Cardinal College Counseling

Cardinal College Counseling (CCC) is an undergraduate-run, full-service college counseling firm. We are based in Stanford University and are made up of college students who were cross admits at numerous Ivy Leagues, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, and Top 20 schools. Together, our consultants were admitted to Stanford, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Duke, Amherst, Williams, Georgetown, University of Michigan, William & Marry, all the UCs, and more.

We started as a small California Bay Area project to help families and students, especially immigrants and first generation students, navigate the college admissions system. As we welcomed more students across the Bay Area and the nation, we scaled into a full-fledged college counseling firm with multiple top college students advising the next generation of Ivy League, Stanford, MIT, Caltech, and Top 20 cross admits.

Not only do we leverage our personal experiences going through the college application process, but we also leverage our data. We have a database consisting of hundreds of students across multiple years to dissect what goes on inside college admissions rooms. We know what works not only because it works for us, but because it worked for hundreds of others.

College decisions are life changing, and we aim to support students' entire academic career. We focus on building applications around a student's personhood, highlighting the intersection of their experiences, ambitions, and strengths that make them stand out amongst thousands of applicants.