As a Sophos student, you work with undergraduates at the school(s) you are most interested in. These undergraduates are incredibly adept at weaving a niche story from your experiences tailored to their school's archetype.
Get Started →Tailoring your application to each school is time-intensive and effortful. But there really is no way around time and effort if you want to achieve your dreams.
Though you may think you know your target school, it's important to not just make decisions based on prestige. Getting accepted is just the beginning — what you make of your time there matters far more. Students first hold consultations with our undergraduates at the school(s) they are considering, gaining a much richer understanding of whether they would truly thrive there. After this process, students send in their preferences for who they would like to be their primary advisor.
If you are anything younger than a junior in junior fall, there is still a lot of space to broaden and deepen your passion projects, entrepreneurial pursuits, summer research opportunities, etc., always rooted in your unique interests. Your primary advisor challenges you in doing much more than you would imagine possible in each of your activities. They are also very plugged into our network of high school academic-year and summer programs. If you're interested in psychology, why not secure a summer research internship with a professor at a school you're interested in (again, requires leg work but what doesn't?). If you're interested in entrepreneurship, why not join LaunchX for the summer. If you're already running a company, apply for an incubator or patent and start manufacturing your product. If you started a CS club, why not run a hackathon for college students?
Your primary advisor supports you end-to-end on writing a personal statement. Our advisors are young and in touch — it's a real risk to hire an older essay advisor whose writing voice is no longer that of an 18-year-old. Each advisor has their own flair in their advising style that mirrors the style of what their school is interested in seeing in essays. They will not write for you — but our advisors are trained not to hold back in challenging your thinking and writing.
Your primary advisor works behind the scenes with secondary advisors from the other schools you are interested in, sharing all that the two of you have created together. Then you meet individually with your secondary advisors to tailor your personal statement as needed to align with each school's archetype. You can submit a different personal statement to each school — again, something that takes a lot of work but what doesn't in life? Finally, you write your supplementals for each school with guidance from your Secondary Advisors.
Get Started
Interested students should fill out the form below and we will reach out to both parent and student to schedule an initial consultation.
Kiara will be in touch with both you and your parent to schedule an initial consultation.
For questions, please email MIT '21 Alumna and Sophos founder Kiara Wahnschafft at kiaraw@alum.mit.edu