Solomon Admissions Consulting Reviews 418

Mr Enyart made the difference with the CAPS essay as well as supporting the supplementals. My daughter has secured 80% of 18 targets including CMU, Michigan, UT Austin, UCLA, UCSD, Wisconsin and more.

The key was the CAPS essay which I felt was strong.

We partnered with Philana who provided great, strategic advice and leveraged tools and structure to organize the process, which ultimately led to admission to an Ivy League University.

Nikki was very helpful in framing my perspective and assisting me throughout the admissions process!

Philana was very helpful, patient, and guided me through the college application process. She held mock interviews, read over essays, and kept me on track of writing/completing supplemental essays.

We wanted to take a moment to share our sincere appreciation for the support we received throughout the process. I would especially like to recognize the outstanding work of our consultant Nikki Burke. She was incredibly attentive, patient, and thoughtful throughout the entire process. Her strong organization and ability to keep us on track made a complex and often stressful journey feel clear and manageable. Nikki guided s with calm, clarity, and consistent encouragement, and we truly believe her dedication played a meaningful role in this successful outcome.

Philana Tenhoff provided great guidance!

She helped with the overall planning, college selection, application strategy and project timeline and management! Would highly recommend.

Andrew helped me throughout the research process deeply. He knew how to effectively do research and efficiently go through the essay process. If you need an someone who can guide you through an essay while not only being strategic but also caring, Andrew is the right person!

Working with Colin Tessier-Kay at Solomon Admissions Consulting was one of the best decisions we made during our son's college application journey, and the results speak for themselves: an Early Decision acceptance to the University of Pennsylvania.

Colin is warm, approachable, and genuinely invested in his students' success. He gives as much time as you need, responds swiftly over email, and is happy to jump on a Zoom call whenever needed. Colin is also proactive in a way that takes real pressure off the family, keeping our son on track with summer planning and application milestones.

From the outset, Solomon made clear that Colin would be our primary point of contact, but that the process was backed by a wider team. Essays were reviewed by dedicated editors before final submission, our son's candidacy and positioning for each university was assessed by former admissions officers from those same institutions, and the school list was built in consultation with a broader group of Solomon experts. This team model was a significant part of why we chose Solomon, and it delivered.

Colin himself brings rare credentials to this work. As a former Assistant Director of Admissions at Penn, he understood exactly what the admissions committee was looking for, and that insider perspective shaped everything from essay feedback to ED strategy. One of his most significant contributions was helping shape our son's wide range of interests into a coherent narrative. The application touched on cultural heritage, humanitarian volunteering, debate, music, and neuroscience research. Colin helped connect these through a central thread: a deeply personal experience that had led to genuine curiosity, meaningful action, and a clear sense of purpose. His feedback on the personal statement went through several rounds of revision, consistently focused on sharpening the reasoning behind each experience and ensuring the impact of our son's activities came through, not just the activities themselves.

He also identified a gap around Intellectual Vitality early on and recommended concrete steps to address, including independent Coursera courses and a science research internship, which our son applied for and completed. He helped us avoid pitfalls like coming across as too narrowly "Pre-Med," and his advice on where to apply Early Decision proved to be exactly right.

We would recommend Colin and Solomon Admissions without hesitation to any family navigating this process. We genuinely believe our son would not have earned a place at an Ivy League school without their guidance and support.

We had great experience working with Solomon, and absolutely loved our counselor, Samantha.
She was incredibly organized, knowledgeable, and truly helped make what can be a very stressful process feel manageable and structured.

From the very beginning, she stayed on top of every detail. She made sure our daughter met every deadline, kept track of all the moving pieces, and guided her step-by-step through each stage of the application process. Her in-depth review of the applications and essays was invaluable — she provided thoughtful feedback that helped our daughter present her story in the strongest possible way.

Beyond her expertise, she was also an incredible source of encouragement. Whenever our daughter felt overwhelmed or discouraged, she was there as her biggest cheerleader, helping her stay confident and focused.

She played an integral role in helping our daughter gain admission to her dream school, NYU, and we are truly grateful for her dedication and support. I would highly recommend Solomon to any family navigating the college admissions process.

Our advisor, Carla Crooker, helped our daughter get accepted into an Ivy League school. Carla was able to successfully guide us during every step of the application process. Carla was always accessible and understood the nuances of creating a competitive applicant profile. Thanks Carla!

