We have a proven track record of success
Year after year, we have helped our students achieve their dreams and get into their desired schools. Here are some of our student’s successes:
College Admissions 2023
ASU
Babson
Bard (EA)
Beloit (with Presidential Scholarship of $40k/yr)
BU
Cal Poly SLO
Cal State Monterey
Cal State San Marcos
Carleton College (ED II)
Case Western (with $28k scholarship)
Chapman (Dodge College of Film & Media Arts with Presidential Scholarship)
Colorado School of Mines (EA)
Columbia
CSU Long Beach
Dartmouth (ED)
Fordham (EA)
George Washington U
Kenyon
LMU (EA)
NC State
Northeastern
NYU Stern (ED II)
Oberlin
Occidental (with $80k Presidential Scholarship)
Otis College of Art and Design
Pitzer (ED)
Pomona
Purdue
Purdue Polytechnic
Rhode Island School of Design
Rose-Hulman (EA)
RPI
Rutgers U
San Diego State
SCU (EA)
SCU Leavey School of Business
Savannah College of Art and Design
School of Visual Arts (with $23,500 Silas H. Rhodes Scholarship)
Stanford (REA)
Suffolk (with $20k scholarship)
SUNY Binghamton – School of Management (EA)
Tulane (ED)
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCLA
UC Merced
UC Riverside
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
U of Colorado Boulder
U of Connecticut
U of Indiana
UMass Amherst (with $10k/yr, EA)
UMass Boston
U Minn
UNC Chapel Hill
U of Nebraska
U of Oregon (with $40k of Merit Aid)
U of San Diego
U of Vermont
UW
UW – Tacoma
Wheaton College (with $30k/yr Presidential Scholarship, EA)
Whitman College (with Merit Aid)
Whittier (EA)
Willamette (with $32k/yr scholarship, EA)
WPI
International Schools:
Cambridge
U College of London
U of Edinburgh
U of Manchester
Summer Programs 2023
Berkeley Business Academy for Youth (BBAY)
Boston Summer Leadership Institute Green Chemistry Program at Dana Hall, Wellesley
Brown Pre-College
California College of the Arts Pre-College
Columbia Pre-College
Columbia Summer Immersion
Concord Review Summer History Research Paper Program in Boston
Cornell Pre-College
Georgetown International Affairs Program
Northwestern Pre-College
Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) Pre-College
Rosetta Biomedical Institute Biomedical Research Workshop
Summer@Brown
UCLA Art Institute
U of Chicago Pre-College Summer Immersion
Wharton Global Youth Program
College Admissions 2022
ASU (with $78-80k Merit Aid)
Auburn
Babson (EA)
BC
BU
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly SLO
Cal State SLO
City University of London
Carnegie Mellon
Case Western
Claremont McKenna ($15k/year McKenna Achievement Award, $10k/year Podlich Scholar Award)
Columbia
Cornell (ED)
CSU Bakersfield
CSU Chico
CSU East Bay
CSU Fresno
CSU Monterey
Dominican University (with Merit Aid)
Emory
Florida State (Honors College)
Georgetown
Georgia Tech (EA)
Goucher
Indiana
Johns Hopkins (ED, Dual Degree, Peabody Institute)
Lewis and Clark
LMU (EA)
NYU
NYU Stern
Northeastern (EA, ED II, with $48k Dean’s Scholarship)
Notre Dame
Oberlin
Occidental
Penn State (EA)
Pitzer
Purdue (EA)
Reed
RIT
Rose-Hulman Institute of Tech
RPI (with Merit Aid)
Saint Mary’s College of CA
San Diego State
SF State
San Jose State
Santa Clara (EA, $12k/year, $14k/year Bronco Scholarship)
Sarah Lawrence
SMU (EA, $80k Second Century Scholar)
Sonoma State
Stony Brook
Syracuse
TCU (EA, $22k/year Faculty Scholarship)
Tufts
U of Arizona
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UCLA
UC Merced
UC Riverside
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz (Regents $5,000 Annual Scholarship)
U of Colorado-Boulder
U of Florida
U of Georgia (EA)
UIUC (James Scholar Honors Program)
U of Maryland-College Park
UMass Amherst
U of Miami
U of Minnesota
U of Oregon (EA)
U of Portland (with Holy Cross Scholarship)
U of Puget Sound (with $30k/year Merit Aid)
U of Redlands (with $28k/year Achievement Award)
U of Rochester
U of Saint Andrews
UVa (EA)
UW
U of Wisconsin-Madison
VA Tech
Wesleyan
Whitman
Whittier (EA, with $25k/year John Greenleaf Whittier Scholarship)
Willamette (EA)
Williams
Summer Programs 2022
ATDP
Awesome Math
Barnard Young Women’s Leadership Institute
Blue Stamp Engineering
Brown Pre-College
Columbia Summer Immersion
