“Dear Michele and Mimi, I want to thank you for all of your kind and helpful guidance that you provided me this past summer. I was incredibly overjoyed when I received an early acceptance to Harvard, and I thank you for helping me realize that goal.”
–Boot Camp 2012 student

“Y. went to ABC (which definitely helped her!) She was accepted at Drexel (Music Industry program), Temple (BA theater), Drake (BFA Musical Theater), Muhlenberg (BA Musical Theater), UNH (EA, BA Musical Theater), Loyola Chicago (BA Musical Theater), Montclair State and Berklee College of Music. I think she’ll choose Berklee, which ironically is where she wanted to go back in 9th grade when she first heard about it. What a whirlwind. Six months of this is tiring! Thanks to you and your team for helping us through this!”
–Boot Camp 2012 parent

“Thank you and your team for all that y’all did to make my applications shine! I know I will love it at Stanford.”
–Boot Camp 2012 student

“I got into Brown and couldn’t have done it without B’s help…”
–Boot Camp 2012 student

“Hi Michele and Mimi (can I still call you that?), I just wanted to let you know that I was accepted into Princeton early action!! I’m so excited. I just wanted to thank both of you again (and again… and again…) for everything you helped me with at boot camp and your dedication and support. I really couldn’t have done it without you!”
–Boot Camp 2012 student

“Thanks for all the great advice and essay guidance. K printed his successful Stanford application so I could show his sister (to motivate her) and it is very impressive! The essays are not typically what I have seen or would have known how to guide him towards. I am so glad he went to your camp!”
–Parent of Boot Camp 2012 student

“I would like thank you for your help with J. She has been accepted to Vanderbilt University. It was a good call, THANK YOU!”
–Parent of Boot Camp 2012 student

“I was accepted ED to Amherst College on Friday! Thank you so much for all of your help and support. I could not have done it without you and the rest of the application boot camp team. Happy Holidays!”
–Boot Camp 2012 student

“Just wanted to share some great news with you…T. has been accepted to University of Pa!!!! Thanks so much for all the help from you and the whole Application Bootcamp Team!!!!!!!! We wish everyone a fabulous holiday season.”
–Parent of Boot Camp 2012 student

“I wanted to let you guys know that I was accepted early action to Yale! Thank you so much for your insightful advice and guidance. I know that those four days of application boot camp provided my application with an invaluable edge. Once again, thank you so much.”
–Boot Camp 2012 student

“I’m so happy to be composing this e-mail tonight! Here are the colleges that have accepted me thus far: University of Texas at Austin (rolling), University of Michigan (Early Action), and my personal favorite:Stanford University (Single Choice Early Action). I could not have done it without my wonderful ABC team helping me with my essays. Y’all were a dream come true! From relieving the stress of creating my application to advising me on which tests to take, you guys were there to make sure my application had a nice oil finish. I remember being a lowly sophomore looking up sample essay topics and wondering how on Earth I was going to come up with a passable composition, but with ABC, it was much easier than I expected it to be. I wish I’d had you guys when I was applying to summer programs! Thanks again for everything the team did to help me get this far!”
–Boot Camp 2012 student

“We are very happy to let you know that E got admitted to Northwestern University Early Decision. She also was admitted by Early Action to University of Michigan and University of Georgia Honors College with the Baldwin Scholarship, typically awarded to 90 new students. E was offered placement in University of Georgia’s Honors College without applying to this program as she was in the top 2% of the applicant pool to University of Georgia.
We can’t emphasize enough the expertise that you provided before and during the Application Boot Camp. You created an environment that stimulates students to work hard, helps them to come through in their writing as strong scholars (super important!), and to shine as an individuals by having their own unique voices in college essays. By paying attention to the context and strong writing skills, I think you make students step up their efforts. E wrote three important essays that eventually worked for all of her common application and supplement essays thanks to your system.
The Activity List you help to create is an invaluable addition to a student’s college application. Lots of kids these days are involved in various activities. But the way your Activity List explains student’s involvement in details, mentioning selectivity of the programs and competitions or if the student received honors and awards, sets these students apart from thousands of other worthy applicants.
Overall the college application process for E, instead of being painful and stressful for her and the whole family, it became “a know how” and confident process. We can’t thank you and your wonderful crew enough. Everyone at camp had genuine interest in these kids’ success. Thank you! We wish you wonderful holidays and a happy and healthy New Year!”
–Parent of Boot Camp 2012 student

“Thanks for your help- we are convinced it made the difference. So glad I called you this summer. Without the new strategies I’m not sure this would have been the outcome.”
–Parent of Boot Camp 2012 (Hamilton College)

“I wanted to let you know that K got in to Vandy!!! (And Tulane and U Mich!). Her cup runneth over. I can’t thank you all enough for all of your help in making this happen. She is over the moon happy and excited. As are we! I am beyond grateful. Lots to be thankful for this holiday season! Sending you all lots of love and good wishes for the holidays and again, thank you so much for all of your help and support for K with this arduous process. See you in a few years with our son S!”
–Parent of Boot Camp 2012 student

