College Admissions Counseling in Columbia, SC
Columbia college admissions counseling with Empowerly will boost your chance of being accepted to the school of your dreams by up to 11 times over the national acceptance rate.
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Award-Winning College Consulting that Works
As the winner of the EdTech Breakthrough Award for Overall College Prep Company of the Year, Empowerly is the established leader in Columbia college admissions consulting.
Our experts are committed to helping your student with everything from finding the right college for their academic goals to submitting an application that reflects their best qualities. Empowerly proudly provides:
- Personalized Columbia Admissions Counseling: Led by former college admissions officers, your counseling team is hand-picked according to the needs and goals of your student. This maximizes the pool of expertise your student will benefit from.
- Holistic Columbia College Consulting: From their personal statement to the final essay, your student’s application will be reviewed by a wide variety of our experts to ensure it rises above the applications of other hopeful students.
- Data-Driven Education Technology and Resources: Whether you use our Empowerly Score® tool, our AI Scholar Program, The Empowerly Quiz®, our online portal, or any of our other advanced tools, we offer guaranteed admissions success.
We Can Help
11x
Boost your chances
Achieve over 11x improved admissions rates with Empowerly.
700+
Years of combined experience
Our college admission consultants have a combined 700+ years of academic guidance and admissions experience and have read and reviewed over 122,250 college applications.
94%
Get into a top 50 college
94% of Empowerly students with a 3.6+ GPA got into a top 50 US college.
On average the Empowerly counseling team spends 25X more time working with a student on college admissions than the average high school counselor.
Empowerly counselors collectively have over 200 years of admissions experience and have held numerous positions in university admissions at schools like Stanford, UChicago, UC Berkeley, UPenn, Yale, Columbia and many more.
In 2021, our students received acceptances to more than 170 different colleges and universities, including all Ivy League Schools, MIT, UChicago, and many more.
The Empowerly Advantage
| Colleges | Empowerly Acceptance Rate | National Average Acceptance Rate | The Empowerly Advantage |
|---|---|---|---|
| Bowdoin | 100.0% | 9.1% | 11x |
| Emory | 100.0% | 13.0% | 8x |
| Georgetown | 100.0% | 12.0% | 8x |
| UC Berkeley | 75.0% | 15.1% | 5x |
| NYU | 64.0% | 15.0% | 4x |
| Brown | 50.0% | 8.0% | 6x |
| UCLA | 50.0% | 8.0% | 6x |
| Johns Hopkins | 36.0% | 6.0% | 6x |
| MIT | 36.0% | 6.0% | 5x |
| Princeton | 33.3% | 5.0% | 7x |
| Columbia | 25.0% | 6.1% | 4x |
| Harvard | 20.0% | 6.0% | 3x |
| Yale | 17.0% | 5.1% | 3x |
Colleges Around Columbia, SC
University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a public university in NC, founded in 1789 and offers Bachelor's degrees for undergraduates and Master's and Doctoral degrees for graduate students. The undergraduate enrollment is 19,399, and the graduate enrollment is 10,699. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill is a highly selective school, receiving 44,382 applications and accepting 23.5% of applicants. The University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill's athletics teams compete in the club, intramural, and varsity levels. Additionally, the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill employs 1,677 full-time instructional staff (81% of whom hold doctorate degrees) and has a 15:1 student to faculty ratio.
Columbia, SC College Counselors Success Stories
Florence
Parent
I want to share my deepest thanks with the Empowerly staff for getting my daughter into College.
Adam
Parent
Empowerly has changed my daughters life for the better. Attending college always seemed out of reach but now she is enrolled at UCLA and loving it.
Paul
Student
I felt like my head was spinning trying to understand the college admissions process on my own. Epmowerly saved me!