Admissions Strategy Consulting
ThinkSTEP helps you stand out in a crowd full of equally excellent GPAs and SAT scores.
Your secret advantage
Triangle of Talent™
A perfect SAT score only gives you a 50% chance of admission to the most competitive American universities.
Approximately 66% of an American university’s admissions decision is based upon academics; the rest, extracurriculars. In other words, a student with a perfect GPA but common extracurriculars would get a 66% (D+) on their admissions application!
Based upon our Triangle of Talent™ model, ThinkSTEP's Admissions Strategy program prepares students to discover their passion, develop project management skills, and craft application essays that set themselves above their competitors.
A Powerful Process
The Triangle of Talent™ helps students build up powerful SYNERGY during their high school experience.
One Plus One Equals Three
Integrate your personal story into your academic and extracurricular achievements. ThinkSTEP's Admissions Strategy program offers 4 STEPs for its students’ university admissions journey, preferably beginning in the 9th grade.
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Self Discovery
- Universities seek students who understand who they are and what they want out of their education. We provide multiple personality and career assessments to help students discover who they want to become.
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Resumé Project Planning
- Once students understand their goals, ThinkSTEP helps students build a high-impact project that will serve as an excellent foundation for university application essays.
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University List Creation
- ThinkSTEP suggests 20 universities for each student based on mutual fit and risk-adjusted admissions chances.
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Amazing Applications
- Essays require precise strategy and execution. For each essay, ThinkSTEP aligns student experience and goals with university missions and values in order to build the most persuasive case for acceptance.
ThinkSTEP Case Studies
ThinkSTEP graduates who achieved their goals and so much more.
ThinkSTEP Graduates
ThinkSTEP's students and their successes speak for themselves.
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Columbia University
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Yale University
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Stanford University
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University of Chicago
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UPenn
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Northwestern University
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Duke University
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Brown University
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Notre Dame
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Cornell University
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UCLA
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Washington U. St. Louis
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UC-Berkeley
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Carnegie Mellon
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University of Virginia
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University of Michigan
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Tufts University
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New York University
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UC Irvine
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University of Florida
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UC Davis
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UCSD
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Boston University
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Case Western Reserve U.
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Northeastern University
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University of Illinois
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U. of Wisconsin-Madison
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Leigh University
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Penn State
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UW Seattle
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