College Admissions Counseling in Oakland, CA
Oakland college admissions counseling with Empowerly means that you and your student will have access to the best and most experienced admissions counselors in the country.
The value of Empowerly’s Oakland admissions counseling cannot be overstated — book your free consultation today!
Oakland College Admissions Consulting
From essay analyses and editing to committee review services and more, Empowerly offers an enormous array of services for students and their families interested in Oakland college consulting.
Every student we work with receives personalized college counseling from a team of former college admissions staff members. Empowerly proudly provides:
- Expert Personalized Counseling Teams: Students always remain in control of their Oakland college admissions counseling experience. We analyze the impact of every aspect of students’ applications. Our team knows what college admissions staff is looking for in prospective students.
- A Hand-Picked Team of Experts Working for You: While other college counseling services pair students up with one counselor, Empowerly puts a whole team of carefully selected pros to work with you.
- The Empowerly Reputation of Success: We measure and monitor academics, extracurriculars, and essays in your application and analyze the impact of each. Our pros deliver a holistic view to students that enables them to stand out from other applicants
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 Oakland, CA
University of California, Berkeley
The University of California, Berkeley is a public university in CA, founded in 1868 and offers Bachelor's degrees for undergraduates and Master's and Doctoral degrees for graduate students. The undergraduate enrollment is 30,980, and the graduate enrollment is 11,264. The University of California, Berkeley received 85,682 applications and accepted 14.5% of applicants. The University of California, Berkeley's athletics teams compete at the intramural and varsity levels. Additionally, the University of California, Berkeley employs 1,828 full-time instructional staff (99% of whom hold doctorate degrees) and has an 18:1 student to faculty ratio.
Oakland, CA College Counselors Success Stories
Lenny
Parent
Thank you for helping my son get into UC Berkeley, Empowerly!
James
Student
I love the school, I love the city and I love Empowerly!
Dante
Student
So excited to move to Oakland and start my collegiate career!