Pimentel College Counseling

Pimentel Academic Services offers personalized admissions support for students applying to colleges, universities, graduate programs, professional schools, honors programs, service academies, and competitive academic pathways. Our work is designed to help students present themselves clearly, authentically, and strategically throughout every stage of the admissions process.

Our admissions services include college counseling, school-list guidance, Common App support, personal statement development, supplemental essay coaching, application review, standardized test preparation, academic tutoring, scholarship strategy, and long-term mentorship. We help students identify programs that align with their goals, understand what admissions committees look for, and craft applications that communicate their strengths, experiences, values, and ambitions in their own voice.

Families and students consistently describe our approach as personal, thoughtful, and deeply invested. We work closely with each student to understand their story, strengthen their writing, build confidence, and reduce the stress of the application process. Whether a student is applying to undergraduate programs, medical school, law school, business school, graduate school, residency, honors colleges, or highly selective universities, we provide individualized guidance that helps them move forward with clarity and purpose.

Our students have earned admission to a wide range of competitive institutions and programs, often with significant merit scholarships, honors college acceptances, athletic opportunities, and specialized program placements. More importantly, they leave the process feeling prepared, supported, and proud of the applications they submit.

A Clear, Authentic, Strategic Approach

  • ✺ Essays

    • Personal Statement:
      Undergraduate personal statement support, including help crafting college essays that communicate the student's story authentically and strongly

    • Common App:
      Structuring essays, developing content, and revising the main application essay

    • Supplemental Essay:
      Help with school-specific college application essays

    • Essay feedback and constructive criticism, with attention to helping essays exceed admissions expectations; guided drafting of application essays

  • ✺ Applications

    • Application review, guidance, and coaching during the college admissions process

    • College list guidance, including insights into what schools to apply to

    • Common App navigation, including helping students learn the ropes of Common App

  • ✺ Testing

    • College entrance and testing process explanation, helping students and parents understand expectations and finer details of admissions testing

    • Standardized test prep connected to admissions, including ACT, SAT, PSAT, HSPT, GRE, LSAT, and other test-prep services that support college or graduate-school applications

    • Merit scholarship-oriented test preparation and admissions support, with multiple testimonials connecting improved scores and application help to scholarship outcomes

  • ✺ Post -Grad Essays

    • Medical school personal statement support, including help crafting a medical school application personal statement

    • Residency personal statement support, including help crafting a residency personal statement for medical residency applications

    • MBA application essay strategy, including brainstorming strategies, clarifying goals and passions, and helping draft MBA essays.

  • ✺ Post-Grad Admissions

    • Graduate admissions support through GRE preparation, including preparation for graduate programs and MBA-related admissions pathways.

    • Graduate program admissions support, including help connected to GRE preparation and acceptances to programs in communication, journalism, public relations, mass communication, entertainment industry management, and MBA programsf

  • ✺ Going Forward & Pricing

    Long-term mentoring and coaching, with testimonials describing support across multiple stages: college applications, medical school, residency, GRE/MBA applications, and professional development.

    $150/hour