Do you guarantee admission to any schools? Why or why not?

No. And you should be suspicious of any firm that does. A guarantee in admissions consulting is either a lie, a hedge wrapped in fine print, or a sign that the firm only takes clients who don’t actually need help. None of those scenarios serve you.

Here’s the reality: admissions decisions involve variables no consultant controls — institutional priorities, class composition targets, reader subjectivity, yield modeling. What we can control is the quality of the application, the strength of the strategy, and the story the committee encounters when they open your file. Our job is to maximize the surface area of your competitiveness, apply to a smart range of schools, and make sure nothing in the application is working against you that shouldn’t be. When we do that well — and we have a 96%+ success rate at the comprehensive package level — the outcomes follow. But putting a guarantee on a process with inherent uncertainty would be dishonest, and dishonesty is a bad foundation for a relationship built on trust.