Med School Admissions Consulting Packages & Pricing
Tailored med school admissions consulting for every applicant—customized support for personal statements, school selection strategy, interview prep, and more. Explore our expert-guided packages designed to match different goals, application timelines, and budgets.
Med School Admissions Consulting Pricing & Packages
Choose the consulting tier that aligns with your goals and budget.
| Number of Apps | Silver | Gold | Platinum | |
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| Pricing | $5,650 | $15,100 | $18,800 | |
| Secondary Apps Included | 15 | 25 |
Med School Packages Comparison Table
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Every successful mission starts with intel. Our process begins with a structured diagnostic—an intensive, strategic intake built to uncover what makes you distinct as a future physician.
We assess the full scope of your candidacy—academic trajectory, research and clinical exposure, leadership, personal drivers, and communication style—using our proprietary Med School Five Pillars™ framework. This intel forms the foundation for your application strategy.
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We begin with a comprehensive review of your responses, applying our proprietary Five Pillars™ Med School Admissions Framework—a proven system for identifying the elements that separate good candidates from unforgettable ones.
Through this analysis, we uncover your most compelling assets, stress-test your narrative for coherence and credibility, and shape a positioning strategy that’s sharp, distinctive, and strategically aligned with what top programs are looking for.
Before we touch a single draft, your candidacy is calibrated. No wasted motion. No misfires. Just a clear, strategic foundation built to carry weight in a hyper-competitive admissions landscape.
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This session puts the Five Pillars™ framework into action. Your consultant guides you through mapping your experiences across all five pillars, creating a comprehensive inventory of your strengths and differentiators.
You’ll learn to evaluate your experiences through the lens of what medical schools truly value. This isn’t just information gathering—it’s training you in a structured approach to self-assessment that serves you throughout the entire application process.
The outcome: a completed Five Pillars™ Matrix and the skills to leverage it effectively for every essay, interview, and interaction with admissions committees. This foundation becomes your strategic compass for navigating the med school application with confidence.
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We provide guidance for navigating the medical school selection process, reducing the anxiety of choosing from hundreds of programs. Our approach helps you develop your own effective decision-making strategy, weighing academic fit, career goals, and personal preferences. Rather than making choices for you, we teach you how to evaluate programs systematically—empowering you to build a balanced application portfolio that maximizes your chances of acceptance.
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Next to the strategic work we perform at the beginning of each service, the Personal Statement Analysis / Iterative Drafting phase is the most transformative work we do together. Over the course of four-to-five rounds of analysis and feedback, we help you transform raw ideas into a compelling narrative that captures both your journey to medicine and your future vision as a physician. This process requires mastery along two key dimensions: (1) Diagnosis – precisely identifying which aspects of your personal statement are compelling/underdeveloped, coherent/disjointed, emotionally resonant/clinical, etc., and (2) Actionable Feedback – providing concrete suggestions that inspire you to refine your work in ways that enhance impact while preserving your authentic voice. Navigating the personal statement effectively requires both medical knowledge and storytelling expertise—areas where our consultants excel, helping you craft a statement that stands out in a sea of qualified applicants.
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Your consultant conducts a tactical review of your primary application (via shared screen, never controlling the system for ethical integrity) to maximize every character’s impact. We’ll help you transform disconnected activities into a strategic narrative that reinforces your Five Pillars™ strengths. Learn how to present clinical experiences, research, and community service with precision and purpose—creating cohesive alignment with your personal statement. This focused session optimizes your application’s clarity and impact, ensuring admissions committees immediately grasp your unique value. Available via video call or detailed written feedback.
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We provide strategic guidance on selecting the optimal mix of recommenders to showcase different dimensions of your candidacy, including science faculty, physicians, research mentors, and others. We’ll help you develop effective approaches for soliciting strong recommendations and, when appropriate, offer high-level guidance directly to recommenders who are open to feedback. We respect recommender preferences and only provide input with explicit consent. Letters of Recommendation Support includes up to two rounds of focused feedback designed to help you secure letters that strengthen your overall application narrative.
