Admissions consultants for college admissions
Compare 1,706 admissions consultants who focus on college admissions. Besides college admissions, the most common focus areas are college essays, financial aid and scholarships, ivy league and top schools and grad school and phd. They most often work with students, parents and athletes. Most charge $79 to $236 per hour or session.
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Ahab Chopra
Ahab Chopra is a college admissions counselor who works with students and their families. He has more than eight years of admissions experience, plus a decade of teaching and six years of research. His students have gained admission to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Williams and Swarthmore. He taught courses at Harvard, including CS50, and founded a non-profit for adolescent mental health. He also led operations for the 988 Lifeline chat and text service.
Cyndy McDonald
Cyndy McDonald is a college admissions counselor in Visalia, California. She helps students and parents plan and prepare for college. She is a credentialed school counselor who has worked at the high school and middle school levels. She holds leadership roles in WACAC and founded HECA. She also runs The College Counselor's Coach, where she helps other college counselors grow their practices. She hosts a free Zoom series called Friday Forums.
Genevieve Morgan
Genevieve Morgan is an independent college counselor who helps students and their parents through the college application process. She has over 30 years in education, working on the college side, in high schools and in admissions. She specializes in UC and CSU applications. She has read applications for Northeastern University and Reed College. She also serves on the board of the Higher Education Consultants Association. Her work is high-touch, with support at every step.
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.
Robert Piazza
Robert Piazza is a college admissions coach who helps students with essays and application strategy. He spent two decades writing and editing for large newspapers and magazines, and he has published personal essays. He has taught at two colleges and logged more than 1,500 coaching hours. His students have gained acceptance to Yale, Berkeley, Duke, Rice, Georgetown, and the US Naval Academy, among other schools.
Abby Bittler
Abby Bittler is a college admissions consultant who helps students plan for college and move into it successfully. She works with students in regular education and with students who learn differently, including those with ADHD or dyslexia. She started as an independent educational consultant in 2014. Before that she was a teacher, tutor and academic coach. She focuses on colleges in the Southeast, including public and private schools with moderately selective admissions.
Abel Geleta
Abel Geleta is a college admissions counselor who helps students with applications, essays, interviews and strategy. He holds a Yale BA and is now earning an MPH at the Yale School of Public Health. He works as a First Year Advisor and has been a writing instructor at Yale. He also worked in investment banking at Baird and in strategy consulting. He has coached 18 students.
Abigail Hagan
Abigail Hagan is an admissions consultant who helps students get into PhD, MBA, master's and undergraduate programs. She has coached 100+ clients into top STEM PhD, master's and undergraduate programs, including MD/PhD and dual-degree paths. She also helps early-career professionals land roles at firms like Amazon, BCG and Morgan Stanley. She works on PwC's AI Strategy team under the Chief AI Officer and scored 331 on the GRE.
Abigail Lind
Abigail Lind is a college admissions consultant who helps students build applications that tell a clear story. She has 13 years of experience and has helped over 600 students get into top colleges. She started out tutoring in California, where she learned the Stanford and UC applications well. She holds an MFA in creative writing, which shapes her story-driven approach. She left larger agencies to offer custom plans and unlimited support.
Afton Kuebitz
Afton Kuebitz is a college admissions and essay coach who helps high school seniors through the application process. Afton has nearly two decades of writing and editing experience. Students have gained admission to BYU, the University of Oxford, UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and San Diego State University. Afton offers a free BYU essay review with a Common App essay review package.
Albert Choi
Albert Choi is an admissions consultant who helps students and professionals apply to MBA programs, colleges and other graduate schools. He has coached for nearly two decades, starting with tutoring at age 15. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and worked in strategy consulting at Deloitte. His clients have been admitted to schools such as Harvard, Stanford GSB, Yale Law and Princeton. He keeps his client roster small.
Alexandra Matthews
Alexandra Matthews is a college admissions counselor who runs College Odyssey in Mill Valley, California. She helps high school students find best-fit colleges and get in. She has worked as a life coach with teens for 20 years, focusing on anxiety and stress. She also taught writing at an Ivy League college and has interviewed applicants as an alumni interviewer for an Ivy League school. She works with clients across the country and abroad.
Alexia Godron
Alexia Godron is an admissions consultant who helps students with law school applications, college admissions and early career steps. She is a JD student at Columbia Law School and a Yale graduate. She worked three years as a litigation paralegal at Cleary Gottlieb Steen & Hamilton in New York City, then returned there as a summer associate. She also interviews applicants for Yale as a volunteer.
