
College Admissions Counseling in Houston, TX
One of the biggest mistakes students make is applying for college without Empowerly’s Houston college admissions counseling. Applying to colleges is complex — don’t go through the process blindly! Trust Empowerly to guide you and improve your chances of gaining acceptance to the college you really want to attend.
Avoid the panic and stress of applying for college with Empowerly’s Houston admissions counseling. Book your free consultation today!

Empowerly’s Houston College Admissions Consulting
It’s unfortunate that high school counselors aren’t afforded the resources or time to direct enough attention to students who are getting ready to apply for college. This oversight is where Empowerly comes in. Our experts are able to spend 25x the amount of time that high school counselors can on each student.
Empowerly proudly provides:
- A Personalized Team-Based Approach: While other counseling services assign one expert per student, Empowerly provides a whole team of professionals to your student to maximize the pool of experience they have access to when applying for college.
- The Most Experienced Houston College Consulting Team: Our pros have more than 200 years of combined experience with college admissions counseling and are expert essay analysts, researchers, alumni from prestigious colleges, and former college admissions staff members.
- Committee Review Services and More: Empowerly offers a host of services that include application reviews, financial planning assistance, Best Match College Counseling®, and more.
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 |
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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 Houston, TX


Rice University
Rice University is a private university in TX, founded in 1912 and offers Bachelor's degrees for undergraduates and Master's and Doctoral degrees for graduate students. The undergraduate enrollment is 4,076, and the graduate enrollment is 3,567. Rice University is a hyper-selective school, receiving 23,455 applications and accepting 10.9% of applicants. Rice University's athletics teams compete at the intramural and varsity level. Additionally, Rice University employs 698 full-time instructional staff (97% of whom hold doctorate degrees) and has a 5:1 student to faculty ratio.