What’s included in a comprehensive med school package vs. hourly?
These are fundamentally different products, built for different situations — and in medical school admissions, the distinction matters more than in most other verticals.
A comprehensive package covers the full strategic arc. Every tier begins with our PULSE™ diagnostic — a proprietary framework that maps you against the five behavioral dimensions medical school admissions committees are actually selecting for: Pioneering Spirit, Understanding, Leadership in Healing, Scholarly Depth, and Ethical Resilience. That feeds into a strategy deep-dive, school selection, and the Exhaustive Iterative Drafting Process for your personal statement. You work with a lead consultant who owns strategy and positioning, plus a dedicated essay specialist who works at the sentence level. That dual-role model isn’t an upgrade — it’s the baseline.
The difference between tiers is scope and depth. Silver covers the primary application — strategy, school selection, and personal statement. It’s a focused engagement for candidates who need expert guidance on the foundation but can manage secondaries and peripherals independently. Gold opens up the full service suite: secondary essays for up to ten schools, application review, LOR support, interview prep, CASPer/PREview preparation, waitlist strategy, and a blind peer review. Platinum extends secondary coverage to twenty schools and adds premium interview prep, MD Expert consultation, and the Adcom Simulator.
Here’s why this matters for med specifically: medical school applications are uniquely labor-intensive. The primary application establishes your narrative, but secondaries are where the real volume hits — each school sends its own prompts, often with tight turnaround windows, and the quality of those responses matters enormously. Gold and Platinum exist because managing ten to twenty school-specific essay sets at a high level, while maintaining strategic coherence across all of them, is a genuinely difficult execution challenge. That’s what you’re paying for beyond Silver.
Hourly and à la carte work is different. It’s best for candidates who already have a coherent strategy and need targeted help — sharpening a personal statement, prepping for MMI interviews, getting a post-rejection diagnostic. What it’s not designed to do is replace full-cycle consulting. Building a coherent application argument across a primary and ten-plus secondaries takes sustained strategic work, not a one-off session.
The consultation call is where we sort this out. For med applicants, the deciding factors are usually the size of your school list and how much of the secondary sprint you want managed.
