Become a Cohort Mentor

Share your college knowledge. Pass along your insights. Pay it forward, and have fun doing it!

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A Cohort mentor is someone who helps high school students navigate the college admissions process. You’re like the cool older sibling we wish we all had when we were applying to college. You take the stress, anxiety, and self-doubt out of applying for college.

What’s a Cohort Mentor?

You’ll guide high school students through the college application process with the help of Cohort HQ. You’ll lead a 2-hour monthly session on the college application process, provide weekly office hours, and do occasional offline review of provided materials.

What do I do as a Cohort mentor?

Cohort is a community of mentors, students, and support staff working together to make college admissions accessible to all. We’re all working to help students get the most factual, up-to-date advice on presenting the best version of themselves to great-fit colleges.

What’s Cohort?

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What do our current mentors love about Cohort?

“I've always enjoyed teaching but have never made the time for it. Being a Cohort Mentor has 100% scratched that itch for me.”

“I would do Cohort for free, except they pay me.”

“I'm never stressed about Cohort. It's well organized...I just show up and give advice!”

“I've loved the bonds I've begun to form with some of my students. I'm nervous but really excited to see where they get in!”

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FAQs

  • Most mentors report about 10 hours of work a month.

    That includes one monthly 2-hour college session, up to 2 hours of Office Hours a week (though most mentors report they rarely use up those 2 hours), and up to 1 - 2 hours of offline review and preparation a month.

  • No! You are not personally responsible for student outcomes. Your job is to help support students during the college application process. You’ll help them be the best version of themselves when applying.

  • No. Cohort HQ has you covered! We’ve visited campuses, read the literature, and done the research to make sure that our material is up-to-date, actually useful, and applicable to students. We’ve designed the curriculum to be simple for mentors to deliver, even if they lack prior college admissions experience. We’ll even train you on how best to present the material.

  • Unfortunately, no. Cohort operates in six-month cycles in order to give students continuity and mentors the time to guide students.

    However, you can quit after the 6 month cycle.

  • Mentor training is a one-time, 1.5 hour required training session mentors must attend. During mentor training, Cohort staff will teach you, future mentor, Cohort’s best practices for college counseling. Cohort staff will also cover the logistical aspects of being a Cohort mentor.

  • You’ll be responsible for one Cohort pod every six months. There are 10 - 15 students assigned to each Cohort pod.

  • Our first sessions will begin the week of March 17th and run for 6 months.

    Mentor training, which is about 1.5 hours, occurs in February.