Elite Admissions Consultant

Job Description

Who We Are

Great Minds Advising (greatmindsadvising.com) is an elite college consulting firm that exclusively helps high-achieving, ambitious students earn admission to top U.S. colleges.

We are not your typical college counselors; we are high-performance strategists and coaches who just so happen to work in elite college admissions.

We are strategic, obsessive, meticulous, and relentlessly focused on coaching driven students to the best possible outcomes .

During our most recent admissions cycle, 100% of our students were admitted to a top-choice school. Historically, our students are admitted to the Ivy League at a rate 14x the national average—and at a 90% rate in the early round—reflecting an industry-leading track record of excellence.

Who You Are

While our ethos is filled with exceptional energy, passion, warmth, and shared mission—it is also first and foremost an extremely high-standards environment that is * not* for most students or consultants .

Consultants on our team are expected to be sharp coaches and mentors to smart and driven students; be masterful strategists and project managers for students’ candidacies over multiple years; and move quickly while still possessing extraordinary attention to detail.

Simply put, our families trust us to be the best . Anything less is not tolerated.

This role is ideal for someone who is naturally Type A, obsessive, highly conscientious, intellectually sharp, and energized by ownership, strategy, precision, mentorship, and working alongside other high-performing individuals, from students to fellow team members.

If you are the kind of person who notices small errors, follows through without reminders, operates with urgency as your baseline, and takes personal pride in excellence—you will likely thrive here.

Qualifications

— Required

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• Bachelor’s degree
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• Extreme conscientiousness and attention to detail
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• Excellent writing, communication, and interpersonal skills
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• Fast execution, high responsiveness, and strong follow-through
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• Extraordinary organization skills and ability to manage many moving pieces
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• Strong intellectual curiosity and strategic thinking
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• Genuine excitement for mentorship and helping ambitious students grow
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• High personal standards and strong sense of ownership
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— Preferred

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• Attended an Ivy League, Ivy Plus, or other highly selective university
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• Experience in admissions, education, tutoring, mentoring, coaching, consulting, writing, journalism, project management, or strategy-heavy work
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• Experience in highly competitive or high standards environments (consulting, elite athletics, performing arts, debate, etc.)
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Above all, we hire for trajectory, not just pedigree. We believe nearly all of the hard skills that make a great consultant can be trained, but the core personality traits cannot.

Some of our strongest team members came from unconventional backgrounds but all share the same intangibles: extreme ownership, precision, reliability, and a strong self-identity as people who produce excellent work.

Training & Evaluation

All consultants begin with an intense 6-week training and evaluation period designed to ensure mastery of our systems, standards, and advising philosophy:

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• Extensive review of internal documents, frameworks, guides, and recordings
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• Weekly Zoom training sessions
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• Participation in our team Slack environment
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• Real case analysis and strategic advising exercises
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Time commitment is approximately 20 hours per week, almost entirely asynchronous.

Consultants receive a stipend of $2,000 for successful completion of the training phase.

This is not simple onboarding—it is earned entry into a high-trust, high-performance team.

Positions & Pay

— Half Time Consultant

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• Up to 8 students
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• $30,000 base salary
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• $5,000 year-end bonus
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— Full Time Consultant

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• Up to 16 students
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• $65,000 base salary
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• $5,000 year-end bonus
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Our ideal candidate would be open to eventually transitioning from a half to full-time role, provided it’s an excellent mutual fit and there is compelling evidence of initial success with student cases. However, we will still strongly consider candidates who might be interested in a half-time only position.

Benefits

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• Performance-based raises and advancement opportunities
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• 100% remote work with highly flexible schedule and minimal team meetings
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• 25 days paid time off annually
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• Health insurance for full-time consultants
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• Ongoing mentoring and consultant development, with anytime access to team and founder
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• Collaborative, passionate environment with ultra-dependable teammates
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• Team social events
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Role & Responsibilities

Consultants will be responsible for working closely with students, most often over multiple years, assigning them tasks for building their candidacy on a twice-weekly basis and communicating with them whenever needed throughout the process. While most work is conducted asynchronously, student meetings typically occur on a monthly basis in the pre-application phase and weekly during the application phase. The consultant’s role will include the following:

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• helping students identify unique passions, interests, and strengths that will collectively form their admissions “story” or "hook" and help to differentiate them from other competitive applicants
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• overseeing and project managing the resume-building process, centered on each student’s unique admissions “hook,” once identified. Activities are wide-ranging and might include clubs, leadership, summer programs, research, internships, independent projects, self-created organizations, publications, college/online coursework, awards and competitions, or other relevant pursuits
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• strategizing around and helping oversee students’ course selections, academic grades, and standardized testing
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• producing school lists and visit plans that are maximally calibrated to the best and best-fit colleges to which students can gain admission based on their profiles
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• supporting strategic selection of early decision/early action plans at students’ top-choice schools
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• helping students present and supply unique details about their classroom and school impact to teachers and counselors for letters of recommendation
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• optimizing selection of intended majors on a school-by-school basis to give them the greatest chance of admission
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• providing beginning-to-end essay development and execution on all application components
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• engaging with our team—via Slack messages, briefings on student cases, checklists, updates, and in weekly team meetings
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