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We map out the year's involvement alongside the coursework, so activities, school, and summer are building toward the same direction. Real exposure to the subjects and interests that pull at a student, at school and beyond it, is how they begin to discover what they actually like and what they don't."], ["Big Picture", "Conversations and early guidance to take stress out of the process. We talk about how high school actually works and what colleges look at, what is worth paying attention to now and what can wait. We're developing an early sense of the academic interests and possible fields a student might grow toward, so the next four years have a direction rather than a destination."]]], ["Discover", "10th grade", "Sophomore year is about taking stock. A year in, we know more about how a student learns, what a student likes, and who a student is becoming. Now we start building on that.", [ ["Academic Planning", "We look at how freshman year turned out, where a student is thriving now and where they are stretched too thin, and use that to plan junior and senior year coursework that is ambitious but realistic."], ["Involvement & Experiences", "Not narrowing yet, but noticing. Which activities a student keeps showing up for, and which ones they have outgrown? This is also when we start talking about impact: moving from taking part in something to actually contributing to it, and thinking about what a student wants to leave better than they found it. Summer gets real attention here. We find the programs, jobs, and projects worth pursuing, work through the applications, and decide together which ones are actually the best use of the months off."], ["Testing", "This is the year we start digging into testing. A practice SAT and a practice ACT tell us which test suits a student better, and from there we build a testing timeline that fits the student's schedule rather than one built around a generic calendar."], ["Big Picture", "A good time to start seeing colleges. No agenda, no pressure, just getting a feel for different kinds of campuses. A first working list begins here and keeps changing as the student does."]]], ["Deepen", "11th grade", "Junior year is the hardest year of high school and one of the most important. This is where the academic record, the activities, and the sense of where a student is headed all start to come together.", [ ["Academic Planning", "Junior year coursework carries the most weight of any year.", ["A schedule that is rigorous where it counts and realistic everywhere else", "Regular check-ins on grades before a semester gets away from the student", "Senior year course selection, chosen with applications in mind"]], ["Involvement & Experiences", "Fewer things, done more seriously.", ["Deciding what to commit to and what to let go of", "Leadership roles and taking on real responsibility", "The summer after junior year, built deliberately: finding the right programs or projects, getting the applications in, and choosing among them"]], ["Testing", "The goal is scores in hand by the end of junior year, so senior fall can be about applications and nothing else.", ["A testing calendar built around the student's schedule and season", "A read on whether to retake, and when to stop"]], ["College Exploration", "Visits get more purposeful and the questions get more specific.", ["Researching schools together, beyond what the rankings say", "What to look for on a visit and what to ask while there", "A working list that is balanced and genuinely the student's own", "Early conversations about list strategy"]], ["Narrative", "Two years of conversation start to point somewhere.", ["Naming what a student is actually about, in the student's own words", "How a student's academics, activities, and interests read together as one story", "Where the gaps are, and what junior spring and summer can still add", "Which teachers know that story well enough to write it"]]]], ["Become", "12th grade", "By senior year a student has done the work. This year is about turning it into applications a student is proud of, and getting through the waiting and the decisions in one piece.", [ ["Academics & Testing", "Colleges still see this year, and offers are conditional on finishing it well.", ["Steady support in keeping the record strong through both semesters", "A decision on which scores to send, school by school"]], ["Involvement & Experiences", "A chance for a student to finish what they started.", ["Senior leadership roles and final projects", "Any last additions worth making to the activities record"]], ["Narrative", "Writing begins in summer and is finished by fall.", ["Personal statement, from brainstorm through final draft", "Every supplemental essay, unlimited rounds of feedback", "A deliberate plan across every school's supplements, so each essay adds a different side of the student rather than repeating one", "Supplemental portfolios in arts, maker, or research, when a student's work deserves its own submission"]], ["College List & Applications", "Finalized the summer before senior year, then worked steadily so nothing comes down to the last night.", ["Final balanced college list, school by school", "Early decision and early action strategy", "Support with every platform from the Common App and/or Coalition to the University of California and MIT application portals. Support with international application systems as well including UCAS", "Support crafting the activities and honors sections, since limited space makes every line count, plus development of a résumé", "Recommendation Letter strategy", "Interview preparation, including any recorded video responses", "A working timeline with internal deadlines and checklists, so the real deadlines arrive without last minute stress"]], ["Through Decisions", "Support does not stop at submission.", ["Deferral and waitlist letters when they are needed", "A steady presence until the student has made their choice"]]]]]; const terms = [ ["One flat rate", "It covers a student's entire journey with us, however many years that is, and is set before any work begins."], ["Pricing shared when we meet", "The rate depends on when a student starts, so we quote once we know where your family is beginning."], ["No hourly billing", "No meter running, no per-essay charges, no surprises later. Families should never have to weigh whether a question is worth the cost."], ["Available when it matters", "Meetings run on a regular cadence, and a good deal of the work happens between them: drafts read and marked up, questions answered, decisions thought through as they come. We take on a small number of students each year so that we can be there when you need us."]]; return ( Our Programs

Four chapters. One story.

CuraMagis offers four programs, each designed for a different stage of a student's high school journey. Every program is comprehensive, flat-fee, and built around the individual student.

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A family who begins in ninth grade moves through all four chapters with us, not one. A family who joins later steps in where they are, and we carry forward what the earlier years would have set in place. The earlier we start, the more we can do.

How our engagements work

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From Families

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Every one of these stories started with a conversation.

Selected acceptances from Katie’s career

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How families begin with us.

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Our work is primarily virtual, which lets us partner with families anywhere in the world, though we welcome the chance to meet in person when we can.

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