C-Bound — Chart Your Course

All-Inclusive Programs

$150,000*

What is C-Bound

Give the summer back to your family.

Most families spend the summer before senior year watching the college application slowly take over. The stress is real, the timeline is unforgiving, and the work rarely produces the student's best.

C-Bound changes that. Five focused, private days in the Bahamas — one family at a time, no shared spaces — where your student works with two premier counselors and leaves with the application complete. While the family actually gets to enjoy a vacation together.

2:1 Counselor-to-
student ratio

*Covers counseling, accommodations (hotel and yacht), meals, and most activities for your student and immediate family.

Designed for families who value

A different kind of guidance.

Private Only

Discretion & Privacy

A private setting, a private yacht, a private process — one family at a time, never alongside others.

Results-Driven

Confidence, Not Just Completion

A finished application — and nothing left to second-guess come November.

2:1 Ratio

Undivided Attention

Two counselors, whose only job, for five days, is to support your student.

All-Inclusive

An Experience Worth the Trip

Luxury accommodations, the waters of the Bahamas, and time — finally — to exhale.

The Five Days

How the intensive actually works.

Pre-Trip

2 hours

Alignment

Preparation Sessions

Virtual sessions to review the school list, align on strategy, and begin Personal Statement brainstorming. By the time your student boards, the game plan is in place — no time lost on arrival.

Day 1

3 hrs

Hotel

Discovery

Orientation, Strategy & Narrative Design

Orientation, school-list review, and Personal Statement brainstorming. One counselor builds the essay outline with the student; the other begins shaping the Activities & Honors section — writing descriptions and sequencing entries for impact. First draft of the Personal Statement after dinner.

Day 2

6 hrs

Aboard

Core Application

Personal Statement Finalized & Resume Built

Personal Statement reviewed, revised, and refined to final. With the essay, activities, and honors in place, the Common Application itself is completed and locked. Resume built and polished. Supplements then organized school by school, with a strategy session to plan topics and identify reusable essays.

Day 3

6 hrs

Aboard

Priority Schools

Concentrated Supplement Drafting

Focused drafting on the top-priority schools with the most demanding supplements. One counselor drafts with the student in real time; the other edits finished pieces and prepares the next school's prompts — a two-track system built for output without sacrificing quality.

Day 4

6 hrs

Aboard

Completion

Continued Supplement Drafting

Remaining core schools drafted and completed. A light audit begins for repetition, missing prompts, and school-specific detail. The student does a consistency pass after dinner.

Day 5

3 hrs

Hotel

Send-Off

Final Review & Departure

Full application audit, final admissions-reader pass, and formatting check. A post-trip completion timeline is built school by school. Your student departs with everything in order — and the confidence to submit.

Post-Trip

8 hours

Through Submission

Follow-Up Hours with Katie & Andy

Eight additional hours to finalize remaining schools, review final drafts, and prepare for interviews — through to submission day. The relationship doesn't end when the yacht docks.

What your student leaves with

01

Common Application

Done, start to finish

02

Personal Statement

Finalized and polished

03

Activities & Honors

Submission-ready

04

Supplements — 8 Schools

Drafted, organized, tracked

05

Resume

Application-aligned

06

College & App Strategy

Early and Regular planning

07

Post-Trip Timeline

School-by-school plan

08

8 Follow-Up Hours

With Katie & Andy

The Experience

Between sessions, the Bahamas is yours.

Five days in the Bahamas doesn't only mean five days of work. While your student is in session, the yacht, the water, and the islands are yours to explore — the whole family free to snorkel, dive, discover private cays, and dine on the water. And when your student steps away from the desk, there's finally room to breathe. The setting is intentional: far from the everyday distractions of home, it creates the space for the reflection and introspection this work demands — which is exactly why it goes as well as it does.

The Setting

The heart of the experience is the yacht — three nights aboard, living on the water. Arrival and departure nights are spent ashore at a hotel. The route follows one of two paths — Eleuthera and Harbour Island, or Nassau and the Exumas.

Fully Crewed

Captain, crew, chef, and provisions arranged before you arrive. A preference sheet with the chef and an itinerary set with the captain tailor every detail in advance — nothing to plan, nothing to manage.

