OUR MISSION
Green Apple was founded on the premise that post-secondary planning should be organized, meaningful, reflective and creative.
Our consultants work with freshmen through seniors in high school and transfer students on undergraduate admission, as well as college students on graduate admission.
We value a comprehensive approach, helping students and families with all aspects of the admission process, including transcript guidance, course selection, academic planning, college list-building, and application and essay work.
Education is changing, and we are changing with it. Our outcomes grow out of the process and purpose we believe in.
CURRENT PROGRAM OFFERINGS
Pathway Program, Writing Core
Comprehensive, Hybrid or Individual Programs
Individual Program
GRADE 8
GRADE 9
GRADE 10
GRADE 11
GRADE 12
POST-GRAD
Rising 11th and 12th graders
Comprehensive
The Comprehensive Program includes three blocks, ten hours each, with a Green Apple Consultant and spans junior and senior year. This program is designed to begin anytime between May of sophomore year and December of junior year.
Benefits: Priority scheduling, research and communication included, guidance through entire process led by one consultant.
The Comprehensive Program may be modified if adopted after January of junior year. In some cases, Writing Specialists are included in the Comprehensive Program.
Hybrid
The Hybrid Program includes three blocks, ten hours each, with a Green Apple Consultant plus Writing Specialist and spans junior and senior year. This program is designed to begin anytime between May of sophomore year and December of junior year.
Benefits: Priority scheduling, research and communication included, focused writing support, guidance through entire process.
The Hybrid Program may be modified if adopted after January of junior year.
Individual
The Individual Meeting Program includes hourly meetings scheduled "a la carte" by clients.
Blocks of 10 hours are available for purchase. This program may begin anytime between September of junior year and June of senior year.
Benefits: Flexibility, a simple meeting-by-meeting retainer. Assistance with "scope" areas of process with either a Green Apple consultant or Writing Specialist.
Rising 9th and 10th graders
All students and families
Pathway
The Pre-Comprehensive Pathway Program provides students and parents an opportunity to plan for foundational items related to the college process through Individual Meetings scheduled in freshman and sophomore year.
Benefits: Automatic preference for Comprehensive Program, priority scheduling, guidance through entire process
Writing Core
The Writing Core Program will be piloted in the summer of 2022 for rising freshmen and sophomores (Class of 2025 and 2026).
The program was designed to help students gain confidence and strengthen their creative writing and 21st Century Skills of "Written and Oral Communication."
The Writing Core includes four hour-long workshop meetings (capped at four students per course) and a 30-minute one-on-one consult with our Writing Specialist.
Individual
The Individual Meeting Program includes hourly meetings scheduled "a la carte" by clients.
Blocks of 10 hours are available for purchase.
Benefits: Flexibility, a simple meeting-by-meeting retainer. Assistance with "scope" areas of process with either a Green Apple consultant or Writing Specialist.
Open to post-graduate students, transfer students, and parents.
Writing
Our Writing Specialists are available for Individual Meetings and Blocks of 10 hours to focus on developing longer pieces of writing such as essays for summer or college/graduate school applications.
Open to post-graduate students, transfer students, and parents.
FAQ
When do high school students begin with Green Apple?
We have packages that start freshman year, and we encourage early engagement to ensure consultant availability. However, most students begin some time in the middle of high school. Our most common program, the Comprehensive Program, commences in the fall of junior year, and students can begin signing up as early as March of sophomore year.
Do you offer hourly meetings?
Yes, we do offer individual meetings as well as longer term packages.
How do you match students with consultants?
Unless through direct referral, all prospective clients contact us for an initial phone consultation and are then matched with the consultant whose experience and availability are the best fit.
Do you fill up?
Yes, we do. While we try and accommodate students at least through Individual Meetings (assuming consultant availability), we typically fill up for Comprehensive Program students each year. Each consultant sets his or her number of Comprehensive clients on an annual basis.
Where are the meetings held?
Local students can meet with us in our office on Del Ray Avenue in Bethesda, Maryland, a few miles from Northwest Washington, D.C. or virtually, the preferred method for most clients. Students at a distance work with us virtually. Periodically, other meeting locations are utilized.
What are your outcomes?
Please see our list of student matriculation over the past two years. We measure our outcomes on how effectively we work with students and families to determine fit and achieve our students' end goals.
How is what you do different from what a school-based counselor does?
We know how large school counselor caseloads are, and how often their roles are divided amongst many different areas of developmental guidance. We are fortunate to work with far fewer students and to be able to work intensively during out-of-school hours. Our dive is necessarily much deeper.
Do you provide SAT/ACT tutoring?
While we make referrals every day, we do not provide in-house SAT/ACT tutoring.
MATRICULATION 2020-2021
AMHERST
BARNARD (2)
BATES COLLEGE (2)
BERKLEE COLLEGE OF MUSIC
BOSTON COLLEGE (4)
BOSTON UNIVERSITY
BROWN
BRYN MAWR
CARLETON COLLEGE (2)
CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY
COLBY
COLGATE (5)
COLUMBIA
CORNELL
DARTMOUTH (3)
DAVIDSON COLLEGE (3)
DENISON
DICKSON COLLEGE (2)
DUKE (3)
ELON (2)
EMORY (3)
FORDHAM
GEORGETOWN (11)
GEORGE WASHINGTON (2)
HARVARD (2)
HAVERFORD COLLEGE (4)
INDIANA UNIVERSITY (4)
JOHNS HOPKINS (3)
LEHIGH UNIVERSITY
LOYOLA CHICAGO
MACALESTER
MIDDLEBURY COLLEGE
MIAMI UNIVERSITY
MIT
NEW YORK UNIVERSITY (2)
NEW SCHOOL
NORTHWESTERN (3)
NOTRE DAME (3)
OCCIDENTAL
OHIO STATE (2)
PENN STATE (2)
PITZER
POMONA (2)
PRINCETON (4)
RICE (2)
SOUTHERN METHODIST
STANFORD (2)
ST. ANDREW'S OF SCOTLAND (2)
SWARTHMORE
SYRACUSE (4)
TUFTS (4)
TULANE (5)
U. CALIFORNIA DAVIS (2)
U. CALIFORNIA LOS ANGELES
U. CALIFORNIA SANTA CRUZ
U. CHICAGO (2)
UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON
U. FLORIDA (2)
U. GEORGIA
U. MARYLAND
U. MIAMI (2)
U. MICHIGAN
U. NORTH CAROLINA CHAPEL HILL
U. PENNSYLVANIA (6)
U. PITTSBURGH (2)
U. RICHMOND (2)
U. SOUTH CAROLINA
U. SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA
U. TAMPA
U. TEXAS
U. VERMONT
U. VIRGINIA (6)
U. WASHINGTON
U. WISCONSIN (2)
VANDERBILT (2)
VILLANOVA (3)
VIRGINIA TECH (2)
WAKE FOREST (2)
WASHINGTON AND JEFFERSON
WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY (2)
WASHINGTON AND LEE
WESLEYAN (2)
WILLIAM & MARY (2)
WILLIAMS
YALE (5)