Two focused 1.5-hour sessions designed to maximize your college admissions strategy development. The first session establishes your personalized academic pathway, target school identification, and initial strategic framework. Between sessions, you'll complete targeted preparation work to refine your goals and gather key information. The second session builds on this foundation with detailed application timeline development, strategic positioning recommendations, and actionable next steps tailored to your specific circumstances.

Reserved for that one application that could change everything.

When your dream school receives 50,000+ applications for 2,000 spots, what makes yours impossible to reject? Our senior Sigma consultants—who have secured admissions to Harvard, Columbia, and MIT—apply surgical precision to every element of your most critical application. Our strategic repositioning moves you from the "maybe" pile to the "must-have" stack. We identify hidden weaknesses, amplify your unique strengths, and help you craft every sentence to deliver exactly what message admissions officers would respond to. Perfect for early decision and flagship applications where a single "yes" can change everything.

One application. One chance. One expert review that transforms good into exceptional—ensuring your submission stands out among the most competitive applicant pools.

A high-stakes review for high-priority applications.

Whether it’s an Early Decision school, a top-choice Regular Decision reach, or a once-in-a-lifetime scholarship, some applications matter more than others. Admissions Simulation is designed for those moments.

Sigma’s expert team conducts a deep, line-by-line evaluation of a complete application package—Common App, Personal Statement, supplements, activity list, and college-specific selections. But we don’t just edit—we simulate how your application will be read in an elite admissions room.

We analyze every detail for strategic coherence and competitive positioning:

– Does the Personal Statement reflect the kind of intellectual or personal depth top colleges seek—or is it a just another narrative cliche?

– Do the supplemental essays complement and reinforce the overall story, or create unintended contradictions?

– Are major choices and activity patterns working for the application or silently working against it?

– Do hidden cues (e.g., financial aid disclosure, undeclared programs, unsubstantiated interests) signal risk to admissions readers?

After identifying weak points, we provide targeted recommendations, structural edits, and a strategy refinement session to ensure the application is not only polished, but positioned to outperform competitors vying for the same seat.

This service is particularly valuable for:

• Early Decision / Early Action applicants

• Students finalizing one or two critical Regular Decision applications

• Families who want expert eyes on what matters most

At Sigma, we don’t leave decisions to chance. We simulate the read, reverse-engineer the results, and elevate the submission.

Rejection isn’t the end—it’s a data point. But the truth is, most rejected applicants never learn why. For students who didn’t receive the outcome they hoped for in the Early Decision or Early Action round, or those preparing to transfer from their current college, Sigma’s Admissions Autopsy offers a rigorous, objective analysis of what went wrong—and what must change moving forward.

Our team conducts a full forensic review of the submitted application package, simulating how it would have been read and assessed by elite admissions officers. We don’t sugarcoat. We unpack the real reasons behind rejections, from strategic missteps to overlooked cues that may have quietly disqualified the student from the start.

For transfer students, we go further: analyzing how to reframe the college story, rebuild intellectual narrative, and strategically position the reasons for leaving—without sounding entitled or uncertain.

What comes out of this is not just a postmortem. It’s a blueprint.

Because it’s not about what you did. It’s about how you position it.

The Common Application activity list isn’t a résumé—it's your elevator pitch. In just 150 characters per entry, elite schools evaluate years of effort, identity, and potential. Sigma’s EC List Analysis ensures every line speaks the language of top-tier admissions.

Too often, students undersell themselves, mislabel their roles, or bury their most impressive achievements under generic phrasing. Others inflate titles, list irrelevant experiences, or fail to reflect intellectual or leadership growth. These small missteps can quietly disqualify otherwise competitive applicants.

Our team conducts a surgical review of the activity list, asking:

– Do the top entries reflect intellectual distinction, leadership, and initiative?

– Are time commitments realistic and strategically ordered?

– Do descriptions reflect impact and maturity, or simply tasks?

– Does the list show upward momentum—or stagnation?

– Are formatting and word choices optimizing limited character space?

Then we rebuild. Together with the student, we refine titles, restructure phrasing, and re-sequence activities to align with the student’s holistic narrative and the priorities of elite schools. The result is a list that doesn’t just inform—it persuades.