Our Foundation Session is the ideal starting point for families who want clarity and direction as they begin the admissions process.
In this 90-minute meeting, you’ll sit down with an experienced college admissions professional to review your student’s transcripts, testing plan, extracurricular involvement, and long-term goals.
Together, we’ll create:
A customized admissions timeline
Testing and academic recommendations
Extracurricular strategy guidance
Clear next steps for your family
The session includes a detailed follow-up document summarizing key recommendations and action items.
Our Comprehensive Journey is designed for families who want expert guidance at every stage of the admissions process.
This program includes:
Strategic college list development (Initial, Revised, and Final Lists)
A personalized admissions timeline and action plan
Support for up to 12 colleges
Academic and testing strategy guidance
Resume and extracurricular positioning
ED/EA decision recommendations
Comprehensive review and feedback for Common App and non-Common App applications
Structured deadline tracking and application oversight
Full essay support (brainstorming through final draft for main and supplemental essays)
Ongoing phone and text support throughout the process
Recommended for juniors, seniors, and second-semester sophomores who want comprehensive oversight and accountability.
Investment: $8,000
Pay in full and receive a discounted rate of $7,500.
Hourly Guidance & Early Start Program
A flexible, pay-as-you-go option for families seeking targeted support on their schedule.
We also offer individualized coaching and planning for freshmen and 8th graders who want to begin their admissions journey early. These meetings provide focused strategy, academic planning, and proactive preparation to set students up for long-term success.
You don’t have to navigate this process alone. With the right guidance and a clear plan, the college admissions journey becomes manageable, and even empowering. At Breakaway Prep, we’re here to help your family move forward with confidence.
“Thank you so much for your help in the college process. As you know, it all worked out in the end. Your consistency, knowledge, and compassionate demeanor made the process much easier and much less intimidating.”
Student heading to the University of Richmond
One-on-one Instruction
There is no better way to prepare a student than one-on-one. We focus on your student’s strengths and weaknesses.
Thoughtful Planning
We help students and parents prepare for college in a more thoughtful, well-planned, personalized way.
Test Us! Discover the Difference
Breakaway Prep welcomes students to become engaged with our program pre-enrollment. No deposit. No obligation.
10+ locations
Fill out and submit the contact form and we will be in touch to set up an appointment at your convenience.
The Early Start program helps students achieve successful transitions from middle school to high school and lays an academic and social foundation for a successful high school experience.
By the time they reach their junior and senior years, Early Start students will be exceptionally prepared to tackle the college search process.
The Early Start program helps students develop organizational skills and executive functioning, so they can get ahead of their academics and not fall behind.
For parents, the benefits of a self-directed child can help make the high school years easier, less anxious, and more focused on their child’s best interests.
Make the most of their high school years
Ninth and tenth grades can be difficult for young teens. With age comes greater responsibility and increased social pressures, and for many thoughts about college have barely begun to register. Early Start helps these students begin their high school careers on solid footing.
By providing individualized tutoring and academic support beginning in upper middle school, and by paying close attention to each students’ interests throughout their high school years, we help students and their parents prepare for college in a more thoughtful, well-planned, and personal way.
Early Start is the first step to finding the right college for the right reasons so students can flourish as productive, successful adults.
“I submitted my last application a few days ago and am done with my college applications! I wanted to thank you for reviewing what felt like an endless stream of essays. I found your input to be very valuable in my revision process.”
A Happy Student
One-on-one Instruction
There is no better way to prepare a student than one-on-one. We focus on your student’s strengths and weaknesses.
Thoughtful Planning
We help students and parents prepare for college in a more thoughtful, well-planned, personalized way.
Test Us! Discover the Difference
Breakaway Prep welcomes students to become engaged with our program pre-enrollment. No deposit. No obligation.
10+ locations
Fill out and submit the contact form and we will be in touch to set up an appointment at your convenience.
Breakaway Prep embodies a new, smarter approach to the college preparation and admissions process. By starting earlier with younger students from later middle school age to rising freshmen and providing them with individualized academic enrichment and guidance through their high school years, Breakaway Prep helps make future decisions about college more informed, thoughtful, and less stressful for students and parents.
Our experienced tutors are always available to offer their teaching expertise in a variety of academic subjects:
Math – from middle school math to college level calculus, we can help
English – we can help students with their reading and writing
History – US, World, European at any level from CPA to AP
Sciences – Bio, Chem, Physics, Environmental studies at any level from CPA to AP
“I have a finished college list, a finished college essay, a halfway done common app, and a finished activities resume.”
Kent Place Student
One-on-one Instruction
There is no better way to prepare a student than one-on-one. We focus on your student’s strengths and weaknesses.
Thoughtful Planning
We help students and parents prepare for college in a more thoughtful, well-planned, personalized way.
Test Us! Discover the Difference
Breakaway Prep welcomes students to become engaged with our program pre-enrollment. No deposit. No obligation.
10+ locations
“Success starts with preparation. Practice leads to mastery.”
When it comes to doing well on the SAT and ACT®, practice makes more perfect. Register today!
We offer full-length proctored diagnostic practice tests every week; these help track progress and build endurance for the SAT and ACT®.
