Admissions consultants for boarding and private school
Compare 176 admissions consultants who focus on boarding and private school. Besides boarding and private school, the most common focus areas are college admissions, international students, college essays and grad school and PhD. They most often work with students, parents and teens. Most charge $69 to $150 per hour or session.
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AdmissionSight
AdmissionSight is an admissions consulting firm that helps students and parents apply to Ivy League and other top universities. The team covers college, transfer, graduate and MBA applications. Founder Eric Eng has over 15 years of experience and graduated from Princeton. He works one-on-one with only 15 students per year. Senior consultants include graduates of Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. Services also include essay editing, extracurricular planning and test tutoring.
Allen Koh
Allen Koh is the founder and CEO of Cardinal Education, an admissions consulting firm for private school, boarding school and college applicants. The firm has advised families for more than 20 years. It is a boutique practice with a team of consultants and tutors. It has offices in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. It reports a 98% top-three placement rate for its admissions clients.
Allison Matlack
Allison Matlack is an independent educational consultant who guides students and families through the school and college search and application process. She opened Matlack Educational Consulting in 2015, after 12 years as a consultant with AHP Educational Consulting. She began her career as an English teacher, dorm head and college counselor at Westtown School. She has served on the national board of IECA, the professional group for educational consultants.
Allyson Weaver
Allyson Weaver is the Principal Consultant at Sage Educational Advisors in Washington, DC. She helps families find and apply to independent and private schools for students in grades PK to 12. Before starting Sage, she spent over two decades in independent school admissions. She directed admissions at Francis W. Parker School in Chicago and led both the Middle and Upper School divisions at Sidwell Friends School. She works with families in DC, Maryland, Virginia and across the country.
Bara Sapir
Bara Sapir is a GMAT tutor who also coaches students on mindset and test anxiety. She has worked with hundreds of clients, including students who got into schools like Harvard, Stanford and INSEAD. Her clients also include physicians preparing for medical boards and executives at Fortune 500 companies. She brought mindfulness tools into test prep, using methods like hypnosis, NLP and tapping. She wrote The Full Potential Manual and created the MindFlow speed reading workshop.
Bill Gao
Bill Gao is an independent educational consultant who helps international students and their parents with US school admissions. He is a senior manager at A Dream Student Services, a studio that serves Chinese students in Los Angeles and Orange County. He has 6 years of study abroad work and knows SEVIS rules and I-20 issues in detail. He also helps students recover or change their visa status.
Brynnen Ford
Brynnen Ford is an independent educational consultant in Seattle who helps students and parents find the right college or school. She works with families from PreK through college. Her past roles include college faculty member, school administrator and teacher. She helps families sort out what matters most, learn how admission and financial aid systems work, and finish the whole application process or only the parts they choose. She meets in central Seattle or online.
Carfax Education
Carfax Education is a private education consultancy for ultra high net worth families around the world. It helps with school placement from nursery to boarding school, and with university admissions in the UK and US. The firm began in Oxford as Carfax Consultants and now has its global headquarters in London. Its team includes British and American specialists focused on areas like Oxbridge, Ivy League and Swiss international schools.
Chidilim Menakaya
Chidilim Menakaya is an admissions consultant who helps students get into dental school, Master's programs and private high schools. Chidilim is a Harvard dental student who is also finishing an MPH at Harvard's public health school. Chidilim leads a Harvard program that guides more than 75 underrepresented pre-dental students through applications. Chidilim also mentored pre-dental students through essay edits, mock interviews and application strategy at Harvard Medical School's HOPE Medical Scholars program.
Chris Hathaway
Chris Hathaway is the founder and lead advisor of Dimension Admissions in Costa Mesa, California. She helps students and parents with prep school, undergraduate and graduate school admissions. She is a Yale educated teacher and consultant, and an essay specialist who focuses on personal narrative. Her firm uses a 4-D approach built on determination, direction, discovery and distinction. She is a professional member of the IECA. 93% of her clients arrive by word of mouth.
Christine Chapman-Fierz
Christine Chapman-Fierz is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with private school, college and graduate school admissions. She runs Chapman Education from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. She has worked in admissions since 1991 and has coached over 5,000 students. She once served as the first Director of International Students at a Boston-area independent school. She also runs Next Act Consulting, which helps parents plan their next career step after their kids leave for college.
