Find the right counselor for you.
Example profiles.
Get one-on-one help with college applications, essays, and tutoring from students at top colleges who just got in, for a fraction of what private counselors charge.
Free for students. You pay only your counselor's rate, with no platform fees. Opens December 18th.
Where Nearpeer counselors have gone
Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Caltech, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, UPenn, Cornell, UChicago, Brown, Columbia, Dartmouth, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Rice, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Carnegie Mellon, WashU, Michigan, Emory, Georgetown, UVA, UNC Chapel Hill, USC, UC San Diego, NYU, Georgia Tech, UT Austin, Florida, UC Davis, UC Irvine
Students pay $0 to Nearpeer.
You only pay your counselor's hourly rate, for the time you approve after each session. No signup fee and nothing monthly.
Join as a studentAll communication stays on the platform.
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Video calls
Meet face to face, share your screen, and work through it live.
Messages
Ask a quick question any time, between sessions too.
Shared drafts
Write your essays together, with comments and edits in one place.
For counselors
You set your own rate.
In college? Help high schoolers on the path you just took. Pick your hourly rate and how many hours a week you want, and see what you'd make. You keep 80%.
Get paid fairly for helping students.
You'd earn $120 a week.
About $520 a month.
This is what you keep after Nearpeer's marketplace fee.
Making a profile is free. Finish it by December 15th to be listed on launch day.
Questions? We've got you.
Who are the counselors?
College students and recent grads, many at top schools, who were on your path a few years ago. Each one confirms their college email and signs our Counselor Agreement before students can see them.
What does it cost?
Joining and browsing are free for students. You pay only your counselor's hourly rate, for the time you approve after each session. Counselors keep 80%; Nearpeer keeps a small marketplace fee.
How do counselors get paid?
Through Stripe Express. Counselors set up payouts once, get 80% of each session a student approves, and receive their 1099 tax forms from Stripe Express.
How do approving and denying sessions work?
Approve it with one click, or press Deny if something's wrong. With no answer, it's approved automatically after 3 days, with a reminder the day before. A denied session isn't charged while it's settled. The counselor can accept the denial or contest it within 3 days; small contested amounts are split in half automatically, and larger ones are decided by the Nearpeer team.
Students: your Billing pageCounselors: your Earnings pageBilling help
Will someone write my essay?
No. Counselors help you brainstorm, plan, and revise, but the work is always yours.
How do you keep students safe?
Everything happens on Nearpeer: messages, video calls, documents, and payments. Contact details are never shared, and conversations are checked for safety.
When does Nearpeer launch?
December 18, 2026.
Your path, a few years ahead.
Join now to be part of the revolution.