Harvard Pre-College
Inspirit AI
NY Times Pre-College
RISD Pre-College
Rosetta Institute of Biomedical Research
Summer@Brown
Summer Rose-Hulman Mechanical Engineering
UCLA Intro CS
Wharton Global Youth Program – Essentials of Finance
Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS)
College Admissions 2021
American
Arizona State
Auburn
Babson
Bard
Bellarmine College Preparatory
BU
Brown (ED)
Bryn Mawr (with Merit Scholarship)
California College of the Arts (CCA)
Cal Poly
CSULA
CSULB
Columbia
Columbia College of Chicago
Cornell
Dartmouth
Drexel
Emory
Fordham (with Merit Scholarship)
Georgia Tech
Lewis and Clark (EA with Trustee Scholarship)
Loyola Marymount
Loyola Marymount (with Merit Scholarship)
Northeastern (EA)
Northeastern (with Merit Scholarship)
NYU
Otis College of Art and Design
Penn State
Purdue (EA)
RPI
San Diego State
Santa Clara
Santa Clara (with Merit Scholarship)
Savannah School of Art and Design
Smith
Stanford University
Stanford University (REA)
Stanford University (MA in Learning, Design, & Technology)
Syracuse
Temple
University of Arizona (with Merit Scholarship)
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCLA
UC Merced
UC Riverside
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara (Regents Scholarship)
UC Santa Cruz
UC San Diego
University of Colorado Boulder (EA)
UIUC
UIUC — Honors College (Chancellor Scholarship)
U of Maryland (EA)
UMass
UMichigan
UMichigan – Transfer
U of Oregon
U of Oregon (EA)
U of Puget Sound (EA with Trustee Scholarship)
USC (Presidential/Natl Merit Finalist Merit Scholarship)
USF
University of Utah — Honors College (EA)
UW
Vassar
Wesleyan
Yale
Summer Programs 2021
Asian Pacific Islander American Public Affairs Association (APAPA)
Brown Pre-College
CMU National High School Game Academy
Columbia Summer Immersion
COSMOS (x3)
Duke Pre-College
Economics for Leaders (EFL)
Harvard Summer Immersion
iD Tech course
Inspirit AI
Interlochen Center for the Arts
League of Creative Minds
Northwestern Seminars
RISD Advanced Program for HS Students
Rosetta Institute of Biomedical Research
Stanford Summer Session
Summer@Brown
UCLA Art Summer Institute
UChicago Pre-College
UChicago Summer Immersion
U Washington Young Scholars REACH Program
Wharton Global Youth
Yale Young Global Scholars (YYGS)
College Admissions 2020
Boston College
Carnegie Mellon (ED, RD)
Case Western (with $27K merit aid)
Chapman
Clark
Columbia, PhD in Political Science
CSU Cal Poly
CSU Fullerton
CSU San Diego
CSU San Francisco
CSU San Jose
CU Boulder
Duke (ED)
Georgetown
Harvard (REA)
Haverford
Johns Hopkins (ED x2)
Kenyon
Loyola Chicago
Loyola Marymount
MIT, PhD in Political Science
Northeastern (Dean’s Scholarship)
Northwestern
Oberlin (with $22K merit aid, John Frederick Scholarship and Oberlin Stamps Leadership Scholarship)
Occidental
Penn State (Engineering)
Purdue (Engineering, Business)
Reed
Rhode Island School of Design
Saint Mary’s
Santa Clara University
Stanford
Texas A&M (Engineering)
UC Berkeley, Undergrad + PhD in Political Science
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCLA
UC Merced
UC Riverside
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
University of Illinois Urbana Champaign (Engineering)
University of Miami
University of North Carolina, PhD in Political Science
University of Pittsburgh, PhD in Political Science
University of Puget Sound
University of Southern California
University of Washington
UT Austin
Vassar
Villanova
Wellesley
Wesleyan
Whittier (EA)
Willamette
Summer Programs 2020
Barnard
Brown Environmental Leadership Lab
Carleton College Summer Program
Columbia Pre-College
COSMOS
Georgetown Pre-College
Interlochen Center for the Arts
NASA STEM Enhancement in Earth Science (SEES) high school virtual internship program
Rosetta (at Berkeley)
SAIC Pre-College with merit aid
Science Internship Program (SIP) at UCSC
Summer@Brown
Summer Linguistic Institute for Youth Scholars (SLIYS)
The School of the New York Times Pre-College
University of Colorado Boulder STEM Research Experience
Yale Global Scholars
College Admissions 2019
Arizona State (x4)
Babson
Boston University (x2)
Brandeis University
