Terms

Who we are, and what Admory is

Admory is a marketplace. Current college students and graduates (mentors) list what they offer; applicants and their families (clients) pay to reach them and to buy their work.

We are not an admissions consultancy and we do not employ mentors. Mentors set their own prices and decide what they take on. We take 10% of what a mentor earns, and we keep 100% of access fees.

The bright line: advice, never ghostwriting

Mentors advise, review and coach. They do not write, co-write or substantially rewrite anything a client submits as their own work.

Application materials sold as digital products are reference, not templates. Reusing one as your own is plagiarism. Every copy is watermarked with the buyer's name and the time they bought it, and doing this may cost you an application.

This is not a style guide. Ghostwriting removes an account, and we will say so to a school that asks.

Who may hold an account

Mentors must be 18 or older, and currently enrolled at the school they list, or a graduate of it.

Clients either confirm they are 18 or older, or the account is held by a parent or guardian. There is no account for an under-18 applicant. On a parent-held account the parent is the account holder, the payer, and the only person who can send or receive messages. An applicant may join sessions alongside their parent.

Safety rules for mentors

These are conditions of listing, not suggestions. Breaking them means removal.

• All sessions are booked and conducted through links Admory generates.
• No contact off Admory with any client you know or suspect to be a minor.
• No asking anyone to pay you, or to contact you, outside Admory.
• In-person campus tours happen in public campus locations only. If the account is parent-held, a parent or guardian must be present for the whole session. The client confirms this when booking, and you may always decline in person and offer a video tour instead.
• Report anything that worries you. Every profile has a report link, and safety@admory.io reaches a person. Where somebody's safety is involved we PAUSE an account immediately: it is frozen and hidden while we look, before any investigation. That is faster than the harm, and it is not a finding. Suspension or removal follows only if the report holds up.

How people are expected to behave

Two rules, and they apply to everyone: mentors and clients, in messages and in reviews.

• Slurs are refused outright. The message is not delivered, the sender is told why, the attempt is recorded, and repeated attempts cost the account. There is no version of this product where that language has a use.
• Ordinary swearing goes through, and a human may look at it. Swearing is not abuse, and we would rather people talk normally than learn to route around us.
• Both apply whatever stage a relationship is at. Working together earns the right to swap contact details; it does not earn a pass on the first rule.
• Contact details are removed from messages until you and the other person have completed a paid transaction. We keep the original of every message, including refused ones, so we can act on a report.
• Attacking somebody for who they are is the clearest case of the first rule, not a lesser one. Mentors may choose to say something about their heritage, faith or languages, and a product that invites that owes them a floor under it: slurs aimed at any of those groups are refused, and every profile and message thread has a report option that names harassment and hate directly.
• There is a daily limit on how many NEW conversations one account can start. It exists so nobody can message every student on the platform in an afternoon. Replying is never limited.

What you pay for, and what you get

Unlocking a mentor costs $14.99 once, and is permanent. It buys access to the person: their full profile, their real stats, and the right to message, book and buy from them. It includes none of their work.

An all-access subscription is $50 a month and unlocks every mentor while it is active. Access to a particular mentor stays open for 30 days after your last interaction with them; a message, booking or purchase resets that clock. Once you and a mentor complete a paid transaction, your access to them becomes permanent and never lapses, even if you cancel.

Everything a mentor sells is priced by them, with a $5 minimum and no maximum.

When you pay for a session or a written review, Admory holds the money until the work is done and the window for raising a problem has closed. It is not passed to the mentor before then. That is what makes a refund possible at all.

Inviting other people

Mentors have a link. If somebody signs up through it and then does something that counts, you earn $5, paid into your Admory balance and out with your usual payouts.

Two things count. If a mentor you invited is approved and goes live, you both get $5. If a client you invited makes their first payment on Admory, whether that is unlocking somebody, subscribing, or buying a digital product, you get $5. Signing up on its own earns nothing.

You can earn this 20 times, so $100 in total for now. You cannot invite yourself, and inviting the same person twice does not pay twice.

If the payment that earned a reward is refunded, the reward goes with it. Clients cannot invite people yet.

