Not all clients we advise are from public or private schools. Each year, we advise homeschoolers!
Our homeschooler clients are admitted to Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities and BS/MD programs because we encourage them to present clear documentation of their learning and unique experiences. Homeschoolers who are aiming at top schools are advised by Dr. Lowe and his team to think carefully about how they want to present themselves during admissions selection process.
We help our homeschool clients in creating their unique and meaningful narratives so that admissions committees want them to be accepted into their colleges and BS/MD programs!
Our understanding of home school curricula, class time and assignments and how to convey them appropriately to admissions officers helps our clients. Our home school clients are unique because they have individualized and personalized academic plans. As a result, year after year, they have been accepted to Ivy League and highly competitive colleges and universities and BS/MD programs – They stand out in the college admissions game!
Dr. Lowe successfully works with homeschool students and their parents to prepare for and during the college admissions process students.
By having continuous Weekly Skype/Zoom sessions directly with Dr. Paul Lowe, brainstorming ideas, developing admissions strategies, essay review, and mock interview sessions to develop amazing student profiles, our home school clients stand out and are accepted into Ivy League and highly selective colleges/universities and BS/MD programs
Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe, founder and managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group, provides comprehensive counseling advice, exclusively for admissions to top private schools; Ivy League and highly-selective colleges/universities; BS/MD programs; graduate and medical schools and top visual and performing arts programs.
Our clients hail from public and private U.S. high schools as well as international schools and homeschools. Obviously, we won’t tell you the names of our clients, but we can tell you which high schools they attend or from which they graduated.
U.S. Private/Boarding Schools(partial list)
American Heritage Schools (FL)
Avenues The World School (NY)
Brookfield Academy (WI)
Brunswick School (CT)
Buckingham Browne & Nichols School (MA)
Cate School (CA)
Cheshire Academy (CT)
Choate Rosemary Hall (CT)
Collegiate School (NY)
Dana Hall School (MA)
Deerfield Academy (MA)
Durham Academy (NC)
Dwight School (NY)
Dwight-Englewood School (NJ)
Garrison Forest School (MD)
Georgetown Day School (DC)
Germantown Friends School (PA)
Greenwich Academy (CT)
Hackley School (NY)
Hamden Hall Country Day School (CT)
Harvard-Westlake School (CA)
Hawai’i Preparatory Academy (HI)
Hopkins School (CT)
Horace Mann School (NY)
Hotchkiss School (CT)
Iolani School (HI)
Lake Forest Academy (IL)
Lawrenceville School (NJ)
Middlesex School (MA)
Noble and Greenough School (MA)
Northfield Mount Hermon (MA)
Pingry School (NJ)
Phillips Andover (MA)
Phillips Exeter (NH)
Ransome Everglades School (FL)
Rye Country Day School (NY)
Sidwell Friends School (DC)
St. Marks School of Texas (TX)
St. Paul’s School (NH)
Taft School (CT)
TASIS Dorado (PR)
Trevor Day School (NY)
The Awty International School (TX)
The Brearley School (NY)
The Chapin School (NY)
The Dalton School (NY)
The Ethel Walker School (CT)
The Frederick Gunn School (CT)
The Hewitt School (NY)
The Hill School (PA)
The Hockaday School (TX)
The Masters School (NY)
The Madeira School (VA)
The Overlake School (WA)
The Shipley School (PA)
The Spence School (NY)
The Thacher School (CA)
The University of Chicago Laboratory Schools (IL)
The Westminster Schools (GA)
Trinity School (NY)
University School of Milwaukee (WI)
Westminster School (CT)
Wichita Collegiate School (KS)
Wilmington Friends School (DE)
U.S. Public High Schools(partial list)
Acton-Boxborough Regional High School (MA)
Advanced Math & Science Academy Charter School (MA)
Amity Regional High School (CT)
Bronx High School of Science (NY)
Bronxville High School (NY)
Chantilly High School (VA)
Darien High School (CT)
Dougherty Valley High School (CA)
Fairfax High School (VA)
Grassfield High School-Governor’s STEM Academy (VA)
Great Neck South High School (NY)
Great Valley High School (PA)
Greenwich High School (CT)
Guilford High School (CT)
Horace Greeley High School (NY)
Interlake High School (WA)
Jericho High School (NY)
Joel Barlow High School (CT)
Lawrence E. Elkins High School (TX)
Lexington High School (MA)
Longmeadow High School (MA)
Lovejoy High School (TX)
Mamaroneck High School (NY)
Manhasset Secondary School (NY)
New Canaan High School (CT)
Newport High School (WA)
New Providence High School (NJ)
New Rochelle High School (NY)
North Carolina School of Science and Mathematics (NC)
Northside College Preparatory High School (IL)
Obra D. Tompkins High School (TX)
Plano East Senior High School (TX)
Princeton High School (NJ)
