Great Minds Advising specializes in helping high-achieving students earn admission by becoming the types of applicants top colleges nowadays seek: students with compelling admissions stories centered around a focused passion, or "hook."

Simply put, we draw out and help build our students' most captivating passions and strengths and turn them into acceptances at America's premier colleges.

For the 2024-25 application cycle, 100% of our students gained admission to a top-choice school, with recent acceptances to Stanford, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Penn, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, Duke, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Johns Hopkins, Rice, Northwestern, UC-Berkeley, and WashU (among many others). Our students are admitted to the Ivy League at a rate of 14x the national average (90% when applying early), with each and every one of our Ivy League applicants gaining admission to at least one Ivy. Many have earned further distinctions, such as full scholarships to Duke and Rice, Columbia Science Research Scholar, and "likely letters" (given to the top 5-10% of admits) at numerous elite colleges.

We are highly selective with the students and families we support, allowing us to deliver the highest level of service and quality. Each and every component of our advising process is executed with utmost thought, creativity, and meticulousness by not only a student's primary advisor but also the rest of our expert advising team, helping us to reproduce our exceptional track record of success year-after-year.

We are members of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC), partners with the Northwestern Center for Talent Development, and are often sought after for our expert admissions takes by outlets such as New York Times Magazine, New York Magazine, Bloomberg, NBC, and the BBC.

Finally, we author a popular college admissions newsletter reaching thousands nationwide and host the podcast, "The Game: A Guide To Elite College Admissions."

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