Refunds

The rule depends on what you bought, because the risks are different.

• Unlocks: if the mentor does not respond within 7 days, you are refunded automatically.
• Subscriptions: cancel any time. We do not refund part-months.
• Live sessions: if the mentor cancels or does not show, you are refunded in full. If you cancel, you are refunded in full up to 24 hours before the start; inside that window the mentor held the time and it is not refundable. After a session is marked complete you have 48 hours to tell us something was wrong, and nobody is paid until that closes. A session the mentor never closes out completes itself 72 hours after it was due to end, so your money is never held indefinitely by somebody forgetting.
• Written reviews: if the mentor declines, you are refunded in full. If they accept and then miss their stated deadline without delivering anything, you can cancel for a full refund. Once work has been delivered it is not self-service refundable. Raise a problem and a person reads the delivery. A delivery you do not respond to is accepted automatically after 5 days, and you then have 48 hours to object.
• Digital products: refundable until you open them, and not afterwards. You are told this before you pay, at the checkout, and again on the button that opens the file.

What is public, and what is hidden

Browsing and search are free and need no account. Until someone unlocks a mentor, the directory shows a first name and initial, the schools they have attended and whether each is verified, a broad field, a headline, a short bio, prices, and the names of any scholarships they list. It does not show a surname, a class year, a specific major, contact details, exact test scores, or the amount, year or essay behind a scholarship.

Before we launch, the public pages show a waitlist page instead of the directory. Mentors can still list, sign in and use their account throughout.

Messages have contact details removed until you and the mentor have completed a paid transaction. We keep the original of every message for safety review.

Masking protects contact details and identity. It is not anonymity: anything a mentor chooses to write about themselves is public, and we tell them so where they write it.

A school is marked verified only when the mentor has confirmed an email address at that school. That check happens once, when they confirm the address, and we do not repeat it, so a verified badge means the address was confirmed on that date, not that we have checked again since. Nothing else on a profile carries a verified badge. Scholarships, test scores, accepted-school lists and background tags are what the mentor told us, and we have not checked them.

A mentor's own words about themselves are self-disclosure, and they are searchable. Someone looking for a student with a particular background can find them by what they wrote.

Mentors may also choose optional background tags. These cover race and ethnicity, chosen from a fixed list, plus circumstances such as being first-generation, an international student or a transfer. Faith and language are not collected. These are self-disclosure and nothing else. We never infer them, never require them, and never ask for them at signup, and they are public if a mentor picks any. They exist so an applicant can find someone who has been where they are, which for a lot of people is the whole reason to use Admory. They carry no weight in how results are ordered, so choosing them cannot move a mentor up the page and declining them cannot move anyone down.

Ending things

You can stop using Admory at any time. We can suspend or remove an account that breaks these terms. Where someone's safety is involved we pause the account first, immediately, and decide afterwards: pausing is a precaution, suspension and removal are conclusions.

Mentors are expected to answer a first message. A listing that repeatedly leaves them unanswered may be hidden from the directory until the mentor picks it back up. This is not a penalty, it is the difference between a directory of people who reply and a directory of people who once signed up.

Deleting your account removes your profile and any files nobody has bought. Five things do not go, and you should know before you press it: anything somebody has already PAID for stays readable by the person who bought it; transaction records are kept because we are required to keep them; messages are kept for safety review and stay visible to the people you exchanged them with; the reason you give for leaving is stored separately so it outlives the account; and we keep a short record that the account existed, including your name and email address, to prevent fraud and abuse. We do not keep your work to improve our own service, and we never resell it.

That last one is deliberate and we would rather say it plainly than bury it. Without an email address, an account suspended for abuse can be deleted and recreated an hour later and we would have no way to know. The record holds your name, your email address, why you left, whether the account was suspended when it went, and a one-line summary of what it had. It does not hold your profile, your essays, your messages or your files, which are deleted as described above.

An account that has taken or made a payment cannot be deleted outright, because doing so would break the record of money that moved and strip buyers of work they paid for. In that case we deactivate instead: your profile comes down immediately, nothing new can be booked or bought, and what was already sold stays with its buyers.

Money already owed for completed work is still paid out.