Total Privacy

One family, one yacht — no other guests and no shared sessions. What's discussed aboard stays aboard. The ocean is a remarkably effective boundary.

Two routes

Itinerary One

Nassau & the Exumas

Ocean Club · Private Yacht · Exuma Cays

Base on Paradise Island and spend your days exploring the Exumas by private yacht — 120 miles of protected water, deserted cays, and marine life unlike anywhere else. Swimming pigs, nurse sharks, and sandbars that appear at low tide and vanish by evening.

Paradise Island base — steps from one of the finest beaches in Nassau.

Private yacht, Exuma Cays — day sails through the chain, anchoring at the most secluded stops.

Thunderball Grotto, Staniel Cay, Compass Cay — iconic stops, each more remarkable than the last.

Itinerary Two

Harbour Island & Eleuthera

The Dunmore · Private Yacht · Pink Sand Beach

Fly into Harbour Island — widely regarded as the most beautiful small island in the Bahamas — and stay at an intimate boutique resort. Days unfold between the famous pink sand beach, the yacht, and the quiet colonial streets of Dunmore Town. No agenda, no crowd — only the water.

Boutique Harbour Island stay — private, impeccably appointed, the closest thing to a private estate.

Pink Sand Beach — three miles of rose-tinted shore, among the world's most beautiful.

Private yacht, North Eleuthera — day sails to Spanish Wells, Current Cut, and the Glass Window Bridge.

Your Captain · Kings of the Sea

Benjamin Snyder

Benjamin Snyder is a partner at Kings of the Sea and the captain for most C-Bound engagements. He maintains a deep mastery of these islands and his vessels, ensuring every logistical detail resolves into a seamless experience. His role is to curate a setting where the family can simply be, while the work remains the focus.

30′–130′

Private Fleet

Four Regions

South Florida · New England · The Bahamas · The Hamptons

Meet Your Counselors

Two counselors. One yacht. Forty-five years of experience and perspective.

Katie Burns

Founder · CuraMagis

Katie has spent more than 15 years on all sides of the admissions table — as an admission officer at MIT and Boston College, a director of college counseling, and a private counselor at a top international admissions consultancy. What families say about her, consistently, is that she becomes someone they wouldn't make a major decision without. She brings deep subject-matter expertise, directness about what actually moves the needle, and the kind of calm that makes a stressful process feel manageable. She also brings humor — because this is hard enough already.

15+

Years in admissions

MIT · BC

Admission officer

Specializations

STEMBusinessPre-MedInternational & TCKPerformers & ArtistsMakers & Innovators

Andy Snyder, Ed.D.

Founder · Snyder College Consulting

Andy has spent more than 30 years doing this work — as a tenured professor, director of college counseling at two leading New England independent schools, and an independent counselor who has guided more than 1,100 students and families. What that number doesn't capture is the heart of the work: the relationships built over time, the careful attention to who each student really is, and the belief that the right college choice is not simply the most impressive one — it is the one that fits. Different students need different paths. Andy helps them find theirs.

30+

Years counseling

1,100+

Families guided

Specializations

Liberal ArtsPre-LawNeurodivergent LearnersLGBTQ+ AffirmingVisual ArtistsTransfers

Together, Katie and Andy bring what no single counselor can — insider admissions perspective and 45 years of counseling experience, in the same room, with the same student, for five uninterrupted days.

Begin the Journey

Ready to chart your course?

Each voyage is built around a single student and their story. Tell us about yours — the rest, we'll plan together.

contact@c-bound.org

The Bahamas

Two counselors.One family. Five days.

Give the summer back to your family.

A different kind of guidance.

Discretion & Privacy

Confidence, Not Just Completion

Undivided Attention

An Experience Worth the Trip

How the intensive actually works.

Preparation Sessions

Orientation, Strategy & Narrative Design

Personal Statement Finalized & Resume Built

Concentrated Supplement Drafting

Continued Supplement Drafting

Final Review & Departure

Follow-Up Hours with Katie & Andy

What your student leaves with

Between sessions, the Bahamas is yours.

The Setting

Fully Crewed

Total Privacy

Nassau & the Exumas

Harbour Island & Eleuthera

Benjamin Snyder

Two counselors. One yacht. Forty-five years of experience and perspective.

Ready to chart your course?