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We elevate your interview preparation with our comprehensive three-meeting approach. We begin with a Blind Interview conducted by a second expert who has no prior knowledge of your application or background—creating the most authentic simulation of your actual interview day. This unbiased interviewer provides objective feedback that we transform into a customized improvement roadmap. We then follow with our standard two-meeting sequence: a targeted Mini-Mock Interview with your primary consultant who identifies specific opportunities for improvement, followed by a final full-length Mock Interview that refines your performance to excellence. This rigorous process ensures you’re not just prepared, but poised to make a memorable impression that advances your candidacy.
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Our specialized preparation for these situational judgment assessments goes beyond superficial tips. We begin with an in-depth overview of these unique evaluation formats and what admissions committees are truly measuring. Through targeted practice scenarios and expert feedback, we help you develop the framework to navigate ethical dilemmas, interpersonal challenges, and professional situations with confidence. Our approach emphasizes authentic responses that demonstrate your natural strengths in critical thinking, empathy, and professional judgment—qualities essential for success in medical education. You’ll leave this preparation session with both the practical strategies and mental framework to approach these assessments as opportunities rather than obstacles.
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Once decisions arrive, we provide comprehensive post-application strategy to maximize your options. For students fortunate enough to receive multiple acceptances, we offer a focused decision-making session to help you evaluate each program based on your career goals, financial considerations, and personal factors. For those placed on waitlists, we develop a proactive strategy including appropriate follow-up communications, “Letters of Continued Interest,” and additional materials to strengthen your candidacy, with up to two rounds of targeted feedback. Our support continues until you’ve secured your optimal outcome, whether that means selecting between multiple offers or successfully converting a waitlist position into an acceptance.
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Throughout key stages of your application process, your primary consultant gains critical intelligence through behind-the-scenes briefings with practicing physicians who have recent admissions committee experience. These strategic consults happen seamlessly—your consultant absorbs medical perspectives on your candidacy, application materials, and positioning strategy, then integrates these insights directly into your guidance. This ensures your materials speak effectively to clinical audiences without adding complexity to your experience. You benefit from physician-level scrutiny without managing multiple advisors, maintaining a streamlined consulting relationship focused on results.
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For the Personal Statement (and up to the first three schools of a Gold or Platinum campaign, we implement a rigorous quality assurance process. A second expert consultant, with no previous exposure to your application, performs a critical review of your personal statement and secondary essays. This consultant deliberately evaluates your essays from a challenging perspective, identifying potential vulnerabilities that admissions committees might flag. This strategic “stress test” generates precise, actionable feedback that your primary consultant uses to fortify any weak points before submission. This dual-expert approach ensures your written materials benefit from multiple professional perspectives while there’s still time to implement meaningful improvements.
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This unique process simulates the actual committee evaluation experience in remarkable detail. You’ll respond to three carefully crafted questions in video format, while our committee also reviews your academic transcripts, personal statement, and secondary essays from your top target school—creating a comprehensive profile evaluation that mirrors the real admissions process. This holistic review gives us insight into how your entire application package—both written and verbal components—creates an overall impression. Your application is evaluated alongside anonymized previous candidates (including accepted, waitlisted, and rejected applicants) by our internal committee of three seasoned reviewers. This comparative context mirrors how actual admissions committees evaluate candidates relative to the applicant pool rather than in isolation. Each reviewer first scores independently before engaging in a collaborative discussion about your application’s strengths and potential vulnerabilities. The insights from this simulation feed directly back to your primary consultant, who integrates this valuable intelligence into refining your application strategy. To maintain the integrity and candor of this process, we keep the committee’s deliberations confidential, ensuring you receive the most authentic preparatory experience possible before facing the real admissions committee.
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We provide continuous email support from the start of your engagement through final submission, ensuring you have expert guidance every step of the way.
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We provide high-level, strategic guidance via phone when you need it most. Each engagement tier includes generous phone access designed to support your journey comprehensively—not bound by rigid time limits, but structured to ensure you receive focused, quality consultation at critical decision points. Our approach emphasizes meaningful strategic conversations that drive results, rather than clock-watching or artificial constraints.
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Find Your Ideal Med School Admissions Consulting Package
Not sure which admissions consulting package fits your needs? Connect with our team for a personalized assessment—we’ll guide you to the best-fit service tailored to your goals, MCAT scores, application timeline, and school targeting strategy.
