Written profile audits

An honest read on where your child actually stands.

Two written pages from someone who has read thousands of applications — assessing your child’s profile against the schools they are actually applying to. Delivered in five business days.

Request an audit$450, or $850 with a former admissions officer

We do not predict outcomes, and we do not write any part of your child’s application. What you get is a clear account of where they stand and the three things still worth changing.

Two audits. Nothing else to choose.

The only difference is who reads the file. The rubric, the format and the turnaround are identical.

Profile Audit

Reviewed by a current undergraduate at a top-20 university

$450

one-time · 5 business days

A written assessment of your child's academic profile, activities and school list — read by someone who navigated the same process recently and successfully.

  • Nine-dimension assessment against your child's own target list
  • Every activity labelled created, led, or joined
  • Your school list reclassified, with current published admission data
  • The three highest-leverage changes still possible, each with a date
  • An explicit list of what we could not assess, and why
Start with this audit

Profile Audit — Admissions Officer

Reviewed by a former admissions officer at a US university

$850

one-time · 5 business days

The same assessment, read by someone who spent years on the other side of the desk deciding files like your child's.

  • Everything in the Profile Audit
  • Read by a former admissions officer with verified institutional history
  • Notes on how a reader is likely to interpret the file, and why
  • Assessment of narrative coherence from a reader's perspective
  • Written for international applicants where relevant: school-profile legibility, counselor letter, need-aware implications
Start with this audit

Payment is taken after you submit the intake form and we confirm a reviewer. If the audit tells you nothing you did not already know, say so and we refund it.

How it works

  1. 01

    Tell us about your child

    A short intake form — grades, courses, activities, target schools. Ten minutes, completed by you, not by your child.

  2. 02

    We assign a reviewer

    Matched to your child's intended field and, where it matters, to their school context. You are told who is reading the file and what their background is before any work begins.

  3. 03

    The file is read against a fixed rubric

    Nine dimensions, banded against your child's own target list rather than an abstract standard. Every judgment cites the specific evidence it came from.

  4. 04

    You receive two pages, in five business days

    Written for you to read first. If the news is uncomfortable, it is in the first paragraph rather than buried on page two.

What this is not

This section matters more than the one above it. Most of what is sold in admissions is sold on an implied promise nobody can keep.

We do not predict outcomes

No odds, no percentages, no chances. Nobody can tell you where a student will be admitted, and anyone who offers to is selling you something else.

We do not write anything for your child

Reviewers critique, question and direct. They never draft a sentence. Every deliverable is version-tracked so this is demonstrable rather than merely promised.

We do not sell a package you do not need

One product, one price, no upsell call. If an audit tells you the profile is in good shape, that is the whole answer and you are finished with us.

We do not use the word safety

We say likely. Families have watched safeties say no.

Questions parents ask

Who actually reads the file?

Either a current undergraduate at a top-20 university or a former admissions officer, depending on which audit you choose. You are told which individual before work begins, along with their verified background. We publish how each credential was verified and when.

Is this an essay editing service?

No. The audit assesses whether there is usable material for essays and names candidate subjects, but no part of your child's application is written or rewritten by us — ever, at any price.

My child is a junior, not a senior. Is it too early?

It is the better time. Most of the highest-leverage changes an audit identifies take months to act on, and a senior in September has run out of room for most of them.

Who holds the account?

Parents, guardians and students can each create an account. A student under 18 names a parent or guardian, who approves the reviewer and pays; they can see the same file and the finished audit from their own account.

What if the audit tells us nothing we did not know?

Then say so and we will refund it. We would rather lose the fee than have you recommend us to nobody.

Do you work with families outside the United States?

Yes. Audits for students schooled outside the US include an additional section on how the school profile reads to a US admissions office, what to expect from the counselor letter, and where need-aware admission applies.

Ready for an honest read?

The intake form takes about ten minutes. You will hear back within two business days with the reviewer we propose and their background.

Request an audit