Admissions consultants for arts and portfolio
Compare 132 admissions consultants who focus on arts and portfolio. Besides arts and portfolio, the most common focus areas are college admissions, college essays, athletic recruiting and financial aid and scholarships. They most often work with students, parents and creatives. Most charge $69 to $150 per hour or session.
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Lorraine Serra
Lorraine Serra is the founder and managing director of Portfolio College Counseling. She guides art, design and architecture students through college and graduate admissions. She has worked with these students for 17 years. Her clients include U.S. and international students, and transfer students. She helps them build a portfolio that stands out. She has also consulted for other educational consultants and coached as a volunteer with College Summit.
Adrienne Spraggins
Adrienne Spraggins is a college admissions consultant in Nashville, Tennessee. She helps students and their parents with the college search, applications, and final decisions. She used to be an admissions officer at Vanderbilt University, where she reviewed over 6,400 applications for admission and scholarship. She has guided more than 700 students. Her work covers athletes, arts students, students with learning differences, and students who want to study abroad.
Ann Rossbach
Ann Rossbach is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents through college admissions. She has worked with students for 18 years and has helped hundreds of them. Before consulting, she taught community college reading, English and study skills. She served 15 years on two Boards of Education, 12 as president. She also teaches educational consulting at the University of California, Irvine, and works from Rumson, New Jersey.
Barry Beach
Barry Beach is a college advisor and portfolio coach who helps students and parents with college admissions. He works with high school students, transfer students, international students, first-generation students and arts applicants. He spent several years scoring freshman applications at UC Berkeley, so he knows how that review works. He has also worked in admissions at two art schools. He has advised families independently since 2009 from San Rafael, California.
Cali Bottom
Cali Bottom is an independent college admissions advisor who helps students and their parents find and apply to colleges that fit. She runs EUREKA! College Prep & Admissions Advising in California. Her Find the Fit process builds a list of 20 to 30 suggested schools based on a student's interests, values and budget. She also teaches an SAT prep course and has helped graduate school applicants. Families use her online portal to schedule sessions and manage applications.
Calli Christenson
Calli Christenson is a college admissions consultant in Houston, Texas. She helps students and parents choose colleges and apply to them. She has worked in admissions and advising for over 15 years and started in undergraduate admissions at a small college in Southern California. She has visited over 200 colleges and spends several weeks each year on campus visits. She has led college counseling as a Director at a Houston-area private school.
Carmen Tercilla
Carmen Tercilla is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college selection, applications and the move to college. She runs CT College Tactics in Coral Gables, Florida. She has worked with students for more than ten years, after a long career in healthcare sales and marketing. She serves on the Board of Directors of IECA and chaired its Learning Differences Committee. She also works with students who learn differently.
Carolyn Francis
Carolyn Francis is an independent college admissions consultant in Englewood, Colorado. She helps students and parents with college search, applications and post-high school planning. Before consulting, she worked in retail and manufacturing, then served on the board of the Denver Waldorf School. She started as an ad-hoc college counselor for its high school. She visits college campuses across the US and the world, and she has worked with international students, first generation students and students with learning differences.
Cathy McMeekan
Cathy McMeekan is a college admissions consultant who guides students through choosing and applying to college. She has over twenty years of experience in admission and counseling. She spent 8 years as Director of College Counseling at Saint George's School in Spokane and has worked in admission offices at the University of Oregon, Northern Arizona University and Linfield College. She now runs McMeekan College Consulting LLC.
Chris Holzwarth
Chris Holzwarth is an independent college consultant who helps students and their families choose a college and plan a career. Chris uses a process called IDEAL to match each student's strengths and talents to schools and careers. Chris was a classical ballet dancer before moving into this work. Chris also gives talks at national conferences and partners with other consultants on arts admissions and assessments. Sessions run online, so students across the country can work with Chris.
Christine Luksza
Christine Luksza is an independent college admissions counselor who runs My Best College Plan Counseling. She helps high school students and college transfer students choose schools, write essays and build strong applications. She works with students in Sonoma, Marin and across the country. She leads a team of counselors and wrote the My Best College Planner book, which has a 2026/2027 edition. Her team supports students aiming for engineering, STEM, pre-med, athletics and the arts.
