The person behind the diagnostic.

Modeling for the GAP (now closed)

College Commencement Speech: “the Last Time I’ll Talk About College in my Life”

Alix Coupet, Jr. went to college as a writer without much of a career in mind, then attended divinity school without an official religion. He eventually arrived in admission because he was focused on denial: who gets told no, who never receives the explanation, and what the person reading the application may have seen that the student could not. And would never.

Alix is also codependent. The person sitting in front of him has always become the assignment.

Over nearly fifteen years, that habit has taken him through admission work at Stanford and the University of Chicago; graduate admission; college counseling in public, charter, independent, and private settings; and work across four national college-advising firms. He has built college-access programs in California and Chicago, designed curricula for thousands, advised students privately across the country, and later served in the C-suite as Chief of Staff to the President of a national youth-development organization.

For all his jobs, there has almost always been a small constellation of students moving alongside Alix: asking questions, sending drafts at unreasonable hours, choosing colleges, changing majors, applying to graduate school, finding work, and returning years later with another decision to make. Many stay in touch long after the application portal closes.

That continuity is the part he trusts most.

Alix has a lot of answers, yes, and that’s a valuable perk of the diagnostic. But the sauce is the adaptive, slightly codependent, profoundly confidence-infusing joy of wading with him through American college symbiosis, and leaving with a college list, security blanket, and peace of mind.

“I had so much fun working with you and can’t even tell you how much it means to me that you were part of my journey getting to Stanford.”
Sara · Stanford University

“You put Ian in his truest possible light.”
Ian’s Mom · UC Berkeley

“I’m so happy to win the Alix Life Upgrade Sweepstakes.”
Jala · University of Chicago

“Not without you. Never. Thank you for your vote of confidence in me and for your guidance.”
Lauren · Wellesley College

Coupet family