Alice Shang
Alice Shang is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches college applicants. She began her career in investment banking and growth equity, covering tech companies. She now works as a founder of a women's health startup. Her focus is story-telling. She helps clients build an application narrative that sounds like them. She has helped clients land spots at Harvard, Stanford, Wharton and MIT. She also helps with finance job recruiting.
Alicen Adams
Alicen Adams is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their families plan for college. She has worked in higher education since 2001, including residence life, academic support and transfer advising. She started her private practice in 2018. She keeps her caseload to 15 to 20 students per graduating class, and she visits more than 20 colleges each year.
Amanda Wirtz
Amanda Wirtz is a college admissions counselor who helps students get into college, graduate school and MBA programs. She spent years working on the school side of admissions as a director at the University of Redlands and a recruiter for the Claremont Colleges. Her students have gained entry to schools such as UCLA, Cornell, UPenn, Duke and BYU. She also worked at Google and Kaplan, and she co-authored a Kaplan writing textbook.
Amy Greenstein
Amy Greenstein is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to college, graduate school and nursing school. She has more than two decades in higher education, leading work in admissions, financial aid, student services and recruitment. She is Assistant Dean of Enrollment at NYU Silver School of Social Work and has been Vice Provost of Enrollment at Teachers College, Columbia University. She also teaches as an adjunct professor at NYU.
Anna Gee
Anna Gee is an admissions coach who helps students apply to college and law school. She is a public defender in New York and an alum of BYU and Harvard Law School. She clerked for a federal district court judge and worked as a legal research and writing advisor at Harvard Law School. She helps clients shape their story and share it clearly. She coaches on essays, nerves, and interviews.
Annie Wang
Annie Wang is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches on college and career goals. She has coached for over 5 years. She started as a paid consulting and admissions coach at the University of Michigan Career Center. She also worked as a writing coach for under-resourced transfer applicants to Michigan Ross. She competed as a USA powerlifter and ties fitness and wellness habits into her coaching. First-generation college students get a discount.
Annika Liu
Annika Liu is a medical school admissions consultant who helps pre-med students with applications and interviews. She is a current MD candidate in the 7-year BS/MD Medical Honors Program at the University of Florida. She has mentored students since January 2020 and has guided 62 aspiring medical students. She also worked as a student interviewer at the University of Florida. She focuses on early assurance and BS/MD programs.
April Paris-Joseph
April Paris-Joseph is a college admissions counselor who helps students find schools that fit them academically, socially, and financially. She also advises student athletes on recruiting. She began working as a college counselor in the 2021-2022 cycle. Her class of 2022 students were admitted to over 50 unique colleges and earned over $2 million in combined merit aid. Her student athletes all secured roster spots on D1, D3, or NAIA teams.
Austin Moulder
Austin Moulder is a full-time college admissions counselor who helps students through the whole application process, from the first college search to the first direct deposit. He has worked with 60+ college clients. Students from his class of 2024 curriculum have been admitted to Northwestern, Columbia, and Yale. He worked at Boston Consulting Group and studied at Olin School of Business. His students can also book office hours with a network of 50+ mentors.
Barbara Rifkind
Barbara Rifkind is a college admissions consultant and the founder of Arise Advising. She works one-on-one with students and parents in New York City, across the US, and worldwide. Before advising, she was an executive at Pearson Education and Oxford University Press, and a literary agent who helped writers tell their stories. She also served as a longtime alumni interviewer. Her support starts with course planning in the early grades and runs through college applications.
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.
Benito Nishizawa Rodriguez
Benito Nishizawa Rodriguez is a college admissions counselor who helps students and families through the application process. He has more than 18 years of experience. He once worked at the Harvard Admissions Office and later at Google. He has supported hundreds of students worldwide. His students have gone on to schools such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago. He focuses on capstone projects and a clear academic identity.
Beth Coyle
Beth Coyle is a college admissions advisor who works one-on-one with students to find a college that fits them. She taught in classrooms for over 20 years before moving into advising. She serves the Concord and Walnut Creek area. She has 15 seniors in her current class and is building her sophomore and junior classes. She helped 10 transfer students this cycle and also takes pro bono clients from low-income families.
Beverly Brutzkus
Beverly Brutzkus is an independent college counselor who helps students and their families through the college application process. She runs Conejo College Consulting and also serves as a college counselor for Synergy Academics in West Hills, CA. She started her private practice in 2018. She has read and scored essays for UCLA Alumni scholarships, UC Davis alumni scholarships, and a youth essay contest. She also coaches virtually for ScholarMatch.
