Start-up w $1.8 mil seed funding taking on college admissions consultants.

The job of a good consultant would be to introduce a student to additional schools that they may not have already been aware of, beyond the obvious. It’s psychologically limiting for students (who we would hope are looking to develop a balanced list), to focus on a ‘top 5’ rather than encourage them to have a solid foundation of safe/match/reach schools.

To become fixated - and pay to access information – on how to get into a finite number of ‘dream’ schools seems like a poor use of both time and money.

I suppose the bigger question is, if there are widely available programs to detect academic plagiarism, why wouldn’t a school have a screening program for applications as well?