ACROS helps international-school and overseas students choose the right domestic and international competitions, then runs the strategy, research or production, review, presentation, and final-submission process as one student-specific plan.
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There's a specific kind of application that admissions officers read to the end. ACROS builds that one application with you.
An application that makes the reader feel like they've met the student.
At Harvard alone, thousands of applicants each year have near-perfect GPAs. What separates admitted students isn't numbers, but the unique angle only that student can show. Source: Students for Fair Admissions v. Harvard public litigation records (U.S. District Court, 2019)
The student owns the thinking and the work. ACROS provides the strategy, structure, schedule, and review.
Project details →We don't rely on gut feelings or annual trends. We look at accumulated admissions data. Sophia Jeong and lead mentor John personally mentor each student. That's why we don't take many students. When needed, we bring in active researchers and mentors with graduate-level research experience.
A study gathering public data on temperature, green spaces, and population by district to map the neighborhoods most vulnerable to heat waves.
ISEF & Research Fairs → Data Science Story
A report compiling interviews with independent bookstore owners considering closure, identifying common causes and creating survival strategies.
Business & Society Competitions → Humanities & Social Science Story
A project involving direct interviews with visually impaired individuals to identify real pain points, leading to the design, build, and testing of a voice-guided bus stop app.
Hackathons & Maker Fairs → Computer Science StoryThese are not actual student cases, but examples illustrating the caliber of projects we design together.
We do more than list opportunities. We connect the student's question, the official judging criteria, the weekly work, and the final submission in one operating plan.
Choose the right stage and reverse-plan from the judging criteria.
Turn the plan into student-owned research, writing, prototypes, and presentations.
Protect the final mile with a structured submission review.
First, we sit down 1:1 to listen quietly to the student's grade, goals, strengths, and what weighs most on the parents' minds.
We tailor the admissions strategy and signature project to the target schools and the student's unique profile.
Mentors stay by their side through research, competitions, or capstones. When they get tired, we hold the line together.
Essays and applications woven into a coherent story. We refine the final line together.
When needed, we find and connect the exact mentor the student needs. Instead of large classrooms moving at the same pace, we assign the one person this student truly needs right now. We don't waste time and money on meaningless tasks. We focus solely on the student's real learning.
How we match mentors
We figure out exactly what this student needs 1:1, down to subject, level, goals, and personality.
From our pool of vetted mentors, we select the one who perfectly fits the student. We don't assign just anyone.
We introduce the mentor and help them sync up. ACROS curates the mentors; mentoring is limited to project advisory and direction, not classroom instruction.
We keep checking the fit. If it is not working, we talk it through with the family and look for a better match. What we care about until the end is the student's learning, not just the connection.
Our mentors advised these students personally, including advising by our founder before ACROS was incorporated. This is their individual record, not the company's. We do not promise this outcome.
Mentor team · Personal advising history
University of Pennsylvania
Dartmouth College
Cornell University
University of Chicago
Columbia University
New York UniversityEvery figure we use comes from the official primary sources below.
Official sources we cite
We cite these institutions' publicly available data as sources. This does not imply any partnership, endorsement, certification, or sponsorship.
We are not a cram school; a project mentoring & admissions advisory. We don't do the work for the student. We design 1:1 roadmaps and advise them so they can complete their own projects.
Middle and high school students aiming for universities in the US or UK who want to build their own evidence beyond scores. We run a boutique practice, so our capacity is limited.
Active researchers and mentors with graduate-level research experience, curated directly by ACROS, joined 1:1 by Sophia Jeong and lead mentor John.
No. Promising admission isn't honest. Instead, we build the student's unique evidence, invisible in scores, into the strongest possible shape for their challenge.
Leave your details in the form, and we'll call you directly within 24 hours. We listen to the student's situation and figure out the right first step together. Booking a consultation is not a purchase.
Just leave the student's grade, goal, and the one thing on your mind right now. We'll call within 24 hours, listen carefully, and figure out the right first step together. Booking a consultation is not a purchase, and nothing is charged for it.
We'll reply by email and find a time that works in your timezone.
The scores might already be enough. What's missing is the one piece of evidence showing who this student is.
The student does the thinking, research, building, and presenting. ACROS holds the strategy, structure, schedule, and review.