We have had Solomon for the past year…
We have had Solomon for the past year and three months, and our experience has been quite negative. We had the junior package with 5 schools. The only useful thing is the first letter with all the useful links, but it turns out that if you search the internet, you will find that information anyway. The following 1-hour monthly meeting with the advisor is nothing but disappointing. We were told our advisor has many years of experience with students interested in economics, but after a couple of meetings, my son kept saying that her knowledge of applying economics is not even as good as his. But since this is our second advisor, we didn't feel good about asking to change again. That's pretty much what happened for the rest of the year: a one-hour monthly meeting and talking to my son without much clear guidance. My son didn't get into any of the summer camps he applied to, despite a perfect PSAT score, a 1560 SAT, a perfect GPA at a top-1 public high school in California, a research paper, and two upcoming research presentations. I don't blame Solomn obviously, just shocked that an intial letter of information and then 1-hour monthly chat for the past year deserves $12K. Not to mention the essay feedback from the advisor and editing team is very minimal (probably because our essays are already in a very good shape?) For two schools, we submitted the essays late, just a few days before the application deadline, the adivsor refuse to pass our essays to the editing team. The lesson I learned is that if your child is already very motivated and academically good, don't bother with all these consulting services. They won't be able to boost the applications anyway. Solomon does have a senior package, which I assume should be much better than junior package.