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More and more, students are considering the option to pursue undergraduate study outside of the United States. Completing an undergraduate degree is a unique, life-shaping
Our mini assessment and recommendations kick-start your student in order to align academics, extracurriculars, and impact.
Our Initial Consultation offers a clear overview of your readiness for the college application process.
Prior to the meeting, we ask your family to complete a set of forms, which provide us with a detailed record of the student’s accomplishments and goals. During the 90-minute session, we will review our assessment and provide tailored recommendations for a preliminary college list, future coursework, extracurriculars, summer plans, leadership opportunities, and volunteering.
Once your session is booked, keep an eye out for our email containing the required forms: Contact, Self-Evaluation, College Criteria, and Parent Insight.
Our customized program helps your student to stand out and avoids overwhelm for your family.
Our program provides personalized assistance with UC applications and one additional college application.
We begin with a thorough family consultation to review both the UC and Common App application and develop a tailored essay strategy. Students then start working directly with one of our expert writing advisors to draft their UC Personal Insight essays, Common App personal statement, and supplemental essays.
Once completed, all work undergoes a meticulous review by the college counselor and the Fahey Associates team to ensure the highest quality.
Kate Givens has extensive experience working with teenagers in academic and extracurricular settings to discover their unique interests and achieve their goals. Kate has a B.A. in English from The George Washington University and a Masters in English Education from The University of Virginia and spent over a decade working with high school students teaching professional skills such as correspondence, resume development, and public speaking. Kate also held writing workshops for the Young Writers Organization to assist students in developing their writing skills. She has worked with hundreds of students to develop college plans and work on their application materials.
In our many years of advising, Fahey Associates has observed that the majority of students are lacking the skills to elaborate a compelling narrative about their own person. With an average of 30 personal statements to write, students entering the application process must quickly learn how to tell a compelling story about themselves. To handle this challenge we’ve enrolled talented, creative writers to guide the delicate process of combining story-telling and self-reflective essay writing.
Maddie Orenstein (she/they) graduated with a B.S. in Social Policy from Northwestern University and an M.A. from Stanford University in Education Policy, Organization, and Leadership Studies. Maddie is a passionate advocate for youth voice. She has over 12 years of college counseling experience in several types of high schools and in summer leadership programs. She was also an Honors Thesis English Instructor for seniors for three years. Additionally, she supported high school student leaders and wrote research on the importance of youth leadership as a Fulbright Scholar living in Santiago, Chile. She brings her vast experience and love for the beauty of writing as a tool to help students share what’s important to them.
Megan Levad is the author of Why We Live in the Dark Ages and What Have I to Say to You. A MacDowell Fellow, her poems have appeared in Tin House, San Francisco Chronicle, Poem-a-Day, Granta, Fence, and the Everyman’s Library anthology Killer Verse. Megan also writes lyrics and libretti; When There Are Nine, a song cycle about Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg composed by Kristin Kuster, recently debuted at the Cabrillo Festival in the Summer of 2019, where Megan was the Writer-in-Residence.
Susanna earned her BA in English and Anthropology from Columbia University. Her MFA in creative writing comes from the University of Iowa Writers’ Workshop. She is the author of two widely published, award-winning novels, Stiltsville and Sea Creatures with HarperCollins. She has placed numerous essays and stories in literary magazines such as Slate and Newsweek. She is the co-owner of the Madison Writers’ Workshop where she coaches writers toward greater meaning, sense, and clarity.
Vivienne has been a professional writer and actress for twenty years. She has worked in television, film and the theatre, touring through Asia, Europe and the U.S. A graduate of the highly regarded acting school, Western Australian Academy of Performing Arts, she now lives in Los Angeles. Her latest play, This is Where We Live, won The Griffin Theatre Award and had a full season at the Griffin Theatre, Hothouse Theatre, South Australian Theatre Company and has since been performed in Toronto, New York and at the Edinburgh Fringe Festival. As a television writer, she has worked with Hulu, Stan (Australia) and Disney+. She is represented by Creative Artists Agency (CAA).
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Las nuevas familias inmigrantes pueden encontrar el sistema académico de los Estados Unidos de una manera abrumadora. Como equipo con fluidez global, trabajamos con estudiantes de todas partes del mundo, ya sea que vivan en los Estados Unidos o en el extranjero. Este año, Fahey Associates está trabajando con estudiantes de China, India, Ecuador, Inglaterra, España y Alemania.
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