Great useful counselors to get your child on track. We used Empowerly as college consultant for our daughter after it was recommended to us by a friend. It was very helpful to have a counselor knowledgable in the college space, as we did not have much experience with American college applications. The counselor kept our daughter disciplined and on track, and took almost all the confusing work from our hands. Would highly recommned again.

Empowely offers a unique experience which cant be found anywhere else. Through one on one meetings and a large variety of recourses such as essay editors, data driven rubrics, and application review, empowely assists and evaluates students holisticly. Gelyna was a remarkable counselor and knows to work with and around the busy schedule of a high school senior. Thanks to her support and large efforts, I got either accepted or waitlisted to my top 10 schools including UCs and privates. HIGHLY RECOMMEND

My counselor helps motivate me and is extremely knowledgable. He also helped me get into an AI program to build my resume. I also find the Empowerly Score tool very helpful.

When I first applied to college, I met with several counselors in hopes of finding a perfect fit to guide me through the transfer admissions process. It was not until I found Annalise that I felt confident in creating a successful application to the Ivies. Annalise, a Columbia alumna and former Ivy admissions officer, gave me detailed, thorough advice on crafting supplementals which aligned with the values of my dream school. She met with me sometimes for hours at a time to help me put together a winning application. When we asked her to surmise my chances of getting into my dream school, she provided a thorough, realistic evaluation based on my GPA, test scores, and the competitiveness of my chosen major. She even informed me on when to switch out passive writing for powerful, impactful language. As my experience with her comes to an end, I can honestly say I would not have been accepted into UPenn without her. Her counseling style is encouraging but also pragmatic and results-oriented. After a stream of disappointments in applying to college during the regular decisions season, I am so happy to have been accepted to UPenn as a transfer! I have had an excellent experience with Annalise, and highly recommend her to any potential applicant looking for success in the college admissions process. I trust that she and I will meet going forward to discuss course selection, transfer credits, and acclimating to my new school! I've met with many counselors and I can say Annalise is the best!

My daughter is a junior and has had a wonderful experience so far. Her counselor is attentive, knowledgeable, and has already helped her land a summer internship and join more clubs at school. I highly recommend Empowerly!

I've had a wonderful experience working with my counselor, essay editors, and the Empowerly team in general. My counselor had amazing insights from his experience as a former admissions officer. The Empowerly team was also responsive in answering my questions.

I joined Empowerly at the beginning of my college application process and was fortunate enough to be able to work with Eileen Bourgade. Initially, I was scared to show another person my writing, but Eileen made me feel comfortable and constantly encouraged me throughout the process. As a writer, I have a tendency to go off on tangents, but Eileen was always able to steer me back on track and help me refine my ideas. Our sessions were truly more of a free-flowing conversation rather than a rigid schedule, which allowed me the freedom to workshop ideas and gain a fresh perspective on whatever I was writing at the time. Working with Eileen, I also learned how to condense my sentences so that I could still effectively communicate my message while maintaining the interests of my reader. I am truly grateful for this experience, and highly recommend it to anyone about to begin applying to colleges.

I loved the attention that I got from Empowerly, as well as the coach I was assigned to, very professional and well prepared staff, the review team and the lessons were all on point, I felt always encouraged to write the next essay and the action items were always clear. 10/10

We are very happy with the results we got from Empowerly. We were late to enroll and very close to college application deadlines. We were quickly connected with Ruth who was an outstanding coach. She was able to provide guidance and mentorship to my son, intricately discussing every critical detail and proving guidance at every step of the process. My son was able to get into his top choice of college and we are very thankful to Ruth and Empowerly for coming to our rescue and helping shape my son’s future.

I highly recommend Empowerly for anyone seeking college admissions support!

