Palo Alto College Admissions
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Palo Alto College Admissions Consultants

High school students in Palo Alto who work hard, earn top grades and standardized test scores, and compile robust extracurricular profiles often target some of the most highly competitive colleges and universities.

However, they often don’t have the level of guidance and support they need to maximize their chances of success. In fact, the National Association for College Admissions Counseling estimates that the average student-to-counselor ratio in Palo Alto area high schools is approximately 460-to-1, well below the recommended level.

Guidance counselors serve an extremely important function within our school systems, and are integral to the personal and academic development of our students; however, multiple job roles and time constraints have left them unable to adequately assist in the most critical areas of college planning, including college list development, college essay coaching, college application review, college interview prep, financial aid/scholarship guidance, and college choice. This is why many Palo Alto area families seek out private college admissions consultants.

Unlike many other prominent college admission consulting firms that boast 100+ part-time consultants, we pride ourselves on being a smaller firm, with a tight-knit group of full-time counselors who provide personalized and attentive service to our valued clients. Our high level of client satisfaction is evident from our stellar verified reviews on Trustpilot.

Over the past 15+ years, our Palo Alto college admissions consultants have successfully counseled college applicants from all the following high schools in the Palo Alto Area.

Palo Alto College Admissions Consulting – High Schools We Serve:

  • Bellarmine College Preparatory
  • Castilleja School
  • Crystal Springs Uplands School
  • Design Tech High School
  • Eastside College Preparatory School
  • Henry M. Gunn High School
  • Hillsdale High School
  • Junípero Serra High School
  • Kehillah Jewish High School
  • Los Altos High School
  • Menlo-Atherton High School
  • Menlo School
  • Mercy High School, Burlingame
  • Mid-Peninsula High School
  • Monta Vista High School
  • Mountain View High School
  • Notre Dame High School, Belmont
  • Palo Alto High School
  • Pinewood School
  • Presentation High School
  • Saint Francis High School
  • Saint Ignatius College Preparatory
  • Saint Lawrence Academy
  • Sequoia High School
  • Summit Preparatory Charter High School
  • The Harker School
  • The King’s Academy
  • The Nueva School
  • The Priory School
  • TIDE Academy
  • Valley Christian High School
  • Westmont High School
  • Woodside High School

At College Transitions, we strive to supplement the valuable work of school counselors and provide Palo Alto area students with the comprehensive guidance and knowledge needed to earn admission and transition into good-fit colleges.

Over the past two decades, our college admissions consultants have provided college admissions consulting to scores of students from neighborhoods across the Palo Alto region, including Atherton, Barron Park, Belle Haven, Central Menlo Park, College Terrace, Community Center, Crescent Park, Downtown North, Evergreen Park, Fair Oaks, Felton Gables, Leland Manor, Lindenwood, Los Altos Hills, Loyola, Menlo Oaks, Old Palo Alto, Palo Alto Hills, Professorville, Sharon Heights, Southgate, Stanford Weekend Acres, The Willows, University South, and West Menlo Park.

For more than two decades, College Transitions’ admissions consultants have become integral members of the Palo Alto education community, and we hope to facilitate the college planning of Palo Alto area residents for many years to come.

Client Success

We have helped students matriculate into some of the best colleges across the nation, including many in California such as UCLA, UC Berkeley, USC, Pomona, Stanford, Claremont McKenna, and Pitzer. 

Taking a more national view, more than 20 College Transitions clients over the past three years (2022-2024) have earned acceptance into the following highly selective colleges and universities.

  • Barnard College
  • Brown University
  • Harvard University
  • MIT
  • Carnegie Mellon
  • Duke
  • Vanderbilt
  • Dartmouth
  • Emory
  • Georgetown
  • Northwestern
  • Columbia
  • NYU
  • Cornell
  • Yale

Get to Know College Transitions

College Transitions is a team of college admissions counselors, academics, and former admissions officers dedicated to guiding students and families through the college admissions process.

We are also the college planning company in the country to have contributed articles to higher education’s top journals and to have published two best-selling books, The Enlightened College Applicant and our annual guide Colleges Worth Your Money.

 

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