This isn’t an accident. This isn’t just a number.
It’s our track record that we hire right and for the right people, leaving isn’t an option worth considering.
Our team represents the very best in educational consulting: highly selective, exceptionally supported, and deeply committed.
Families trust us implicitly because they see the unmatched stability and expertise of our team.
That’s exactly why we offer the top salaries and compensation packages in the industry.
This investment in talent directly translates to better college admissions results for the families we serve, more experienced support, and long-term consistency
That’s how we’ve earned families’ trust—and sustained 18 years of industry-leading results.
Zenith Prep Academy isn’t just another workplace. It’s a carefully designed environment built for the best admissions consultants who deserve:
At Zenith, you’re making a strategic investment in your professional legacy—one that will benefit your career, your own family, and the clients who rely on your expertise.
We have a vested interest in your success at Zenith – your success is what drives results for our families.
After 18 years of refining our hiring process, we’ve developed the most comprehensive assessment system in educational consulting. Our multi-stage evaluation ensures alignment not just with skills, but with our commitment to excellence that families have trusted for nearly two decades.
That’s why we invest tremendous time meeting with you, talking to you, and assessment tools that ensure when you do come here, you are the 90.1% not only to start, but to thrive.
We’ve built something extraordinary: a workplace where the best admissions consultants thrive and innovation drives every decision. Our environment naturally attracts excellence and talent that chooses meaningful work over just another paycheck.
Every decision we make centers on one question: "How does this better serve our families?" This isn't just rhetoric—it's our strategic framework. We leverage innovative technology and proprietary systems to streamline operations and reduce non-essential expenses, with every dollar saved being reinvested directly into what matters: lower costs for families, additional support staff, and superior resources for our team to deliver exceptional results. Our compensation model reflects this priority: while we pay top-dollar to attract the best talent, we rigorously optimize everything else so families receive maximum value while our counseling team have the tools and support needed to change students' futures. For example, developing our pre-payment program and referral program to help give discounts to our families, while at the same time using that to achieve economies of scale faster to provide more resources for them, and therefore we continue to win by having decades more of top student outcomes.
At Zenith, integrity isn’t negotiable. In fact, we firmly believe that integrity is something that other companies may choose to sell, but it is not something you can ever buy. The requirements our insurance providers, financial supporters, donors, and United Nations relationship place on us in terms of technology and processes are designed to naturally attract and protect the individuals who give their best every day—and retain team members who share our unwavering commitment to honesty and family success, understanding that their salaries and pay are being paid by these families. We should respect and use our families’ money as carefully as we would our own family’s. Our culture, technology, and processes weed out those whose priorities don’t align with families, and who often find our environment uncomfortable before they even meet with families —not because it’s difficult, but because transparency exposes intentions.
High-performance teams adapt constantly. We test, measure, and optimize continuously, creating an environment where improvement is the norm. This agility keeps us ahead of competitors and creates the margin that allows us to offer superior compensation while delivering exceptional value to families. Career growth and more opportunities come from not being static. If you’re static there is no growth; if there’s no growth there are no opportunities for advancement.
Improvement requires measurement. That’s why we track everything from client success metrics to operational efficiency. Our sophisticated reporting systems don’t just measure performance—they unlock insights that drive continuous optimization and better outcomes for everyone. Therefore we are blessed to have team members who are transparent and accountable. What they do is important—their reporting and data collection lead to their success. Our systems ensure that results and successes are recognized early and support is given correctly.
The no-red-tape culture here is that ideas aren’t buried in bureaucracy. When you identify an opportunity to better serve families or improve efficiency, the path from concept to implementation is direct and immediate. This eliminates the frustration of good solutions getting stuck in endless approval chains.
Innovation happens when great minds are given instant resources to execute. Your insights can be implemented immediately—there’s no bureaucratic lag between innovation and impact.
We’ve carefully built an environment that attracts professionals who could excel in any industry but choose education because of the profound impact. When you work alongside former admissions officers from Ivy League universities and exceptional professionals who specifically chose this mission over tech, consulting, or finance, you know you’re part of something extraordinary. The top compensation is just the details of what comes with this role—our team is here because we’re transforming students’ futures and building something meaningful together. The salary follows the mission, not the other way around.
Our fastest path to management isn’t about climbing over others—it’s about creating more positions as we grow. Unlike typical organizations where you wait for someone to leave before moving up, our 95% client renewal rates and growth constantly creates new leadership opportunities. We firmly believe the best managers are those who’ve mastered the role firsthand. You don’t need to campaign or play politics—just deliver excellence in your current position and leadership opportunities naturally emerge.
This isn’t a one-sided relationship. We’ve designed a true partnership where mutual success creates exponential results. Your responsibility: bring your absolute best—skills, dedication, and passion. Our responsibility: provide everything you need—tools, resources, support, and guidance—to reach your full potential. When both sides deliver on these promises, the outcome is extraordinary results for the families we serve and unprecedented career growth for you. It’s not about what the company can do for you or what you can do for the company—it’s about what we can achieve together.
We believe in supporting each other and helping each other grow. We have an incredibly giving and supportive management team and colleagues who all understand that when you succeed, the family succeeds—and when the family succeeds, Zenith succeeds.
When you work with a family at Zenith, you’re never alone, unlike other companies where their counselors are left to navigate complex college admissions single-handedly.
It takes a team, not just one consultant, to get a student into a top university. When you work with us, we channel those resources directly into our student’s success. That’s why we provide:
This isn’t just about having colleagues—it’s about having a comprehensive support system that ensures, no matter what, the family has a team, and not a single point of failure. And when complex situations arise, you leverage the collective wisdom of dozens of specialists who’ve successfully navigated similar challenges for over 18 years.