Our child worked with Solomon Admissions for a short time, compared to other students using college prep companies, but received invaluable guidance from the assigned advisor, as well as the support team. The advisor worked hard discovering the priorities, strengths, weaknesses and potential of our child and used that information to create an incredible plan of action, then helped us carry it out. We were encouraged to apply to schools that were not even on our radar, but with her experience in the world of elite admissions, we found perfect matches for our child. In the end, our student was accepted into his first-choice school, Brown University with an incredible financial aid package. He was also accepted into several other excellent schools, however, to our delight, the college admissions journey ended quickly with his Early Decision acceptance. We were somewhat hesitant to hire Soloman in the beginning due to costs associated with college advising, but the investment was life changing, worth every cent. We not only gained access to an educational path that never would have come to fruition without Soloman's advisor but learned so much about our child through his essays and conversations with Clarissa, his advisor.

This is a very well organized and high yield service. Clarissa was the advisor assigned to us and she is a real professional with great knowledge of the admission process in elite universities. She helped our daughter get into her dream school, which was an otherwise far fetch. Highly recommend this service, it is pricey but comes with great value. Overall well worth it and would definitely hire Solomon again!

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Aliesha Ibinkule, our consultant, helped our son get into an Ivy Plus college. We worked with her for more than two years. She is a true professional. She laid out a plan for our son and made sure that he execute on that plan. Our communication with her was good. She was very diligent checking with our son the progress that he made. She always made herself available when we requested a live discussion. During the the application time, she helped our son a lot with his essays and got him organized.

We have worked with Shayla Lebeck for about 1 year now, and she is fantastic. We needed someone to help guide our son with his STEM-focused interests. She truly is not only helping him put his best foot forward with college applications, but also helping him explore his interests in different ways. That’s priceless. He is learning and growing so much from these experiences. She provides guidance on everything and responds in a timely fashion to messages. She works well with parents and their kids. Our son pointed out how helpful she has been and that we should have our daughter start sooner! We look forward to starting the college application process this summer. Thank you Shayla and Solomon Consulting!

We have had Solomon for the past year and three months, and our experience has been quite negative. We had the junior package with 5 schools. The only useful thing is the first letter with all the useful links, but it turns out that if you search the internet, you will find that information anyway. The following 1-hour monthly meeting with the advisor is nothing but disappointing. We were told our advisor has many years of experience with students interested in economics, but after a couple of meetings, my son kept saying that her knowledge of applying economics is not even as good as his. But since this is our second advisor, we didn't feel good about asking to change again. That's pretty much what happened for the rest of the year: a one-hour monthly meeting and talking to my son without much clear guidance. My son didn't get into any of the summer camps he applied to, despite a perfect PSAT score, a 1560 SAT, a perfect GPA at a top-1 public high school in California, a research paper, and two upcoming research presentations. I don't blame Solomn obviously, just shocked that an intial letter of information and then 1-hour monthly chat for the past year deserves $12K. Not to mention the essay feedback from the advisor and editing team is very minimal (probably because our essays are already in a very good shape?) For two schools, we submitted the essays late, just a few days before the application deadline, the adivsor refuse to pass our essays to the editing team.

The lesson I learned is that if your child is already very motivated and academically good, don't bother with all these consulting services. They won't be able to boost the applications anyway. Solomon does have a senior package, which I assume should be much better than junior package.

My son's mentor Shelton Lo was very helpful and understanding. Under his mentorship my son completed research paper on a difficult subject. He helped and guided us on each and every step of the research and is very patient. My son learned a lot during the research project.

Samantha was great to work with. She promptly answered any questions we had and helped make the college application process smoother and easier to navigate. With her support, I'm grateful to have gotten into an Ivy Plus school that was my first choice.

I've worked with Samantha Shepard-Guerinoni for the past four years and I have nothing but good remarks! In talking with my friends and their experiences with their own counselors, I really like Samantha's strategy and the feedback I got back on all of my essays. The mock interview was very helpful, and overall having someone to check in with, making sure you are on the right track is not talked about enough. There are so many moving parts when it comes to applying to college---so much more than just the application. Having her as a resource is something I really appreciated and it has payed off. Right now I have heard back from three schools and have gotten into all of them. Two of them are in fact Top 20 schools. I cannot recommend her enough!

Samantha Shepard-Guerinoni was my daughter's consultant and she was amazing! She helped us navigate through the admissions process and was also instrumental in the period leading up to applications season helping us decide which classes to take, which activities would make the most sense for us to be involved in.

Happy to say that my daughter got accepted into Stanford REA!