EmpowerlyReviews of empowerly.com

I've been working with my counselor, Huihong Hao, since sophomore year, and the experience has been amazing. She's supportive of all my interests and really encourages me to pursue what I enjoy while also introducing me to new opportunities I may not have considered. She focuses on nurturing my passions and puts a lot of effort into learning who I am as a person and student. During our sessions, she prioritizes making sure my opinions and concerns are heard. Her writing feedback is insightful and thorough, and she's very flexible with scheduling. Especially with summer program applications, she's been a tremendous help in everything from researching which programs to apply to writing the applications. Her approach really takes a lot of the stress out of college applications and allows me to focus more on being introspective and figuring out what I want for the future. I highly recommend her (and Empowerly's) services!

My counselor, Ms. Hao, was fantastic, and all of our meetings were incredibly helpful in allowing me to ultimately create a great college application. Highly recommend!

I absolutely love Ms. Elizabeth Venturini, she has made my experience at empowerly beyond amazing! I highly recommend!

Empowerly really helped me write my college application essays. We had a series of sessions to gradually improve the essays, and by the time I submitted the application, my essays were fabulous.

I had a great experience working with Raisa Alam for the RPS prep session. We worked through the application process, and she made the whole experience very stress free and left me feeling excited to start the research project.

Daniel R has been an excellent counselor. His advice, essay help, and expertise resulted in me getting a full-ride scholarship to Duke University as well as into UCLA, UC Berkeley, University of Florida (full ride), University of Miami (full ride) and much more. The Empowerly staff has also been extremely helpful in landing top-tier internships and in adjusting my resume. I really appreciate everything they have done.

We had the best experience with Empowerly, better than we'd hoped for. Our high school senior daughter is a bit on the stubborn side and resists suggestions (ie: interference) by mom. But she also wanted to attend a top university. She interviewed two counselors and both were amazing in their own ways but one just connected so well with her and she selected Xander. Xander was the perfect balance of patience and understanding and also held her accountable through all of the essay revisions. She ended up falling in love with a school Xander brought to her attention, Boston University, and she wanted to major in International Relations, which they rank 17th in the nation for. She did decide to apply Early Decision and she was accepted. She is now the most excited senior in her class! She has a good gpa and good ACT scores, but so many do, and others had better scores and were not accepted. We truly believe that it was the essay that got her in and for that, we thank Xander for pushing her through that. BU had over 80K applications and a freshman class of 3100. There is honestly no way she makes it in without Xander and all of the support she received from Empowerly. It was money very well spent and the value can't be explained until you see your child reading her acceptance from her dream school. And, as a bonus, it took all of the pressure off of me. If mom said to do it, then no. But if Xander said to do something she was all over it. He was very motivating and positive and that worked perfectly for her.

My counselor, Eileen Blum-Bourgade, was very helpful during the entire application process. She kept me on track, as well as informing me on ways to stand out amongst other applicants. Not only that, but she always had answers to whatever questions I had. Overall, it was an amazing experience and I loved working with her.