Company Profile
Collegewise
Company Overview
Collegewise is the nation’s largest college counseling organization, with over 50 highly trained counselors united by the belief that the college admissions process should be an exciting time for every family and that a great education can be found at lots of colleges, not just the famous ones. Whether a family hires one of our counselors, reads our book, or just browses our blog where we give away free advice every day, we're here to inject guidance, perspective, and occasional cheerleading to make sure their journey to college is a smooth and thoughtful one. Since 1999, our counselors have helped over 8,000 A-students, C-students, and everyone in between find, apply to, and attend the right colleges for them.
Company History
Kevin McMullin founded Collegewise in Irvine, California in 1999 using his last paycheck from his previous job. He worked with nine students that fall at their kitchen tables to help them find the right colleges and complete their applications.
For too many families, the college admissions process was scary, stressful, and unsuccessful. Kevin wanted to give Collegewise families the opposite experience. It worked. One year later, over 100 families were enrolled in the Collegewise program, and Kevin was no longer the only counselor.
We spent years refining our Collegewise system and slowly growing our company with additional offices, driven by word of mouth from families who were thankful that we’d taken the stress out of the process and helped them achieve their goals. We hired counselors who kids liked and parents trusted. We turned our offices into a place where every family left feeling even better than they did when they arrived. And almost 20 years after Kevin met with his first student at a kitchen table in Southern California, Collegewise has become the nation’s largest college counseling organization. With over 40 counselors banding together, we’re out to change the way that families approach the college admissions process. We think this should be an exciting time for students and parents, not a stressful, anxiety-ridden, cardiac arrest-inducing rite of passage. Whether you hire one of our counselors, read our book, or just browse our blog (where we give away free advice every day), we’re going to be there injecting sanity and perspective into the process.