoom. The second happened at Stanford.”
— Michael, Stanford University, Class of 2014
2.2% transfer acceptance rate★★★★★
“Instead of taking my surface level attributes and spinning them, College Zoom pulled out deep characteristics and parts of my life that I would have neglected. I would have never had the level of introspection to ask myself the kinds of questions that they did, and their ability to turn my life events into really compelling narratives is supernormal. When I was proofreading my final application, I thought, 'Wow, this is really about me,' as opposed to, 'this could be about anybody.'”
— Steve, Claremont McKenna College, Class of 2014
9.4% acceptance rate★★★★★
“My expectations were very low. I said, really, what are you going to do that the college counselor at my daughter's private high school could not? But you presented a novel point of view, one that had not occurred to the other professionals. Then you accomplished two years worth of therapy in an hour, pulling everything out of her and getting it onto the page. I was impressed!”
— Gita Rosenwald, Daughter matriculated to Vassar College, Class of 2016
★★★★★
In 2015, Stanford rejected 2,000+ valedictorians. Meanwhile, a valedictorian that we helped was one of the 1,732 students admitted to Stanford's entering class. Though deeply honored, she opted to attend UCLA where she won a full merit scholarship awarded to fewer than 3% of admits.
— Kira, UCLA, Class of 2020
Full Scholarship★★★★★
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SHE STOPPED BEING DENIED BY THE IVY LEAGUE
A top student who used another independent college counselor was rejected by Harvard and Columbia in early submission. After we helped her reveal entirely different windows into her life, Penn, Brown, Duke, and Johns Hopkins accepted her. She described the difference between her former counselor and us as night vs. day.
— Antoinette
HER SAT & ACT SCORES WERE LOW
We helped a student with bottom 25% SAT and ACT scores get into her Ivy League dream school, Cornell. Her friends who scored much higher on the SAT/ACT and applied early (hoping for an advantage) got waitlisted or denied. She was accepted with a stronger application in regular decision.
— Tianne
SHE APPEALED HER REJECTION
A UCLA admissions officer told a student that she was rejected because her GPA was too low. We realized that couldn't be true and helped her win her appeal by addressing the real issue. She got admitted despite her GPA still being under the threshold that the admissions officer said she needed to be above.
SHE OVERCAME A 1.6% ACCEPTANCE RATE
While her smartest peers got into only 1 or 2 medical schools, Nina got into the MD programs at NYU (full scholarship), UCLA, UCSD, USC, UVA, and Texas A&M (w/ scholarship). We helped her stand out, step-by-step, avoiding overused advice found online and shared by her college's pre-med advisors.
— Nina
SHE NEVER VOLUNTEERED
We helped a student without any volunteer hours or extracurricular activities get accepted by every top 25 ranked university to which she applied. We reframed her hobbies—which she initially thought were insignificant—showing her new and more compelling angles to them.
SHE OVERCAME LOW GRADES
We helped a high school senior with a 3.11 unweighted GPA, no AP math classes, and an SAT score in the bottom 25% of admits get into USC’s Marshall School of Business. Her former school headmaster assured her that she'd be denied. We extenuated her grades and then helped USC see her potential to thrive.
— McKenna