College Essay Advisors
College Essay Advisors is a New York team that coaches students on admissions essays. Advisors work one-on-one with applicants to plan, edit and refine their essays. The team has advised for more than 10 years and covers undergraduate, graduate, medical, business, law, international and private school applications. They also publish a book, a podcast, video tutorials and prompt guides for the Common App, supplements and UC essays.
David Beecher
David Beecher is an independent education consultant in Madison, Connecticut. He advises families on prep and boarding school placement, college admissions, athletic recruiting, and students with learning differences. He co-founded Sound Consulting with Chrissie Pape. He is a former college athlete, a former NCAA Division 1 coach and athletic administrator, and spent 9 years as a Director of Admission. He also leads Prep Hockey Advisors, a division of the firm.
Deans of Admissions
Deans of Admissions is an admissions consulting firm that guides students and families into selective universities in the United States and United Kingdom. Dean D. Blackman, a former Dean of Admissions at both Harvard and Columbia, founded it more than three decades ago. Every advisor on the team held a senior decision-making role in a top admissions office. The firm covers boarding schools, undergraduate, master's, PhD, business, law and medical programs.
Deb Rooney
Deb Rooney is an independent educational consultant who helps teens and their parents with college and private school admissions. She runs Rooney Education in Watertown, Massachusetts. Her work covers choosing the right school, test prep, applications, and final admission. She has worked with teens for over 25 years. She also teaches executive functioning skills and offers services built for student-athletes. She has written a book and works with Team IMPACT.
Elizabeth Cashel
Elizabeth Cashel is an independent educational consultant who helps students and families with college and boarding school admissions. She founded Cashel Educational Consulting and works from Fishers Island, New York. She spent over twenty years working with and in schools across the United States and Europe. She once led upper school admissions at a New York City independent school. She serves families in the US and around the world, including expats.
Elizabeth Hall
Elizabeth Hall is an independent educational consultant who guides families through boarding and private school admissions. She runs Hall Educational Resources, a boutique practice in Exeter, New Hampshire. She helps parents and students find schools that fit the student's talents, goals, and learning needs. She is a Professional member of IECA and won the Irving Katz Memorial Award in 2025. Every family starts with a one-hour Zoom session with her.
Hailee DeMott
Hailee DeMott is an independent college admissions consultant in Las Vegas, Nevada. She guides students and families through the admissions process from start to finish. Before starting her own practice, she worked in admissions at Westminster University in Salt Lake City, where she recruited top scholars. She also taught college transition courses. She served more than ten years as the Las Vegas Regional Coordinator for the Higher Education Consultants Association.
Hilary Lehn
Hilary Lehn is an independent educational consultant in White Rock, British Columbia. She helps students and parents with college and university admissions in Canada, the United States and abroad. She has worked on both sides of the admissions desk for thirty years. Her career includes admissions work at US universities and counselling in US and Canadian independent schools, dating back to 1994. She works one-on-one with each family and has helped hundreds of students.
Jennifer Sachs
Jennifer Sachs is the founder of Hyde Education, an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with boarding school, private school and college admissions. She has 32 years of experience in Chinese and American education. She helped plan bilingual and international schools in China and trained nearly ten thousand teachers. She wrote the book "The Road to Top American High Schools" and works with families in Chinese and English from Green Valley, Arizona.
Jing Jing
Jing is an independent educational consultant who leads PrepEdu Consulting LLC near Boston. The practice helps students and parents apply to private middle schools, boarding high schools, and US colleges. Chinese families are the main clients. The team includes a former Harvard interviewer and a former boarding school admissions officer. The site lists 262 college offers as of April 22, 2026. Students have won places at Phillips Academy, Phillips Exeter, MIT, and Caltech.
Kamali Clora
Kamali Clora is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into master's programs, MBA programs and private high schools. He also works as a Division Administrator at Rush University Medical Center. Before that, he ran a free clinic as Executive Director and taught healthcare finance and policy at Yale. He holds an MPH from Yale and is finishing an MBA at Kellogg. He focuses on applicants who lack insider networks in academia or healthcare.
