Strategy Session Engine — Student Success Packages
Stepping Stones College Educational Advisors
Stepping Stones
College Educational Advisors
Every Step Leads to Accepted™
Step One · Where your student stands

Tell us the situation. We will show you the path.

Grade level sets the pathway. School count, goals, and readiness sharpen it. Nothing here is a commitment — it is the groundwork for your Strategy Call.

Family · required
Academic picture if known
Extracurriculars select any
Athletics Leadership Research Community service Performing arts STEM Entrepreneurship or work Faith and community
What is weighing on you select any
Finding right-fit schools Affording college Scholarships and aid Competitive admissions Athletic recruitment NIL strategy Essays Motivation Timeline and deadlines Standing out Family stress
Where you want help select any
College list Application strategy Essay coaching Interview prep Scholarship planning Financial aid Athletic recruitment Tutoring Transfer admissions Major and career fit
Athletics if it applies
Readiness · required
Commitment level · one to ten
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In your own words if you want to
Your path appears here. Grade level is all it takes to begin.
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Personalized Strategy Brief

Your Family's College Path

Prepared for — · Student —
— Every Step Leads to Accepted™
Section One · Where you are today

The snapshot we are working from

This is what you told us. Your advisor will walk through each line on the call — naming the strengths, finding the leverage, and pressure-testing the assumptions.

Section Two · What we noticed

The pattern under the words

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Your words · what success looks like
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Your words · the cost of getting it wrong
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Section Three · Your Student Success Package

The plan we would build with you

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Recommended pathway·

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What this delivers
    Section Four · What we would layer on

    Targeted support, added only where it sharpens the outcome

    Section Five · The next twelve months

    Your roadmap, in calendar form

    This is the working timeline we would run together. Real dates land on your secure CounselMore portal during onboarding.

    Section Six · Why this matters now

    The landscape your student is applying into

    Independent context from the wider admissions market, so you can weigh this against something other than our word.

    ~4%
    Class of 2030 overall acceptance rates at Columbia and Yale — 4.23% and 4.24%, historic lows.
    Crimson Education · AdmissionSight, citing university announcements · March 2026
    3–4×
    Early-round admission rates ran roughly three to four times the regular-round rate at most Ivy League and top-tier schools that reported both.
    Oriel Admissions, from university announcements and Common Data Sets · Classes of 2029–2030
    Section Seven · What every package includes

    What partnering with us looks like

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    How this engagement runs
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    Included in every Student Success Package
    Profile Portfolio and personalized SMART Goals, delivered before the first meeting · 45-minute weekly student meetings · 15-minute weekly parent check-in · secure CounselMore portal for documents, communication, and milestone tracking · Common App, UC, and Coalition guidance · 48-hour response window on email, text, and phone.
    Section Eight · The next step

    Three steps from here

    01Schedule
    02Strategy
    03Success

    You are not behind. You simply have not been guided yet.

    Your Strategy Call is where this plan moves from paper into your family's calendar.

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    Roman Bernard Fernando
    Founder and CEO · Stepping Stones College Educational Advisors
    rfernando@steppingstonesadvisors.com · (714) 400-2497 · steppingstonesadvisors.com
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