Doug Hundley
Doug Hundley is a college admissions counselor who helps students find and win admission to colleges in the US and around the world. He founded Encore after working with international students and creative thinkers. He has spent over 25 years as a university and high school educator. He has also served as an external examiner for both the College Board and the International Baccalaureate Organization. He holds a PhD in Theater and Cultural Performance.
Elizabeth Brotman
Elizabeth Brotman is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents through the college process. She runs Hawthorn College Advisors with a partner, Janet, and serves Marin County, the San Francisco Bay area, and beyond. She has guided over 100 families. Her work includes student athletes and visual and performing arts applicants. She has given presentations for arts applicants and built a curriculum and webinar for them.
Elizabeth Stone
Elizabeth Stone is a college admissions counselor and the Executive Director of Campanile College Admissions Counseling in San Mateo, California. She helps students and parents with college applications, essays, and transfers. She wrote the book The Better College Essay. Her Class of 2026 students were admitted to 73 different universities and earned over $3.4 million in merit scholarships. She is a professional member of the IECA.
Eunhwa Lee
Eunhwa Lee runs Lee College Counseling, an independent college admissions practice for students and their parents. She focuses on engineering, business, music, art, and STEM-bound students, especially pre-med. She holds an M.Ed in Educational Administration and has worked with hundreds of students. Before consulting, she taught English in middle schools and mentored students at Oregon high schools. She works in English and Korean.
Harriet Katz
Harriet Katz is an independent college counselor who helps visual and performing arts students get into college programs. She owns Creative Kid College Coach in California. Before counseling, she spent over 20 years in film production and animation. She began counseling arts students at Freestyle Academy in 2007. Her practice now serves domestic and international students. She helps with portfolios, auditions, essays, and college lists for undergraduate and graduate programs.
Jane Williams
Jane Williams is an independent educational consultant in Birmingham, Michigan. She runs College Admissions Consulting, which helps students and parents through the college application process. The team has helped hundreds of students, reviewed thousands of student profiles, and visited hundreds of campuses. Services cover college lists, resumes, essays, testing review, interview prep, and NCAA recruiting. The firm also works with students applying to Fine Arts, Music, Theatre, and Dance programs.
Jodi Glou
Jodi Glou is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their families find the right fit in post-secondary education. She founded Custom College Consulting, LLC. She has worked as an educator, tutor and academic planner for over 25 years. She taught English composition at Montgomery College and co-authored The PR Style Guide while on the faculty at American University. She also worked in public relations at Hill and Knowlton and Feld Entertainment.
Judith Painter
Judith Painter is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students find schools that fit them. She spent 10 years as an educator in the Sacramento public school system and earned her college counseling certification through UCLA. She visits over 25 campuses a year so her advice stays current. She has also guided high performing students from disadvantaged backgrounds through Peer Forward, ScholarMatch and College Tracks. Her students live on both coasts.
Kat Clowes
Kat Clowes is a college admissions consultant and the founder of March Consulting. She helps high school students and transfer students find colleges that fit them academically and financially. She also guides undecided students toward a major and career. Before starting her practice, she advised transfer students at Bakersfield College and worked there as the costume designer. She has been in practice for a decade and wrote the book Put College to Work.
Kelly B
Kelly B is an admissions counselor who helps students apply to college, graduate school, and specialized programs. She worked in admissions at Stanford, first in the undergraduate office and then as Head of Admissions at the Graduate School of Education. She ran graduate admissions alone and reviewed over 3,400 graduate applications each year. She also has deep experience with visual arts portfolios and works with students around the world.
Kyle Sykes
Kyle Sykes is a master's programs admissions consultant who helps aspiring filmmakers and media professionals apply to graduate programs. He is an award-winning director with a Stanford film degree and a USC film MFA. He worked as Director of Photography for The Hollywood Reporter round tables, shooting stars like Viola Davis and Adam Sandler. He also interned at HBO. He offers full application packages, essay help and interview prep.
Maggie Jackson
Maggie Jackson is an independent college admissions consultant in Marblehead, Massachusetts. She helps high school students build a college list, write essays, and finish applications. She founded Greystone Educational Consulting after working in university administration, including a role as assistant to the Provost at Boston University. She visits hundreds of campuses so she can picture each student on the campuses she suggests. She takes on a limited number of families at a time.
