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Top 25 College admission consulting firms based in the United States
RevenueBase identified 1,536 college admission consulting firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026 and tracks 9,979 professional contacts across them, including 3,108 with verified work emails. New York is the largest hub.
This list covers college admission consulting firms headquartered in the United States, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 27, 2026.
Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.
The 25 largest college admission consulting firms based in the United States
Ranked by team size| # | Company | Contacts | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,013 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “C2 Education has helped high-performing students get into their dream schools for 25 years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 2 | 675 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “EducationDynamics is transforming higher education by driving outcomes that matter and helping schools understand and serve all Modern Learners.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 3 | 225 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bay Area's leader in 1-1 Test Preparation, Academic Tutoring, and College Admissions Counseling At AJ Tutoring, we believe every student deserves personalized support that meets…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 4 | 183 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Empowering your future, to college and beyond.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 5 | 183 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “MedSchoolCoach is dedicated to helping students achieve their medical school dreams.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 6 | 168 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Collegewise has guided more than students through their college admissions journeys, and we can help you in today's changing academic world.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 7 | 152 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Private Prep is an elite tutoring service offering individually customized lessons for a wide range of K-College school subjects, standardized test prep, college admissions…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 8 | 145 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “CollegeAdvisor.com connects high school students/families with effective college counseling and personalized technology to guide them through the US college application process.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 9 | 123 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Cambridge Coaching began as a group of friends who also happened to be Harvard and MIT PhDs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 10 | 111 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Higher Education in Abroad offers a High-End Career with lifelong memories.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 11 | 96 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Your go-to resource for practical, step-by-step guides on writing beautiful college essays and putting together an awesome college application.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 12 | 87 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Featured on the front page of New York Times, ThinkTank Learning is a forward-thinking educational development company headquartered in San Jose, California.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 13 | 84 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Over the past 15+ years, Zenith Prep Academy has guided thousands of students interested in pursuing Engineering/CS, Business, and Healthcare/pre-med to the Ivy Leagues and Top…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 14 | 82 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Bright Horizons College Coach is the nation’s leading provider of education advising, offering expert guidance on the college admissions and finance processes to families of…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 15 | 80 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Colledge is a college admissions consulting service, providing students and families with individualized, expert guidance on navigating the college admissions process.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 16 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “Solomon Admissions Consulting provides personalized college, graduate school, medical school, and private school admission consulting exclusively from Former Admissions Officers.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 17 | 77 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “We know that every student is different.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 18 | 76 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Blue Ivy Coaching is an educational advising group based in Miami, and staffed by graduates from top U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 19 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1998, IvyWise has been dedicated to helping students apply and gain admission to their best-fit institutions – that is, where they will be happy and succeed.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 20 | 64 contacts → | ||||
Indirect evidence “Founded in 2004, IvyMax is a premier K–12 educational institution with 21+ years of experience in academic planning, research mentorship, leadership development, and U.S.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 21 | 63 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “ESM Prep is an educational services firm that provides personalized strategic college counseling, one-on-one academic mentorship, and standardized test preparation to students…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 22 | 59 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “We at FLEX know that teaching and consulting are opportunities to build relationships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 23 | 58 contacts → | ||||
Strong evidence “For 15 years, AcceptU has been the trusted source for admissions consulting, with more 5-star reviews than any other provider and thousands of students admitted to top schools.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 24 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Since 1997, Class 101, has helped high school students increase their chances of getting into colleges and qualify for more student aid and scholarships.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
| 25 | 56 contacts → | ||||
Partial evidence “Inspira is reimagining higher education admissions so that every person can realize their full potential.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 27, 2026Thanks. The Data Team will review it. | |||||
RevenueBase Smart Search
RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: college admission consulting firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.
- Strong evidence
- The company's own public description of its business names college admission consulting firms.
- Partial evidence
- Its own public description names part of college admission consulting firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
- Indirect evidence
- The description shown does not name college admission consulting firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.
RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.
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College admission consulting firms based in the United States at a glance
As of Sep 27, 2026Companies by employee count
Email recency for this list is measured worldwide rather than for United States, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for United States, over 1,536 companies.
How this list was built
Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among college admission consulting firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.
- Source
- The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
- What qualifies
- Companies headquartered in the United States whose own description of what they do matches “college admission consulting firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
- RevenueBase Smart Search
- RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names college admission consulting firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
- What we exclude
- Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among college admission consulting firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside United States are excluded even when they keep an office there.
- Match quality
- In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
- Ranking
- Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
- Verification
- Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 3,108 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
- Refresh
- This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 27, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
- Corrections
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Frequently asked
What is RevenueBase Smart Search?
RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names college admission consulting firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.
How many college admission consulting firms are there based in the United States?
RevenueBase identified 1,536 college admission consulting firms headquartered in the United States as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.
What is the largest company on this list?
C2 Education, headquartered in Duluth, tops this list with the largest team on record.
Which city has the most college admission consulting firms?
New York leads with 121 headquartered companies, followed by Los Angeles (54) and San Francisco (29).
How do I get contact information for these companies?
A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 3,108 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 1,536 companies.
How current is this list?
The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 27, 2026.
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