Spark Admissions Reviews 

Spark helped both our son and daughter navigate the undergraduate and graduate admissions process. They were wonderful-timely and relevant advice, and the counselors demonstrated excellent practical experience. Highly recommended!

Having worked closely with Brett during our daughter’s college application journey, we can say without reservation that he possesses deep knowledge regarding the admissions landscape. We recommend him to any applicant without hesitation.

The college admissions process is notoriously opaque and high-stakes, but Brett navigated it with a level of strategic insight we deeply valued. Rather than using a 'one-size-fits-all' template, he took a highly personalized approach. By truly understanding our daughter’s aspirations, academic profile, and unique strengths, he provided expert guidance on everything from course selection and extracurriculars to summer programs, ultimately creating a well-balanced and strategically sound college list.

One of Brett's greatest strengths was his ability to provide rigorous feedback on our daughter’s essays while ensuring her own voice remained central to the work. By asking provocative questions, he pushed her to think more deeply and craft responses relevant to each individual school. His friendly and supportive demeanour built a foundation of trust that allowed her to feel fully empowered throughout the revision process. The end products were superior essays that were both authentic to her character and intellectually sophisticated.

Brett also utilized the full and complementary resources available at Spark tapping into other colleagues opinions and specialized knowledge base when needed. Brett was extremely organized from the start presenting us with a clear understanding and breakdown of how our daughters (and our) time would be allocated. We did choose to add additional hours towards the end as she increased the application pool but we always felt our investment in Brett and Spark was worthwhile and clearly documented.

While the journey had its challenges, the results speak for themselves. After the early round, our daughter was ultimately admitted to four Ivy League universities and several other top-tier institutions. We could not be more pleased with the outcome and the mentorship Brett provided along the way. Our family would happily be open to communicate with serious perspective clients seeking information on any additional or important questions they might encounter. Once again a wholehearted recommendation from us!

Brett Fuller at Spark Admissions provided college counseling for our daughter for a little over a year, beginning in December of her junior year through her senior-year submissions. Our daughter had accomplishments in several seemingly unrelated areas, and Brett helped weave them into a coherent and compelling narrative that highlighted her strengths and ultimately proved instrumental to her success in this year’s college admissions cycle. He offered clear guidance on where to focus her efforts during senior-year, including advice on summer activities that would further strengthen her story. The Spark Admissions team provided curated, tailored resources that helped her secure highly relevant internship and research opportunities during the summer. Brett counseled her throughout the application process in the senior-year, brainstorming, editing essays, and gently guiding without ever imposing, preserving her voice in the essays. The results exceeded our expectations, as she was accepted into a top-tier university for a very competitive and impacted major. We are incredibly grateful and can say with confidence that Brett and the Spark team played a meaningful role in her achievement.

Our advisor, Kirsten, was incredibly helpful in setting expectations, providing information, coaching us through the process, and polishing the raw material into a strong application. Our daughter ended up at a school which would not have been on our list but was a top choice after visiting. Her advice was spot on in terms of likelihood of admission at a long list of schools. We also used this service for our son and ended up with an excellent early admission that relieved all of us of significant work and stress. Both children benefited from the support thinking about essay topics and improving essays. They do not write the essays for your child but do make helpful suggestions for improvement. The cost is significant but particularly for parents who have not had a recent college applicant in the household, the support is invaluable. We found Kirsten to be kind, effective, savvy and supportive.

Meggan Arp Dillard was a terrific advisor for our son and for us throughout his junior and senior year of high school as he went through his college application process. Meggan was deeply knowledgeable, supportive and thoughtful. We are incredibly appreciative of all her advice, which was deeply helpful to his process. We recommend her and the Spark team highly.

Brett was experienced, diligent, thoughtful, and communicative. His expertise helped to make our daughter’s college dream a reality, and we are deeply grateful to Brett for his work with her!

Courtney with a Spark Admissions was a pleasure to work with, and we appreciated her thoughtful guidance throughout our daughter's college application process. Our daughter did not have perfect grades, and Courtney helped us navigate ways to highlight her other strengths, which ended up with a wonderful outcome.