Rye High School (NY)
Roslyn High School (NY)
Scarsdale High School (NY)
School of Science and Engineering Magnet School (TX)
Seven Lakes High School (TX)
Shelton High School (CT)
Signature School (IN)
Staples High School (CT)
Syossett Senior High School (NY)
The Charter School of Wilmington (DE)
Thousand Oaks High School (CA)
Trumbull High School (CT)
Walter Johnson High School (MD)
Walter Payton College Preparatory High School (IL)
Walt Whitman High School (MD)
Westfield High School (NJ)
Westhampton Beach High School (NY)
Weston High School (CT)
Weston High School (MA)
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School North (NJ)
West Windsor-Plainsboro High School South (NJ)
Wilton High School (CT)
Union County Magnet High School (NJ)
University High School of Indiana (IN)
International High Schools(partial list)
Aiglon College (CH) – Switzerland
Akosombo International School (GH)
Ashbury College (ON) – Canada
Collège Alpin International Beau Soleil (CH) – Switzerland
Collège du Léman International School (CH) – Switzerland
Escola Graduada de Sao Paulo (BR)
École Jeannine Manuel (FR)
École Jeannine Manuel (UK)
Eton College (UK)
Ghana International School (GH)
Institut Auf Dem Rosenberg (CH) – Switzerland
Institut Le Rosey (CH) – Switzerland
Lincoln Community School (GH)
Notre-Dame International High School (FR)
Opoku Ware Senior High School (GH)
Ridley College (ON) Canada
St. George’s International School (CH) – Switzerland
St. Paul’s Girls’ School (UK)
TASIS England (UK)
TASIS The American School Switzerland (CH)
The Latymer School (UK)
Westminster School (UK)
Wilson’s School, Sutton (UK)
Wolmers Girls’ School (JM)
Wycombe Abbey School (UK)
Homeschool (Throughout the U.S.)
Consider Dr. Paul Lowe an additional team member, as other parents do, in your child’s journey for successful admissions to an Ivy League and highly selective college or university or BS/MD program!
Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe, founder and managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group, provides comprehensive counseling advice, exclusively for admissions to top private schools; Ivy League and highly-selective colleges/universities; BS/MD programs; graduate and medical schools and top visual and performing arts programs.
As students fill out their college and BS/MD applications, they work meticulously on them to do everything right and impress the admissions offices and committees. However, as prospective students are trying to make their applications perfect, they may overlook certain aspects of their profiles, admission journeys and applications which could lead to rejections.
In the hypercompetitive BS/MD Admissions universe, having perfect grades, high SAT/ACT scores, while doing research and shadowing may help, but it won’t necessarily increase your chances to have a spot at BS/MD programs. I receive calls and emails from parents who really believe and want to confirm that they have done the right things the right way and haven taken all the steps to ensure that their children have a shot at BS/MD programs. They are usually mistaken!
I discover that they have made bad assumptions and egregious mistakes when they call me later that their children were: (1) Rejected from all BS/MD programs as well as Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities, (2) They were invited for BS/MD interviews but were later rejected. (3) They call us in the fall as their child is entering a super-safety school (because they were rejected from all, but that school).
Three examples (they were not my clients) last year: (1) A valedictorian who applied to 19 schools (Ivy and BS/MD programs) and 2 safety schools was accepted to only 2 schools – her safety schools and now attends a safety. Result: Parents have now hired us for college admissions transfer. (2) A student (I must say here from Texas area) whose parents thought that she was a shoo-in to BS/MD programs, was rejected from all BS/MD programs and all colleges and decided to take a gap year! (3) A student applying to BS/MD programs – parents assured us that he shadowed with top physicians and had published. However, upon review of “Why Doctor” essays AND interviews major errors were found. The student was rejected from all BS/MD programs! In addition, the student was also rejected from Ivy League and highly selective schools because there were major errors on his Common Application!
Here are 30 ways how high school students and BS/MD applicants (and their parents) cause their own rejections!
Follow what other students did the previous year.
Follow advice from online platforms.
Read books with obsolete advice.
Hire an educational consultant who has no experience in BS/MD admissions.
Assume that because you have great standardized test scores you have great shot.
Assume that your school college counselor understands the nuances of BS/MD programs and medical school admissions.
Hire multiple educational consultants in an attempt to get the lowest price.
