Do hours expire or roll over between application cycles?

Advanced Planning hours are valid for one calendar year from the date of purchase. That’s intentional — open-ended engagements with no expiration tend to lose focus, and unfocused work helps no one.

Within that year, usage is flexible. You and your consultant decide how to allocate the hours: how many calls, how long, what cadence. Some candidates front-load strategy. Others spread work across the year as decisions arise — LSAT timing, internship choices, extracurricular positioning. The structure adapts to your situation.

For application packages, the engagement is inherently cycle-driven. Your package covers the schools you’re applying to in a given cycle. If circumstances change and you need to defer, that’s a conversation — not an automatic rollover, but not a brick wall either. We’ll work with you on what makes sense.

The underlying principle is consistent across all services: the hours you pay for are real consulting time with real people. They aren’t tokens in a vending machine. Use them with intention, and they’ll do real work for you.