Admissions consultants for boarding and private school
Compare 183 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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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.
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.
Kamali Clora
Kamali Clora is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into master's programs, MBA programs and private high schools. She also works as a Division Administrator at Rush University Medical Center. Before that, she ran a free clinic as Executive Director and taught healthcare finance and policy at Yale. She holds an MPH from Yale and is finishing an MBA at Kellogg. She 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.
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.
Julie Hanna
Julie Hanna runs Lakeside College Advisers, LLC with more than a decade of experience and currently works with 85 active students, focusing on high school, boarding school, and transfer applicants.
Moni Schlotter
Moni Schlotter runs Magna College Consulting, primarily serving West Coast students as well as boarding school students since the 2020 admissions cycle. She serves an average of 15 students a year, currently with 12 on her roster, ranging from high school juniors to transfer and learning-difference students.
Erika Desmond
Erika Desmond is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to private high schools, colleges and MBA programs. She went through the boarding school process herself at age 13 and attended Phillips Exeter Academy. She later earned an English degree at Hamilton College and an MBA at MIT Sloan. Her English background shapes her essay help, and she works to make each student's own story come through in their writing.
Alexandra Peruta
Alexandra Peruta is an independent college consultant who helps students and parents with college, graduate school and private school admissions. She runs Strategic Academic Success from an office in Lexington, Massachusetts. Her clients have been accepted to schools such as Yale, Stanford, Harvard, Oxford and Cambridge. She also works with arts and music students on portfolio admissions. Her practice serves students from elementary school to graduate school, in person and online.
Amy Trinnaman
Amy Trinnaman is a college admissions advisor and career counselor. She helps students and families with college applications, career direction, and boarding school admissions. She has more than two decades in education and has worked with thousands of students. Her past work includes special education, instruction, NCAA eligibility, dual enrollment, school law and policy, and standardized testing. She uses the Highlands Ability Battery and the Myers-Briggs Strong Interest Inventory to help students match majors and careers to their strengths.
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.
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 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.
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.
Jacqueline Pravda
Jacqueline Pravda is an independent educational consultant who guides students and their parents through the college process. She runs NorthStar College Advisors in Santa Monica, California. She has over 20 years of experience and holds a graduate degree and certification in education. She has worked in public and private high schools and in college and university admissions. Her work covers course selection, college lists, essays, applications, and financial aid review.
Jennie Kent
Jennie Kent is an admissions consultant who helps students and parents with college and boarding school placement. She runs Big J Educational Consulting and has worked in this field for ten years. She has visited over 450 schools and universities around the world. She also serves the profession, with time on IECA committees and as faculty for its Summer Training Institute. Each year she puts together admission and financial aid resources for families.
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.
Keely Buchanan
Keely Buchanan is an independent educational consultant in Englewood, Colorado. She helps parents choose public and private schools from preschool through high school. She has worked with more than 500 Colorado families since 2015. She also helps families who are relocating to the state. She has been accepted as an expert witness in Denver and Jefferson Counties. She writes educational reports for divorce mediation, arbitration and court cases.
Laura Seese
Laura Seese is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents choose schools and programs, including boarding, college and wilderness placements. She holds a doctorate in educational psychology and has worked as a school psychologist, assistant principal and special education director. She serves on the board of the Independent Educational Consultants Association. Her firm, Educational Advancement Associates, is based in East Granby, Connecticut.
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.
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.
Peter Wright
Peter Wright is an independent educational consultant in Norwell, Massachusetts. He helps students and parents with school and college placement, learning differences, and therapeutic placements. He also offers life and executive function coaching for children, teens and college students. Wright is a former teacher at boarding, day, parochial and public schools. He has worked with the National Endowment for the Humanities for over a decade. He meets clients in his office, at agreed locations, or online.
Rosalia Miller
Rosalia Miller is an independent educational consultant in Washington, DC. She guides students and their families through school applications, from Pre-K through 12th grade, college, and graduate school. She has 35 years in education, including 25 years teaching at the National Cathedral School. She co-founded the Latino Student Fund, a scholarship non-profit. Before teaching, she spent 20 years at the International Monetary Fund. She meets clients in their homes.
Sarah Reese
Sarah Reese is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with school, college, university and graduate school admission. She is the executive director of Informed Educational Solutions in Wyomissing, Pennsylvania. Before consulting, she worked as an admissions officer at Wellesley College and as an admissions director at Dana Hall School and Baldwin School. She also served as a college counselor at schools in Massachusetts and Madrid. She works with families in the US and around the world.
Tara Boland
Tara Boland is an independent educational consultant who helps families find and apply to schools. She founded Spruce Advisors and works with families looking at San Francisco preschools, Bay Area K-8 and day high schools, and boarding schools across the country. Before consulting, she spent over a decade at Cathedral School for Boys in San Francisco. There she was a teacher, High School Placement Counselor, and later Director of Admission.
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.
Carol Kinlan
Carol Kinlan is an educational consultant who places students in independent day and boarding schools. She works with families in the Boston area and across the Northeast. She has over 13 years of experience and has worked with hundreds of families. Many of her students have learning, attention or executive function challenges. She knows the admission teams at many Northeast schools, both well-known and lesser-known. Her 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.
