Student Gets into First-Choice Ivy League School with Help of Educational Consultant

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Sofia thought a blemish on her GPA in freshman year of high school would ruin her chance of getting into the Ivy League. Working with educational consultant Mark Montgomery helped expand her horizons and guide her toward success. In the end she wound up at her first-choice Ivy League school, Brown University. Great College Advice specializes in guiding ambitious students and their families through the often daunting college admissions process. Our team of expert educational consultants is composed of Ivy League graduates and former college administrators who know the ins and outs of college admission. Learn more at http://greatcollegeadvice.com . From essay help to SAT and ACT prep, coaching for admissions interviews to determining what college will be the best fit, we provide a wide range of guidance to our clients, with the personalized attention you can only get working one-on-one. In addition, our team of college consultants provides advice on maximizing financial aid, merit scholarships, and practical tips on how to decrease the cost of a college education. Some of the elite colleges and universities to which our students have successfully applied include Brown, Yale, University of Virginia, Stanford, Harvard, Princeton, Northwestern, Cornell, Columbia, MIT, and University of Michigan. Our consultants also specialize in helping students write fantastic college essays to get into elite liberal arts colleges, such as Williams, Bowdoin, Middlebury, Colby, Vassar, and Amherst. Furthermore, we also work with recruited athletes, including those who play soccer, volleyball, football, basketball, as well as those involved in Olympic sports, such as swimming, gymnastics, and track and field. We also help place students in some of the hidden gems of American higher education, including the Colleges That Change Lives. We have also worked with students aiming for careers in the fine arts, placing them in many schools of art and conservatories of music. If you're interested in learning more, feel free to give us a call at 9720) 279-7577. Based in Denver, Colorado, and Westfield, New Jersey, our consultants will be happy to work with you no matter where in the country you may live! PARTIAL TRANSCRIPT: Hi, I'm Sofia La Porta. I'm a high school senior and I live in Hanover, New Hampshire. I've been working with Mark since the summer after my freshman year. I think I thought the college process was going to be about me following directions and getting a 2400 on my SAT and getting straight As, and I quickly learned that that wasn't going to be the way it was going to go, possibly because I got a B+ in the first semester of my freshman year and realized the 4.0 out of reach at that point. And I sort of started to tell myself that I wasn't capable. And I think that I thought that admissions officers would be able to see right through that, and that they'd see my blemished GPA and say, "Oh, she's not worthy." I ended finding out that I did get into Brown, where I will be attending in the fall. I think, as I've talked about, Mark was really helpful in terms of figuring out ways that I could channel my interests. And even if he didn't know the exact person that I could work with he was really great at giving advice about how I could get from uninterested, ninth grade Sofia to this person who cared about things, and who cared about making the world a better place, and that was hugely important. Also I think that knowing that someone was looking over all of my documents and everything that I was writing, my college essay, my supplements, looking at what I was doing to prepare for standardized tests was hugely stress-relieving, not only for me but also for my parents, who didn't go to college in the United States so it was a pretty new process for them. And I think knowing that someone knew what was going on and knew how to take certain signals and was able to really proofread my essays to deleting two words, or adding one, or how I was going to take away a sentence and make sure that that information, that sentence, was still replicated throughout the rest of the essay, was invaluable to my college process.