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly SLO (x2)
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon
CCA
Chapman (x2)
Columbia
Cornell (x3)
CSU East Bay
CSU Long Beach
CSU Los Angeles
CSU San Jose
CSU Sonoma
De Paul
Dickinson
Fordham
George Washington University
Harvard
Johns Hopkins
LMU
MIT
MICA
Notre Dame de Namur
NYU
Occidental College
Otis
Purdue
Redlands
Rice
SAIC
Saint Mary’s
Scripps College (x2)
SDSU
Seattle University
SFAI
SJSU (x3)
Temple
U of Oregon
UC Berkeley (x2)
UC Davis (x2)
UC Irvine
UC Riverside (x2)
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara (x3)
UC Santa Cruz (x2)
UCLA (x2)
UIUC
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Massachusetts Amherst (x2)
University of Puget Sound
University of San Diego
University of Texas Austin (x2)
University of the Pacific
University of Washington (x2)
UPenn
USC
USF
Whittier (x2)
Willamette
Summer Programs 2019
Bioengineering Summer High School Internship Program at UCSD (BE-SHIP)
Brown Pre-College
COSMOS
Neuroscape Internship at UCSF
Science Internship Program (SIP) at UCSC
Ultrafast Nano-optics lab Internship at UC Berkeley
Drexel Environmental Science Leadership Academy
Internship at African Leadership University in Mauritius
Emerson Pre-College (16mm Filmmakers)
College Admissions 2018
American
Babson
Barnard (x2 – 1 ED)
Bentley
Boston U (x5 – 1 Kilachand Honors)
CCA (Full Scholarship)
Cal Poly Pomona
Cal Poly SLO (x2)
Caltech (x2)
Case Western
Columbia (x2 – Science Research Fellow, John Jay Scholars Program)
Cornell (Tanner Dean’s Scholar)
CSU Channel Islands
CSU Chico
CSU East Bay
CSU Long Beach
CSU Sonoma
Dartmouth
Dickinson (EA)
Drexel (Honors)
Emerson
George Washington
Georgia Tech
Harvard
Holy Names University
Lewis & Clark (Early Action)
Loyola
Mills College
MIT
- Northeastern (x2)
Notre Dame
NYU (x3)
NYU Stern
Occidental College (x2 – $70,000 Scholarship)
PRATT (EA, President’s Merit Scholarship)
Princeton (x2 – 1 REA)
Purdue (x2)
Quinnipiac
Ringling
SAIC (President’s Merit Scholarship)
SAIC MFA
Saint Mary’s
Sarah Lawrence
SCAD (EA, full tuition)
SCU (9k grant)
SDSU
Seattle University (x2)
SFSU
SJSU (x2)
Skidmore
Stanford (x3)
SVA (EA, President’s Merit Scholarship)
Swarthmore (ED)
Tufts
UC Berkeley (x9)
UC Davis (x9 – 2 Regents Scholarships)
UC Irvine (x5 – 2 Regents Scholarship)
UC Merced
UC San Diego (x3)
UC Santa Barbara (x11 – 3 Regents Scholarships, 1 Honors)
UC Santa Cruz x9 (3 Regents Scholarships, 8k Scholarship)
UC Riverside
UCLA (x7)
UPenn
University of Colorado Boulder
University of Connecticut
University of Georgia
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign (x2 – 1 Priority)
University of Massachusetts Amherst
University of Maryland College Park
University of Michigan (x3 – 1 EA)
University of the Pacific (x2)
University of Richmond (Law School, Scholarship)
University of Rochester
University of Washington (x7)
University of Wisconsin
University of Southern California (x3)
Villanova
Yale
Summer Programs 2018
- Barnard Pre-College Liberal Arts Intensive
- Brown Pre-College
Brown Online Summer Program (x2)
California State Summer School for Mathematics and Science (COSMOS)
- Penn Engineering
- Rosetta Institute of Biomedical Research
- Smith Pre-College
- Summer@Brown
- Summer Science Program (SSP)
- Wynd internship
- Yale Summer Program in Astrophysics (YSPA)
College Admissions 2017
Amherst
Barnard
Boston College (EA)
Boston U (Presidential Scholarship)
Brown
Cal Poly
Carleton
Clark U (Traina Scholarship)
Columbia
Cornell
Dartmouth
Drexel (EA – $17,000/year scholarship)
Fordham ($20,000 scholarship)
George Mason (EA)
Georgetown (EA)
Harvard
Haverford
Hofstra (EA)
La Salle (EA – $13,500/year scholarship)
Lafayette (with scholarship)
Lewis & Clark (with scholarship)
LMU (EA)
Middlebury
Northeastern U (EA – $108,000 Honors Scholarship)
NYU (x3)
Oberlin
OSU (EA with honors)
Princeton
Purdue (x2)
Rice (Trustee Scholarship)
Scripps
SCU (EA with $7,200/year grant)
SJSU
St. John’s University (Honors Program)
Stanford
Swarthmore
Tufts
UC Berkeley (EA – Regent’s and Chancellor’s Scholarship)
UC Davis (Regents Scholarship & University Honors Program)
UC Irvine (Campuswide Honors Program)
