Services

We offer both hour-long strategy sessions and full, comprehensive packages to meet your family’s needs.

Maybe you’d like a single, one-hour session for your 10th grader because you’re taking them to see a few colleges during spring break. You could use an early, curated list to get started. 

Perhaps you just want a one-hour meeting to get some advice on planning out your student’s high school math, science, or modern language curriculum sequence in order to meet their goals by senior year.

Or maybe you’re looking for highly personalized, comprehensive college admissions counseling support that will guide your student through the entire process, culminating in completed applications.

Either way, we can help.

Strategy Sessions (60 mins)

For 9th-12th grades

We know that families at all levels of high school 9th-12th grade, have questions about the college process - especially in states like California where early curriculum planning for the UC’s can be very important - and just need an hour to talk things over with an expert.

Session types:

  • High school curriculum review & advising

  • Personalized early college list curation

  • Essay feedback (CA Personal Statement or Supplements, UC PIQ, or scholarship essay. General guidance and feedback only)

  • Application reset strategy session (post-Early Results disappointment)

  • Summer program advising and/or essay review

  • General college counseling questions/advice

Comprehensive Packages

For 11th & 12th grades only

At McGuire College Advising, we believe that high school should be enjoyed. We don’t believe that going to high school should be all about getting into a top college.

Instead, we believe that high school should be a time for a student's natural gifts, strengths, and interests to emerge organically without the pressure of choosing activities to try and impress college admission officers down the road.

Therefore, our comprehensive college planning packages are reserved for juniors and seniors only and focus on the students’ self-discovery process rather than on creating a brand.

Our comprehensive packages include:

  • Discovery suite of assessments, exercises, and parent/student questionnaires to enable this joyful process (values, tell me about you, etc)

  • High school records review

  • College list development and refinement

  • Application strategy (Early Action/Early Decision and/or Regular Decision)

  • Essay ideation, development, and revision for up to 10 colleges/universities (hourly rate applied for more than 10 colleges) 

  • Common App supplement development and review (where applicable)

  • Standardized test advising (SAT, ACT, AP exams, where applicable) 

  • College or scholarship interview prep (where applicable)

  • Unique login access to our comprehensive college planning platform to help students conduct research on colleges, keep track of deadlines, and stay organized

  • Automatic text message reminders re: task completion

  • Unlimited access to Susan via email 

  • Final college decision support

For Juniors, our packages also include:

  • Summer activity ideation

  • Summer program application prep (up to 5 programs) 

  • Extracurricular and out-of-school activity coaching and guidance