This is what gets us our outstanding results for over 18 years and why families keep enrolling their siblings, family and friends.
You’re part of a large, collaborative community that transforms challenging situations into successful outcomes through collective wisdom and shared accountability.
85% of our managers started where you would, and 100% in our college consulting team are internal hires.
We have a leadership pipeline that creates predictable advancement opportunities for your career and to have experienced managers mentoring you.
At Zenith, we are fully insured and backed by both robust internal reserves and secured external funding commitments. With $40 million in capital committed over the next 7 years, we have the financial strength to support long-term growth—for the organization and for every team member who joins us.
As a fully virtual education company working closely with families, we have met all the technology requirements, transparency, and risk mitigation requirements that our insurance provider required, in addition to our UHNW families, our global philanthropic partners, and the UN Permanent Observer mission requirement.
We are honored by the trust placed in us.
We don’t take it lightly, and are happy to meet our insurance providers, financial supporters, donors, families and United Nation partners requirements.
When families are making serious long-term decisions—whether about education, finances, or their children’s futures—they need to trust the data. Fortunately, due to our growth, Zenith has been vetted by dozens of independent investors who conducted thorough due diligence and fact-checked our data to ensure our numbers are accurate, verifiable, and fully supported.
Below are just a few of the major investors and backers to whom we’ve opened our books.
NewTek Bank (NASDAQ: NEWT), a publicly traded financial institution and one of our more significant investors, subjected us to a level of due diligence reserved for larger-sale corporate investments. As a regulated entity under the SEC, Federal Reserve, and other federal banking authorities, NewTek is held to strict standards of disclosure, compliance, and fiduciary responsibility to its shareholders.
Before committing a substantial investment, NewTek conducted a comprehensive, multi-phase due diligence that included:
In parallel, our company was also vetted and approved by federal lending agencies for the maximum financing available under their programs.
This dual layer of institutional and government-level scrutiny confirmed that our reported metrics were not only accurate, but backed by a strong operational foundation and a track record of financial responsibility.
IMPORTANT NOTE:
None of our investors hold any controlling interest or decision-making authority in how we operate, grow, or plan long term, as clearly outlined in our agreement. Their role is purely financial—they do not participate in daily operations, have no influence over strategic decisions, and leave all execution and direction entirely in our hands. They do not hold board seats or any other governance rights, nor do they have input into how we serve families, run our programs, or shape our future. All decisions remain fully under our leadership and vision.
Our financial aid program is backed by UHNW individuals (typically with $30+ million in assets) and their family offices—specialized entities that manage private wealth across multiple generations. These organizations are responsible for safeguarding capital, and ensuring philanthropic integrity for some of the wealthiest families in the world.
Before providing support, these family offices conducted a deep level of due diligence to ensure that their support would lead to meaningful outcomes and measurable success stories. As part of that process, we were asked to agree to a comprehensive audit of our organization, including:
After comparing our performance metrics against other student educational and enrichment organizations, they determined that our track record of impact, retention, and average parent ROI exceeded every other organization under consideration—and chose to back us.
This level of vetting is uncommon in education and a reflection of the trust these UHNW and family offices placed in our program. These UHNW and family offices could have supported any organization in the world. They chose ours.
Our consecutive appearances on the Inc. 5000 list aren’t just about revenue, it’s a reflection of consistent excellence. To achieve this level of verifiable growth year after year, constant staff turnover would make this impossible.
Inc. 5000 recognition is earned through the cumulative effect of thousands of positive client experiences, something only achievable with the institutional knowledge and relationship depth that comes from retaining top talent.
Alex’s daughter was in the 7th grade when she began her college prep guidance with Zenith Prep Academy. Although Alex attended a Top 30 university in the US himself, he realized how challenging the admissions process had become, and was unsure of what classes, activities, and competitions would help his daughter best explore her passions and find her area of interest. He was looking for a highly customized strategy for his daughter to build the right extracurricular profile so she’d be able to stand out from the tens of thousands of other students with similar academics. Alex has been so happy with his relationship with Zenith that he’s looking forward to signing up his younger kids when they’re old enough.
Lana had quickly realized her son’s school wasn’t challenging or engaging enough for him. He was a very bright, driven, and articulate student who had specific fields that he was interested in. He and Lana wanted to know how he could further his interests in these fields through more advanced classes and different competitions, projects, activities,
and more.
Although Robert attended high school and college in the US, given that his son went to a hyper–competitive high school (ranked top 100 in the United States), he wanted a highly customized strategy and plan for their son to further his academic interests and build the right extracurricular profile to stand out from his peers in their high school and in the college applications.
Given that his son was doing well academically, Rajesh wanted guidance on resources, programs, and classes that could provide his son with exposure to different fields and majors – in turn helping him identify his interests and turn his passions into activities, helping him attract the attention of his choice universities.
Manisha’s daughter was an 11th grader when they started working with our college counseling team. A first–generation parent, she turned to Zenith to guide her daughter toward how to best use the one year they had left before college applications, highlighting her daughter’s strengths and interests to ultimately help her shine on college applications. With Zenith’s help, Manisha’s daughter gained acceptance into her dream university.
Victoria's daughter was a 9th grader who, apart from her involvement in sports, hadn't engaged in any academic or extracurricular activities. Although Victoria went to a top 15 university herself, she realized how much college admissions had changed over the years and turned to us for guidance and our expertise in helping her daughter discover her true passions, nurture her interests, and develop a competitive profile for the top universities she was looking to attend.
We work with your 6th–12th grade child to get into an Ivy League / Top 25 university or AT LEAST a tier or 2 better university –
If you’re not completely satisfied with the work we do in our College Counseling Program between now and when you press “Send” on your child’s application, we’ll give you every cent of the money you’ve paid us–even if we’ve worked together for multiple years.