Malerie Simon
Malerie Simon is an independent college counselor who helps students and parents choose colleges and win admission. Malerie has 38 years of experience, including 23 years at a top public high school in New York and 20 years in private practice. Malerie has helped more than 1,700 students get into college. Malerie's students come from the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. Malerie serves on the board of the Hudson Valley chapter of GLSEN.
Maria Nicolacakis
Maria Nicolacakis is an independent college admissions consultant in Calabasas, California. She helps students and parents with college applications and essays, and she has a specialty in visual and performing arts admissions. She founded Act One College Counseling as a boutique practice. She is a former assistant dean and college professor, and a working performer and writer. She finished the UCLA College Counseling Certification Program with distinction.
Mary Anna Dennard
Mary Anna Dennard is the founder of College Audition Coach. Mary helps high school performers and their parents with college applications and auditions for acting and musical theater programs. Mary has worked in this field since 2000 and wrote two college audition guide books. Mary's team has coached hundreds of students across the country, and many were accepted to programs in the US and Europe. The practice also runs Moonifieds, an in person audition event in Dallas.
MaryPat St.Jean
MaryPat St.Jean is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their parents with the college search and application process. She founded Compass College Advisors in 2012. Before that, she worked in admissions at Providence College and NYU, where she led the team for the Stern School of Business. She also worked as a high school guidance counselor and as a career counselor at MIT.
Melissa Masland
Melissa Masland is an independent college admissions consultant in Walnut Creek, California. She helps high school students and their families choose colleges and complete applications. She started her practice in 2010 and earlier worked as a college counselor at Orinda Academy. In most years, about half of her students have learning challenges such as LD, anxiety or dyslexia. She has worked with students admitted to Carnegie Mellon and UCLA, and with students who need schools with strong support.
Miller Liberatore
Miller Liberatore is a college admission consultant who works with theatre students and LGBTQIA+ students. Miller holds two Barnard degrees, in sociology and theatre directing, and earned a C.A.C. certification at U.C. Berkeley. Miller also works as a theatre director and youth theatre teacher. Miller sits on the HECA Advocacy/DEI committee and serves on the board of Campus Q, a nonprofit for LGBTQIA+ college applicants and students.
Miller Liberatore
Miller Liberatore is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with the college application process. Miller is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and works with students across the United States. Miller has two focus areas: Support for LGBTQIA+ students and prep for performing arts and theatre auditions. Miller is a theatre director and co-chairs the Advocacy/DEI committee for HECA.
Nita June
Nita June is an educational consultant who helps students and families with college admissions. She specializes in visual arts portfolio guidance and performing arts audition coaching. She also works with transfer students, graduate students and athletes. Before starting her own practice, she taught high school English, literature and theater for almost a decade. She has focused on college counseling since 2012. She also directs and produces for her own theatre company.
Pat Cannon
Pat Cannon is a college admissions consultant with Ravinia College Consulting, a practice near Chicago's North Shore that serves students and parents nationwide. The counselors on the team each have over 30 years of experience helping high school students. They hold master's degrees in counseling psychology and school counseling. They have visited over 250 colleges and universities, and they build a custom college list for each student.
Paul Nicholas
Paul Nicholas is an independent college admissions consultant and the founder of Alma Mater Educational Services. She helps students and their parents with college applications, from early planning to decisions and follow-up. She is in the eleventh year of her practice and works with students across the country and around the world by Zoom. She earned her college counseling certificate at UCLA Extension and volunteered with Minds Matter in Los Angeles.
Reena Kamins
Reena Kamins is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs College, Career & Life, LLC in Flemington, New Jersey. Before consulting, she spent 15 years in higher education and school admissions, including as Director of Admission at The Pingry School. She also co-taught a college course on adjusting to college. She works with families in 20 states and on every continent except Antarctica.
Sarah Epstein
Sarah Epstein is a college admissions coach who helps students and parents with college search, applications and essays. She is a former admissions officer who worked at Rice University, where she read thousands of applications and helped make final decisions. She has more than 12 years in admissions and college counseling, in both university and high school settings. She focuses on highly selective colleges, liberal arts colleges, fine and performing arts programs, and students with learning differences.
