How do you quantify
“best admissions consultant?“

We’re proud of our methods, and our achievements. Here is a sample of our qualitative wins translated into numbers and charts.

97%

Success Rate

This is the percent of Gold or Platinum clients who gain admission to at least one of their top choice target schools.

#1

Ranked Best Consulting Firm

– CrushTheGRE

#1

Ranked Best Consulting Firm

– EduReviewer

#1

Ranked Best Consulting Firm

– ExamStrategist

Top 35

Data-Driven Ranking Site

– College Consensus

5.3x

The Admissionado Advantage

At the most competitive programs, this is how much more likely you are to gain admissions working with us

60

Consultants on the Team

Average # of Students per
Guidance Counselor

College Admissions

Typical High School Guidance Counselor – National Average

408

Typical Elite Private School Guidance Counselor

100

Average Admissionado College Consultant

6

MBA Admissions

Average clients per Consultant (Firms with Full-Time MBA Consultants)

40+

Average Admissionado MBA Consultant

6

Admissionado’s Success Rate
(by tier, top 10, top 20)

School Acceptance Rate

Admissionado’s Acceptance Rate

The Admissionado Advantage

College Admissions

Princeton

6%

38%

6.3x

Harvard

3%

22%

7.3x

Columbia

4%

45%

11.3x

MIT

4%

44%

11.0x

Yale

5%

50%

10.0x

Stanford

4%

31%

7.8x

University of Chicago

5%

80%

16.0x

University of Pennsylvania

7%

35%

5.0x

Johns Hopkins

7%

40%

5.7x

Dartmouth

6%

40%

6.7x

Brown

5%

83%

16.6x

Cornell

7%

42%

6.0x

Cal Tech

3%

65%

21.7x

Berkeley

11%

76%

6.9x

MBA Admissions

Harvard Business School

11%

43%

3.91x

Stanford GSB

6%

36%

6.0x

Wharton

22%

62%

2.82x

Chicago Booth

23%

65%

2.83x

MIT Sloan

15%

48%

3.2x

Columbia Business School

17%

51%

3.0x

Kellogg School of Management

25%

75%

3.0x

Percent of Our College Clients
Who Are Referrals

29%

Percent of Our MBA Clients Who Are Referrals

35%

Now, let’s talk about
our consultants.

# of Admissionado Consultants Who Graduated
from Ivy League / Top 10 schools

College School

College school # Admissionado Consultants
Brown 1
Carnegie Mellon 1
Columbia 5
Harvard 7
Johns Hopkins 3
Oxford 1
Princeton 2
Stanford 2
Tulane 1
U Chicago 3
U Penn 3
USC 1
Wesleyan 2
Yale 2

MBA School

College school # Admissionado Consultants
CBS 4
Chicago Booth 1
Dartmouth Tuck 1
Duke Fuqua 1
HBS 8
INSEAD 1
Kellogg 1
LBS 2
NYU Stern 1
Stanford GSB 3
Wharton 7

Recruitment Funnel
Eventually <5% Invited to Join

Admissionado Consultants Broken Down

College Consultant

Has Military / Vet Experience

1

Graduated from Harvard / Stanford / Yale / Princeton / Oxford, etc. (Echelon 1)

20

Graduated from Brown / Columbia / U Chicago (Echelon 2)

18

Have more than a Bachelor’s Degree

27

Are HBS, Stanford GSB, or Wharton Alumns

5

Have McKinsey / Bain / BCG Experience

2

Have Bulge Bracket Banking Experience

5

MBA Consultant

Consultants with MBB experience

5

Consultants with Bulge Bracket Banking experience

15

Consultants with Military experience

2

Former M7 Adcom Experience

4

HBS / Stanford GSB / Wharton Alums

24

M7 (Non-HSW) Alums

9

MBAs who graduated from Top 5 Colleges (Ultra-Elite)

4

MBAs who graduated from Top 15 Colleges (Ivies)

10

By the Numbers

College Applications Reviewed 18,800
College Essays Reviewed (estimate) 43,320
Admissionado Weddings 3
Admissionado Babies 5
Years in Operation 17
Economic Downturns Witnessed 1 (for now)
Average # of Times We Saw Top Gun: Maverick in the theatres 4
Minimum Acceptable # of Times To Have Seen Top Gun: Maverick 4
# of Global Pandemics Endured 1
Number of Active Consultants & Coaches in Broader Network 80
Business School Apps Reviewed 23,460
MBA Essays Edited (estimate) 75,172

The success

of our clients is what drives us. Every. Single. Day.

Inspiring future goals, uninspiring past achievement

SCHOOL TYPE
top-10

ACCEPTED TO
London Business School, Kellogg

GPA
3.0

Underestimating ones potential

SCHOOL TYPE
top-1

ACCEPTED TO
Harvard University

GPA
3.8 SAT SCORE
1458

Together, we focused on the excellent writing skills and crafted very strong essays.

