Our Services
Backcountry Academics offers a highly-personalized, tried-and-true approach to prep school and undergraduate admissions. Reach out to Backcountry today for more details regarding packages and pricing.
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All-Angles Admissions
Guiding & SupportSeek your summit with Backcountry Academics! We offer comprehensive, all-angles academic support which includes a comprehensive transcript diagnostic; guidance on course selection, resume building and extra-curricular development; intensive one-on-one writing & research instruction; performance coaching (executive functioning/time management & test-taking); and terrain-specific guidance and insight (school-specific, major-specific, and career-specific).
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Specialty Guiding:
Admissions EssaysWork one-on-one with a Backcountry Core Guide to deepen your self-awareness, uncover your personal narrative, and craft vibrant, authentic personal essays that showcase who you are and what you have to offer. The essay is a candidate’s sole avenue for self-advocacy, and self-disclosure, and self-expression.
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Specialty Guiding:
Resumes & Activities ListsWork one-on-one with a Backcountry Core Guide to craft a resume and/or activities list that not only reflects the extent of your academic, extra-curricular and service-oriented achievements, but helps communicate effectively your passions and priorities.
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Performance Coaching:
Time Management & OrganizationWork one-on-one with Backcountry’s Executive Functioning specialist to performance-optimize your approach to life and school. Learn to better structure your days; track your achievements and challenges; maximize your efficiency; and declutter your mind (and desk!).
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Performance Coaching:
InterviewsLearn to put your best foot forward in one-on-one sessions with Backcountry’s interview specialist. Participate in a mock interview with pre- and post-interview feedback, learning to better highlight your strengths, acknowledge your challenges, and communicate your passions and aspirations.
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Performance Coaching:
Studying/Test-TakingMaster the art of test-taking with Backcountry Guides. Learn strategies for optimizing study time and results. Build your pressure-tolerance under simulated test conditions.
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Performance Coaching:
Extra-curriculars & Resume-Building:Work one-on-one with a Backcountry Guide to hone your strategic positioning via extra-curricular and resume-building guidance and support. Whether you’re an elite athlete, a community activist, or simply an enthusiastic participant in school clubs and organizations, we’ll help you identify your talents, develop them and ultimately, showcase them on your admissions journey.
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Targeted Academic Support:
Research & Writing (30/60/90/120)Work one-on-one with Backcountry’s Expedition Leader to optimize your research skills and elevate your craft, either in general, or with respect to any academic subject that’s writing and/or research intensive.
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Targeted Academic Support: Spanish / English & Literature / Creative Writing
Receive specialized Backcountry Academic Support with one of Backcountry’s Lead Guides, Dr. Tyler Spencer—a former Rhodes Scholar and current resident of Mexico—who has limited availability for Spanish tutorials. Backcountry’s Expedition Leader also accepts a few candidates a year for intensive, academic support in English & Literature, Creative Writing, Comparative Government, Political Science, and other Humanities-oriented courses.
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Strategic Positioning:
Comprehensive Candidacy DiagnosticWork one-on-one with Backcountry’s Expedition Leader to craft an ideal application strategy – either for one application, specifically, or for your full set of applications, more generally.
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Strategic Positioning:
Rising 9th – 11th GradersWork one-on-one with Backcountry’s Expedition Leader on everything from your extra- curricular involvement to your course selection, to your study skills, in order to establish ideal strategic positioning for your future admissions journeys
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Strategic Positioning:
Gap Year PlanningWork one-on-one with Backcountry’s Expedition Leader and Backcountry’s Gap Year Specialist to design your ideal gap year, challenging yourself in all directions to maximize your admissions potential and optimally prepare yourself for your academic as well as professional future