As a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, we believe in a fully transparent financial model. We have stripped away the corporate profit margins of traditional admissions firms to focus entirely on sustainability and student success. Whether you are purchasing a mentorship package or making a donation, here is exactly how those funds are used to fuel our mission:

1. Access Grants for applicants with financial need
   Reduced fees and donations directly help subsidize mentorship for students who receive the Pell Grant, AAMC Fee Assistance Program, or demonstrate financial hardship. These funds reduce the cost of advising by 20–40%, allowing students to receive personal statement support, school list strategy, interview preparation, and full-cycle guidance without being priced out of the process.
2. Fair, mission-aligned mentor compensation
   Our mentors are current medical students with demanding academic and clinical schedules. Donations help us compensate them for their time while keeping applicant prices far below traditional admissions consulting rates. Our model depends on mentors who believe in paying it forward, not on extracting corporate profit from applicant anxiety.
3. Matching, coordination, and applicant support
   Behind every mentor match is the administrative work of reviewing applicant goals, background, timeline, availability, school interests, specialty interests, and mentor fit. Donations support the people and systems needed to coordinate matches, handle rematches, answer applicant questions, manage scheduling issues, and make sure students are not left navigating the process alone.
4. Mentor recruitment, training, and quality control
   We continuously recruit medical students from diverse schools, backgrounds, and application paths so applicants can find mentors who understand their story. Donations help us expand the mentor roster, onboard new mentors, standardize advising practices, train mentors on ethical admissions support, and maintain consistent quality across the network.
5. Secure technology and backend platforms
   Fees and donations support the software, databases, payment infrastructure, email automation, scheduling systems, secure document workflows, mentor availability tracking, analytics, and backend tools needed to connect applicants with mentors reliably.
6. Legal, compliance, accounting, and nonprofit administration
   Fees and donations fund legal review, accounting, tax filings, insurance, privacy policies, terms of service, document retention practices, grant procedures, and compliance systems. They protect applicants, mentors, donors, and the organization.
7. Outreach to underserved applicants
   Fees and donations help us reach first-generation students, low-income applicants, nontraditional applicants, immigrant students, rural students, and students without family connections to medicine. They also help us maintain secure review procedures, clear redaction instructions, and administrative safeguards. This protects students while allowing us to verify need accurately.
8. Free and low-cost educational resources
   We have goals to expand to offer even more support to our future physicians. Fees and donations help us create free guides, blogs, workshops, application timelines, essay resources, school list resources, and interview preparation materials for the broader premed community.
9. Processing fees
   To make mentorship accessible, we need to offer flexible payment options, including credit card payments, bank transfers, and installment plans. These platforms charge processing and financing fees (some over 6%!) that can meaningfully reduce the amount we receive from each purchase.
10. Long-term sustainability
    We price our services to sustain the mission. Fees and donations allow us to keep rates lower, offer more grants, expand mentor capacity, and build a durable organization that can support future generations of applicants.