Low GPA to NYC

SCHOOL TYPE
Top 25

ACCEPTED TO
New York University

GPA
2.8 SAT SCORE
1230

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offer letters

Making us blush

We’re happy to tell you how good we think we are, but fine, we’ll let others tell you in their own words…

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“Just wanted to let you know I officially submitted my application right now! I sincerely want to thank you and the editing team at Admisionado for all your help in putting this together, it made an amazing difference!”

Lisa Pearo

“Thank you all SO MUCH! I really appreciate you guys being THE BEST TEAM in this industry, always working with me and motivating me in this process. I didn’t do this on my own!! ”

Colleen McLaughlin

“Just received official acceptance from Darden today!!! Along with acceptance, they’re offering me a $100,000 scholarship over the course of the program and designated me a Forte Fellow. A HUGE thank you to you and the admissionado team for all of the help making my application a success!!!”

Regina Altaras

“The US admissions process can be a daunting and overwhelming journey and I cannot imagine mine without Admissionado. I came to know about them through a senior who is pursuing his studies from a top university in the United States. The major aspect, as others have echoed, that differentiates Admissionado from other consultancies is their personalized approach to each student. They put an enormous amount of effort and time into understanding the applicant’s background and interests. Being the procrastinator I am, I contacted Admissionado team at the eleventh hour. I would have totally understood if they had denied providing me with any guidance but to my surprise, they were enthusiastic and passionate to assist me in the process. In a matter of mere three weeks, they helped me build my entire application from brainstorming essay ideas down to choosing the format for my CV. Having an extensive experience in counseling, Admissionado knew what it takes to elevate a good application to a great application. I know that many of you are high-school overachievers: always on top of your class, national level sports players, or teenage inventors and are probably thinking of going on this journey solo but trust the hundreds of us when we say that you need a friend like Admissionado with you throughout this journey. And in case I hadn’t stressed this enough – Admissionado is the best admission consultants of the country.”

“… I wanted to reach out and let you know how much we appreciate all of your help, time and guidance during the insanity that is college application season. The stats we are seeing coming out of the Class of 2025 for the Ivy Schools is truly mind boggling: what a crazy year. So being denied to Yale but getting accepted to Cornell was completely “ok” with [son]. We just wanted to let you know that [son] was accepted to 11 schools overall: Cornell, Virginia Tech, University of Colorado-Boulder, Florida State University, Penn State, Purdue, University of Oklahoma-Norman, University of Illinois-Urbaba-Champaign, Texas A&M, Embry Riddle, and Rensselaer Polytechnic. He was waitlisted for Dartmouth Engineering and University of Michigan Ann-Arbor Engineering. He was invited and accepted into Florida State University, Purdue, University of Oklahoma, and Embry-Riddle’s Honor’s Colleges. He was given a full ride to Embry-Riddle and totaled over $400,000 in merit scholarships offered to him from the various schools. He is completely humbled with all of that and we sit back and laugh a bit now in that he originally stated he didn’t think he was going to get in anywhere. As parents, we were slightly worried that being homeschooled his entire schooling career might be a detriment but clearly it was not. All 6 of those schools are the top ranking schools in the entire country for Atmospheric Science/Meteorology Programs. So no matter where he chooses, he can’t go wrong with any of them. We know that where ever he winds up, it is where he belongs. Thank you again so much for all of your patience and help with getting our family through his Yale Application process.”

“Team – just wanted to take a moment and say Thank You, for all the help. I’m certainly not the easiest person to work with and I was admitted to Duke earlier today. Quite literally could not have done it without you.”

John Miles

“I’m very excited and glad that I chose Admissionado, and I’m confident that you will help us gain admission to the School we’ve been dreaming of. I am a fan of [this quote]: ‘I think it is possible for ordinary people to choose to be extraordinary,’ our family fits in this one sentence. I’m looking forward for a bright future for our daughter under your guidance.”

“It has been a very pleasurable experience for [son] and us as well. We have appreciated the hard work by [your team] in providing our son with the necessary guidance and counsel throughout this process. While we went in not knowing exactly how this would unfold we feel the writing has captured the essence of his experiences and his authentic voice in a more refined form than he would have been able to on his own. The guidance on the nuances of prompts have also been invaluable to his writing. I can’t profusely thank you enough for your guidance, help, and those killer polishes over this past year. Although, I admit, I will not miss the stress induced and grueling hours that these applications required, I will most definitely miss learning from you. To put it best: After years of studying english and writing in school, these past 6 months have helped me learn how to be and think like a writer. ;)”

How do you quantify
“best admissions consultant?“

97%

Success Rate

#1

Ranked Best Consulting Firm

#1

Ranked Best Consulting Firm

#1

Ranked Best Consulting Firm

Top 35

Data-Driven Ranking Site

5.3x

The Admissionado Advantage