High school college advisors are often overwhelmed with supporting the entire grade.
Amikka’s expert 1:1 advisors provide students with personalized strategies for every step
of the college admissions process, from freshman to senior year.
From start to finish, we guide students through every aspect of their application, ensuring they become highly competitive candidates for any university.
Students learn to showcase their unique strengths and clearly demonstrate the value they bring to a college campus through compelling essays. We help brainstorm topics, write rough drafts, make revisions, and finalize before submitting.
To stand out among thousands of applicants, students develop a cohesive theme across their extracurriculars, highlighting their interests and talents.
We create a personalized college list of reach, match, and safety schools based on each student's goals and preferences. Once acceptances arrive, we help students evaluate their options and choose the best fit.
We help students maximize their limited character space on the Common App Activities section by crafting concise, impact-driven descriptions. Our advisors ensure each entry is strategically worded to highlight achievements, leadership, and contributions.
Our advisors guide students in selecting the right recommenders—teachers, mentors, managers, or coaches—who can best highlight their strengths and character.
We ensure that students are confident and prepared for college interviews. Our advisors lead mock interviews and reveal the most commonly asked questions.
Maximizing financial aid opportunities can make any university in the country accessible. We help qualifying students understand and apply for financial aid packages.
We provide students with scholarship lists and help them identify and apply for opportunities to make tuition more affordable. Amikka students have earned over $25 million in total scholarships.
College admissions can be stressful and overwhelming. We make the process as smooth
and stress-free as possible for families.
We meet with families to understand each student’s timeline, goals, strengths, and interests. Together, we create a structured plan to guide the focus of the program.
Students are paired with an advisor who attended a top university like Harvard, UPenn, or Duke and provides expert insights into every aspect of the college application process, including what admissions officers look for.
Our advisors serve as mentors and coaches, guiding students through each step—from building a college list to perfecting essays—to ensure a strong, standout application.
Amikka students submit their applications with confidence. Once acceptances arrive, we help them evaluate their options and choose the best-fit school.
We’ve helped thousands of students gain acceptance to their top-choice universities with scholarships.
Working 1:1 with an Amikka college admissions advisor provides personalized strategy, accountability, and motivation for every step of the way.
Ana was awarded a full-ride scholarship to UPenn. She started working with our team her sophomore year. We helped her improve her SAT scores, gain leadership positions in her extracurricular activities, and write her scholarship essays.
Grace gained acceptance and received a scholarship to Tulane, her first-choice school. One of the Amikka founders helped her with her SAT preparation, application strategy, interview preparation, personal statement, and supplemental essays.
Diana was awarded a scholarship to attend Harvard. She worked with one of our college advisors, who helped her identify her strengths, interests, and application strategy.
Our team attended the nation’s most selective universities like UPenn, Harvard, and Duke.
We mastered the process and specialize in helping our students do the same.
Tarik Graham earned acceptances to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, and Duke, ultimately choosing Harvard. He graduated as the valedictorian of Auburndale High School in 2018.
Camden Couch was accepted to Harvard, majoring in Romance Language Literature and Economics. He scored a 1560 on the SAT and speaks four languages: English, Spanish, French, and Portuguese.
Mohamed earned acceptances to Harvard, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, UChicago, NYU, Duke, Northwestern, Vanderbilt, and Emory. He graduated from Harvard with a degree in Sociology and Economics.
For your peace of mind, we offer a target acceptance guarantee to ensure that students are happy with their results.
Aligned with Amikka’s mission, our pricing is designed to be affordable for families of all backgrounds.
You can even pay in monthly installments.
Maximum personalization, accountability, and engagement for acceptance to top-choice universities.
Completely self-paced learning.
Christopher and Christian graduated from UPenn and worked at Google and Gatorade. Now with Amikka, they’ve built a team
of 100+ tutors focused on providing families with affordable access to personalized 1:1 tutoring and innovative AI technology.
Christopher, a first-generation college student who couldn’t afford expensive tutoring, spent hundreds of hours deconstructing the SAT on his own. After improving his score by 400 points and earning admission to UPenn, Christopher created Amikka’s affordable SAT/ACT tutoring programs, which have now helped over 3,000 students. Christopher worked at Google for several years before leaving to focus on Amikka full-time.
Christian grew up in a small town and became the first student from his high school to attend UPenn. After several years of helping students improve their SAT/ACT scores and craft their college essays, he built Amikka’s college admissions advising program, which has now helped our students earn over $25 million in total scholarships. Following his graduation from UPenn, Christian worked at Gatorade before transitioning full-time to Amikka.
High school college counselors often support hundreds of students at once, making it difficult to provide the personalized attention needed for a highly competitive application. At Amikka, our 1-on-1 advising ensures that each student receives tailored guidance specific to their goals, strengths, and interests.
Most 1-on-1 college advising programs cost $200+ per hour. At around $60 per hour, we’re extremely affordable in comparison. Our mission is to expand access to higher education for students of all backgrounds and circumstances.
We begin working with students as early as freshman year, providing comprehensive strategies to guide them through every stage of high school. Our program helps students build a strong academic and extracurricular profile, craft standout essays, and secure scholarships—all while staying ahead of deadlines.
The earlier students start, the more time they have to maximize their opportunities and position themselves for success at their dream schools.
All Amikka advisors attended highly selective universities like UPenn, Duke, and Harvard. Most are undergraduate students or recent college graduates, allowing them to relate to and connect with high school students on a personal level. Having gone through admissions within the last 10 years, our advisors are fully up to date on the latest strategies for becoming a competitive applicant.
Beyond their expertise, they are friendly, motivating, and engaging—dedicated to helping students succeed. The name “Amikka” is inspired by the Spanish word “amiga,” meaning friend—a reflection of our commitment to making learning a supportive and positive experience.
We provide comprehensive guidance through every step of the college admissions process. This includes writing college essays, completing the Common Application strategically, structuring the activities list, gaining leadership in extracurriculars, developing an application hook, creating a balanced college list, securing strong recommendation letters, preparing for college interviews, applying for scholarships and financial aid, and more.
To provide maximum flexibility for our students, we utilize fully online advising via Zoom. This allows students to learn from the comfort of their preferred setting while giving us access to the highest-quality advisors nationwide rather than being limited to a single local community.
We provide families with peace of mind by making our courses risk-free. Students are guaranteed acceptance to one of their target universities. If that’s not achieved, families can become eligible to receive a 50% refund on all hours allocated to college advising.
Our advisor-matching process is a top priority. When students sign up, we use their responses from a short questionnaire to match them with an advisor who best fits their schedule, learning style, and admissions needs. This ensures a personalized and effective learning experience from day one.
For your peace of mind, we’re committed to providing a flexible and risk-free experience for getting started with our program. With no long-term contracts, you have the freedom to switch instructors at any time to find the perfect match.