Tali Nesher
Tali Nesher is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their families through the application process. She has guided students for nearly a decade. Her practice, UCollege Consulting, is based in Los Angeles and works with students across the United States. She has a focus on film, arts and creative majors, and she is a member of the Directors Guild of America. She also reviews film portfolios.
Tayo Amos
Tayo Amos coaches people who want to get into film school or build a career in film and television. Tayo is a director and a member of the Directors Guild of America. Tayo directed an episode of Chicago Fire and has had short films screen at Tribeca and Cannes. Tayo is an adjunct professor at USC and sits on its admissions committee. Tayo has coached five people so far.
Timothy O'Hair
Timothy O'Hair is an admissions consultant who helps students and families apply to selective colleges in the United States, the UK and Ireland. He also guides film school and MBA applicants. Tim spent twenty years in the film business and uses that skill in storytelling to shape applications. He holds a UCLA college counseling certificate and British Council training in UCAS and Oxbridge applications. He visits campuses in the US, England and Scotland.
Wendie Lubic
Wendie Lubic is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents with college admissions. She runs The College Lady in Washington, DC. Before consulting, she worked as a journalist and editor, and she taught graphic design at American University. She has worked with parents and students since 1996. She edits college essays, reviews art portfolios, and works to lower the stress of applying.
Bibi Malek
Bibi Malek is a university admissions consultant and the founder of Select College Admissions in West Vancouver, Canada. She helps students and parents plan and complete applications to universities in the US, Canada and the UK. She has more than a decade of experience in admission counseling. She works with athletes, aspiring architects and studio or performing artists. She meets clients in person or by live video, so families in other countries can work with her.
Chris Andersson
Chris Andersson is an independent educational consultant who helps arts students and their parents with college admissions. Chris is the founder and CEO of Nothing But Drama in New York City. Chris has advised arts students for over 12 years. Chris's clients study theatre, film, dramatic writing, music, dance, visual art, design and architecture. Chris also helps students look at programs in other countries, including Sweden, Hong Kong, Australia and France.
Cristine Butler
Cristine Butler is an independent educational consultant who runs College Click, a college admissions counseling practice in Valencia, California. She helps students and parents build a college list, understand the admissions process, and write strong essays. The practice has served over 1,000 students, including athletes and performing arts applicants. Its team includes former admissions officers from top creative schools. Cristine is a professional member of the IECA.
Dan Bisig
Dan Bisig is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. He is the CEO of College and Beyond, LLC in Florence, Kentucky, and a professional member of IECA. He advises on college selection, application and essay review, timelines, test prep, scholarships and college funding. He helps students find colleges that fit academically, socially, financially and geographically. He also considers athletic or artistic fit when it matters.
Ellen Kuppersmith
Ellen Kuppersmith is a college admissions consultant in Los Angeles. She helps students find colleges that fit them and guides them through the whole application process. She has over 18 years of experience in education and college advising. She began in the College Center at LACES, a Los Angeles magnet school. She opened her own practice, College Kupp, in June 2019. She also holds the NACAC International University Advocate Badge, so she can help students apply to universities around the world.
Eric Delehoy
Eric Delehoy is an independent college admissions counselor in Portland, Oregon. She helps high school students and their parents find the right college and apply. Her team has more than 30 years of experience in college admissions. Last year, over 50 high school seniors they worked with gained acceptance to colleges. Those students were offered $16 million in merit-based scholarships. The practice takes a limited number of students each year.
Eve Cooper
Eve Cooper is an independent college consultant in the Marin and Bay Area region of California. She helps high school students, college students and adults with college admissions and career planning. Her students have been accepted to Harvard, Yale, Brown, Amherst and many University of California campuses. She also advocates for students in student disability rights, art, technical and trade school admissions. She runs virtual college essay workshops after school and on weekends.
Ginger Apperson
Ginger Apperson is an independent college admissions consultant and the founder of College-Fit. She helps students and parents find colleges that match the student's interests, goals and budget. She has run her business since 2013 and has visited hundreds of colleges. She serves families in Marin and Sonoma Counties in California and beyond.
