If your student is ready to stop checking boxes and start building something that actually moves admissions officers - IMPACT 100 is the program for them.
Top schools are no longer looking for the smartest students. They're looking for students who can create an impact on campus and beyond - to create even more demand for the institution’s brand and legacy.
Schools are oversubscribed with highly talented applicants. There's nothing special about a 1570 SAT score anymore — as hard as it is to achieve. So the decision-making process at top schools has fundamentally shifted.
And it’s the ticket to your student getting into an Ivy/T20 school or winning 100K+ in merit scholarships in 2026.
If they're focused on grades, test scores, volunteering, and starting clubs - even an internship - none of those things are creating the kind of impact that actually gets students accepted at top schools in 2026.
The only extracurricular that demonstrates the type of documented impact, problem-solving, ingenuity, and creativity that colleges actually care about is an IMPACT Project.
Without spending another summer doing activities that won't move the needle for the schools they're applying to.
Without needing 10 hours per week. We only need 3 hours per month.
Without needing to already know what they're passionate about. We solve that in week one.
Without needing connections, a platform, or a budget to get started.
Without stacking more onto an already full schedule. IMPACT 100 doesn't add to the chaos - it replaces the scattered approach with one initiative that ties everything together.
What does their application look like? How do they feel?
Because right now, if your student is like most of the families I work with, they're busy with a bunch of different activities, but still don’t feel like they have a standout factor.
That feeling doesn't go away by doing more. It doesn't change with another summer program, another club, or another competition. It goes away when your student finally has something they've built that they're proud of - something that blows their own mind - something they know will guarantee a top Ivy League acceptance.
They stop spinning their wheels on things that aren't moving the needle. When your student has a real initiative that's already served 100, 200, 500+ people - they get to let the filler go. That means reclaiming hours every week and ending the burnout.
They stop comparing themselves to their peers. When your student is leading something no one else in their school is doing, the comparison game loses its grip.
Their anxiety lessens. Yours does too. You both stop feeling behind and start feeling ahead.
The IMPACT Project becomes the throughline of their entire application — the difference between a profile that looks scattered and one that looks intentional.
And by the time essay season arrives? Their essays practically write themselves. Because top essays are easy to write when you've done phenomenal things. And admissions officers at T20 schools can feel that difference immediately.
In only 12 months using the IMPACT method, Madhavan launched a nonprofit focused on entrepreneurial education for youth will scale to 30,000+ people by the end of 2026 across the US, India, Kenya, and Belize. Leading a team of other students, Madhavan manages Entrevamp is only a few hours a month. His IMPACT project even landed him on the news!
Starting his IMPACT project as a sophomore, Madhavan began by hosting entrepreneurship workshops for 20–30 students in his local Houston community.
During Phases C and T, I helped him build a global scaling plan — assembling a leadership team, developing outreach systems, and partnering with international nonprofits and schools.
By focusing on partnerships instead of one-off events, his initiative quickly expanded across multiple countries.
Now, his program is projected to impact over 30,000 students worldwide by the end of this year. On his college applications, Madhavan can now demonstrate execution, scale, and leadership at an Ivy League level.
He didn’t just start a project - he built a movement that’s changing how students learn entrepreneurship around the world.
In 4 months using the IMPACT method, Nyelli hosted a 200-person community health event that provided resources and education for immigrant women in her local community in CA. Through local partnerships and building a small team, her impact served as the foundation of her pre-med application and landed her a top acceptance at UC Berkeley with the UC Regents scholarship.
When Nyelli first began my program as a junior, she had a clear vision to host a community health fair, but she was stuck - no grant approvals, no responses from sponsors, and no clear next step.
Using the IMPACT method, we built her a fail-proof action plan that helped her troubleshoot every obstacle instead of getting discouraged.
She learned how to pivot, follow up strategically, and problem-solve like a leader when plans didn’t go her way.
Within months, Nyelli secured local partnerships and volunteers, ultimately hosting a 200-person community health event that provided resources and education for immigrant women and transformed her application.
In the end, Nyelli was accepted to UC Berkeley, earned the UC Regents Scholarship, and received over $110,000 in total merit aid.
Marti came into my program with an impressive research background but struggled to turn it into real-world impact.
He had designed a prototype for a stroke detection test kit, but his challenge was moving from the lab to the community.
During Phase M, we coached Marti to choose the right IMPACT model for his goals - the Product + Education hybrid model.
He created an awareness campaign alongside his test kit, teaching families how early detection could save lives.
Because he had the right structure in place, within six months, his impact grew faster than he ever expected - from a single prototype to impacting over 100 people.
The results spoke for themselves: Marti was accepted to Cornell, USC, and Boston University, where he won the highly competitive Trustee Full Scholarship for engineering worth over 200K - even as an international student.
His success shows us how choosing the right model can transform even a niche research project into a movement that reaches hundreds.
Using the IMPACT method, in just 12 months, she scaled her initiative from a local idea to a state-wide movement, reaching over 10,000 students through her programs and collaborations.
By building the right partnerships and leadership structure, Ellie created a model that impacts thousands even without her direct involvement.
Ellie began working on her IMPACT project with me at the end of her sophomore year.
When Ellie started her project, she was passionate about helping younger students develop social-emotional learning skills, but her reach was limited to small classroom workshops.