À La Carte Admissions Consulting & Add-Ons
Need targeted support? Select precisely what you need, when you need it. From essay reviews to interview prep, our flexible à la carte services put you in control. Customize your experience and get expert guidance on your terms.
FAQ
Questions about our Med School Pricing.
We offer three tiers—Silver, Gold, and Platinum—built on the same core methodology and differentiated primarily by secondary application volume and the depth of premium review mechanisms.
Silver ($5,650) covers the complete primary application. It includes the full strategic foundation: intake and diagnostic analysis, a strategic planning session, and Med School Five Pillars™ Matrix development. You receive personal statement development through our outline-to-narrative process, Work/Activities strategy, AMCAS/TMDSAS/AACOMAS review, letters of recommendation guidance, and direct access to your consultant. Silver does not include secondary application support and is designed for candidates who plan to manage secondaries independently after establishing a rigorous primary.
Gold ($15,100) extends the same methodology across up to 15 secondary applications—sufficient for most well-constructed school lists. This tier adds the Medical Expert Assessment, incorporating input from practicing physicians with recent admissions committee experience via behind-the-scenes briefings to your consultant. A Blind Peer Review evaluates your personal statement and first three secondaries, Premium Interview Prep provides realistic mock interviews, and CASPer/PREview preparation is included where required.
Platinum ($18,800) supports up to 25 secondary applications and adds the Adcom Simulator, a committee-style evaluation in which senior reviewers assess your materials alongside anonymized prior candidates to replicate how files are judged in a competitive pool.
Every tier includes the full strategic foundation. The distinction is not rigor, but scale and whether additional review mechanisms meaningfully improve your competitive position.
Start with your school list and the role secondary applications will play in your cycle.
Silver covers the complete primary application: strategic foundation, Med School Five Pillars™ Matrix, personal statement, Work/Activities positioning, and system review across AMCAS, TMDSAS, or AACOMAS. It is appropriate if you are confident executing secondaries independently once the narrative architecture is set. This is a viable option for candidates with strong writing ability who need strategy more than sustained editorial support.
Gold is the right fit for most competitive applicants. In medical admissions, secondaries are not supplemental; they are a sustained, high-volume writing phase that begins immediately after verification and largely determines interview outcomes. Fifteen secondaries supports a well-constructed list, while the Medical Expert Assessment, Blind Peer Review, and Premium Interview Prep add quality control where margins are thin.
Platinum is designed for broader campaigns—typically 20 to 25 schools—or profiles that require wider coverage to maximize interview volume. The Adcom Simulator provides the most rigorous pre-submission evaluation we offer, and the expanded secondary support ensures quality is maintained across a long list.
Your consultant will discuss fit during the initial consultation. The recommendation is based on your competitive positioning, list scope, and the practical demands of your cycle—not on upselling.
Every package includes the complete strategic and editorial methodology for the primary application. Tier selection affects secondary volume and access to premium review mechanisms; it does not change the rigor of the consulting.
All engagements include a comprehensive intake and diagnostic analysis, a strategic planning session, full Med School Five Pillars™ Matrix development, personal statement development through our outline-to-narrative process, Work/Activities strategy and review, primary application review across AMCAS, TMDSAS, or AACOMAS, letters of recommendation guidance, and direct email and phone access to your lead consultant. Waitlist strategy and post-decision support, including offer evaluation when applicable, are included at every level.
There is no hourly billing or metering of attention. Your consultant works until the material meets the standard, not until a clock runs out. The all-inclusive structure exists so neither you nor your consultant is making quality trade-offs based on billing.
The distinction between tiers is scope, not rigor. A Silver candidate’s personal statement receives the same strategic scrutiny and revision depth as a Platinum candidate’s. The difference is that Platinum extends that process across a larger secondary portfolio and adds additional review mechanisms.
Secondary applications.
The price gap between Silver ($5,650) and Gold ($15,100) reflects a real difference in scope, not gated access to methodology. Silver covers the complete primary application. Gold extends the engagement across 15 school-specific secondary essays, each requiring program-level analysis, alignment with your Five Pillars™ positioning, and the same outline-to-narrative rigor applied to the personal statement.