Kimberly Kim Chorosiewski
Kim Chorosiewski is a college and school planning counselor at McMillan Education. She helps students and families find the right school or college, with a focus on athletic recruiting. She spent 25 years as an educator, coach and administrator in schools and colleges. She also chairs the firm's Athletic Recruiting College Planning area. She was an All-American in field hockey and lacrosse and played for the US National Team in both sports.
Lloyd Paradiso
Lloyd Paradiso is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with admissions to secondary schools, colleges, graduate programs and professional programs. He works from West Chester, Pennsylvania. He is a former teacher, coach, administrator and department head, and he has taught as a college adjunct professor. He built a placement model for international students that he says is used as a standard. He has worked with hundreds of families.
Marilyn Engelman
Marilyn Engelman is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents choose colleges, schools and therapeutic programs. She leads Educational Directions in Westborough, Massachusetts. She has worked as a special educator since 1971 and has taught at several universities. She has advised 1000's of students of all abilities. Her practice also offers psycho-educational and neuropsychological assessments, which is rare for an admissions consultant.
Mary Miele
Mary Miele is the founder and CEO of Evolved Education Company in New York City. She is also Director of College Counseling. She guides families through school admissions from nursery through college, and her firm also offers tutoring and executive function coaching. She has more than 30 years in education and has taught in the NYC DOE, at Hunter College, and at several independent schools. She created the Evolved Education Paradigm and hosts the Be Evolved Podcast.
Maurice Frumkin
Maurice Frumkin is an independent educational consultant in Brooklyn who helps families with school admissions from Pre-K through college. He founded NYC Admissions Solutions. He is a former Department of Education official and a former independent school admissions officer. He has helped hundreds of families, trained hundreds of school counselors, interviewed hundreds of students, and reviewed thousands of school applications. He also writes about topics like the SHSAT and independent school essays.
Pam Tedeschi
Pam Tedeschi is an independent educational consultant in Potomac, Maryland. She helps students and parents find the right day school, boarding school, or therapeutic program. She has worked in the field since 1999 and is a Certified Educational Planner. She meets with the child first, before the parents, to learn the child's strengths and needs. She is the only consultant in her office, so clients speak with her directly.
Penny Linsenmayer
Penny Linsenmayer is an independent educational consultant in Bellaire, Texas. She runs Pathway Admissions and helps students and parents with the college admissions process. She works alongside her colleague Alexandra. Their team has guided hundreds of students over fifteen years. Their class of 2023 earned over 18 million dollars in merit-based scholarship money and received offers from 200 different institutions. Penny is also a Birkman Certified Consultant.
Peter Braverman
Peter Braverman is an independent educational consultant in Bethesda, Maryland. He helps students and parents apply to boarding schools, day schools, parochial schools, and public magnet schools. He worked at independent schools in the Chicago and Washington, DC areas for 23 years. He has sat on admission committees that reviewed hundreds of applicant files. He also serves on the IECA Schools Committee and knows admission officers in the DC area and across the US.
Rufaro Jarati
Rufaro Jarati is a college admissions counselor who helps students plan their path from freshman year of high school to college enrollment. Rufaro has coached over 100 students, both from the US and from countries like China, South Korea, South Africa and the UAE. Past roles include strategy consultant at Crimson Education and head admissions consultant at PrepStart, where Rufaro led a team. Clients have gained admission to schools like Cornell, Vanderbilt and Northwestern.
Terry Mady-Grove
Terry Mady-Grove is a college admissions consultant and Certified Educational Planner. She helps families choose the right school and program for their student. Before consulting, she was a founding partner of a law firm and worked as an attorney for over 25 years. She also interviewed applicants for Cornell University for over ten years, so she knows what makes an application and interview succeed. She runs Charted University Consultants, LLC.
Tess Robinson
Tess Robinson is an independent educational consultant who guides students and parents through boarding school, college, and graduate school admissions. She is Managing Partner and Director of Admissions Counseling at Team Education Consulting, a firm with 40+ years of experience. Tess has 20 years in education advising and 11 years in finance and marketing. She holds a Harvard MBA and coaches in four languages: English, French, Spanish, and Mandarin.
Valeria Avirett
Valeria Avirett is an independent educational consultant who helps families choose and get into PK-12 schools in Miami, Broward and Palm Beach. She founded Miami School Advisors and has worked nine admission seasons. Before consulting, she spent years relocating Fortune 500 executives. She has toured close to 100 schools in person. She reports a 95% acceptance rate, with students admitted to one or more of their chosen schools. Many of her families move to Miami from other countries.