Heather Holly-Freitag
Heather Holly-Freitag is an independent college admissions consultant in Oregon. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college, from building a school list to finishing applications. She founded Options Abound Educational Consulting in January 2022 after a career in medical social work. She has a special interest in affordability and financial aid, and she offers pro bono and discounted services. She meets clients in person and on Zoom.
Irene Garcias
Irene Garcias is a college admissions consultant who works one-on-one with students in grades 10 to 12. She helps them apply to highly selective US and Canadian colleges. She plans the high school years, builds college lists, and guides essays and applications. She also teaches SAT, ACT and TOEFL prep. Her clients come from top Sao Paulo high schools and The American School of Paris. She takes only a limited number of students each semester.
Jennifer Rucier
Jen Rucier is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents find colleges that fit and apply to them. She runs College Search Solution in Washington. She has guided students since 2009. Her master's degree is in student development, so she looks at campus services and programs when she helps families judge a college's fit.
Jodie Small
Jodie Small is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs College Coordinators in Connecticut. Jodie has worked in secondary and college admissions for many years and brings a background in law, journalism and coaching. She matches each student's strengths to colleges where they can do well. She helps with essays, applications, financial aid and final decisions. She also offers add-on help for athletes, artists and students with learning differences.
Julie Laymon
Julie Laymon is a college admissions advisor and essay coach who runs Insight College Advising in Del Mar, California. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college, build a college list, and finish applications. Before advising, she spent fifteen years in management at Wells Fargo Bank. She also read over 800 applications for UC San Diego in 2017 to 2018, so she knows how that process works from the inside.
Karen Curreri
Karen Curreri is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She founded Curreri Educational Consulting in Corona Del Mar, California. She has more than thirty years of experience as an elementary, middle, high school and independent college counselor. Her team starts with freshmen and sophomores and guides juniors and seniors through the full application process. The firm focuses on plans that fit a student's age and lower anxiety.
Linda Keiles
Linda Keiles is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students, transfer students and post-grad applicants find schools that fit them. She owns Keiles College Consulting and is a co-founder of K&L College Advising. Since 2015, she and her partner have advised more than 350 students and families. They help with applications in the U.S. and abroad. They also run Creative Edge, a service for students applying to arts programs.
Linda Lounsbury
Linda Lounsbury is an independent college admissions consultant in Brooklandville, Maryland. She helps students and parents plan the college process with a personal timeline and a college list built for each student. Her packages start with a 2 hour meeting with the student and family. She also advises student athletes and students applying in the arts. She runs Right Fit Personalized Education Strategy and belongs to IECA.
Lori Hofstetter
Lori Hofstetter is an independent college consultant who helps high school students and their parents with college placement. She runs L. Hofstetter and Associates, College Advisors. Her firm works with families in the New Jersey, New York and Pennsylvania metro areas and across the globe. Services cover major assessment, college lists, resumes, portfolios, essays and interviews. Support by email and phone runs through the spring decision of senior year. The firm also offers career and internship help.
Lynn Pulito
Lynn Pulito is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. Lynn runs The College Planner, LLC in Glastonbury, Connecticut. Lynn's practice uses a four-step process called P.L.A.N. to build a college list, improve applications, and choose a final school. The practice also offers academic coaching for students from middle school to college. A separate career service covers resumes, interviews, and job search for students and alumni.
Michele Coleman
Michele Coleman is a college admissions and career counselor who helps students and families with the college search. She runs Coleman College Counseling as a sole owner, so each plan is built for the student and family. She also works with transfer students, college students who want career direction, and students applying to graduate and professional schools. Before this, she spent over 13 years in training, organizational development and outplacement. She works with athletes and arts students.
Michelle Myers
Michelle Myers is an independent college consultant who helps high school students and their parents find and apply to colleges that fit. She founded College Placement Advising in Walnut Creek, California. Since 2009 she has helped hundreds of students gain admission. She and her associates use their own personalized method to match each student's background and goals to the right schools. Her firm also serves students with arts and music portfolios.
Nancy Gorman
Nancy Gorman is an independent educational consultant who runs Education Taken. She helps high school students and their parents with college admissions. She works on the Common App, essay prompts and UC applications. Her clients have pursued performing arts, fine arts, pre-med, nursing, engineering, business and pre-law. She has also helped a student with physical therapy school applications. She is a professional member of IECA and works from Carlsbad, California.