“I wanted to share some great news with you! I was accepted to Dartmouth, UPenn, Georgetown, Johns Hopkins, UChicago, Boston College (Honors Program), and Colgate (Alumni Memorial Scholar). Thank you so much for your all of your guidance! I felt so much more confident in my applications after attending Bootcamp!”
–Boot Camp 2012 student

“I wanted to let you know that I was accepted to Yale and Duke and as you know Princeton in the early round. My family and I are ecstatic; thank you both so so much again for all your support and help!! Thank you so much again!! I couldn’t have done it without you!”
–Boot Camp 2012 student

“Thank you so much for helping our daughter with her college application. We all excited that she is going to the school she loves, Columbia, and feel that you have played a critical role in the whole process. Our younger daughter is going to start the same process next summer, and we would ony turn to you.”
–Parent of Boot Camp 2012 student

Personal Application Boot Camp

“Dear Michele & Mimi:
I just wanted to drop this note to tell you how much my wife and I appreciate all of your efforts with our son. Not only did he get into his first choice college early decision, but under your guidance and tutelage we have seen our son grow and mature substantially through the entire process, and that will provide a lifetime of benefit. Furthermore, your dialogue and advice was wise and appropriate and helped him find and achieve his real potential. As a “bonus” you were fun to work with and we enjoyed your humor.
We all appreciated and enjoyed working with you. Your quick and personal responses, continued dialogue and compassion throughout the entire process were amazing. Your advice and experience was fitting and correct. As a fellow professional I think I understand the chaos on your end at times – when many clients simultaneously need your help without much time to spare. I am personally impatient and set a very high bar for myself. I enjoy working with like minded professionals and we really appreciate, respect and trust your guidance and advice.”
— A.C., Parent

” “Actions speak louder than words” – A.M. Davis
“Don’t say it, do it” – My father
“Say it, don’t tell it” – Michele & Mimi

We engaged Application Boot Camp for the college application process with our eldest child, who found and got accepted early decision to his first choice college. Attached are our registration forms for the rest of our children.”
— M.N., Parent

“Hi H., as you probably already know I’ve already heard back from all the colleges we applied to together. While I wasn’t accepted to a few I am very very pleased to tell you that I was accepted to Boston University, American University, and…… NYU!!!!! I could hardly believe it when I received the email of acceptance from them! I am beyond excited!! I have no words!! I just want to thank you so much for your work with me! I also got into UT Austin like I mentioned before, but I also got offered to apply to a program called TIP scholars which stands for Texas Interdisciplinary Scholars. It’s also a great program that makes going to a big school just that much easier! Anyways, I just wanted to thank you and let you know I am beyond excited for my freshman year of college!”
— E.L., Student

Essay Guidance Package

“Thank you for the insightful conference calls and essay guidance you provided for our son. He was accepted, early decision, at Columbia University.”
—W.L., Essay Guidance Package parent, 2012

“I am thrilled to inform you that I have been accepted at Columbia, Cornell, and UC Berkeley this past week. I wanted to express my sincere gratitude for all of the guidance and support that you provided during this process. I have no doubt that it helped my application stand out amongst many stellar ones.”
— I.S., Fall 2012 Essay Guidance Package Student

“B., I just wanted to begin by thanking you for all your help with my essays – I am positive they made a huge difference in the way acceptances turned out for me. The biggest news is that I got into U-Chicago. I am thrilled and can’t wait to enroll in Econ lectures with some of the smartest professors around! I am crediting you with my acceptance because I know the time we spent on my UChicago supplement gave me an edge. I was also accepted to Brown, Dartmouth, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, and Williams via early write. Again, thanks for all your help. I’m recommending this program, and especially you, to all my friends who are juniors in high school!”
— R.W., Fall 2012 Essay Guidance Package Student

Deferral/Waitlist Package

“Hi Mimi and Michele, I just wanted to update you about my finalized decision to attend Columbia University in the fall. Upon receiving the acceptance, I was extremely overjoyed and grateful to have had your help during the application process. Though the process was grueling at times, I kept at it everyday during the winter weeks knowing that I had so much support behind me. I found every phone conference and email tremendously valuable.”
—Deferral Analysis Package Student, 2013

“Thanks to your insight and professional guidance during the review of J’s application after deferral, he proceeded with the recommended course of action and is now sorting through some wonderful options. J gained acceptance to: Cornell, Duke, Brown, UPenn, Northwestern, and……drum roll……Princeton! He even got a waitlist from Yale! I can never thank you enough for taking on my son at the last minute and working feverishly to assist us in our confusion.”
—Parent, Deferral/Waitlist Analysis Package in Fall 2012

Transfer Package

“Hi, I’m super pumped as I got into Northwestern!! Amazing place with incredible courses and professors. Thanks for helping me make this possible!”
—Transfer Package Student, 2013