Wendy Wilkinson
Wendy Wilkinson is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with boarding school, private school and college admissions. She is Co-President of School First, which she leads with Linda Talton. Wendy has over 30 years of experience admitting and placing thousands of students from preschool through college. She is a former admissions and placement professional in independent schools and colleges. She works from Washington, DC.
Aaron Whitmore
Aaron Whitmore is an independent educational consultant in San Francisco. He helps parents and students choose and apply to schools, including boarding and private schools. He works with Little, Molligan & Whitmore, a Bay Area firm for preschool through grade 12. The firm has helped over 2,500 families. Aaron guides families through middle school and high school decisions, and he is an IECA Professional member.
Anne Sheppard
Anne Sheppard is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents choose and apply to American boarding schools. She founded AFS Educational Consulting in Mount Pleasant, Michigan. She has more than 20 years of experience in highly selective education admissions. She serves Chinese families looking at U.S. schools and families within the United States. Every client works directly with her, not a junior staff member.
Annie Reece
Annie Reece is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents find and apply to boarding schools. She runs Right Fit Educational Consulting in Topsfield, Massachusetts. She works with families across the country. Her work covers traditional and junior boarding schools, athletic admissions, and schools for students with learning differences. She also advises on gap years and summer programs. She builds a school list for each student after detailed meetings with the family.
Ben Mason
Ben Mason is an independent educational consultant who runs Mason Associates in Shelburne, Vermont. The firm helps young adults, teens and children find the right school or treatment setting when their current one is not working. Services include boarding school placement in the U.S. and abroad, therapeutic school and wilderness program placement, and college guidance for students in recovery. The practice has served families since 1987.
Bryan Ide
Bryan Ide runs KEY Education, an admissions consulting firm in Vancouver. The firm helps students and parents with private school admissions and university planning. Its programs cover ages 2.5 to Grade 12, starting with early years and going through to top universities in the US, UK and Canada. The team includes former private school and Ivy League admissions staff. KEY also runs its own preschool, KEY LaunchPad Academy.
Cambridge Tutors
Cambridge Tutors is an educational consultancy that helps students get into the universities of Cambridge and Oxford. Its tutors are Cambridge and Oxford experts who teach one-to-one, online or in person. They help with personal statements, admissions tests and mock interviews. They also tutor 11+, 13+, GCSE, A level and IB students. The firm runs free Maths GCSE revision workshops and university prep summer courses.
Cammie Bertram
Cammie Bertram is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents choose and apply to boarding and private schools. She runs Campus Direction from Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. She has worked with students at the junior, secondary and college levels for nearly thirty years. She also advises families whose child needs a therapeutic environment. She is a Certified Educational Planner and an IECA Professional member.
Carol Kinlan
Carol Kinlan is an educational consultant who places students in independent day and boarding schools. Carol works with families in the Boston area and across the Northeast. Carol has over 13 years of experience and has worked with hundreds of families. Many of Carol's students have learning, attention or executive function challenges. Carol knows the admission teams at many Northeast schools, both well-known and lesser-known. Carol's offices are in Chestnut Hill and Osterville, Massachusetts.
Claire Law
Claire Law is an independent educational consultant in Charleston, South Carolina. She helps high school students and their parents choose and apply to the right college. She also guides families toward boarding schools and special-needs programs. She founded Educational Avenues in 1999. Every family gets a financial aid affordability review. She wrote a book on controlling college costs using the Affordable Family Contribution.
Clare Anderson
Clare Anderson is an independent educational consultant in Bethesda, Maryland. She helps families choose day schools in the Washington, DC area and boarding schools across the country. She has helped more than 500 families and visited more than 100 schools. She has over 20 years of experience. Her focus is finding schools that support both a child's academic success and emotional well-being.
Dana Doering
Dana Doering is an independent educational consultant in Seattle, Washington. Dana helps students and parents with boarding school and private school admissions. Dana is the Executive Director of Dean Doering & Associates and its lead therapeutic educational consultant. Dana is also the senior psychiatric mental health clinician on the team. The practice has more than 75 years of combined experience and works with families on placement and planning.