The workload is substantial. Secondary prompts arrive in rapid succession—often a dozen or more within weeks of primary verification—and each demands a tailored response calibrated to a school’s priorities and evaluation lens. Recycling content across secondaries is one of the most common and most damaging errors applicants make; committees recognize generic responses immediately.
Gold also adds the Medical Expert Assessment, Blind Peer Review, and Premium Interview Prep. These add value, but they are not the primary cost driver. The sustained secondary workload is. Developing fifteen essays to a consistent standard is an intensive engagement that typically runs from mid-June through September or later, and the pricing reflects that reality.
Platinum ($18,800) extends secondary support to 25 applications and adds the Adcom Simulator. The incremental cost reflects additional volume and the committee-style review process, not a change in consulting rigor.
Yes, though the stronger approach is to scope the engagement correctly at the outset.
During the initial consultation, your consultant assesses your school list, timeline, competitive positioning, and the realistic secondary volume your strategy requires. We aim to make that call early. The secondary phase moves quickly once it begins, and candidates who underestimate the workload often face quality-versus-coverage tradeoffs at the worst point in the cycle.
That said, circumstances do change. Candidates who plan to manage secondaries independently sometimes reassess once prompts arrive and pacing becomes clear. In those cases, upgrading is straightforward, and fees already paid are applied toward the higher tier.
The most common upgrade is Silver to Gold, driven by the sustained demands of secondary applications. Candidates who experience the discipline of the primary process often decide that maintaining that same standard across multiple school-specific essays under deadline pressure is not something they want to manage alone. We don’t engineer that outcome, but we do see it often, which is why we encourage an honest evaluation of secondary scope during the initial consultation.
No. The package price is the engagement price.
All deliverables included in your tier are covered: strategic foundation, Med School Five Pillars™ Matrix development, personal statement, Work/Activities strategy, primary application review, recommendation support, secondary essays where applicable, interview preparation where included, and ongoing access to your consultant. There are no hourly charges, per-draft fees, revision caps, or administrative add-ons.
Additional fees apply only if you exceed the secondary application count supported by your package or elect to add an a la carte service not included in your tier. In either case, pricing is discussed and approved in advance.
Medical school admissions cycles are uneven by nature—light during strategy, intense during writing, and compressed during secondaries. The all-inclusive structure ensures your consultant’s engagement tracks the work required, not a billing meter. When a top-choice secondary needs multiple rounds of refinement, that is included. It should not be a calculation.
Medical school is among the largest professional commitments most people make. Tuition at many programs exceeds $250,000 before living expenses, and the cost of a weak cycle—lost time, delayed training, or a forced reapplication—adds materially to that figure.
The more accurate framing, however, is strategic rather than purely financial. A strong primary application does not increase your odds at a single school; it improves your positioning across every program on your list. The strategic foundation—the Five Pillars™ Matrix, personal statement, and Work/Activities architecture—propagates into secondaries, interviews, and committee deliberations in ways school-by-school or essay-only support cannot.
The secondary phase sharpens this further. For Gold and Platinum candidates, the difference between 15 or 25 secondaries developed with strategic control and the same number written under time pressure without guidance is often decisive. Interview volume is the strongest predictor of at least one acceptance at a competitive program, and secondary execution is a primary driver of interview yield.
We do not position the investment as a bargain. We position it as a deliberate allocation—one where the return is measured in the cumulative strength of your candidacy across an entire cycle, not in a single admissions decision.
Enrollment is straightforward. After your consultation, if there is a clear fit, you receive a formal engagement agreement outlining scope, deliverables, and timeline for the selected tier. Payment is due upon enrollment and secures your consultant assignment and place in the workflow.
We accept standard payment methods and can accommodate structured payment arrangements in certain cases; this should be discussed during the consultation. Once enrollment is complete, the engagement begins immediately with the intake questionnaire and scheduling of the strategic planning session.
Medical school admissions is timeline-sensitive. AMCAS opens in late May, early submission carries a measurable advantage, and secondary prompts often arrive within weeks of verification. Candidates who enroll early enough to complete the Five Pillars™ Matrix, fully develop the personal statement, and refine the Work/Activities section before primary submission are in a materially stronger position than those who begin mid-cycle. We apply the same discipline to timing that we apply to the work itself.