Using the IMPACT method, I coached her to think like a leader - building a team, developing systems, and partnering with schools and youth organizations.
In just 12 months, she scaled her initiative from a local idea to a state-wide movement, reaching over 10,000 students through her programs and collaborations.
By building the right partnerships and leadership structure, Ellie created a model that runs even without her direct involvement - elevating her IMPACT project and application to an Ivy League level.
Sarah came into my program as a sophomore with a strong set of interests - economics, law, and women's rights - but no clear way to connect them into a narrative that would make sense to admissions officers.
Using the IMPACT Method, we built her project in alignment with her Girl Scout Gold Award, turning two separate goals into one high-leverage initiative.
I coached her to use the Product Model - self-publishing a book that allowed her to reach a wide audience quickly - then showed her how to leverage strategic partnerships with schools to host book events and get her project in front of hundreds of young people.
What had previously felt like a scattered profile became the most compelling part of her application. Her IMPACT Project didn't just add another line to her resume - it pieced together everything else she had already built and gave it a throughline.
Sarah was accepted to the University of Pennsylvania and won over $380,000 in merit scholarships. Her story is proof that the right project doesn't just build your application - it completes it.
Claire came into the program with an impressive STEM profile - research clubs, independent projects, and real academic depth - but no clear thread connecting it all to a larger purpose.
Using the IMPACT Method, we showed her how to channel her expertise into a social impact initiative focused on STEM education for young women, giving her a stand-out factor that went beyond what any research credential alone could do.
Through Phase C, Claire learned how to leverage strategic partnerships to scale her initiative - growing her reach to hundreds of students across her community in only a few hours per month.
By the time she applied, she had two years of documented leadership, a team she had built and managed, and a grant she had secured - all feeding directly into a cohesive, Ivy League-level application narrative.
Claire earned acceptances at several highly competitive universities and will be attending UC Berkeley this fall.
Jayden came into the program as a sophomore with a clear direction - computer science - but a problem most technically strong students face: an app or a software project alone wasn't going to be enough to stand out at the most competitive CS programs in the country.
He had already tried to get a club off the ground at his school and kept hitting walls with administration. Using the IMPACT Method, we cleared that roadblock in a matter of weeks.
From there, we coached him through securing community partnerships that gave his project a social impact angle - combining his technical skill set with real-world reach in a way that admissions officers at Stanford and MIT are specifically looking for.
As someone more reserved by nature, Jayden didn't have to become someone he wasn't to scale his impact. He used the model, the partnerships, and the outreach strategy we built together inside IMPACT 100 - and recently hosted an event that impacted 250+ young people.
When it's time to answer every essay asking how he's stepped up as a leader, Jayden will have a story no one else in his applicant pool can tell.
Mazi knew what most pre-med applicants learn too late: shadowing and research are expected. They're not a differentiator.
When he came into my program, we worked with him to find a project idea that already lived at the intersection of his passions in the health science space - something authentic, not manufactured.
Then we showed him how to leverage strategic partnerships to scale it fast, using the exact methods we teach inside IMPACT 100.
In less than six months, Mazi had impacted over 200 athletes.
Because he started early in his high school career, he'll walk into his senior year with multiple years of documented leadership, hundreds of people served, and an initiative no one else at his school - even in one of the most competitive areas in the country - can replicate.
The pressure that most seniors feel scrambling to build something meaningful at the last minute? Mazi doesn't have that problem. His essays are already written in real life. His SAT prep, his APs, his research outreach - all of it lives alongside a leadership story that's already proven.
That's what starting early with the right system actually gets you.
Nina came to me in the spring of her junior year with a full plate and a real concern - she was already feeling the weight of the application process, and the last thing she needed was a project that looked like it was started at the last minute.
That was the first thing we solved. Using the IMPACT Method, we connected her project directly to her pre-existing extracurriculars, so her application read as a cohesive, years-long story - not a last-minute addition.
We built her narrative around socially assistive robotics - using her technical expertise to support those in need, specifically students with special needs. Nina didn't just research the concept. She built and trained a functional robot that could be deployed across organizations serving that population.
What that did for her application was significant.
Every other engineering applicant had robotics clubs, school teams, and research experience. Nina had all of that - plus a social impact initiative with real-world reach that made her technical skills mean something beyond the lab.
Admissions officers noticed. Nina was accepted to Harvard, Yale, Brown, Cornell, and several other top schools and will be attending Yale this fall.
Adi came into my program with something most students don't have - years of real internship experience shadowing a lawyer. The problem was that experience alone wasn't going to move the needle at the schools he was targeting.
He needed volume. He needed community impact. And he needed a way to make everything he had already built feel like it was leading somewhere.
Using the IMPACT Method, we connected his project directly to his legal background - building an initiative that elevated his interest in political science and law into tangible social impact for immigrant families in his community. Nothing was thrown away. Everything he had done before became the foundation.
Through the partnership and scaling strategies we teach inside IMPACT 100, Adi was able to reach hundreds of families within four to six months - the kind of documented, measurable impact that makes a competitive application undeniable.
Schools he had previously considered out of reach became real options. Adi earned acceptances at several highly competitive universities and won over $376,000 in merit scholarships.
His story is one of the clearest examples of what happens when existing experience gets the right structure behind it.