Robin Levi
Robin Levi is an independent educational consultant in Oakland, California. She helps students and their parents find the right college and get through the application process. She has worked with hundreds of students, and they have been admitted to colleges across the United States. Her work covers building a college list, application support, and essay editing. She looks at fit in three ways: Academic, social and financial.
Sarah Rickelman
Sarah Rickelman is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college and graduate school admissions. She runs College Matters, LLC in Madison, Connecticut. The practice covers medical school, law school, BS/MD programs, the FAFSA, and affordability. It also works with prospective college athletes and students in the visual and performing arts. The team visits more than 75 colleges each year and has students in twenty-three states and six foreign countries.
Sean Hawes
Sean Hawes is an independent college admissions counselor in Bellingham, Washington. Sean helps high school students and their families prepare for, apply to, and graduate from a college that fits them. Sean founded Pathways to College Achievement in 2010. Sean meets students mostly in person across Whatcom and Skagit County.
Spark Admissions
Spark Admissions is a college admissions consulting firm that helps students and their parents. It is led by Rachel Rubin, who has a Harvard doctorate. While at Harvard, she published a study on how admissions officers at the top 75 American colleges make decisions. The firm builds its plans on that research. Each family works with one consultant, and a committee reviews every student's application. The team includes former admissions officers and PhD researchers.
Stephanie Bartling
Stephanie Bartling is an independent educational consultant in Syracuse, New York. She is the lead counselor and founder of New Bridge Educational Consulting. She helps students and parents with college admissions, from choosing courses in freshman year to comparing financial aid after acceptance. Her team includes a national-level essay writer and a professional artist who reviews portfolios. The team has supported hundreds of students. Each year she also gives free consulting to underserved students.
Suzie Castello
Suzie Castello is an independent educational consultant who helps international students apply to US colleges. She runs Explorers English and Educational Consulting in Rio de Janeiro state, Brazil. Her work covers US and global undergraduate admission, pre-college summer programs, and visual arts portfolios. She also tutors English for tests like the TOEFL iBT and the Duolingo English Test. She works with students in English and guides families in English and Portuguese.
Beth Farias
Beth Farias is an independent college admissions counselor who helps students and their parents through the college search and application process. She runs Farias College Admission Partners in North Attleboro, Massachusetts. She has 25+ years of experience in selective college admission and independent school college counseling. She has guided 100+ families, and her students have earned 500+ acceptance letters from colleges across the United States.
Cynthia Robey
Cynthia Robey is a college admissions consultant and founder of College-WATCH. Cynthia helps high school students, transfer students and their parents plan for college, write essays and build strong applications. Cynthia spent over 30 years in corporate recruiting, sales and marketing before advising families. Cynthia has visited over 150 colleges to learn each school firsthand. College-WATCH has worked with students across the country and around the world since 2006.
Gail Nichols
Gail Nichols is a college admissions consultant who runs College Trek Consulting. She helps students and their parents plan for college, from high school course choices to the final application. She has more than 12 years of experience and works with families across the US over Zoom. Her team includes essay editors. Packages start in junior year, and hourly help is also offered for families who need only certain parts of the process.
Joan Franklin
Joan Franklin is a college admissions consultant with College Docs in Chicago. She helps high school students and their parents with the college search, applications, essays, and choosing a college. Joan is a clinical psychologist with a Psy.D. She has counseled students in high schools and private practice for over twenty-five years. She works with partner Vicki Boudin, and the two keep a personal approach instead of a large corporate one.
Nick Soper
Nick Soper is an independent college admissions consultant who runs Creative College Prep, a boutique consultancy. He helps students and parents with college planning, especially arts-minded students and students who do many things but are unsure what they want to study. He has tutored standardized exams for more than 12 years. He is also a professionally trained actor and writer who coaches auditions and writing. His work is based in California.
Nola Healy Lynch
Nola Healy Lynch is an independent college consultant who helps high school students and their families prepare for, choose, and apply to colleges. She runs Northwest College Search and works with families in all 50 states through virtual sessions. She covers grades 8 through 12, including course planning, essays, financial aid paperwork, and arts portfolios. She is retiring and is not taking new long-term families right now.
