College Admission Advising

Expert Guidance

With Marrs, you receive expert guidance to help navigate the complex, often challenging college admissions process. Benefitting from one-on-one attention throughout the college search, selection, application and scholarship processes, you will also receive personalized review and feedback on applications, resumes, essays, interview preparation and scholarship application essays.

Marrs helps students create their personal strategic plans to ultimately achieve their goals for their college experience including what colleges to apply for admission, as well as which college to attend.

Build your strategic college plan: one year at a time

Freshman

Create a strong Four-Year Academic Plan for high school
Build a personalized strategy reflecting the student’s interests, goals and passions; Focusing on enhancing depth of involvement and accomplishments
Identify community service and leadership opportunities
Establish good time management
Enhance organizational and study skills

Sophomore

Focus on fine-tuning strategic plan – emphasis is on balance: coursework and extracurricular
Adjust the Four-Year Academic Plan to continue to demonstrate a challenging curriculum
Determining standardized testing strategy based on student’s PSAT testing results
Begin college research and college visits
Discuss with Marrs opportunities for shadowing and internships

Junior

Increase attention on personalized strategic plan with spending more time with Marrs in order to structure the process to eliminate any potential stress
Review Four-Year Academic Plan to make sure student is on track to graduate with strong curriculum and all requirements have been met
Begin treating the college planning process as though it is another class at school
Schedule standardized testing
Start systematically getting ready for the application process
Narrow college list to a reasonable number of schools
Maintain commitment to earning competitive grades
Enhance leadership roles with extracurricular activities

Senior

Complete the college application process early
Submit the FAFSA and CSS PROFILE during the first semester
Maintain strong academics and grades throughout senior year
Submit all college applications with time to meet scholarship application deadlines
Set up interviews with those colleges that offer interviews
Notify the college you plan to attend by April 29
Notify all other schools that you do not plan to attend
Graduate strong