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Everyone has a story. Let’s find the best way to tell yours.
Receive as much support as you need. We keep working together until you feel confident in your applications.
Start your program whenever it’s best for your family. You can upgrade at any point if you need coaching on more applications.
Need help deciding? Talk to a program specialist.
1-on-1 College Application and Essay Coaching Packages
All Schools
Students applying to many Ivy and Ivy-equivalent colleges
Writes ~20-50+ essays
Receives ~30-50+ hours of written feedback and calls
6 Schools
Students applying to a few Ivy and Ivy-equivalent colleges and many other selective colleges
Writes ~10-35 essays
Receives ~20-30 hours of written feedback and calls
1 School
Getting started or students prioritizing their top choice college
Writes ~2-10 essays
Receives ~8-10 hours of written feedback and calls
Common App
Students applying to less selective colleges that likely don't have additional essays
Writes 1 essay
Receives ~4-5 hours of written feedback and calls
What Every Package Includes
Your own support to ensure you’re confident in your applications
You’ll receive guidance from start to finish. We’ll create a plan and hold you accountable to the plan to ensure every application is compelling and completed early. Your support team includes:
- Student Success Manager: Creates a personalized timeline and monitors your progress to help you stay on track. Available for any questions you may have.
- Writing Coach: Provides written feedback on every draft of every essay. Meets with you on video calls to plan your content.
Access to our essay management platform
The Prompt platform is your home for managing the process of completing every application. It automatically creates a list of every essay you need to write. And it contains everything you need to interact with your Support Team, from scheduling calls to submitting drafts and receiving feedback.
Coaching on every written part of your applications
Your Writing Coach will guide you through brainstorming, outlining, writing, revising, and completing every essay and written part of your applications, including:
- The Common Application Essay
- The University of California Personal Insight Questions
- School-specific supplements
- Other school-specific essays for scholarships, honors programs, majors, and more
- All other writing, such as the activities list, additional information, and portfolios.
Note: The Common Application Essay Package only includes coaching on one essay, the Common Application Personal Statement Essay, and doesn’t include support on school-specific supplements or any other part of the application.
Coaching on every written part of your applications
Your Writing Coach will guide you through brainstorming, outlining, writing, revising, and completing every essay and written part of your applications, including:
- The Common Application Essay
- The University of California Personal Insight Questions
- School-specific supplements
- Other school-specific essays for scholarships, honors programs, majors, and more
- All other writing, such as the activities list, additional information, and portfolios.
Note: The Common Application Essay Package only includes coaching on one essay, the Common Application Personal Statement Essay, and doesn’t include support on school-specific supplements or any other part of the application.
Your own support to ensure you’re confident in your applications
You’ll receive guidance from start to finish. We’ll create a plan and hold you accountable to the plan to ensure every application is compelling and completed early. Your support team includes:
- Student Success Manager: Creates a personalized timeline and monitors your progress to help you stay on track. Available for any questions you may have.
- Writing Coach: Provides written feedback on every draft of every essay. Meets with you on video calls to plan your content.
Access to our essay management platform
The Prompt platform is your home for managing the process of completing every application. It automatically creates a list of every essay you need to write. And it contains everything you need to interact with your Support Team, from scheduling calls to submitting drafts and receiving feedback.
Which Package Should I Choose?
Get a feel for how many applications you’ll submit.
Your school list may not be complete yet – and that’s okay. Having a sense of how many applications you’ll be submitting will help you select a package.
Typically speaking, high-achieving students targeting more selective colleges (25% or lower admit rates) apply to an average of 12 colleges – but an increasing number apply to 15-20+.
Students targeting less selective colleges (50% or higher admit rates) typically apply to 5 or fewer. Everyone else is in between.
Get a feel for where your essays will matter.
As a rule of thumb, the lower a college’s admit rate, the more essays matter. Selective colleges use essays to differentiate between tens of thousands of academically similar applicants.
We recommend getting coaching on your applications where your essays matter the most, which typically are:
Selective Colleges
Ivy and Ivy-equivalent, prestigious private colleges (Boston University, USC, NYU), competitive public colleges (UNC, Michigan, UCLA).