Our process begins with baseline practice testing for ACT® or SAT, followed by review. We then help our students and parents decide which test makes the most sense for that student; we develop personalized plans based on the test they chose, goal scores. and where tutoring can help shore up weak spots in the student’s performance. Their Breakaway Prep tutor will help them work through their academic and organizational challenges, helping to reinforce their strengths and increase their chances for success.
“We want to thank you for your steady guidance over the past four years. Your presence has made a stressful process infinitely better. We all feel lucky to have met you!”
Mother of students attending Washington University
One-on-one Instruction
There is no better way to prepare a student than one-on-one. We focus on your student’s strengths and weaknesses.
Thoughtful Planning
We help students and parents prepare for college in a more thoughtful, well-planned, personalized way.
Test Us! Discover the Difference
Breakaway Prep welcomes students to become engaged with our program pre-enrollment. No deposit. No obligation.
10+ locations
Register for a Practice Test Today!
When it comes to doing well on the SAT and ACT®, practice makes more perfect. Register today!
After fifth grade, very little formal writing instruction is included in the language arts curriculum.
The Writing Center at BreakawayPrep addresses this need by providing weekly writing sessions where students learn how to use language effectively and become strong and facile writers. The program includes development of diction and vocabulary, as well as mechanics and grammar. But the heart of the program focuses on the writing process and encompasses techniques of persuasive and expository writing. Sessions are taught by experienced and certified teachers of English.
Students will work on:
Assessing Strengths and Weaknesses with Self-Critique
Main Idea
Finding a Thesis in the Conclusion
Finding the Weaknesses in Your Thesis
Making Transitions
Eliminating Repetition
Creating a Grammar Checklist
Deconstructing the Assignment Question, and much more.
We offer an innovative 10-week program developed specifically for middle school students, as well as one-on-one sessions for high school students. For more information, email us at rickm@breakawayprep.com.
“I was accepted early to Dartmouth! I want to thank you very much for all of the time, instruction, and guidance you gave me throughout my application process.”
A happy student
One-on-one Instruction
There is no better way to prepare a student than one-on-one. We focus on your student’s strengths and weaknesses.
Thoughtful Planning
We help students and parents prepare for college in a more thoughtful, well-planned, personalized way.
Test Us! Discover the Difference
Breakaway Prep welcomes students to become engaged with our program pre-enrollment. No deposit. No obligation.
10+ locations
“Success starts with preparation. Practice leads to mastery.”
By the time college admissions season hits, our students are focused, confident, and ready—with a clear plan in place. Our College Applications Bootcamp helps rising seniors tackle the most time-consuming parts of the process before the fall crunch begins:
✅ Common Application guidance from start to finish ✅ Resume and activities list that highlights strengths ✅ College essay support: brainstorm, draft, revise ✅ Personalized timeline to finish remaining applications ✅ Take-home workbook with structured materials and notes
At Breakaway Prep, every student’s journey is unique—and so is our approach. Whether your student needs help with applications, essays, or big-picture planning, our expert counselors provide the structure and support that turns stress into momentum.
College admissions exams are challenging: their standardized nature creates a gap between the design of the test and what students do in their regular academic lives.
Breakaway Prep’s test preparation curriculum is based on thousands of hours of one-on-one work with students just like your child. We know what works and what doesn’t, and we combine our strategies with ample practice opportunities on real exam materials.
To test or not to test? Breakaway Prep has you covered.
We help students prepare for college entrance tests, but we also help them explore more effective, momentum building processes that are taken with equal or greater weight by college admissions counselors.
The college admissions landscape has changed. If testing isn’t in the best interest of the student, our programs can lay the groundwork for acceptance to the college of their choice without the stress of unnecessary testing.
Breakaway Prep eliminates the fear of testing through repetition and practice: For as often or little as the student wishes to participate.
We offer full-length proctored practice tests every week; these help track progress and build endurance for the SAT and ACT®.
Private Tutoring
All of our one-on-one students have the opportunity to work with two tutors, each of whom is devoted to particular phases of the test. Each tutor will work with you through our curriculum while getting to know you as a test-taker (and as a fantastic person with a bright future).
They will get to know your strengths and weaknesses, your test-taking habits, your greatest hopes and fears about the test, and will be able to constantly refine your approach. By test day, you will know the exam inside and out.
“We want to thank the whole Breakaway team for all the support with Matt. He’s the last one! We are so excited for him— he didn’t make it easy, but he did it!”
Millburn mom
One-on-one Instruction
There is no better way to prepare a student than one-on-one. We focus on your student’s strengths and weaknesses.
Thoughtful Planning
We help students and parents prepare for college in a more thoughtful, well-planned, personalized way.
Test us! Discover the Difference
Breakaway Prep welcomes students to become engaged with our program pre-enrollment. No deposit. No obligation.
10+ locations
Register for a Practice Test
When it comes to doing well on the SAT and ACT, practice makes more perfect. Register today!
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ACT is not involved with or affiliated with Breakaway Prep, nor does ACT endorse or sponsor any of the products or services offered by Breakaway Prep.