Debbie Lange
Debbie Lange is an independent educational consultant in Atlanta, Georgia. She helps families choose K-12 private and boarding schools for their children. Before starting her own firm, she spent more than 20 years in education as a teacher and as director of admission at two Atlanta schools. She also helps families who are moving to the Atlanta area and families looking for schools with specialized learning environments.
Debbie Seresky
Debbie Seresky is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents choose day and boarding schools. She runs Schoolsearch, Inc. in Norwood, Massachusetts, and has worked with the firm since 2005. She guides families through each step of the school search and application process. She also oversees the scheduling and administration of ISEE and SSAT exams at Schoolsearch, an official testing site for both tests.
Debra Landesberg
Debra Landesberg is a college admissions consultant and the president of My College Resource in Florida. She helps students and parents plan for college, from high school choices to the final application. She has guided students for over two decades. She has served on national and regional boards. Families she has worked with have gained acceptance to more than 200 colleges and universities in the United States and abroad.
Dhruti Vasavada
Dhruti Vasavada is an independent educational consultant and the principal consultant at Sapience Admissions in Cupertino, California. Dhruti works one-on-one with students and parents on college admissions, medical school admissions, and private high school admissions. Dhruti also guides international students applying to American universities. Dhruti's students have gone on to schools such as Stanford, Harvard, MIT, UPenn/Wharton, Columbia Engineering and UC Berkeley. Dhruti is a member of the IECA.
Dick Baroody
Dick Baroody is an independent educational consultant in Hilton Head, South Carolina. He helps young adults, teens, children and their families find schools and therapeutic programs that fit. He is a four-time headmaster and college dean with 54 years of work in education. For the last 15 years he has focused on traditional, therapeutic and transitional living placements. He works with families across the U.S. and takes no pay from schools or programs.
Eleanor Munson
Eleanor Munson is an independent educational consultant in Dallas, Texas. She helps parents find the right private school for their child, from pre-school through high school. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology. She holds an IECA specialty designation in Learning Differences and focuses only on school placement.
Elizabeth England
Elizabeth England is an independent educational consultant who coaches college applicants and their parents. She runs EE College Coach in New York. She gives one-on-one help with college essays, applications, transfer applications, graduate school essays and high school admissions. Her students have gone on to schools such as Johns Hopkins, NYU Tisch and the University of St Andrews. She also runs summer boot camps and offers writing coaching. Sessions happen by Zoom or in person.
Enjoy Education
Enjoy Education is a London tutoring, homeschooling and education consultancy. It helps families with private tuition, school and university admissions, and home education from nursery to university. Kate Shand founded it in 2006. The team has placed tutors in over 40 locations, from the Côte d'Azur to the Cayman Islands. It also supports families through moves, global travel and major exams.
Erin Avery
Dr. Erin Avery is a college and boarding school admissions consultant who helps students and their parents choose where to apply. She runs Avery Educational Resources, LLC in Red Bank, New Jersey. She wrote the book The College Labyrinth: A Mindful Admissions Approach. She starts with the student, not the school, and builds a plan around self-discovery. She also speaks about student anxiety and meets with families worldwide by video.
Geoff Stearns
Geoff Stearns is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college and boarding school admissions. He runs Stearns Group from Waccabuc, New York. He has placed hundreds of students at selective schools. He also draws on a global network of certified consultants, college coaches, athletic directors and tutors, and matches each family with the right consultant. The first hour is free.
Heather Eckert
Heather Eckert is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with boarding school, day school and college admissions. She runs Eckert Education Group in Lakeville, Connecticut. Her work draws on over three decades of experience in education. She takes on a limited number of families each year. She also runs a 3-day summer teaching institute that she brings to schools to train teachers and administrators.
Henry Mulzac
Henry Mulzac is an independent educational consultant in Arlington, Virginia. He helps students and parents with private and boarding school admissions. His firm, Henry Charles Consulting, also advises student athletes and international families. He is a Professional member of IECA. His work covers school research, fit, application plans, and support from the first talk through enrollment.
Ibrahim Firat
Ibrahim Firat is an independent educational consultant in Houston, Texas. Ibrahim runs Firat Education, which helps students and parents with college admissions, private school admissions, test prep and tutoring. The firm has worked in educational consulting since 2008. Families start with a one hour Roadmap session, an intake questionnaire and a baseline test analysis. Services run by Zoom and in person, for students from elementary school through graduate school.
