• Orientation session: application process, expectations, timelines

    • Evaluation of academic interests, potential majors, and careers

    • Standardized testing recommendations

    • Development of a balanced and manageable college list based on aptitudes, preferences, performance, and extra-curricular activities

    • Plan for teacher recommendations

    • Guidance with drafting, revising, and completing essays and supplements for college applications

    • Email summaries to student and parents after each advising session

    • Up to 30 one-hour individual consultations with Beth to draft, revise, edit and finish all personal statements and supplemental essays required for up to 12 college applications (typically 15-25 meetings)

    • Editing consultations via email and Google Docs

    • Summer college essay workshop included

    • Scheduled quarterly phone calls with parents to review student’s progress

    • College visit and interview preparations

    • College acceptance decision conference with students and parents senior spring

    • Reserved for students with special circumstances; limited number of consultations available

    • Appropriate for high school course/extra-curricular consultation, college list development, and/or essay coaching

    • Bundled hours at a 5% discount rate are available for a mini-essay package of three consultation sessions.

    • Offered to all comprehensive package advisees the summer before senior year

    • Enrollment for non-package students available depending on circumstances and space available

    • Choose among different sessions offered throughout the summer months

    Topics covered: 

    –college list 

    –personal statement prompts and sample essays

    –peer evaluation of essay openers and essay rough drafts

    –strategies for preparing and developing supplemental essays

    –tips for time management of the application process

    –peer critique workshop for drafts in progress

  • Beth has a highly successful record of helping students gain admission to the graduate programs of their choice, particularly medical school. A former pre-professional adviser at Stanford University, she helps candidates:

    • Identify graduate programs that best match their professional goals

    • Create powerful personal statements and high-quality applications

    • Navigate the writing process from topic selection to focusing on ideas to revisions/editing that produce the best work

    • Develop résumés that highlight their strengths and experiences

    • Prepare for interviews

College Advising Services Offered

STUDENTS

❝Beth was always there throughout the entire process, from our first meeting, to when I started working on my essays in June, to submitting the applications in the winter and finally accepting an offer.”

Through writing my college essays I learned how to better write about myself but I also learned about myself. I realized what I gained from my high school experience and became more focused on a career path.❞

PARENTS

❝The PCA college essay workshops and individual consultations were invaluable for our senior. They helped provide structure and time management of deadlines, a platform for discussions on essay topic ideas, provided support emotionally and overall reviews of essays. Knowledge of colleges, the application process in general is impressive - experience was definitely apparent.❞