Founded by Alex McNeil in 2017, Sierra Admissions is a California-based boutique college admissions consulting firm that also runs the Admit Report website, a popular source of information for students and parents.
About Company
Sierra Admissions offers a variety of packages aimed at helping students prepare to apply to college beginning as early as their first year of high school. In addition to their combined expertise in Stanford, University of California, and other California college admissions, they’ve helped students gain admission to highly selective (or, as they say, “highly rejective”) schools around the country, including the Ivies, UNC, University of Michigan, Duke, and MIT. They recently entered into a strategic service partnership with author, educator, and former Stanford admissions officer Dr. Irena Smith, which will allow clients that sign up for a senior year package to meet with her up to four times during the admissions cycle.
Sierra Admissions Score
Sierra Admissions Review
Sierra Admissions flaunts a solid 4 in the results category with a 4.3x success rate. Their three former admissions officers, which include author Irena Smith, gets them a 2 in team quality and 4 in combined knowledge (well over 11 years of experience). They get a 3 in team size (six consultants), but flounder in the web presence (eighth-page Google search ranking) and influencer categories with no Twitter or YouTube presence. Improving these last two items would raise their current total score of 2.42.