Jeffrey Haig
Jeffrey Haig is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents plan for college. He founded Strategic College Consulting in California. His firm covers college planning, transfer planning, prep school, grad school, international students and paying for college. He also hosts seminars and workshops in the United States and abroad. One client was accepted to 7 of 8 Ivy League universities and earned a full scholarship to Yale.
Jen Rigsby
Jen Rigsby is an independent educational consultant in Denver, Colorado. She helps parents and students choose schools, prepare for admissions and handle special education plans. She runs Front Range Educational Consulting. Her services cover public, charter and private schools in the Denver area. She also helps families moving to Colorado and families of gifted children. She is a professional member of IECA and holds an M.Ed.
Jenny Wan
Jenny Wan is a college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with college and secondary school placement. She founded Sage Hill Consulting in Bedford, New Hampshire. She has worked with families in both China and the United States and knows Eastern and Western education systems. She also holds 20 U.S. patents. Her team offers school placement, academic counseling and tutoring, and stays connected to students through high school, college and grad school.
Julia Gooding Warner
Julia Gooding Warner is an independent educational consultant in Freeport, Maine. She runs One Sky Education, a boutique firm that guides students and parents through K-12, college, and graduate school admissions. She has worked more than a decade in schools and in private practice. Her work adds mindfulness, inner resourcing, and resilience training to the application process. She is a professional member of the IECA.
Karen Mabie
Karen Mabie is an independent educational consultant in Glencoe, Illinois. He helps parents find therapeutic boarding schools, teen residential treatment programs, and wilderness therapy programs for their children. He runs The School Solution, a practice founded over 20 years ago. He also guides families to young adult programs. Therapists refer to him when a child is hard to place. He is a professional member of IECA.
Kate Lindseth
Kate Lindseth is an independent educational consultant in Princeton, New Jersey. She helps students and parents with private school and college admissions. She founded Lindseth Education Consulting after more than a decade on Wall Street, where she was a Vice President at Rothschild Inc. She holds a college counseling certificate from UCLA. She visits campuses and meets admissions officers to guide school choices. Her work centers on helping each student find and tell their own story in the application.
Kristin Ryder
Kristin Ryder is an independent educational consultant in Denver, Colorado. She helps families choose schools for their children, from preschool through high school. She has over 30 years in education as a teacher, administrator and admissions director. Her most recent role was Director of Admissions at Graland Country Day School. She runs Ryder Educational Consulting and also helps with boarding school searches, moves to Denver, and school-related challenges.
Laurie Gordon
Laurie Gordon is a college admissions consultant who helps students and families find schools that fit and that they can afford. She works with Sandweiss Test Prep & Admissions Consulting. Before this work, she built a background in mental health counseling and social work. She has spent more than 15 years in test prep and college planning. She also volunteered as a Virtual College Coach with ScholarMatch, helping low-income, high achieving students apply to colleges.
Lindsey Valente
Lindsey Valente is an independent educational consultant who helps families choose and enroll in independent and private schools around Boston. She works with students from preschool through grade 12. She takes on only a small number of families each season, so each family gets a highly individual process. She builds a student portfolio, creates a custom school list, and acts as an advocate and liaison to top schools. She is based in Newton, Massachusetts.
Lori Day
Lori Day is an independent educational consultant who helps families with private school admissions for Pre-K to grade 8. She is an educational psychologist by training and has worked in education for over 35 years. She was Admissions and Financial Aid Director at The Fenn School and Head of School at Odyssey Day School. She works with families in Massachusetts and with families relocating from other places. She does not assist with high school or college admissions.
Maria Markus
Maria Markus is an independent educational consultant in Stamford, Connecticut. She helps students and parents with college and boarding school admissions. Her firm, Markus Education Int., has worked with students for over twenty years. She has helped over 300 students gain admission to their top-choice schools. Her clients get help choosing colleges, preparing for tests, writing essays, and deciding where to enroll. She is a professional member of IECA.
Marta M Miskolczy
Marta Miskolczy is an independent college advisor who runs Prep to Enroll in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She helps students and their families with high school planning, boarding schools, college placement, gap year plans and college transfers. Her recent students earned acceptances at Brown, Tufts, Colby College and the University of Colorado Boulder. Some won large scholarships, including $82,000 at Santa Clara University. She builds each plan around fit, match and cost.
