Do you or your HS Senior feel lost and overwhelmed by the college application process? WE CAN HELP!
With so many schools, different application platforms, test scores, and essay requirements, the process can be overwhelming. That’s why we created Navigate, a online program that provides high school seniors with a step-by-step guide for a stress-free college application journey.
Our five-month program can improve your HS Senior admissions experience for only $149 per month.
Our College Admissions Guidance Program
The Navigate program is an online, five-month program that guides students through the entire college application process. We offer weekly meetings that cover all aspects of the application process. Students can attend the meetings live or watch our video recordings later. With Navigate, your high school senior will have everything they need to complete their applications on time and with minimal stress.
College Counseling & Application Assistance Are Notoriously Expensive.
But Navigate is Different.
Our goal is to help as many students as possible, that is why we offer our five-month admissions guidance program for just $149 per month.
How Navigate Works
We host weekly meetings from July to November going through every aspect of the college application process in real time. This will ensure that your student receives timely information and keep your high school seniors on schedule to complete all their applications by Thanksgiving!
July
- Types of College Applications
- Researching Colleges
- Making a College List
- Tests (SAT, ACT, Subject Tests, AP Tests)
- Filling out the Common App
- Writing Common App Essays
August
- Determining Fit
- Writing UC Personal Insight Questions
- When/how to Describe COVID Circumstances
- Understanding Deadlines
- Activities on Applications
- Financial Aid/Scholarships
September
- Supplemental Materials on Applications
- Reaching out to Admissions Representatives
- Managing Time with Applications
- Institution-based Applications
- Letters of Recommendation
- Writing Supplemental Essays
October
- Transcripts and Other documents
- Sending Test Scores
- UC Application
- CSU Application
November
- Submitting Applications
- Plan for Completing/Submitting Applications
- What to do After you Receive Acceptances/Waitlist/Denials
- Appeals
- Choosing a College
Meet the Instructor, Sarah Patterson
“As a former stressed-out teenager myself, I remember all too well the paralyzing overwhelm associated with applying to college – and the process has only gotten more complicated since I was in high school! I joined Academic Impact in 2015 after earning my law degree from McGeorge School of Law to provide the tutoring and counseling resources necessary to help students reduce their school-related stress. As I built our one-on-one college counseling program and now our new community-based program, Navigate, I worked to ensure that students felt confident making the college decisions that were right for them and provided tools and resources to minimize their stress and keep them in control of their futures.” – Sarah Patterson
Navigate students will:
- Be guided step-by-step of the complicated college application process.
- Write stronger admissions essays and prompts.
- Gather all their documentation ahead of deadlines.
- Complete their applications before Thanksgiving, all with less stress!
Frequently Asked Questions
Our regular college counseling program is one-on-one counseling in which students work individually with a college counselor. Navigate students will work with a college counselor in a group setting, working through the program in real time. While individual instruction is not included in the program, there is a community forum available to students where they can ask questions of each other and the instructor.
We cannot guarantee admission to any colleges for students who complete the program. What we can guarantee is that students who follow the program will be on top of their college applications, with the knowledge and understanding they need to make their applications the best they can be. By following the program, they’ll finish their applications early, with minimized stress and no room for procrastination.
All classes will be recorded so that if students cannot attend a live session, they will be available to watch at their convenience. Students who attend live sessions will have the benefit of being able to ask questions.
Classes will range from 1-2 hours, depending on the material that needs to be covered. Most classes will be about 1 hour.
The program is designed to be completed over five months (July-November) but students who wish to start after it has started can catch up by watching the recorded classes and working on the assignments in their own time. Students who start later than July will still be charged for five months of the program.
That’s fine! The first few classes in the program are designed to help students research and learn about colleges and determine which are right for them.
The program is designed to be done in real time, so to get the most benefit from it, it is important to complete each assignment on time. The steps of the application process are broken up over the course of the program to prevent any one aspect of the process from becoming too overwhelming. If something comes up and you are unable to complete the assignment, you can catch up on your own time.
One-on-one assistance is available for an additional fee of $150/hour and is available for essay review or additional one-on-one consultations.
