Grades 9–12
College Admissions Coaching & Planning
With CAC founder Nena Malhotra. Discover your singularity, avoid common pitfalls, and submit an application that shows a genuine fit.
Discover your singularity
Avoid common pitfalls
Write compelling essays
Submit powerful recommendations
Show a perfect fit
Grades 9–12
College Planning & Prep
Three-session roadmapping workshops for you and your teen.
Grades 11–12
College Admissions Coaching
Three levels of support, from a single application system to a wide list.
Since 2016
Our History of Success
Eleven classes of published college admissions outcomes.
Grades 9–12
College Planning & Prep
A personalized three-session workshop in which you and your teen learn about their educational options and how they can best prepare to be competitive applicants.
Grades 9–11
College Roadmapping
For families of teens planning a traditional college path, and for teens considering the visual or performing arts. What’s the difference between a BA and a BFA? What the heck is a BS in an artistic subject?
- Three personalized sessions with Nena
- A personalized booklet recapping all of this information
- New avenues of growth to pursue — coursework, activities, competitions, portfolios and summer programs matched to your teen’s direction
- A sense of calm knowing you have the information you’ll need to make the best decisions for your family
- Improved college admissions outcomes
- Improved likelihood of earning a merit scholarship worth $5,000–$40,000 per year
$1,500
Grade 12
Accelerated College Roadmapping
For seniors starting the process now. The same three sessions, compressed to the application-year timeline, with a portal to work from once we finish.
- Three personalized sessions with Nena
- A personalized booklet recapping all of this information
- A year of college counseling self-service portal access
- A senior-year timeline with deadlines, testing decisions and application tasks in order
- Improved likelihood of earning a merit scholarship worth $5,000–$40,000 per year
$1,500
What we cover in the three sessions
Session one
A straightforward account of the benefits and drawbacks of the types of school and program that might fit your teen — public and private, small college and large university, special focus and general education, co-ed and single-sex, secular and religious, HBCUs and Hispanic-Serving Institutions.
Session two
A clear and candid explanation of admissions practices at each type of program and institution, including the ones colleges work hard to keep under wraps.
Session three
A set of action items for your teen to complete, and a timeline in which to complete them.
Grades 11–12
College Admissions Coaching
Three levels of support. Every package covers the same work, start to finish — they differ in which application systems they carry and how many applications they include.
Comprehensive Guidance
Ideal for students applying within a single application system, whether that’s a Common App list or a UC list.
- Apply to up to 6 Common App universities or complete the UC application
$5,000
Comprehensive Guidance Plus
Ideal for students building a list across both UC and Common App colleges, with the additional essays and campus-by-campus decisions that requires.
- Complete the UC application and also up to 6 Common App universities
$6,400
Intensive Coaching
Ideal for highly ambitious students applying to several highly selective or special-focus programs, as well as for students seeking robust support for any other reason.
- Up to 15 university applications, any form.1
$7,800
Included in every package
- College research and list development
- Development of a unique application strategy
- Essay ideation, drafting, and refinement
- Recommendation procurement
- Preparation of video submissions and portfolios
- Interview preparation
- The Cal State application
- Financial planning
A history of success
Where our students have been admitted
A selection of admissions earned by CAC students since 2016, grouped by what families ask about most. Dozens of other public and private universities are in the full year-by-year listing.
9 of 9
University of California undergraduate campuses.
20
of the most selective universities in the country.
5
universities outside the United States.
The University of California
CAC students have been admitted to every one of the nine UC undergraduate campuses, most of them in multiple years, including Berkeley, UCLA and San Diego. If a UC is on your list, this is the process we know best.
- UC Berkeley
- UCLA
- UC San Diego
- UC Davis
- UC Irvine
- UC Santa Barbara
- UC Santa Cruz
- UC Riverside
- UC Merced
Highly selective national universities
Private and public universities that admit a small fraction of applicants, where the application has to do more than report grades.
- Stanford University
- Yale University
- Columbia University
- Duke University
- Brown University
- Johns Hopkins University
- Northwestern University
- Cornell University
- University of Chicago
- Rice University
- Vanderbilt University
- Washington University
- Carnegie Mellon University
- Emory University
- Georgia Institute of Technology
- University of Southern California
- New York University
- Boston College
- Case Western Reserve University
- University of Michigan
Specialized and special-focus programs
Aviation, conservatory music, art and design, engineering, and business, each with its own portfolio, audition or supplemental requirements.
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University
- Berklee College of Music
- Oberlin Conservatory
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
- Cal Poly San Luis Obispo
- Cal Poly Pomona
- The New School
- Emerson College
- Carnegie Mellon, Tepper School of Business
- Indiana University Bloomington, Kelley School of Business
- Harvey Mudd College
- Bethune-Cookman University
Universities outside the United States
A different application system, a different timeline, and in several cases a lower total cost than a private American university.
- University of Edinburgh, Scotland
- University of Bristol, England
- University of Leeds, England
- Trinity College Dublin, Ireland
- The American University of Paris, France
Several institutions have admitted CAC students in multiple years. The full year-by-year listing, classes of 2016 through 2026, is available on request.
“I couldn’t have done it without you.”
Exact words of countless former students.
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1 The number of applications a student may complete is an estimate based on prior experience, not a guarantee. The number of sessions required depends on several factors, including application complexity, as well as student engagement and writing proficiency.