UC Riverside (Regents Scholarship & Honors Program)
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara, Regent’s Scholarship
UC Santa Cruz
UCLA
University of Chicago (x2)
University of Colorado (with scholarship)
University of Michigan (EA with honors)
University of Rochester
USC (with Presidential Scholarship)
USF (EA with $16,000/year scholarship)
University of Texas – Austin (with honors)
University of Washington – Seattle
Vassar (x2)
Washington University in St. Louis (Mylonas Honorary Scholar in the Humanities)
Wesleyan (x2)
William & Mary
Williams
Yale (EA)
Summer Programs 2017
Foresight Prep @ Oberlin College – The Power of Food: Building a Just & Sustainable Food System
Yale Young Global Scholars – Sustainable Development and Social
Entrepreneurship Program
Barnard Young Women’s Leadership Institute
Girls Who Code (x2)
University of Pennsylvania’s Social Justice Research Academy
NASA internship
College Admissions 2016
Barnard College (ED)
Bentley University
Boston University (with $20,000/year scholarship)
California College of the Arts (MA in Curatorial Practice)
Carnegie Mellon University
Clark University
Cornell University
CSU – East Bay (MS in Counseling)
Elon University (EA)
Guilford College
Hurtado Scholarship
Kalamazoo College
Lewis and Clark College
Loyola Marymount University (EA)
Northeastern U (with $18,000/year scholarship)
Pratt Institute (MS in History of Art and Design)
Princeton University (EA)
Santa Clara University (School of Engineering with full-ride)
Scripps College
Seattle University
Seton Hill University (BS/MS Physician Assistant Program)
SF State (MA in Museum Studies)
Stanford University (EA)
St. Olaf College
University of Arizona
UC Berkeley (Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences Program)
UC Davis
UC Irvine (Honors Program)
UCLA (Computer Science Program)
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara (Honors Program)
UC Santa Cruz (PhD Program in History)
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan (EA)
University of Minnesota
University of Rochester (with $16,000/year scholarship)
USC (MS in Chemical Engineering Program)
University of Utah
University of Virginia
University of Washington
Villanova University (EA)
Wheaton College (EA)
Whitman College
WHU Otto Beisheim School of Management, Vallendar, Germany
Willamette University
Summer Programs 2016
- American Academy of Medicine and Surgery, Summer Internship at Stanford
Berkeley Business Academy for Youth
Inspiring Leadership Program at Cornell University
International Affairs & Security Session of the Yale Young Global Scholars Program
RISD Pre-College
Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference
Stanford Summer College Academy, Creative Writing
Summer@Brown
UC Irvine Summer Premed Program
College Admissions 2015
Barnard College
Boston College
Boston University
Brown University
Carnegie Mellon University
Claremont McKenna College (ED)
College of the Holy Cross
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College (ED)
Duke University
Emory University
Illinois Wesleyan University
Johns Hopkins University
Kenyon College (with $15,000 visual art scholarship)
LIM College
Maryland Institute College of Art (with $50,000 scholarship)
Oberlin College
Parsons The New School for Design
Parsons The New School for Design (Interior Design MFA Program)
Pratt Institute (with $100,000 scholarship)
Princeton University (EA)
Rice University
Santa Clara University
School of Visual Arts
Stanford University
Swarthmore College
UC Berkeley
UC Davis
UC Irvine
UCLA
UC Merced
UC Riverside
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Cruz
University of Chicago (with $4,000 scholarship)
University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign
University of Michigan (EA)
University of Pennsylvania
University of San Francisco (with $15,000/year scholarship)
USC (with Presidential Scholarship)
University of Washington
Wellesley College (Early Evaluation)
Summer Programs 2015
Carnegie Mellon University, Summer Pre-College AP/EA
Smith College, Young Women’s Writing Workshop
Stanford High School Summer College
