The most expensive decision you will makewith limited information.
At the median American college, nearly half the students who start
there have not graduated from it within six years. Even at the most selective
schools, about one in six does not finish on time. A fifth
year is another year of tuition.
What families miss, and our sources
Families make this call on a ranking, a campus tour and a feeling. We are the
diligence nobody does: how big the classes really are, who does the teaching, how
many students finish in four years rather than five, whether the institution itself
is financially sound, and where your student would actually sit in the admitted class.
Completion figures are federal data (IPEDS), across 1,995 colleges.
On-time rates are the typical of nine entering classes, 2007–2015: the most recent whose four years finished before the pandemic, since later classes’ rates are distorted by COVID leaves and gap years.
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Seven days of access, not calendar days.
Save your read and Mr. Lambert is yours for 7 days: every school, every question, every essay. A day counts only when you or a parent sign in.
Parents and student get separate logins under each plan.
Stripe is in test mode on this server. No real card will be charged.
To start
7 days free
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No card. Saving your read with an email starts it.
Everything in the plan, for 7 days of use
Days count only when you or a parent sign in, within 30 days
Afterwards, everything you saved stays here: the read, the list and the drafts
Secure checkout by Stripe; we never see your card.
Full refund within 7 days if Mr. Lambert hasn’t reviewed an essay yet. Terms · Privacy
One plan covers the student and both parents (up to three logins).
Your student’s information never trains an AI.
Mr. Lambert runs on Anthropic’s business API, not a consumer chat app. Under Anthropic’s
commercial terms, nothing we send is used to train their models.
Both plans include
Unlimited school reads and questions for Mr. Lambert, about your list or any one school
Coaching on every essay and supplement, draft by draft, with your narrative as the through-line
Connect the Dots: your strongest ideas carried across every application, without repeating yourself
Early strategy: where to apply early, and in which round
Your activities list in the Common App format, coached entry by entry
The family workspace: application progress, school suggestions between parent and student, campus visit notes, the brag sheet and a weekly progress email
The full catalog, fit-ranked, with financial strength, net price and admissions data for each school
Your data stays private: transcripts encrypted at rest, nothing sold, and essays stay the student’s unless they choose to share progress
The details, plainly
One student per plan
Each plan is for one student. The student signs in with their own login, and each parent with theirs, up to three logins in all. A second child needs their own plan: their work, their essays, their list.
Parents can buy it
A parent can buy it for their student, or a student can buy it themselves. Either way, the student and both parents are covered.
30 days
One payment for 30 days from the day you buy. Nothing renews and no card stays on file. Buy again whenever you like and the new 30 days start where the old ones end. Switch to 12 months within four months and everything you’ve paid for 30-day plans in that time comes off the price. Your 12 months then count from the first of those 30 days, so the year is a full year either way.
12 months
One payment for 12 months from the day you buy. It doesn’t renew, and no card stays on file.
When it ends, you keep your work
Your essays, drafts, activities list and notes stay yours to read and export. Mr. Lambert stops giving new feedback; nothing is taken away.
Refunds
Changed your mind? Email hello@lambertsgrove.com within 7 days of a payment and we’ll refund it in full, as long as Mr. Lambert hasn’t reviewed an essay since. If something has gone wrong, tell us anyway; we’d rather fix it.
What it compares to
An independent counselor runs $200–300 an hour, and a full package averages around $6,500. Twelve months here costs less than one of those hours.
Your data stays yours
Nothing your student shares is used to train an AI. Transcripts are encrypted at rest, we don’t sell anything to anyone, and you can delete the account whenever you like. See the privacy policy.