Avoid common pitfalls
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Develop your identity
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Play to your strengths
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Explore
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Discover your passions
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Know your options
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Avoid common pitfalls ✳︎ Develop your identity ✳︎ Play to your strengths ✳︎ Explore ✳︎ Discover your passions ✳︎ Know your options ✳︎
Extracurricular Development
1:1 services that cultivate excellence and originality.
“I can't express just how critical and honestly life-changing Custom Academic Coaching's work has been for me. Recently, Nena propelled me into getting an internship with a professor. I'll never be able to thank her enough- 100% recommend.”
Frankie, High School Senior
Internships
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Your teen has found a dream internship and can clearly express why it matters. Together, we’ll transform their clarity and enthusiasm into an application that stands out from the crowd.
Over four student-coach sessions, your teen and I will:
Develop a unique and application strategy
Execute polished, winning essays
Prepare for interviews, video submissions, and portfolios
In two parent-coach sessions, you and I will:
Review your teen’s progress
Talk through how you can best support their efforts
The lasting return:
Confidence grounded in true capability
Improve admissions outcomes
Increased access to merit scholarships ($5,000–$36,000 annually.
Investment: $1,100
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Your teen is a go-getter—motivated, curious, and ready to begin building a purposeful résumé now. This program is designed for students who want to explore what’s out there, make informed choices, and pursue opportunities with clarity and confidence.
Over eight student-coach sessions, your teen and I will:
Articulate their academic interests, strengths, and values
Explore a wide range of internship opportunities and assess their strategic value
Identify best-fit options aligned with both curiosity and long-term goals
Develop a personalized application strategy for selected opportunities
Write compelling, authentic essays
Prepare for interviews, video submissions, and portfolios with confidence
In two parent-coach sessions, you and I will:
Review your teen’s progress and evolving direction
Talk through how you can best support their efforts
The lasting returns:
Greater clarity, confidence, and self-direction
More thoughtful, strategic positioning in the college admissions process
Increased potential for merit scholarships ($5,000–$40,000 per year)
Investment: $2,200
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Your teen is a budding intellectual—deeply curious, self-motivated, and eager to explore ideas beyond the classroom. If they’re already pushing themselves academically and you can envision graduate study in their future, they may be ready for something more: a scholarly research internship under the mentorship of a professor. Together, we’ll turn that ambitious goal into a tangible opportunity.
Over six one-on-one sessions, your teen will:
Clarify their academic interests, strengths, and values
Develop a polished, adaptable résumé
Identify professors and researchers aligned with their interests
Create and execute a strategic outreach plan to secure research opportunities
In our parent session, we will:
Review your teen’s progress
Talk through how you can best support them
And the benefits extend well beyond the internship:
Greater confidence and intellectual independence
More competitive college admissions outcomes
Greater potential for merit scholarships ($5,000–$40,000 per year)
Investment: $1,550
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Passion Projects
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Some students want to get into colleges that demand excellence and originality. Some have ideas bursting for expression. Others simply need to buy-in and a sense of ownership to engage them. Whoever your teen is, whatever their goals, a passion project can help them build the skills, confidence, and purpose.
Over 8 Student-Coach Sessions, your teen’s coach will help them:
Articulate their curiosities, skills, and personal values
Envision a viable project that combines and honors their unique interests and qualities
Learn to develop and pitch an idea
Develop and schedule actionable plan to bring their project to life
Unpack and resolve setbacks and challenges
Document their efforts to create a track record for others to see
Over 2 Parent-Coach Sessions, your teen’s coach will offer you:
Updates on your teen’s progress
Support and resources so you can offer ongoing support
Lasting returns:
An improved sense of competency and confidence in your teen
Improved college admissions outcomes for your teen
Improved likelihood of merit scholarships worth between $5,000 and $40,000 per year for your teen
Investment: $2,200
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What it is: Your teen has done a passion project before, perhaps with our support, perhaps entirely on their own. They’re ready to expand or pivot in a new direction. Maybe they want to start with a new idea from scratch--but they know the basics of getting a project going and need higher-level help. Let our expert coaches help them take it to the next level.
Over 8 Student-Coach Sessions, your teen’s coach will help them:
Assess previous projects’ strengths and weaknesses
Discuss benefits and drawbacks of continuing a project or starting from scratch.
Develop ways in which to increase project’s reach or impact
Create and schedule an actionable plan to bring their ideas to life
Unpack and resolve setbacks and challenges
Document their efforts to create a track record for others to see
Over 2 Parent-Coach Sessions, your teen’s coach will offer you:
Updates on your teen’s progress
Support and resources so you can offer your teen ongoing support
Lasting returns:
An improved sense of competency and confidence in your teen
An even better college admissions outcomes for your teen
An even greater likelihood of merit scholarships worth between $5,000 and $40,000 per year for your teen!
Investment: $2,200
Public Speaking & Debate
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Writing Lessons
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Whether or not your teen struggles with ideas, you know that it’s important that they write and speak clearly, and that they observe standard rules of grammar. Let me make it simple and fun!
Over 10 sessions, your teen will learn:
Punctuation rules and conventions
Grammar rules and conventions
Sentence structure
Paragraph structure
Plus, they’ll benefit from:
Improved skill and confidence communicating verbally and in writing
Improved outcomes on standardized tests, including the SAT & ACT
$950
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What’s a “good” argument? A “bad” one? How do we identify poor reasoning and challenge it? Let me help your teen understand argumentation so they may learn to advocate for themselves, for others, and for their ideals, now and throughout their lives.
Over 10 sessions, you teen will learn to:Identify, challenge, and avoid them logical fallacies
Effectively use appeals
Research issues to arm themselves with the knowledge needed tp
Construct sound arguments
Plus, they’ll benefit from:
Improved media literacy
Improved skill and confidence communicating verbally and in writing
Improved outcomes on standardized tests, including the English Language AP Exam, and the SAT & ACT
Ready to apply to college?
Join the 97% of families whose teen got into a top-choice college.
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