Strategic Admissions and Financial Planning Advisory Service
Why Partner with Today's College Solutions?
Individual Attention
Custom strategies designed for your unique academic journey and dreams.
Peace of Mind
We manage the details, allowing you to shine in what matters most.
Enhanced Success
Find your perfect college match and boost your acceptance potential.
Find the Right College for You.
Today’s College Solutions is a dedicated college counseling service that has been guiding students and their families through the complex college admissions process for over 14 years. We specialize in personalized, expert advice to help students find and gain admission to the colleges that best fit their academic and personal goals.
We understand that this is an expensive time for your family and we would love to help design a plan that works for you.
How We Help
College Selection Strategy
We help you create a balanced list of reach, target, and safety schools tailored to your academic profile, interests, and career goals.
- In-depth analysis of your academic strengths
- Exploration of potential majors and career paths
- Consideration of campus culture and extracurricular opportunities
Application Excellence
We guide you through every step of the application process, ensuring you present your best self to admissions committees.
- Essay brainstorming and editing support
- Activity list optimization
- Interview preparation and mock interviews
Financial Aid & Scholarship Guidance
Navigate the complex world of college financing with our expert advice.
- FAFSA and CSS Profile assistance
- Scholarship search and application strategies
- Understanding and comparing financial aid offers
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Our Comprehensive Services
Every student is unique which is why we customize our college search process to meet a student’s specific academic, social, and financial needs. Our counselors support students and parents through office visits, email, or phone throughout the planning and decision-making process.
Our goal is to help each student authentically and positively showcase their abilities and talents.
We conduct a comprehensive review of each student’s grades, academic rigor, test scores, extracurricular activities, interests, and other achievements. These key factors are crucial in determining the best college fit for each student. Our process helps identify the most suitable institutions for your college search. We strive for fit, not name recognition.
Make informed decisions with our expert data collection and credential review services to ensure you find the perfect college match.
Personal essays are a crucial element of the college application. Our brainstorming sessions develop essay topics that allow students to creatively, effectively, and distinctively showcase their passion. We emphasize the importance of the student’s authentic voice in the essay—when students convey their interests, their essays shine.
Let us help you craft the ideal narrative.
Our goal-setting sessions delve into the student’s academic interests, extracurricular activities, and educational objectives. Recognizing the vital role parents play in the college decision-making process, we encourage parental involvement to develop a tailored and realistic plan for your student’s success.
Get the best standardized test counseling for your college journey with Today’s College Solutions.
Colleges seek to build a diverse and well-rounded freshman class. Extracurricular activities are a crucial part of the admissions process. Our expert guidance helps showcase a student’s narrative and how their chosen activities play into the bigger picture. We offer personalized advice to address these areas ensuring your unique experiences stand out.
Make informed decisions with our expert data collection and credential review services to ensure you find the perfect college match.
Managing deadlines is a critical aspect of the application process. We personalize and pace each student’s application journey to align with their specific deadlines for testing, recommendations, essays, application submissions, financial aid, scholarships, and more.
We ensure that students stay organized and on track.
Recognizing that there is rarely only one perfect college, we recommend a range of excellent schools where students will thrive without feeling overwhelmed. Our goal is to establish a spectrum of options, including a several target match schools, a safety and if desired, one or two reach schools. We factor in total cost, potential aid and scholarship availability.
We encourage a broad approach ensuring multiple admission offers to choose from.
Campus visits are an invaluable component in the college decision-making process. Visiting a school in person can be the deciding factor for whether it’s a good match. We provide expert suggestions for scheduling visits and offer advice on what to look for during your time on campus. Additionally, we offer practice interview sessions, anticipating questions that may be asked by admissions counselors and preparing students with questions they should ask.
Make informed decisions with our expert data collection and credential review services to ensure you find the perfect college match.
Standardized tests like the SAT, ACT, IB, and AP are crucial components of college planning. We offer expert counseling to help navigate the complexities of these tests. We guide students on which tests to take, effective preparation strategies, scheduling test dates, exam frequency and evaluating the results.
