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: strategy sessions, document reviews, mock interviews, or asynchronous feedback on activity descriptions and draft essays. Some candidates front-load the strategic work. Others spread it across the year as milestones arrive — MCAT prep decisions, clinical experience planning, research positioning, early essay drafts. 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 to the next cycle, 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 the same across all service types: 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 produce results.