Matt Gray
Matt Gray is an independent educational consultant who helps students and families choose and apply to colleges, private secondary schools and graduate programs. He manages Academic Counseling Group in Glencoe, Illinois, which has served families since 1978. Before this work, he spent eight years as a commercial litigator at Greenberg Traurig. He has focused on college and graduate school counseling since 2013. The firm is paid only by clients, never by schools.
Milton Little
Milton Little is an independent educational and therapeutic placement consultant with Burke-Little & Associates in Durham, North Carolina. He helps families find the right school or treatment program for a child, teen or young adult who is struggling. The practice has offices in Durham, Richmond and Nashville. It has worked with families across the country and abroad for thirty years. It takes no payment from the programs it refers to.
Missy Evans-Moreland
Missy Evans-Moreland is an independent educational consultant in Baltimore, Maryland. She helps students in 9th to 12th grade and their families find and apply to colleges, and place students in independent day and boarding schools. She was Director of Admissions at Trinity Washington University in Washington, DC. She also worked in admissions at Michigan State University, Towson University and Notre Dame of Maryland University. Her firm is Moreland & Associates Educational Consulting.
Nathalie Willis-Davis
Nathalie Willis-Davis is an independent educational consultant who helps international families choose schools in Portugal and Spain. She also guides teens and their parents through applying to US colleges. She runs Tendoria Educational Consulting from Cascais, Portugal. She contacts schools for families, sets up appointments and helps with enrollment. Her knowledge of Lisbon area schools and their administrators is a strength that families mention often.
Neil Chyten
Neil Chyten is the founder of Avalon Admission in Newton, Massachusetts. He guides students and parents through college, graduate school, and private school admissions. He has worked with students for four decades, since 1984. His practice covers Ivy League applications, college transfers, and counseling from early grade school on. Avalon also offers test prep, academic tutoring, and research project mentorship. Sessions are available online and in person.
Patty Ziplow
Patty Ziplow is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college and K-12 school applications. She co-founded A2Z Admissions Consulting Group with Ami Hoffman. She is a Professional member of IECA and is based in Valley Stream, New York. Her practice offers full packages and hourly consultations. Support comes through in-person and video meetings, phone sessions, email and text.
Rachel Sobel
Rachel Sobel is a Certified Educational Planner who helps families choose colleges and other next steps for students with learning disabilities. She founded College Possibilities, LLC in Tucson, Arizona. She holds a Ph.D. in Counselor Education and has more than 35 years of experience as a psychotherapist, college counselor and educator. She visits colleges and therapeutic programs around the country and works with students across the United States.
Rebekah Jordan
Rebekah Jordan is an educational consultant who helps families find the right school or program for a child, teen or young adult. She is a partner and founding consultant at Crossbridge. She has spent 25 years in education as a teacher, head of school, tutor and consultant. She created The Peak School in Frisco, Colorado, for students who learn differently. She has helped close to a thousand students and families.
Roger Cibella
Roger Cibella is an independent educational consultant in Seattle who helps students and parents with college and private school admissions. His firm, Cibella & Associates, has worked with clients since 2005. He draws on more than thirty years as an administrator and teacher in private independent schools. He guides families from the first assessment through school placement. The practice now works with returning families only.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| AdmissionSight | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Allen Koh | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Allison Matlack | College admissions and Boarding and private school | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Allyson Weaver | Boarding and private school | $170 to $310 an hour |
| Bara Sapir | MBA admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Bill Gao | International students and Boarding and private school | $170 to $310 an hour |
| Brynnen Ford | College admissions and Financial aid and scholarships | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Carfax Education | College admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $80 to $220 an hour |
| Chidilim Menakaya | College essays and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Chris Hathaway | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Christine Chapman-Fierz | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| College Essay Advisors | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| David Beecher | College admissions and Athletic recruiting | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Deans of Admissions | College admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Deb Rooney | College admissions and Boarding and private school | $150 to $225 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an admissions consultant for boarding and private school cost?
Most admissions consultants charge $69 to $150 per hour or session.
What else do these admissions consultants help with?
Common focus areas include college admissions, international students, college essays and grad school and PhD.
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Last updated September 2026.