Navigating Your Journey
To College and Beyond
Our Mission
LifeLaunch empowers families through highly personalized college advising and life counseling centered around your student’s unique needs and capabilities. We dive deep to mine insights that lead to the perfect college match, while making the journey less stressful and genuinely fun.
College Admission Services
We provide expert guidance throughout every step of the college admissions process - with an intense focus on data-driven analysis, persuasive storytelling, and a deep understanding of your student's passions. Whether your student is just getting started or finalizing applications, we help them craft a compelling, authentic, and strategic path to college and beyond.
About Jim
I’m Jim Giebutowski — a Harvard MBA, long-time business executive, and now an independent educational consultant who’s passionate about helping students discover and gain admission to the right college.
My college journey philosophy is anchored in really getting to know your kid! My process is moored to three guiding principles:
1. Geeking out on both quantitative and qualitative data is critical to finding the right college match.
2. Your story must be unique and persuasive. Generic essays from super smart students put admissions officers to sleep.
3. College search should not be about stress. It should be about love, learning and laughter!
Discipline Specialities
Our College Admission services are designed to support any field of study your student wishes to pursue, whether it’s liberal arts or pre-professional programs. In addition, we offer unique support for a number of academic and professional disciplines:
These disciplines present unique opportunities and challenges in both academic and extra-curricular settings. In many cases an application to a specific “school within a school” is required. Read on to learn how we can help.
Client Testimonials
"We worked with Jim the summer before my daughter’s senior year and wished we had connected earlier. His open and reflective manner on our calls helped him connect quickly with her, and his analysis of our initial college list focused in on each school with pros and cons clearly outlined. It was obvious he had listened to her goals. The process helped us adjust our visit list and we added several more schools based on his recommendations, which were spot on!
We don't know the outcome yet, but feel much better informed as applications go in. Again, I think if we had reached out earlier, we could have planned in a more focused way. Don't wait!"
Anjala T, Parent
"Jim is a great find and hiring him to support my son's college search was money very well spent. He really brought a special combination of high-level professionalism and personal warmth to the process, which made it both productive and enjoyable. After an intake interview to help focus his research, he provided a high-level overview of target schools tailored to my son's interests in political science and performing arts, supported by a detailed report with a wealth of useful facts and insights, which he also walked us through His knowledge, commitment, and perceptivity really shone through. It would have taken me an incredible amount of time to gather and assess that information on my own.
Laura C, Parent
Young Adult Development
("Daddy Life School")
As a society, we place a high premium on college education when preparing our children for real life. However, we often send them into the world totally unprepared for financial management, early career exploration, and the development and maintenance of their mind, body, and spirit. You’re got your student under your roof, so now is the time to start this dialog, and we can help. Our services are based on a unique real-life test program called “Daddy Life School”.
