<p>SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESSWIRE / October 6, 2020 / Empowerly, a data-driven education technology startup for college admissions, announced that it has raised $1.6 million from TransLink Capital, Scrum Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, and Spero Ventures as well as angel investors Yun-Fang Juan, a founding engineer of Facebook Ads, and Russ Holdstein, the first investor in StubHub and Zillow. The funds will be used to expand service offerings and round out the team to drive growth and operational efficiencies.</p>
<p>Empowerly is a platform aiming to democratize college admissions with a combination of online data-driven algorithms and personalized services from college counselors and mentors, having helped thousands of students. Launched in 2018, Empowerly’s platform includes personalized best-fit counselors and mock admissions committee reviews, opportunities to intern at Silicon Valley startups, and virtual extracurriculars as well as the new Empowerly Score.</p>


Empowerly Raises $1.6 Million and Launches First Real-Time Holistic Diagnostic Tool for College Admissions

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<p><strong>SAN FRANCISCO, CA / ACCESSWIRE /</strong>  Empowerly, a data-driven education technology startup for college admissions, announced that it has raised $1.6 million from TransLink Capital, Scrum Ventures, Azure Capital Partners, and Spero Ventures as well as angel investors Yun-Fang Juan, a founding engineer of Facebook Ads, and Russ Holdstein, the first investor in StubHub and Zillow. The funds will be used to expand service offerings and round out the team to drive growth and operational efficiencies.</p>


<p>This year’s high school seniors have spent a significant portion of their high school careers learning during a pandemic. During this time, students were forced to take classes online, some schools chose not to assign letter grades, extracurricular activities were curtailed and many colleges elected standardized test-optional admissions policies. All of these changes mean that the class of 2022 will need to rethink traditional college admissions advice.</p>


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<h1>Empowerly navigates your journey to top colleges with a <span class="lightblue">94% success rate.</span></h1>


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<p>Empowerly provides high-performing college admissions consulting comprehensively tailored to your real-life experience to ensure admission success. We realize the college application process can be overwhelming, confusing, and not always straightforward. Therefore, to ensure your best chance of college application success, our no-nonsense college admissions counselors help you find just the right balance of accomplishments and compelling narratives. This helps admissions teams see not only are you a suitable candidate but an exceptional fit. By helping you understand the A to Z of the application process itself, Empowerly’s college application counseling makes you stand out from the crowd.</p>
<p>We work with you to create a college application consulting process that prioritizes your dreams. Our goal is to empower you to find the optimum path to your top choice school. Hence, we hand-pick one of our hardworking counselors to provide you with all the right resources that point you to success. With our personalized college admissions counseling services, you’ll take a speedy and simplified approach to submitting the most competitive application. By cutting through the noise, we help you immediately showcase all the unique qualities that make you stand out and the undisputed choice for their school.</p>
<p>At Empowerly, we offer personalized college admissions counseling so you can productively leverage our unrivaled expertise to maximize your opportunities for admissions success. As our name signifies, we empower you to reach your full potential by helping you get into your top choice school. Our proven team of college admissions counselors works directly with you and your family to provide the indispensable guidance and insight you need during this pivotal moment in your educational journey.</p>


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Thank you for helping SM over these last 2 years in his formative high school years, finding summer internships, and helping him get accepted to Harvard, UPenn, MIT, Yale, Johns Hopkins University (Hodson scholar), USC (full ride), and many others. With 70+ essays across 15+ college applications, SM wouldn’t have finished so many applications with such high quality without Empowerly.

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When my daughter started with Empowerly in 10th grade, she immediately connected with her counselor Brooke, who helped her build her resume for the pre-med track. We can’t say enough good things about Brooke! Additionally, the awesome Empowerly team helped immensely with finding a UCSF research internship and editing essays. If you’re a parent unsure which counselor to pick, look no further and contact Empowerly.

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Our counselor was very helpful and a really good fit for my son. He helped with the college list and strategy and was there to help throughout the entire process. There is so much to know! The Empowerly editing team is great - most edits were done within an hour or so (they guarantee 24 hours). Empowerly also offers “research requests” where you can ask any question, for example they can offer “reverse chance me” advice or answer any obscure question you might have about colleges and programs - trust me, you will have lots of questions. They send the question to someone who is knowledgeable about that particular topic. No one person can know everything so this service is very helpful.   They also have another service, which I have not seen anywhere else: you send your entire application to be reviewed by a former college admission officer and they give you feedback. Those are incredible - they gave extremely valuable and brutally honest feedback. My son applied to CS/EECS programs, which are extremely competitive and I am so glad we had Empowerly to guide us in this process. It really is way more complex than I imagined.   My son ended up having great options to choose from. He got accepted early to UC Berkeley as a Regents' and Chancellor's Scholar which was one of his top choices and such a great fit for him. He was thrilled to accept the offer. Overall my son had a really good experience with Empowerly and the perfect outcome and I would definitely highly recommend them.

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