At the free introductory meeting, you’ll meet with an expert admissions consultant to see if our program fits your needs, and if we’re right to work together.

Kick the Tires and Discuss Your Goals

Highlight the Parts of the Application You Need Help With

Get All of Your Burning Questions About Admissions Answered

No Hard Sell, We Promise!

The agenda is pretty simple.  We will talk about your goals, decide what parts of the application process you need help with, and see if we would be a good fit to work together.  We’ll also answer your questions about the admissions process.  There’s no hard sell; it’s just a get-to-know-you session, and after the meeting we can decide whether we want to work together.

Our first step is an introductory meeting to help you figure out where you have a chance of getting in. We’ll talk about your goals, your stats, and your questions about your application.

The next step of working together is to figure out your strengths and weaknesses as an applicant. What questions will a graduate school committee have about you? How might we answer those questions and accentuate your strengths in your personal statement? What experiences should you talk about in your personal statement, and what strategies should we pursue in your application process?

We move beyond just GPA to find which graduate schools uniquely fit what you’re looking for. Just hoping to get in somewhere? Not sure what makes one grad school different from the next? We can help you come up with a personalized answer to those questions.

After that, our founder – graduate school admissions nerd, Rob Humbracht – will help you choose a list of schools that fit you well and provide a spreadsheet full of useful information to help you convey to each school on your list why it’s a good fit for you.

The essays are probably the most difficult part of the application process for most students. It starts with the personal statement – a one-page essay designed to answer “Why Grad School” – but continues with the other essays in the primary application, the Most Meaningful Essays, and the Work/Activities section. We will help you brainstorm, outline, and revise each of those essays so that your entire application shines.

We also help from start to finish on the secondary essays. If you apply to 20 schools, you will write 40 to 50 pages of secondary essays. Most companies only help you with one page of secondary essays. One page! Out of 40! We help with a lot more, because we know that the battle for getting in doesn’t stop at your primary.

As you put the final touches on your application, the anxiety builds. Do I use this word or that? Am I really ready to submit? How do I know that I’ve put my best foot forward?

We’ve found the best way to make sure students are 100% ready to submit is to have a mock admissions committee, led by the most senior member of our staff – Passport founder, Rob Humbracht. He will read every word of your primary to make sure it represents you well so that you can submit with confidence.

After your secondaries are in, interview season begins. Our former students have said that their first interview was the hardest, so we help make sure that you are 100% ready for the first one. That starts with a full-on education program (multiple articles and videos) to make sure that you know what to expect on interview day. Then, we pair you with a different advisor – someone you’ve never met – to do your interview preparation and mock interviews. The feeling of our mock interviews closely mimics interview day, whether that’s a traditional interview or the MMI.