College Admissions Counseling in Washington, DC
Apply with confidence when you have Empowerly’s Washington DC admissions counseling experts in your corner. We’ll help you submit the best application possible to make you stand out from other applicants.
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Hand-Picked Washington DC College Consulting Pros
With the guidance of our expert college admissions professionals, your application will highlight the most important aspects of your academic and extracurricular career to impress the people who make the admissions decisions.
Empowerly’s Washington DC college admissions counseling team proudly provides benefits to students and parents, including:
- Personalized professional college counseling: Whether you need essay editing, help with your personal statement, interview prep advice, or even guidance with financial planning, we provide you with hand-picked experts whose skills match your needs.
- College application analyses and feedback: Our experts are college alumni, essay editors, and former college admissions advisors who know what applications need in order to get noticed. We’ll help you improve your application so that it contains everything colleges are looking for.
- A free initial college admissions consultation: We’ll get to know you, your family, your background, and your college admissions goals during this consultation. Then, you’ll be paired with a case manager and have access to our team of professionals and resources to elevate your entire admissions experience.
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 Washington, DC
George Washington University
George Washington University is a private university in DC, founded in 1821 and offers Associate's and Bachelor's degrees for undergraduates and Master's and Doctoral degrees for graduate students. The undergraduate enrollment is 11,762, and the graduate enrollment is 15,255. George Washington University is a hyper-selective school, receiving 26,405 applications and accepting 43.0% of applicants. George Washington University's athletics teams compete at the club, intramural, and varsity levels. Additionally, George Washington University employs 1,135 full-time instructional staff (93% of whom hold doctorate degrees) and has a 13:1 student to faculty ratio.
Georgetown University
Georgetown University is a private religious university in DC, founded in 1789 and offers Bachelor's degrees for undergraduates and Master's and Doctoral degrees for graduate students. The undergraduate enrollment is 7,357, and the graduate enrollment is 12,014. Georgetown University is a hyper-selective school, receiving 21,190 applications and accepting 11.7% of applicants. Georgetown University's athletics teams compete at the intramural and varsity levels. Additionally, Georgetown University employs 1,162 full-time instructional staff (79% of whom hold doctorate degrees) and has an 11:1 student to faculty ratio.
Washington, DC College Counselors Success Stories
Draymond
Parent
Empowerly did everything for our daughter to study for her SAT's and get into her dream college at USC. Thank you!
Dara
Student
The Empowerly admissions counselors I worked with were all very professional and easy to talk to.
Sammy
Student
I cannot wait to leave home and start college! Thank you, Empowerly!