An Hour with the Founders of Whetstone
10 Seats at the Harvard Club

In Person · 1 Hour Only for You
First Two Weeks of August · By Appointment · 60 Min · The Harvard Club, 35 W 44th St · By Invitation · 10 Seats

How the hour runs

One family at a time, and an hour that belongs entirely to your child.

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A clear, honest assessment of where your child stands, read from the transcript, activities, and drafts you send ahead.

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The few decisions that matter most before the fall, and focused time on the essay itself.

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Room for your questions, and a written plan for the year ahead that you take with you.

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What the hour gives you:

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An honest assessment of where your child stands against the schools on their list

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The decisions that matter most between now and application season

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Direct work on the essay, line by line

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A written plan for the year ahead, specific to your child

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Answers from advisors who have spent their careers inside elite admissions

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Meet Your Hosts

Cole Whetstone

Cole Whetstone

Founder & Academic Director

BA Harvard University

MSt University of Oxford

After graduating from Harvard, where he served as program director of its largest afterschool program, Cole received a full scholarship to study Ancient Philosophy at Oxford, where he went on to teach Ancient Greek. His research has been published in academic journals, with contributions to breakthroughs in Parkinson's and Alzheimer's treatment. He speaks Latin, Ancient Greek, French, Spanish, Italian, and several other languages.

Ren Yu

Ren Yu

Operations Director & Capstone Mentor

BS New York University

After graduating high school at 16, Ren received a merit scholarship to study philosophy and economics at Brandeis University. He later transferred to NYU to study and accept a job opportunity in finance. He co-founded the New York Philosophical Society alongside Cole, a nonprofit with over 8,500 members, built around civil dialogue and the shared pursuit of wisdom.

The hour is yours

A private, unhurried conversation. Bring whatever is on your mind, about your child or the process itself.

How Whetstone Works

Elite admissions is ultimately a judgment about a person. Committees are trying to understand who someone is, what they've built, and what they're capable of becoming.

We do not treat admissions as a packaging problem. We approach it as a process of formation: helping students build the skills, judgment, character, and body of work that make elite admissions the natural result of who they are becoming. We work with students from the earliest years of high school through the final application to ensure that when that judgment is made, the answer is clear.

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