For College Access Organizations
Our approach is warm but direct,
supportive but realistic.
supportive but realistic.
College access nonprofits, scholarship foundations, and community-based organizations get students to the front door of college. We help them excel once they walk through it.
ExcelAid Prep delivers college access programming and college success coaching for nonprofit, foundation, and community-based organizations serving first-generation, Pell-eligible, and historically underrepresented students. Our team is led by a Licensed School Counselor and Yale PhD Candidate with five Ivy League degrees from four schools and over eleven years in education, including managing a $3 million tutoring program in New Haven.
We come from the communities your organization serves. We have lived the journey your students are walking. We do not coach from theory. We coach from experience plus evidence.
Application support including SAT and ACT prep, college essay coaching, college list strategy, FAFSA completion, and Early Action and Early Decision planning. Designed to extend your staff’s reach during the highest-pressure months of the senior-year cycle.
Best for: College access organizations supporting students through the application process with limited staff capacity.
Multi-semester college success coaching for students who got in and now need help thriving. Covers academic strategy, professor relationships, financial aid navigation, mental health resource awareness, and the unwritten rules of selective campus life that first-generation students often discover too late.
Best for: Scholarship foundations, persistence-focused CBOs, and organizations whose mission extends from college access through college graduation.
Professional development workshops, curriculum consultation, and coaching for your program staff. Includes train-the-trainer engagements designed to build your team’s capacity rather than replace it.
Best for: Organizations building toward a larger partnership or strengthening internal capacity before scaling student-facing programming.