Audrey Ludemann
Audrey Ludemann is an independent educational consultant in Wilton, Connecticut. She helps students and parents with boarding and private school admissions. Her practice, The Bertram Group, also advises on college and graduate school, non-traditional school options, and career and life coaching for young adults. The team interviews each student and looks at strengths, needs, goals, athletics, arts, service and social skills to find a school that fits.
Mattias Sparrow
Mattias Sparrow is a college essay coach who helps uncommon young people write their own essays. He works on Common App, supplemental, short and portfolio essays. He has worked with different learners for 20 years and has helped them write hundreds of essays. He holds a Yale degree in Comparative Literature and a Master's in Learning and Mind Science. He also led educational non-profits as Executive Director. He works under the name Uncommon Scribe.
Nichole Clark
Nichole Clark is a life coach, college admissions consultant and career development guide who works with high school and community college students. She runs LIFEmaps. She has spent three years teaching overseas, including service in the US Peace Corps in the Republic of Kiribati. She teaches as adjunct faculty at the Academy of Art University in San Francisco. She has helped artists apply to art schools and mentored AmeriCorps Health Corps volunteers through medical school applications.
Andrea van Niekerk
Andrea van Niekerk is an independent college admissions consultant with College Goals, based in Rhode Island. He guides students and parents through the college application process. He belongs to HECA. College Goals was founded in 2003 by a former Associate Dean at Brown University. Its team members average 15+ years in school counseling or college admissions. Each student works with one dedicated counselor, and all meetings are held online.
Betsy Klene
Betsy Klene is an independent college advisor who guides high school students through the admissions process. She uses a set plan with a yearly agenda for each grade from freshman to senior year. She built workshops for La Jolla High School that the school still uses. She also worked with the US State Department at college fairs for US universities in Singapore. She advises 20 to 30 students each year, including students who live far away.
Deb Shames
Deb Shames is an independent college admissions counselor who helps students and their parents find the right college and get accepted. She runs Personal Best College Coaching in Upper Saddle River, New Jersey. She works with families in the New York City area and online. Her services cover college applications, essay workshops, SAT and ACT tutoring, and financial aid support. She also advises transfer students, student athletes, and students in the arts.
Jody Dubuque
Jody Dubuque is an independent college consultant with Concierge College Consulting. Jody helps students and parents with college admissions, from building a school list to final acceptance. The practice pairs each student with one advisor for the whole process. Its advisors have worked with students across the country for more than a decade. The firm also helps with BS/MD programs, art and performance applications, and law and medical school applications.
Ling Huang
Ling Huang is a college admissions counselor who helps applicants to fashion programs. She works on essays, interviews, and application strategy. Ling studied fashion business at FIT and holds a master's in business analytics from Fordham. She has worked in the luxury industry at GQ, Brooks Brothers, and Christian Dior Couture. She now works as an inventory and CapEx analyst at OTB Group, the company behind Diesel, Maison Margiela, Marni, and Jil Sander.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Lorraine Serra | College admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Adrienne Spraggins | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Ann Rossbach | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Barry Beach | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Cali Bottom | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Calli Christenson | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Carmen Tercilla | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Carolyn Francis | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Cathy McMeekan | College admissions and Athletic recruiting | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Chris Holzwarth | College admissions and Arts and portfolio | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Christine Luksza | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Doug Hundley | College admissions and International students | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Elizabeth Brotman | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Elizabeth Stone | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Eunhwa Lee | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an admissions consultant for arts and portfolio cost?
Most admissions consultants charge $69 to $150 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include college admissions, college essays, athletic recruiting and financial aid and scholarships.
Prices and research
- Are College Admissions Consultants Worth It?
- How Much Do MBA Admissions Consultants Charge?
- How Much Does a College Admissions Consultant Cost?
- Coaching Packages and Prices: Hourly vs Monthly
- Coaching Rates Per Hour by Coach Type
- Coaching vs Therapy: Cost and Key Differences
- Do Certified Coaches Charge More?
- Executive Functioning Coach Cost
- How Many Coaches Are There?
- How Many Coaching Sessions Do I Need?
Other focus areas
Last updated September 2026.