Ages 11 to 14
High school
Independent day, boarding and selective public high schools: entrance tests, interviews, parent statements and a calendar that closes in March.
Initiative · Education across the lifespan
Admit Path.
Guidance for Every Stage of Learning.
Good educational advice is scarcest exactly when it matters most, and most expensive for the families least able to pay for it. Admit Path is the Foundation’s answer.
Built and funded by the Rouben Malian Memorial Foundation, Admit Path offers evidence-based guidance to learners from the age of eleven to eighty and beyond: a first school choice, college and graduate admissions, a change of career, a return to the classroom later in life. It is free for those who need it most, and a fraction of the cost of private consulting for everyone else.
Why it exists
The advice gap
Families choosing a high school, students applying to selective colleges and graduate programs, and adults returning to study all face the same uncertainty. Those with means hire consultants who bill by the hour or by the five-figure package. Everyone else relies on forums, rumor and school counselors who are stretched thinnest in the weeks before deadlines. Once people leave school, trusted guidance about further learning is harder still to find.
For years the Foundation has worked to close the digital divide, putting devices, connectivity and mentors in front of students who lacked them. Admit Path addresses what comes next. Access opens the door. Good guidance helps people walk through it, and keep walking.
Who it serves
One path, many stages
Each stage of learning has its own decisions, deadlines and evidence. Admit Path meets people where they are, and stays with them as they move on.
Ages 14 to 22
College
Course rigor, testing, essays, a balanced list and direct admissions; then choosing a major with outcomes in mind, transferring and finding internships.
Ages 21 and up
Graduate and professional school
Business, law and medical school (MD and DO), built on published admissions and outcomes data, from MBA employment reports to the ABA’s 509 disclosures.
Your 20s to 50s
Careers
Résumés, interviews and strategy for a first graduate role; degrees, certificates and credentials that fit a working life and a change of direction.
50 and beyond
Learning in later life
Encore careers, finishing a degree long since started, or learning for the love of it.
Every stage
Learners who face extra steps
Free guides for international students navigating F-1, J-1 and OPT rules, for learners requesting testing and classroom accommodations, and for anyone for whom cost is the barrier.
Method
Evidence, not anecdote
Much admissions advice rests on biography: I used to work at a top school. Admit Path rests on evidence. Its Unified Model reads every situation through two lenses: what institutions say they value, drawn from published criteria, Common Data Sets and admissions research; and what actually drives admission, drawn from outcome data that applicants choose to share. Where the two diverge, as when a test-optional college still admits mostly students who submit strong scores, Admit Path says so, and helps people plan around it.
The models are only part of it. Trained, independent readers review what matters most against committee-style rubrics, and an Ethics Board keeps the models fair and the mission first. No one can predict an admissions decision, so Admit Path never pretends to. It shows the evidence, and the limits of the evidence.
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Discover
Short questionnaires tailored to each stage capture where a person is, what they care about and where they want to go.
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Analyze
Their situation is compared with real outcomes where the data is deep, and with published criteria and expert review everywhere else.
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Advise
A clear plan: strengths, priorities, the reasoning behind every recommendation, and the steps toward a life of learning and contribution.
Access
Priced so that no one is priced out
Admit Path publishes its prices and its sliding scale, because transparency is part of the mission.
- $0The Lite readiness assessment, free for everyone, with no account required
- 100%Discount below the federal poverty line, on a sliding scale to four times that level
- 5 for 1Every five full-price reports fund one for someone who could not otherwise afford it
- 120 daysTo ask for a full refund: a guarantee of satisfaction, never of admission
Paid services, from Admit Preparation to Career Preparation, are priced against the Federal Poverty Guidelines in the way community health centers price care, and no one is asked for a tax return. Schools, districts and nonprofits can sponsor access for the people they serve, and counselors can extend their own capacity through Admit Exchange.
Commitments
Mission before revenue
Because Admit Path is a Foundation initiative, its incentives point in one direction. It will tell someone they do not need expensive test prep, even when that earns it less. Its code of ethics is short and absolute:
- It never writes essays or falsifies any part of an application. Every word submitted is the applicant’s own.
- It never guarantees admission, and never claims to predict a decision.
- It never sells personal data, and anyone may ask for theirs to be deleted.
- It never upsells what someone does not need, and it labels every partner recommendation.
- It will publish an annual impact report on the people it supports, the free and discounted services it delivers, and the accuracy of its models.
The Foundation’s role
Funded by the Foundation, accountable to its name
The Rouben Malian Memorial Foundation underwrites Admit Path in full: its development, its readers and its free access. Fees paid by those who can afford them are reinvested in free and discounted guidance for those who cannot.
Admit Path carries two of the Foundation’s pillars, education and career success, across an entire lifetime, and with them Rouben Malian’s conviction that opportunity should not depend on whom you know or what you can pay.