Have your parents or relatives write your Common Application and BS/MD supplemental essays.
Your Common Application, essays, letters of recommendations and profile are disconnected.
Your high school college counselor and/or teachers were unsupportive or did not write a strong letter of recommendation.
Your applications are vague and generic.
Your supplemental essays are disjointed and don’t answer the questions.
Your application sounds just like ones on the internet (and therefore everyone else).
You assume that admissions officers will not find errors in your application and narrative.
You made mistakes during the undergraduate interview.
You made mistakes during the alumnus/a interview
You made mistakes during the medical school interview.
You assume that other students in your class are not applying to BS/MD programs.
You assume that the narrative you and/or your parents created will be believable by admissions officers.
Your “Why Doctor Essay” was filled with why you can’t be a doctor or should not be a doctor.
Your “connections” actually are the reasons why you will be rejected.
You assume that because your parent or parents are physicians that they understand BS/MD admissions.
You assume that you can game BS/MD admissions.
You assume that there is no bias in college admissions.
You assume that by talking with a student who is currently enrolled in a BS/MD program that you are in!
You make mistakes involving etiquette, manners and attitude.
You assume that winning multiple awards will get you in.
You lack meaningful extracurricular activities.
You underestimate consequences of the closings of BS/MD programs.
You decide not to hire an expert with years of experience, contacts and proven acceptance rates – A BS/MD Admissions Guru because you believe it’s not worth it!
Congratulations! After following all the steps, you (or your parents) will be instrumental in causing your rejection from BS/MD programs as well as Ivy League colleges and universities and colleges with excellent pre-med programs.
Many parents gamble on their children’s futures. They underestimate the risks that will lead to rejections and overestimate the chances of success using antiquated generic strategies.
After years of preparation, intense studying, taking all those AP courses, hours of shadowing, writing papers (possibly publishing), violin recitals, dance competitions, team sports, volunteering, traveling, visiting hundreds of “how-to websites” and your parents saying that you wanted to be a doctor since you were 5 years old – you use one or several or all the above steps and are outright rejected! My questions are always: Why would you? How could you? What were you thinking? The reason or answer to these questions: Students (and parents) actually believe that they know more than BS/MD Admissions Guru!
Our BS/MD Admissions practice is specialized: Dr. Lowe and his team ONLY work with parents who understand that the BS/MD admissions process is highly competitive and thus desire help from an admissions expert. They appreciate the value and investment in paying for expert advice consisting of a detailed and ongoing comprehensive admissions advisory service for their child’s dream of becoming a doctor. He also specializes in helping international students in the BS/MD process. Parents who chose to use our services want to call their son or daughter – “Doctor” when they are seniors in high school.
At Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group, we add COLOR to our clients’ profiles. It’s what makes our boutique admissions advisory firm different! COLOR makes you more visually appealing; it adds an attractive vitality and magnetic quality. It gives you a more dynamic and harmonious appearance.
As a physician-scientist, admissions advisor and artist-COLORist, to me, COLOR is everything. It’s characteristics: hue, value and intensity make our clients’ profiles, applications and essays more interesting! Adding COLOR, gives our clients a competitive admissions edge and makes them standout! What do you need to be more COLORful? It’s not just about ROYGBIV. By adding COLOR, we make college and BS/MD applications and student-profiles more enjoyable to admissions officers and committees.
Isn’t that what you want? COLOR
Color is one of the chief properties that gives objects their own individual visual characteristics. It makes a unique contribution to the appearance. The different hues, tones, shades, tints and value demonstrated in your essay allows our clients’ applications and essays to shine!
Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe, founder and managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group, provides comprehensive counseling advice, exclusively for admissions to top private schools; Ivy League and highly-selective colleges/universities; BS/MD programs; graduate and medical schools and top visual and performing arts programs.
On September 9th, we were invited to Brown University’s 259 Annual Opening Convocation by several of the parents of our clients who were accepted to Brown (undergraduate) as well as PLME. Dr. Paul Lowe, an alumnus of Brown and Dr. Nadine Cartwright-Lowe (PLME – alumna), of BS/MD Admissions Advisors, are especially proud of their clients who were accepted to PLME.
Our Brown PLME parents were so happy at the Convocation! Welcome future medical doctors!
Here are our 2022 Brown PLME results: 12 clients applied. Of the 12, 8 were accepted to PLME. The remaining 4: One accepted to Brown undergrad, 1 accepted to Harvard (also accepted to RPI/AMC), 1 accepted to Yale, and one accepted to Dartmouth (also accepted to GW and NJIT BSMD programs).
