They charge thousands!

WFAA reports.

College coaches: Are they worth the money?

HOUSTON – Every year, 20 million students in America apply for college – including Clear Lake High School graduate Alexis Lopez.

She was accepted to the number 10 ranked university in the country, Johns Hopkins University.

“I’m studying chemical and bio molecular engineering,” she said via Skype.

In high school, the Commended National Merit scholar, played the cello, had 5.2 GPA. and a college consultant.

“(She was) Almost like a second mom,” she said. “She kept me very close, very strict to the deadlines.”

Her coach was Jolyn Brand who operates Brand College Consulting from her Friendswood home. Brand has about 50 clients ranging from freshman to seniors and even has one seventh-grader.