Selective majors and programs at less selective colleges
Often, some majors and programs have lower admit rates than the college as a whole. Common examples include computer science, engineering, nursing, business, and honors colleges.
Desirable out-of-state public colleges
Often, out-of-state applicants have lower admit rates than in-state (UT Austin, UVA, Florida).
Choose the right approach for you.
Here’s 3 approaches you can take to choose the right package for you.
Simple approach (recommended)
Get the package that matches the number of selective colleges, majors, and programs you’ll be applying to. This typically means an All Schools Package for high-achieving students likely to submit 12+ applications. It can also be our 3 Schools or 6 Schools Package for students only applying to a few reach colleges.
Top-choice approach
Only get coaching on your top choices with a 3 Schools or 1 School Package. You’ll spend less and get substantial value. You’ll then transfer what you learned to completing your other applications yourself.
Widespread approach
Get a Common App Essay Package to make sure you’re confident in the essay you submit to many colleges. Most college applications use the Common App personal statement essay.
Note: You can always upgrade your package later, but it may result in a higher price (e.g., prices increase in September).
Join the thousands of families who trust Prompt to get their students into their top choice colleges every year.
Join the thousands of families who trust Prompt to get their students into their top choice colleges every year.
Frequently Asked Questions
- You’ll receive a receipt via email and an email with instructions on next steps.
- Students and parents will each fill out a questionnaire to help us get to know you a little better and begin the coach-matching process.
- You’ll also schedule a 20-minute onboarding call with a Student Success Manager (SSM) to align on your goals, set a timeline, and learn how to use our platform.
- We will take the information from your onboarding questionnaire to assign you a coach and during the onboarding call, we’ll get your first meeting scheduled with your coach.
- After onboarding, the student will complete our Application Plan module before their first brainstorming call with the Writing Coach.
- You’ll have your first call, where you build out and align on your most compelling content with your Writing Coach.
- You’ll continue to follow your personalized timeline until you complete your applications.
- Your SSM will continue to stay in touch with you for any needs that arise.
- Ivy and Ivy-equivalent colleges: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Columbia Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, Northwestern, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, CalTech, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, WashU.
- Selective private colleges: Boston University, Northeastern, Notre Dame, Rice, Emory, Carnegie Mellon, USC, NYU, Tufts, Wake Forest, Boston College, Tulane, Case Western, Brandeis, Syracuse.
- Competitive public colleges, majors, and programs: UNC, Texas, Virginia, Georgia Tech, UCSD Engineering, Washington Computer Science, Florida Honors Program.
- Other public colleges: UCSB, UCSD, UC Irvine, UC Davis, Florida, San Diego State, Penn State, Ohio State, Virginia Tech, Minnesota, Auburn, Georgia, Illinois, Alabama, Michigan State, Arizona, Arizona State, Indiana, Colorado, Missouri, Rutgers, Clemson.
- International colleges: Cambridge, Oxford, London School of Economics, Waterloo, Toronto, Trinity.
- Ivy and Ivy-equivalent colleges: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Penn, Columbia Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, Stanford, UChicago, Northwestern, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, CalTech, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, WashU.
- Selective private colleges: Boston University, Northeastern, Notre Dame, Rice, Emory, Carnegie Mellon, USC, NYU, Tufts, Wake Forest, Boston College, Tulane, Case Western, Brandeis, Syracuse.
- Competitive public colleges, majors, and programs: UNC, Texas, Virginia, Georgia Tech, UCSD Engineering, Washington Computer Science, Florida Honors Program.
- Other public colleges: UCSB, UCSD, UC Irvine, UC Davis, Florida, San Diego State, Penn State, Ohio State, Virginia Tech, Minnesota, Auburn, Georgia, Illinois, Alabama, Michigan State, Arizona, Arizona State, Indiana, Colorado, Missouri, Rutgers, Clemson.
- International colleges: Cambridge, Oxford, London School of Economics, Waterloo, Toronto, Trinity.
Number based on admission data from the most recent year. Though we reach out to every family to provide a fair and accurate summary of results, families are not obligated to provide their results and may provide as many or few of their results as desired. We only include families who responded to our survey in the data, not the whole breadth of the students who work with us every year.
