College Admissions Guidance

At Stacy Kadesh and Associates, we customize our expertise to your child’s unique strengths, goals, and interests to create a personalized strategy that will maximize their chances of getting into their top-choice schools. With over 30 years of experience in educational spaces, we bring our expertise, supportive approach and unique abilities to connect with students and guide your family through every step of the college admissions process.

If you are here it is likely not too early! We begin working with students as early as middle school. This allows us time to help students explore and develop deep interests and engagement (academic interests, passion projects, volunteer service, etc.)  By doing this we can create long-term strategies that align with your child’s academic goals and extracurricular interests, ensuring they’re positioned for success when it comes time to apply.

Our services are designed for families and students seeking expert guidance in navigating the complex college admissions process. We work with a wide variety of students and customize our approach to inform and support their college admissions journey. We find best fit colleges at varying levels of selectivity to ensure a well balanced and exciting list of schools.  If you’re feeling overwhelmed by the admissions process, unsure what to do and how to approach it, your advisor at Stacy Kadesh and Associates will help you to make sense of the process and provide the support and answers that you need.

We offer a broad range of services to support students at every stage of the admissions process, including:

✦ Early support to maximize high school engagement

✦ College List creation

✦  Admission Strategy and Timeline

✦ Application Management and Essay Coaching

✦ SAT/ACT/AP Test Prep and test taking timeline

✦ Scholarship and Financial Aid guidance

✦ Internship and Research opportunities

✦ Transfer and Graduate school admissions advising

✦ Athletic Recruiting guidance

✦ And more…

Every offering is highly personalized whether they’re aiming for Ivy League or Ivy Equivalent schools, uncovering specialized programs, while looking for the best college fit. We demystify the process through our expertise and experience. Our students find success through our hands-on, supportive and organized approach.

If it were up to us, your talented and brilliant child would be admitted to all of the schools they apply to! Since we are not, we utilize our expertise and knowledge about what colleges are looking for in prospective students to guarantee that your child will be positioned to submit their best possible application. Our students are 8X more likely to gain admission to their top-choice schools, through our strategic approach that highlights their strengths and talents

While no one can promise admission, we do guarantee that your child will submit their strongest possible application. Our students are seven times more likely to be accepted into their top-choice schools thanks to our personalized strategies that emphasize their strengths and ensure they are well-prepared for every step of the process.

The cost of our services varies depending on when you start the process with us. We offer All Inclusive packages starting in 9th-11th grade, more focused packages for those joining us in 12th grade (space allowing). We also offer our Initial Planning Meeting to all new students (billed at an hourly rate) to help you to understand what colleges are looking for in high school students and to provide immediate actionable steps to meet your child’s goals.

Yes, absolutely! We work with families to identify scholarship opportunities and guide them through the financial aid process, from completing the FAFSA to applying for merit-based scholarships. Our goal is to make sure your child gets into the right school and that the cost of attendance is manageable for your family.

No matter where you live, we can help! We work with families across the country (and internationally) via virtual consultations, email, and phone calls. The flexibility of our services allows us to provide support to families no matter where they are located.

Our clients often see higher acceptance rates to top schools and an overall better understanding of the college process.

Our students gain a deeper understanding of who they are and who they want to become. Our process facilitates their confidence, development and achievement giving them a competitive edge in the college admissions process. Our families report that our personalized guidance creates a college admissions process that breaks down the seemingly daunting steps into smaller more doable tasks creating less stress and uncertainty and more confidence that their child’s college application is the best it can be.

Getting started is easy! Book your Initial Planning Meeting where we’ll provide actionable steps and takeaways as well as discuss your child’s needs and how we can support them with a detailed plan and timeline to be successful in their college admissions journey.