Dr. Lowe and his team collectively bring a wealth of admissions experience, along with diverse cultural perspectives that are INVALUABLE to their BS/MD clients! They are skilled in the language and rhythm of college admissions!
Our BS/MD Admissions practice is specialized: Dr. Lowe and his team ONLY work with parents who understand that the BS/MD admissions process is highly competitive and thus desire help from an admissions expert. They appreciate the value and investment in paying for expert advice consisting of a detailed and ongoing comprehensive admissions advisory service for their child’s dream of becoming a doctor. He also specializes in helping international students in the BS/MD process. Parents who chose to use our services want to call their son or daughter – “Doctor” when they are seniors in high school.
Parents are facing the challenge of currently navigating the BS/MD admissions landscape. Incorrect decisions as to when, where and how to turn now results in shipwrecks: immediate rejection of their children after their years of planning. One incorrect extracurricular activity, one negative letter of recommendation, one incorrect sentence in an essay, one incorrect answer in an interview and one incorrect non-verbal cue and or perception will result in a REJECTION! It’s that competitive.
There are continuous fundamental shifts and uncertainty in BS/MD admissions. BS/MD programs are not just about high GPA and test scores, 3-5 page resumes, research and hours of shadowing. It’s now about the interrelated narrative of why you wish to be a doctor and how the student profile stands out, as well how it fits your narrative.
From what I have observed, parents are attempting to game the admissions landscape by using antiquated strategies from outdated books or visiting online communities which provide generic information. Even taking advice from last year’s accepted students can result in rejections!
The COVID-19 pandemic, U.S. economy, healthcare inequity, and student demographics and the number of BS/MD programs have changed the admissions landscape and even enrollment/admissions policies and goals at many schools. Therecent closing of BS/MD programs is a testament to the changing landscape and will affect BS/MD admissions policies and goals.
Query: What’s the new playbook?
Query: With factors such as VOLATILITY, UNCERTAINTY, the UNFORESEEN and the UNEXPECTED what are parents to do?
Query: What are parents to do, after spending considerable years of time and money in attempting to secure a future for their child, when they now face sudden changes in the educational and admissions environment years?
ANSWER: Hire a BS/MD admissions advisor who is an expert! We are the NEW PLAYBOOK
Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe, founder and managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group, provides comprehensive counseling advice, exclusively for admissions to top private schools; Ivy League and highly-selective colleges/universities; BS/MD programs; graduate and medical schools and top visual and performing arts programs. The admissions affiliate: Ivy League Admissions Advisors specializes in admissions to Ivy League and highly selective colleges. Dr. Lowe also specializes in helping students gain admissions to BS/MD programs:| BS/MD Admissions Guru| BS/MD Admissions Advisors.
While high school counselors provide college counseling, they often do not have the time to cater to the development or implementation of each student’s individual college plan and are usually not available on-call on the weekend and after school hours.
According to the National Association for College Admission Counseling:
High school counselors have a large caseload, very often exceeding the American School Counselor Association’s recommended student to counselor of 250:1, and responsibilities that include attending to the academic and social/emotional issues of the student body.
On average, public school counselors spent 19 percent of their time on postsecondary counseling in 2018–2019, while their private school counterparts spent 31 percent of their time on college counseling
The best way to choose an educational consultant is on the basis of experience.
Dr. Lowe has over 23 years of experience in college admissions for students who are interested in applying to Ivy League and highly selective colleges and universities and BS/MD programs. He spends 100 percent of his time on helping each client!
Dr. Lowe and his team complement your school counselor’s efforts by working one-on-one with your child, customizing a winning admissions plan which will help your child get into their top choice colleges. Dr. Lowe is available not only during school hours, but after school, evenings and weekends via phone, email and remote consultations. By having one-on-one weekly or biweekly sessions, Dr. Lowe helps each individual client present their backgrounds and aspirations in the best positive light to admissions committees. The result – Acceptances!
In developing our winning college admissions plan, Dr. Lowe works with students and their parents in carefully planning their courses and extracurricular activities (community service, employment, summer programs, internships, etc.), planning college visits, selecting the right teachers for the best letters of recommendations, developing a WOW factor, assisting with creating, brainstorming and editing personal statements and supplemental essays; developing college social media profile and brand.
Additionally, Dr. Lowe provides personalized, individualized attention and helps clients keep organized, stay motivated and meet deadlines throughout the application process. In many cases, overworked and overwhelmed high school counselors simply have too many students to give individual attention needed in the competitive admissions environment.
Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe, founder and managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group, provides comprehensive counseling advice, exclusively for admissions to top private schools; Ivy League and highly-selective colleges/universities; BS/MD programs; graduate and medical schools and top visual and performing arts programs. The admissions affiliate: Ivy League Admissions Advisors specializes in admissions to Ivy League and highly selective colleges. Dr. Lowe also specializes in helping students who have been wait-listed, deferred or rejected gain admission into their top-choice schools: College Application Rejected. and student who wish to transfer to another college: College Transfer Admissions Advisors.
I am proud and happy to report that several of our clients received acceptance letters from MULTIPLE Ivies!
You may ask how we can have such great results?Here is reason:
My team and our global network of talent including elocutionists, actors, writers, musicians, ethnomusicologists, historians, psychologists, alumni, educators, risk managers, economists, professors, physicians, scientists, linguists, anthropologists, attorneys, essayists, technologists, admissions professionals, analysts, student-interns and librarians bring collaborative and diverse thought, insight, foresight, perspectives and most importantly KNOWLEDGE.
The collaborative effort of Dr. Lowe’s team and global network of talent help college applicants in developing their student profiles, assisting with Common Application and essay development and supplemental essays and interview preparation! Dr. Lowe and his team are the catalysts that convert qualified applicants into accepted students!
Many parents hire educational consultants in an attempt to maximize their children’s chances of admissions. Our clients retain Dr. Lowe and his team because of their PROVEN RESULTS.
We have had another amazing year! We are so happy for our clients! We did it!
Congratulations to our U.S. as well as international clients who were accepted to the following Ivy League colleges and universities: these colleges and universities! It’s a celebration! Thanks for allowing us to help you stand out and get in!
Brown University
Columbia University
Cornell University
Harvard University
Dartmouth College
Princeton University
University of Pennsylvania
Yale University
Special congratulations to our clients who were accepted to multiple Ivies!
You may ask how we can have such great results?Here are some reasons:
My team and our global network of talent including elocutionists, actors, writers, musicians, ethnomusicologists, historians, psychologists, alumni, educators, risk managers, economists, professors, physicians, scientists, linguists, anthropologists, attorneys, essayists, technologists, admissions professionals, analysts, student-interns and librarians bring collaborative and diverse thought, insight, foresight, perspectives and most importantly KNOWLEDGE.
WE ARE THE BEST!: We embrace Empirical Analytics by using data science, technology, client-case studies, campus-expert panels, our specialized knowledge and insight, and over 23 years of experience to answer questions, navigate challenges, predict outcomes, and to help our clients make informed decisions that provide results-based admissions success.
Most applicants to Ivy League schools sound the same! We help you “un-same” your application and stand out!
Have you ever imagined which celebrities attended Ivy Leagues as undergraduates and graduated?
They studied hard (aced their courses), took AP exams and SATs, participated in extracurricular activities and applied Early Decision or Regular Decision. There applications were reviewed by admissions committees and they accepted! And some have graduated summa or magna cum laude!
Here is a list of 30 celebrities who are Ivy League graduates (undergraduate):
Elizabeth Banks (Penn)
Angela Bassett (Yale)
Julie Bowen (Brown)
Connie Britton (Dartmouth)
Dean Cain (Princeton)
Anderson Cooper (Yale)
David Duchovny (Princeton)
Jodie Foster (Yale)
Maggie Gyllenhaal (Columbia)
Ed Harris (Columbia)
Rashid Jones (Harvard)
Colin Jost (Harvard)
Ashley Judd (Harvard)
Mindy Kaling (Dartmouth)
Ellie Kemper (Princeton)
John Krasinski (Brown)
John Legend (Penn)
Wentworth Miller (Penn)
Edward Norton (Yale)
B.J. Novak (Harvard)
Bill Nye (Cornell)
Conan O’Brien (Harvard)
Natalie Portman (Harvard)
Shonda Rhimes (Dartmouth)
Tracee Ellis Ross (Brown)
Brooke Shields (Princeton)
Jenny Slate (Columbia)
Julia Stiles (Columbia)
Aisha Tyles (Dartmouth)
Emma Watson (Brown)
Dr. Paul Reginald Lowe, founder and managing director of Pinnacle Educational Center Admissions Advisors Group, provides comprehensive counseling advice, exclusively for admissions to top private schools; Ivy League and highly-selective colleges/universities; BS/MD programs; graduate and medical schools and top visual and performing arts programs. The admissions affiliate: Ivy League Admissions Advisors specializes in admissions to Ivy League and highly selective colleges, Dr. Lowe also specializes in helping students who have been wait-listed, deferred or rejected gain admission into their top-choice schools: College Application Rejected. and student who wish to transfer to another college: College Transfer Admissions Advisors.