Our support helps students excel in their exam.
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The rising cost of college education outpacing inflation. Finding affordable colleges is more important now than ever before. We help students identify colleges where they may be eligible for merit aid and/or financial assistance. We guide families through the various resources of financial aid and scholarships. We ensure awareness of critical deadlines for FAFSA and CSS Profile.
Make informed decisions with our expert data collection and credential review services to ensure you find the perfect college match.
Our support continues even after applications are submitted. As acceptances arrive, we help review the options to assist students in selecting the institution that best combines intellectual challenge, social interaction and location that fosters confidence and maturity. We also provide expert guidance for students who are deferred or waitlisted and we’re available to discuss financial aid packages upon request.
Make informed decisions with our expert data collection and credential review services to ensure you find the perfect college match.
OUR ETHICAL COMMITMENT
At Today’s College Solutions, we take pride in fostering authentic, merit-based college applications that showcase each student’s genuine achievements, test scores, personal essays, unique talents, and community involvement. To maintain the highest ethical standards in college admissions counseling, we strictly adhere to these principles:
- We empower students to write their own authentic essays
- We maintain complete honesty in representing student credentials
- We accept only transparent, fee-based compensation
- We respect the independence of college admissions offices
- We provide realistic guidance about financial aid possibilities
- We focus on fit rather than guaranteed outcomes
Our commitment to integrity ensures that every student’s success is built on their genuine accomplishments and potential.
What Our Clients Say
“Our focus is on empowering students to present their best, most authentic selves in the college application process. We believe that true success comes from the student’s own efforts and achievements, and we are here to support them every step of the way.”
Darryl Zilberstein – CEO
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Our Students Have Been Admitted To…
Over the past 14 years of working with teenagers and their families on college applications, we’ve noticed that many families are familiar with only a few well-known schools—typically Ivy League universities or those with strong athletic programs. Most students recognize just 15-20 universities, often because they see them on hats, sweatshirts, sports broadcasts, or because a friend or relative attended one.
At Today’s College Solutions, we focus on finding the best-fit college for each student, considering their academic, social and geographic preferences. We’ve helped students gain admission to a wide variety of fantastic colleges and universities—many of which you might not have heard of but could be perfect for the right student.
Let Today’s College Solutions Help Your Teen Create the Perfect School List!
Explore the wide range of schools where
our students have excelled.
(Partial List)
Northeast
- Massachusetts:
- New York:
- Bard College
- Colgate University
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Fordham University
- Hamilton College
- Ithaca College
- New York University (NYU)
- Queens College
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
- Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
- Syracuse University
- Vassar College
- The New School (Parsons School of Design)
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- California:
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- Chapman University
- Claremont McKenna College
- Harvey Mudd College
- Occidental College
- Pitzer College
- Pomona College
- Scripps College
- Stanford University
- University of California (multiple campuses)
- University of San Diego
- University of San Francisco
- University of Southern California (USC)
- Washington:
- Colorado:
Southwest
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Northeast
- Massachusetts:
- New York:
- Bard College
- Colgate University
- Columbia University
- Cornell University
- Fordham University
- Hamilton College
- Ithaca College
- New York University (NYU)
- Queens College
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute (RPI)
- Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
- Syracuse University
- Vassar College
- The New School (Parsons School of Design)
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- California:
- California Institute of Technology (Caltech)
- Chapman University
- Claremont McKenna College
- Harvey Mudd College
- Occidental College
- Pitzer College
- Pomona College
- Scripps College
- Stanford University
- University of California (multiple campuses)
- University of San Diego
- University of San Francisco
- University of Southern California (USC)
- Washington:
- Colorado:
Southwest
Other
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We were overwhelmed by the college application process, but Today's College Solutions made everything so much clearer. Their expertise and personalized approach helped our daughter not just find the right school, but also helped her shine as an applicant. We appreciated how they focused on her strengths and interests, guiding her to schools that were the perfect fit. We highly recommend them to any family looking for a stress-free college admissions experience.