The two stars here are for the second counselor I was assigned, who was generally pleasant to work with and gave some decent feedback on my essays. However, I enrolled in the premium package with the understanding that I would be getting strategic advice on college lists, how to approach them and how to maximize my chances of getting into a top ranked school and none of this occurred with Empowerly. I was first assigned to a counselor who was a college student- he was also very pleasant but not strategic in advising. At some point he forgot that we had a meeting, and we had to request a new counselor. My new counselor, supposedly more experienced was very pleasant but again mostly gave specific feedback on essays and answers to my questions not on how to improve my chances. The advice was often generic and vague. He often appeared to read the essays during the meeting, not ahead of time. He rarely responded to my email requests All of the advice I got here I already received with my school counselor. The Adcom review of the admission package was contrary to the advice given by my counselor, adding to my confusion. Contrary to what was advertised, working with Empowerly did not increase the likelihood of my getting into higher ranked schools- I got in where I would have without this. To top it all, there was no personal approach from my counselor. To date, I have yet to hear from him to follow up with my college admission results. The Empowerly services were grossly misrepresented during the presentation to sell it.

Empowerly has been a huge help in my college admissions process. From helping me find meaningful and relevant internships to curating a college list that perfectly fits my statistics, from helping me pick classes and extracurriculars that make a positive impact on my transcript to helping me get into competitive summer programs, Empowerly has really elevated me to a level of academic and extracurricular rigor that I feel confident about and would not have reached without their help. The only negative comment I would have would be about their essay services. The editing process often turned by essays from authentic to scripted and unnatural, and I had to go back and edit them on my own after because I didn't like how they sounded, and was sure that the summer programs I was applying to would think the same.

Better experience than I could ever imagine. Danielle was extremely helpful and kind throughout the whole process and made me look forward to our meetings and I would recommend Empowerly to anyone. Overall great experience.

It seemed like a good choice at the time and was helpful keeping me on track with submitting applications. My counselor was nice as well, though there was some lack of communication and she was often late to meetings. That being said, it was definitely not worth the money and they pushed for schools I was not interested in. I also did not get into any schools that I had not anticipated getting into and the essay editing services were not particularly knowledgeable on the different kinds of essays that applications require. AdCom was also not particularly helpful, as it was pretty generic advice. Overall, I get what they were trying to do, I just wasn't impressed.

My daughter got into Berkley!!! Enough said!

Great experience. My daughter got into Berkeley!

The counselor was nice, and helpful, however the main reason we wanted a college counselor was to keep our son "on track", and we wanted him to finish a lot of his essays in the summer before school started. However, the counselor left it up to him to make his appointments, and so they did not happen enough, and he also did not get any essays finished before school started. He ended up rushing through his essays and applications and turning them in the day they were due (almost up to the last minute!). The essay review was fairly helpful, but I'm not sure it was worth it. The main reason we went with Empowerly as opposed to a different college counselor, was because of the promise of a summer internship. He DID get a summer internship, but unfortunately, the company cut it short and he didn't get much value out of it. (This was not Empowerly's fault of course.) Our main objective was to have good time and project management for our son, so we wouldn't have to be involved. Unfortunately, we did NOT get this.

Cycled through 3 counselors in 2 months. 1st counselor was not helpful. 2nd was better but she left the company after a week or so. Third was like the first, provided little to no feedback. The counselors did not help at all on my application. The second star is a pity star.

This review would be much higher if a couple things were changed: 1. The biggest issue I experienced with Empowerly was that they were not clear with how sessions were timed. When buying a package, there is an outlined numbered of sessions (ex. 18 sessions in the base if I remember correctly). Although it was not made clear in the beginning how sessions would be timed. This was not made clear in the beginning, so when I thought I was buying more sessions, I was really buying time but my account was already in the negative which I was not notified and did not know about. The situation itself is somewhat complicated to explain what happened to me, but the point is that the whole process was not clear and somewhat confusing. 2. The counselor I was assigned seemed like that they had too many other students to give each and every individual a personalized experience. The counselor was only somewhat helpful for general college questions that you could find out by asking a school college counselor or google. 3. Empowerly's internship program, a large part of their program that they emphazise was completely useless for me as the whole process was convoluted, with the companies they partnered with also seeming confused about the whole process. Overall, if I had to do everything over again, stay away from Empowerly.

This was a wonderful program that made the difference in our son’s admission process. I don’t usually write reviews but credit is due to Empowerly. They helped from beginning to end and our son had multiple choices. A great way to start his college experience.