Colleen Smith
Colleen Smith is an independent educational consultant in Tampa, Florida. She helps students and families apply to college, independent day schools and boarding schools. She started as a social worker with at-risk teens. She later led counseling at Fay School and ran admissions and financial aid at Saint Paul's School in Clearwater. She also worked in admissions at Beaver Country Day School. Her firm, August & Ivy, is a boutique practice.
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.
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. She works one-on-one with students and parents on college admissions, medical school admissions, and private high school admissions. She also guides international students applying to American universities. Her students have gone on to schools such as Stanford, Harvard, MIT, UPenn/Wharton, Columbia Engineering and UC Berkeley. She 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.
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.
Erin Gevertz
Erin Gevertz is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with private school admissions. She focuses on independent middle and high school applications. Since 2010 she has taught and mentored students through the process. She works from San Leandro, California, and serves families in the East Bay and San Francisco. Her services cover school lists, testing guidance, essays, and mock interviews. She also speaks with admissions directors for students.
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. He 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.
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. She helps parents find therapeutic boarding schools, teen residential treatment programs, and wilderness therapy programs for their children. She runs The School Solution, a practice founded over 20 years ago. She also guides families to young adult programs. Therapists refer to her when a child is hard to place. She is a professional member of IECA.
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.
Lin Hermenitt
Dr Lin Hermenitt is an admissions consultant who helps students with college, boarding school, junior boarding school, and summer school applications. Lin also builds long-term Youth Individual Development Plans for middle and high school students. Since 2015, Lin has worked with 35 paid clients and 10 unpaid clients. 80% of Lin's time goes to weekly one-hour Zoom meetings with a student and a parent. Lin has worked with 2 other consultants since 2017.
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.
Marcia Moor
Marcia Moor is a college admissions consultant in Wellesley, Massachusetts. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college and build a school list. She has worked as an admission associate, teacher, school counselor and Special Education Director. Her practice, Moor Education, guides families from the first list of schools through essays, interviews and the final admission plan.
Margie Savoye
Margie Savoye is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college and school admissions. She runs Savoye College & School Advising in Prospect, Kentucky. Before starting her practice, she worked in admissions at Berklee College of Music and Stanford Law School. She also served as director of admissions at two schools in the Midwest. She helps families narrow school choices, shape essay themes, and plan the years before applying. She is available to families by phone at any hour during the process.
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.
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.
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.
Roxana Reid
Roxana Reid is an independent educational consultant in New York City. She leads Smart City Kids, a firm that helps parents and students with private school, boarding school and college admissions. The firm has worked with families for more than 20 years. Its consultants are all former admissions directors. The firm says 98% of its full-service families are admitted to their first choice school. It also offers tutoring, special education guidance and parenting support.
Sandy Choe
Sandy Choe is a private high school admissions consultant who helps families and students find and apply to the right schools. She was Director of Admissions at a New York City independent school. She now is Director of Enrollment at Infinite Futures. Before education, she worked in investment banking. She has worked with more than 60 private high school clients and knows New York City admissions well, including Hunter College High School and the SHSAT.
Sandy Eiges
Sandy Eiges is an independent educational consultant in Los Angeles who helps families with school admissions. She works with parents and students on private school, boarding school, magnet and charter school placement. Her range runs from preschool through high school. She runs LA School Scout LLC and is a professional member of the IECA. Her family consultation is a 90-minute needs assessment by video, and it ends with a custom school list.
Sandy Furth
Sandy Furth is an international educational consultant who helps students and parents find the right school or program. She runs World Student Support from Chicago, Illinois. Her services cover university search in the United States, United Kingdom, Canada and Europe, plus K-12 schools, boarding schools and gap year options. She has lived and worked in other countries, which shapes how she guides families through overseas applications, visas and health insurance. Her clients come from many nationalities.
Sarah Girolami
Sarah Girolami is an independent educational consultant with The Carnahan Group in New Orleans, Louisiana. She helps students and parents with college and boarding school admissions. The firm is the longest continuously running educational consultancy in Louisiana. Its team has 80+ years of combined admissions experience since the early 1990s. The group has worked with 1000+ students and serves families in person and online, with satellite offices that reach students around the world.
Sinead Galvin
Sinead Galvin is an independent educational consultant and the founder of Steps into Spain. She helps families find the right school for their children in Madrid and Málaga. Her work covers school search, admissions guidance, and relocation support. She also advises international students and parents on applying to US colleges. She works with a small team and visits schools in person for families who are moving from abroad.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Bara Sapir | MBA admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Brynnen Ford | College admissions and Financial aid and scholarships | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Kamali Clora | Grad school and PhD and MBA admissions | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Kimberly Kim Chorosiewski | College admissions and Athletic recruiting | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Rufaro Jarati | College admissions and International students | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Terry Mady-Grove | College admissions and Boarding and private school | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Julie Hanna | Transfer students and Boarding and private school | $170 to $310 an hour |
| Moni Schlotter | College admissions and Boarding and private school | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Erika Desmond | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alexandra Peruta | College admissions and Grad school and PhD | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Amy Trinnaman | College admissions and Boarding and private school | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Chidilim Menakaya | College essays and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $150 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 |
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