Is Your 6th–9th Grader a “Polished Performer”…
or the Kind of Intellectual Leader
Top Colleges Actually Fight For?
Take this 2‑minute, research-backed quiz to see how admissions officers are likely to read your child’s profile in a post–affirmative action landscape—beyond grades, test scores, and polished essays.
The Intellectual Identity Audit
No complicated forms—just 5 questions.
Built specifically for high-achieving Black students in elite school environments.
Get a personalized profile + 12–16 month roadmap via email.
What You’ll Discover in the Intellectual Identity Quiz
How colleges are likely to interpret your child’s current profile: as a Polished Performer, Emerging Intellectual, Authentic Builder, or Intellectual Leader.
Where your student is strong—and where the gaps are in intellectual conviction, analytical rigor, voice, and leadership authenticity.
Whether their current activities are building real differentiation or just filling a resume (and what to shift before 10th–11th grade).
A tailored 12–16 month roadmap (delivered via email) that shows how to move from “strong but invisible” to “distinctive and undeniable” without burnout.
An invitation to our private, on-demand training ($1499 VALUE at no cost to you), where you’ll see how families like yours are turning this insight into competitive college admission options and serious merit aid.
Why This Quiz Is Different From Generic College-Prep Checklists
After affirmative action ended, MIT’s Black freshman enrollment dropped from 15% to 5%. Yale, Princeton, Harvard—similar story.
Meanwhile, most school counselors are still coaching students to polish essays instead of build authentic intellectual identities.
That gap is exactly what this quiz is designed to diagnose.
Traditional guidance optimizes for safe and polished.
Post‑AA admissions rewards distinctive, coherent, intellectually honest students.
This quiz doesn’t measure “how impressive your child looks on paper.” It measures how clearly colleges will see who they are and how they think—and how much time you have to shift trajectory.
This Quiz Is For You If…
You’re a Black executive or professional with a 6th–9th grader in a rigorous school (private, magnet, or competitive public).
Your child is a strong student—but you’re not sure colleges will see them as distinctive in a pool of other high achievers.
You’re skeptical that generic college-prep advice (add more APs, more clubs, more volunteering) will protect your child in a race‑neutral system.
You want an early, elite‑caliber roadmap that protects both your child’s options and their mental health.
This is not for families looking for last-minute essay help for 12th graders. Our work is about building substance early, not polishing at the end.
Why You Can Trust This Framework
I’m Nicole, Princeton alum and co-founder of Black Founder’s Formula.
I earned five Top‑20 acceptances, including Princeton, by turning a single, authentic leadership initiative—founding my school’s first African‑American Culture Club and driving district‑wide curriculum reform—into a coherent narrative colleges couldn’t ignore.
Since then, I’ve helped dozens of Black families across the country architect similar leadership portfolios for their 8th–10th graders, translating strong academics into entrepreneurial leadership and Top 20‑level options in a post‑affirmative action era.
our results
We build infrastructure, not panic plans: 100% of families create a personalized four-year roadmap that integrates academics, testing, and leadership, 95% of students design and launch a purpose-driven leadership project before 10th grade, and 78% report increased academic confidence and clarity within 90 days.
We convert that infrastructure into elite and best-fit outcomes: Students earn significant financial and merit aid and secure acceptances at institutions such as Princeton, Stanford, Duke, Dartmouth, Cornell, Notre Dame, Bowdoin, Kenyon, Carnegie Mellon, Vassar, USC, NYU, Boston College, Howard, and more.
$697 Value at your finger tips
This quiz distills the first diagnostic I run with every family we work with. You’re getting the same lens we use inside our paid program—free.