Summer@Brown
UC Berkeley Pre-Collegiate Program
University of Pennsylvania, Biomedical Research Academy
University of Rochester’s Mini Medical School
College Admissions 2014
Binghamton University
Brandeis University
California Institute of Technology
Carnegie Mellon University
Centre College
Chapman University, Early Decision, with $80,000 scholarship
Columbia University, Early Decision
Columbia University, Regular Decision
Emory University
Emory University
Furman University
Johns Hopkins University
Mount Holyoke College
New York University
Oberlin College with $112,000 scholarship
Occidental College
Pennsylvania State University
Roanoke College
San Francisco Art Institute (Graduate School)
Santa Clara University
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (Graduate School)
Smith College (with $45,000 scholarship)
Stanford University
Swarthmore (ED)
Texas A&M University (Honors College)
UC Berkeley
UCLA
UC San Diego
University of Chicago
University of Michigan
University of Washington
Washington University in St. Louis
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Summer Programs 2014
Interlochen Creative Writing Summer Program
Launch, MIT’s summer program in entrepreneurship
MIT’s highly selective Research Science Institute
Penn Social Justice Summer Research Academy
Penn Summer Academy in Applied Science & Technology
Sewanee Young Writers’ Conference
Stanford Summer College
The Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop
Wharton Sports Business Academy
Young Writers Workshop at UVa
College Admissions 2013
Bates College
Boston College
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University (with $28,000 and $17,500 scholarship)
Claremont McKenna College (with $10,000 scholarship)
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
Haverford College
New York University
Pomona College
Rhode Island School of Design
School of the Art Institute of Chicago (with Presidential Scholarship)
Swarthmore College
UC Berkeley (with Regents Scholarship)
UCLA (with Regents Scholarship)
University of Pennsylvania, Wharton School
University of Southern California
University of Washington
Washington University in St. Louis
Congrats to Blue Stars graduate fine arts applicant admitted to the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, School of the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Maryland Institute College of Art, San Francisco Art Institute, California College of the Arts, and School of Visual Arts. Jackpot!
Summer Programs 2013
Brown Pre-College for Modern Rapid Prototyping Techniques
Launch, MIT’s summer program in entrepreneurship
Smith College Summer Science and Engineering Program
Yale Young Global Scholars Program for Politics, Law, and Economics
College Admissions 2012
Art Center (illustration)
California College of the Arts ($28,000 Merit Scholarship, photography)
Carnegie Mellon University (EA, computer science)
Carnegie Mellon University (computer science, ECE, IS)
Case Western University ($25,000)
Massachusetts Institute College of Art (illustration)
Occidental College ($28,000 scholarship)
Ohio State University (full-Tuition Morrill Scholarship, biomedical engineering)
School of Visual Arts (photography, illustration)
UC Berkeley (linguistics, EECS)
University of Chicago, Early Action (linguistics)
University of Michigan (applied mathematics)
USC (full-tuition trustee scholarship plus a $5,000 annual stipend)
Summer Programs 2012
School of the Art Institute of Chicago’s summer pre-college program with a $500 merit scholarship
Stanford’s High School and Pre-Medical Summer Internship
College Admissions 2011
Barnard College
Boston University (with $25,000 scholarship)
College of William and Mary (Scholars Program)
Columbia University
Cornell University
Dartmouth College
NYU’s Gallatin School of Individualized Study (with $30,000 scholarship)
Stanford University
Syracuse University (Honors Program)
UC Berkeley
UCLA
University of Michigan
University of Southern California
University of Washington
Summer Programs 2011
Carnegie Mellon’s National High School Game Academy
Yale’s Discovery to Cure: High School Internship Program