Harvard-Westlake wants to know your child. We help them show it.

Here's what you're up against.

Picture your child at the kitchen table with the Student Questionnaire open: short questions about who they are and what they love, and a cursor that will not move. A few days later comes the interview, with an adult they have never met.

Around that sit the ISEE, teacher recommendations, and deadlines that arrive fast. The advice online is confident and rarely specific to Harvard-Westlake, and it is hard to know whether the answers sound like your child or like everyone else.

None of that is your fault, and none of it means your child is not ready. It means they deserve clear guidance and honest notes on their own writing, from people who know how selective admissions works.

We went through this. That's why we built it.

Growing up in Fairfax County, I applied to Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology, and my parents signed me up for a prep program. The instructor had never set foot inside TJ. There were 30 students in a single classroom, almost no feedback on our writing, and templates that had nothing to do with the real application. On test day, we realized we had been preparing for something else.

My friend Vishnu was right there with me, in the same classroom, with the same feeling that families deserved something better. We talked about it all through high school and into college. Vishnu passed away far too young, but his conviction never left me. EduAvenues carries his belief forward: if you are going to do this, do it right, and do it for the families who need it most.

So we built what should have existed.

After UVA's McIntire School of Commerce and five years in financial services, including time at Goldman Sachs and at Evergreen by Alpine Investors in private equity, I walked away because this mattered more. I also served on the Board of Directors of the TJHSST Partnership (Endowment) Fund. This isn't just work for me. It's personal.

Harvard-Westlake families deserve that same honesty. Short answers should sound like one particular child: specific, curious, and their own. Our instructors give notes on your child's Student Questionnaire answers and help them practice the interview so it feels like a conversation. Harvard-Westlake does not recommend tutoring for the ISEE, and we respect that.

Today our instructors include graduates of schools like Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Columbia, and UVA, and our team has spent more than a decade helping families through selective admissions. Meet the EduAvenues instructors.

And we built it to fit into your family's life. Lessons are online and self-paced. Prep should work around school, sports, music, and family dinners, not replace them.