What resources do your consultants have access to?

This is one of the things we’re most proud of, because it’s genuinely rare. Most firms silo their consultants. They protect “company interests” by keeping experts isolated from each other — partly out of fear that collaboration leads to people leaving, partly because their business model doesn’t incentivize knowledge-sharing. Our philosophy is the opposite. We recruit genuine, invested people and we’re not worried about coups. We know that when talented, sincere people talk to other talented people, only good things result.

Our consultants communicate with each other regularly — sharing observations, swapping insights about specific schools, pressure-testing strategic approaches for tricky cases. Think of it like a teaching hospital where the doctors actually talk to each other across specialties rather than guarding their department’s turf. In fact, our entire service model was born from what was almost an accidental collaboration — two different approaches to the admissions problem combining forces and discovering that the synthesis was dramatically more powerful than either one alone. That spirit of combining expertise is baked into everything we do. Shared resources, shared knowledge, shared culture. For our consultants, this is a huge value-add — they get sharper by being part of a squad, not in spite of it.