Momentum Counseling

The Hardest Year, Carried With You.

A real counselor, led by our founder, beside your senior for every essay, every deadline, every decision. Between meetings, Sol keeps working.

By application. We accept a limited number of families each cycle.

The Momentum Difference

You have the tools. This is the human.

The software keeps your senior organized. We get them through. Momentum pairs your family with a counselor, led by our founder, who owns the application year with you, so the pressure stops living in your house.

The Senior-Year Engagement

Everything senior year demands. Carried.

Both plans put a real counselor in your corner and the full AdmissionsOS platform in your senior’s hands. The difference is how much we carry: strategy and check-ins to keep your senior on track, or the entire process, every essay included, off your plate.

Strategy & Positioning

  • The Dream-School Blueprint

    A personalized senior-year plan and a balanced reach / target / safety list built on fit, not rankings.

  • The Early-Decision War Room

    ED / EA / REA strategy: where to spend your one early card for the biggest odds swing.

The Essays

  • The Personal Statement

    Common App essay, brainstorm to drafts to final, human-coached and Sol-assisted.

  • Every Supplement

    Every school's supplemental essays, planned and refined, none missed.

The Application

  • The Activities & Honors

    Turn a plain list into a narrative admissions officers remember.

  • The Recommendation Playbook

    Who to ask, how to brief them, and the brag-sheet that earns a better letter.

  • The Final-Submit Review

    A human reviews every application, line by line, before it goes out.

Always-On Support

  • Sol, Your 24/7 AI Counselor

    Real-time feedback and momentum between every meeting.

    Full AdmissionsOS membership, included

  • The Deadline Command Center

    Every school's dates tracked for you, nothing missed.

The Difference, Quantified

Two Plans. One Dream School.

Same founder. Same platform. The difference is how much of the year we carry. Not sure which fits your senior? That is exactly what the consultation is for.

You drive. We guide.

The Guided Plan

For the self-driven senior who wants expert strategy and the full platform, with a counselor checking in at every milestone.

  • 1-on-1 counselor sessionsMonthly
  • Personal-statement coaching1 round
  • Supplemental essaysGuidance
  • Activities & honors review1 review
  • School applications supported5 schools
  • Final line-by-line submit reviewKey apps
  • Sol, your 24/7 AI counselor + full platform
Recommended

We carry it with you.

The Concierge Plan

For the family who wants the whole year off their plate, with Nico beside your senior on every essay, every deadline, from first idea to final submit.

  • 1-on-1 counselor sessionsWeekly
  • Personal-statement coaching5 rounds
  • Supplemental essaysEvery essay
  • Activities & honors review7 reviews
  • School applications supported20+ schools
  • Final line-by-line submit reviewEvery app
  • Sol, your 24/7 AI counselor + full platform

Underclassman? We also partner with families for all four years of high school. Mention it on your consultation call.

How We Begin

Three steps to your seat.

01

Apply

Tell us about your senior. Two minutes, no commitment.

02

Strategy consultation

We map the year, your list, and the plan together. No obligation.

03

Onboarding

You are matched with your counselor, Sol is set up, and we begin.

Our Team

Built by people who've done this at scale.

Founder & Head of Counseling

Nico Berlingeri

The engineer who built Sol, and a lifelong teacher who has spent his entire career mentoring students.

50,000+
students helped on IvyAdmit.ai, the platform he co-founded
2
patented defense systems at MIT Lincoln Laboratory
100×
faster than state of the art: his Air Force research
32 / 40
of his own college classes he was asked to tutor

Nico Berlingeri is the engineer behind Sol, and the reason Momentum exists. He helped 50,000+ students on IvyAdmit.ai, the AI admissions platform he helped co-found, which became AdmissionsOS. But before he built the tools, he was the mentor families wish they'd had in their corner.

A near-full-scholarship computer science graduate with a 3.9 GPA, Nico was named his department's top CS student and was asked to tutor 32 of the 40 classes he took, coaching up to 20 students at once across CS, math, physics, accounting, and history. At one point roughly a third of the CS majors at his college were his tutees. Teaching isn't a side project for him; it's the through-line of everything he does.

Full background

Selected highlights

  • Helped 50,000+ students on IvyAdmit.ai, the AI admissions platform he helped co-found
  • Air Force research at MIT Lincoln Laboratory (Group 62): novel blind-adaptive beamforming that ran 100x faster than the state of the art
  • Interned on a $2B macro options desk at Cinctive Capital
  • Founded Gradient Trading, his own quantitative trading firm; grew it to $3.4M managed after more than doubling his college’s endowment
Worked at
MIT Lincoln LaboratoryCinctive CapitalIvyAdmit.ai → AdmissionsOSMuhlenberg College

The roster is growing. Hand-picked counselors are joining Momentum to work one-on-one with families alongside Sol.

By application · Class of 2027

Hand us the hardest year. Keep the calm.

We Only Carry a Few Families at a Time.

Taking a whole year off a family's plate takes real attention, so the roster stays small by design. Every week of senior year is runway you don't get back. The families who start earliest get the calmest fall and the most time for essays.

A private consultation. No obligation.