Ameer Hussain
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I study at UC Berkeley, and I got in on my second try. The first time I applied I did what most students do, which was pile on everything I could and hope the volume spoke for itself. It got me in somewhere fine. The second time I picked one thing, law, and actually built it: work at law firms, an internship with a senator, coursework, LSAT prep, and a TikTok teaching other students how to land legal internships that has since reached six million people. Nothing else went on the application. That was the difference, and it is the whole of what I teach. I have mentored 217 students, most of them in middle school and the first years of high school, which is earlier than families usually think to start and the reason the work lands. By senior year an application is mostly a record of decisions already made. Sitting down with a ninth grader means the record can still be written. So we build a four year plan around what that specific student is actually drawn to, which courses to take and in what order, which activities will compound into something real and which ones are just filler, and I connect them to the people, programs and competitions that turn an interest into a track record a reader can check. What I do is build the story while it is still being lived, not tie a bow on it in October of senior year. That means I stay in it across years, not weeks, and I would rather tell a family honestly that their student has not found their one thing yet than manufacture one. Before you pay me anything, I will sit down with your student, look at where they actually are, and write out the plan I would run for them, so you can see how I think before you decide I am the right person to trust with this.
Common questions
Before you book
What does this cost?
We are flexible, and there is a plan here that fits your family. You hear your number on the first call, before anything is agreed. What changes between plans is the kind of experience in the room: a current undergraduate at a school your student is applying to, someone who interviewed applicants for a university as an alumni volunteer, or a former admissions officer who read files and sat in committee. Every one of them is somebody we would put in front of our own family.
Do we need to know what we want before the call?
No, and most families book before they have decided anything. That is the useful time to talk. An hour, no charge, and you will come off the call knowing what we can do for your student.
How many students does one counselor take?
Few enough that the person you meet is the person who reads the drafts. Every counselor sets their own cap and prints it on their page, so you know exactly how much of their year you are getting. If your first choice is full we will introduce you to someone on the roster who suits your student just as well.
Our student is already a senior. Is it too late?
It is not too late. Several counselors here run compressed engagements and take seniors into the autumn, and there is usually more still open in a file than a family expects. Tell us where your student is on the call and we will tell you what we can do with it.
Book a call
How the call is booked.
Ameer books the call, and it runs an hour on the phone.
Book a free call with AmeerAmeer works from what you tell us about your student, so the call starts there rather than at the beginning.
If something changes
The agreement is held by The Scholar’s Bureau rather than by Ameer personally. If Ameer cannot finish the cycle we move your student to another counselor on this roster at the price you were already quoted, and everything written down so far moves with them.
The Scholar’s Bureau is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by UC Berkeley or any other institution named on this page. Ameer Hussain is an undergraduate at UC Berkeley, speaking only as an individual, with no role in its admissions office and no influence over any admissions decision.