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College Transitions was crucial in helping me transfer into my dream school, NYU. Michael Trivette, my advisor, made the entire process far less stressful and consistently encouraged me to put my best foot forward. Lisa, my writing advisor, helped identify when my essays weren’t fully addressing the prompts and offered clear and good advice to fix them. I’m truly grateful for their support and highly recommend College Transitions to anyone navigating the transfer process.

Going with College Transitions for my transfer application process was the best decision! Andrew knew how to guide me on school choices, helped me tell my story, and the advice on applications was invaluable. Taylor's guidance through the writing process was fantastic and she gave helpful and thoughtful feedback with such a fast turnaround, it helped me stay on track. I got into all the schools I applied to and couldn't be more satisfied!

As a first year transferring out of Syracuse University, I was apprehensive about going through the college application process again. Working with College Transition made my second try far easier and much more successful. The team of counselors is incredibly responsive, and able to answer any kind of question. I was given templates for emails to admissions officers, a personal writing coach, and a website platform that allows me to keep track of my progress and deadlines. I am so grateful for this organization, and super excited to be attending my first choice university in the fall thanks to them!

My son was just offered a spot, as a transfer student, to an Ivy and I am certain that the work he did with College Transitions made his application stand out. Andrew and his team is so kind and knowledgable. They were both compassionate and firm with Henry through the process and gave him the ammunition he needed to complete the work beautifully. I am so grateful that we engaged College Transitions!

College Transitions was an immense help in guiding my college admissions process. They were efficient, clear, and professional the entire time. I was provided quality feedback on my essays, but never felt that they were restricting my creative freedom. I had to deal with significantly less anxiety during this process, just because I didn't have to spend my time worrying about whether I was doing the right things or if I was missing something that needed to be done. I am happy to say that with their help, I was accepted to one of my top schools with a full-tuition scholarship!

College Transitions served as an incredible resource for our son in his college admission process. They were regularly available to answer any and all questions and were terrific partners for him as he thought through his priority colleges and subsequent timeline. Lori was also invaluable to the writing process, helping him shine in his essay and supplementals, showing seemingly endless patience and making herself available when was presented with some tight deadlines. He was accepted early at his first choice school, Wake Forest, where he will matriculate in August, and we have already reengaged with College Transitions for our next child, a rising junior. Five stars!

Two things really stood out as being differentiators as well as serving as a tremendous support and value for us. 1) Researched-backed guidance: Andrew & Michael are Incredibly knowledgeable about a broad array of colleges - not just the top 40, and they provide an absolute wealth of data and information so that you can determine what may be best for your child. They are stats driven, so once you know the grades and scores you’re applying with, they are able to give you a solid list of Reach, Target and Likely schools, and they tailor it to your considerations and priorities (size, geography, focus or major if you know it, etc). Along the way, they offer a wealth of insights, articles and statistics in the newsletters about the landscape of college trends, admissions, outcomes, and summer programs. Their book, Colleges Worth Your Money became a go-to resource, and their newsletters were very helpful. 2) essay support — our son applied to 16 schools - 14 of which had multiple essays. Joanna was amazing - her review and pointed/tailored comments on EVERY essay - all within impressive turnaround times - were vital for both his thought process as well as his ultimate success. Our son commented multiple times how helpful she was, and he refused to submit anything until she looked over that final draft one last time. On top of these differentiators, I will add how accessible and helpful everyone was whenever we had a question or just needed help thinking through something. Every time we connected, we all (my husband, son and I) walked away with a new insight and better understanding. They are an outstanding team. After reviewing 56+ schools, applying to 16, receiving offers to 11 (3 rejections, 2 waitlists), our son landed/enrolled exactly at the best pace for him. And he’s excited!

College Transitions is breath of fresh air in crowded world of college counseling, with stellar results to back their unique approach. We engaged CT twice for both our children, and both had stellar college admission outcomes - multiple offers from Ivies and top 10 schools. One is attending Duke as a scholar, and second is leaning towards attending Stanford as he assesses his options. Andrew and Michael are terrific counselors, and Adrienne and Joanna, and Kelsea and Sarah helped guide our younger and older child respectively - through methodical, data driven, balanced and milestone based approach - to fantastic outcomes. Very thankful for their engagement, guidance and coaching.