Bruce Hanson
Bruce Hanson is a test prep coach who helps clients earn top scores on the GRE, GMAT, ACT and SAT and get into their target schools. He founded First Choice Admissions and has coached tests for 15 years. ETS links to his GRE bootcamp and has hired him to write GRE instructional materials. Before teaching full time, he was a touring musician and a marketer at General Mills.
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.
Caitlyn McGinley
Caitlyn McGinley coaches students and professionals in college admissions, executive functioning and career moves into product management. She leads AI Service Transformation at Natera. She is a former Stanford researcher. She has worked in research, clinical, school and workplace settings for over 5 years and has worked with over 800 people on school and work placement. She also helps people get accommodations at work and in school.
Cat Moc
Cat Moc is an SAT and LSAT tutor and admissions coach. Cat helps students with test prep, undergraduate college applications, and law school application strategy. Cat is an MIT graduate and TA'd for 3 MIT courses over four years. Cat has worked with 20+ students on testing and admissions. SAT students have improved by 150 to 200 points. Some admissions clients got into top-choice schools, including Notre Dame and Tufts.
Chris Bell
Chris Bell is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students plan for college. He runs Bell College Consulting and works with students in Colorado. He spent more than 25 years in higher education before starting his practice. He has held roles in teaching, advising, counseling, student activities, and academic technology. He holds a graduate degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education, where he trained as a counselor. He guides students from self-discovery through the final application.
Chris Kim
Chris Kim is an educational consultant who helps students and their families plan for college. She co-founded Excellerate Learning Studio. Chris has nearly two decades of work in curriculum design, training, parent engagement and youth leadership. She also served as a youth pastor for over 15 years, advising teens and families on college and future plans. Her studio uses a five-part plan and collects data to shape each student's learning path. She teaches college prep seminars in her community.
Chris Morgan
Chris Morgan is a college admissions counselor who helps students plan and complete their applications. Chris taught high school English for over two decades at a nationally ranked school in Illinois. Chris also reviewed applications and ran interviews for the University of Chicago admissions committee. Chris has worked with over 100 college clients and focuses on personal essays and applications to Ivy League and other elite schools.
Christian Hansen
Christian Hansen is a full-time admissions counselor who helps students get into college, MBA and master's programs. He is a former Associate Director of the MBA program at UC Irvine and a former member of BYU's Admissions Committee. He also ran internships for LG Electronics in South Korea and China. He wrote the book The Influence Mindset and uses its ideas to teach students personal influence. He says every one of his students got into one of their top 3 programs.
Christina Chong
Christina Chong is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to top colleges and graduate schools in the United States. She runs Renaissance Admissions Consulting, a boutique firm. Before consulting, she worked in admissions offices at Harvard Law School, NYU School of Law, NYU College of Dentistry, Amherst College and Penn's School of Social Policy & Practice. She also taught middle school in Denver and Philadelphia. Her clients range from high school students to career changers with over 20 years of work experience.
Clay Phillips
Clay Phillips is a college admissions counselor who helps high school students build strong applications. He works as a technology consultant and has guided 20+ students through the process from start to finish. He builds custom timelines and oversees application submissions. He reports an acceptance rate above 80%, with students placed at Top 50 schools, including Ivies, some with scholarships. He also tutored children in STEM and coached lacrosse at inner-city schools.
Courtney Bland
Courtney Bland is an admissions consultant who helps students with MBA and college applications. She is an MBA student at NYU Stern and a Duke graduate in Mechanical Engineering and Finance. She spent two years as an equity derivatives trader at Bank of America. She also interviews applicants as a Duke alumni interviewer. She was deferred by Duke and later admitted, so she guides clients through deferral and waitlist situations.
Darla Trendler
Darla Trendler is a college admissions counselor who helps students apply to BYU. She focuses on application essays. Darla spent 10 years as a professional editor and worked on executive-level writing. She has coached applicants through BYU admissions since 2017. She is a BYU graduate who first got in as a transfer student after community college. That path gives her a close view of the process for students who doubt they belong.
Dave Morris
Dave Morris is the founder of College Athletic Advisor. He helps student athletes plan their college search and admissions. He has over two decades of experience as an educator, coach and consultant. He has coached at NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA and NJCAA levels. He uses the 5A College Search Model to find schools that fit a student in academics, athletics and social life. He is based in Tumwater, Washington.
David Gordon
David Gordon is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches consulting recruiting and undergraduate applicants. He is a Kellogg MBA student and a former Associate Consultant at L.E.K. Consulting. His MBA clients have gained admission to Harvard Business School, Chicago Booth and Northwestern Kellogg. His consulting clients have received offers from McKinsey, BCG and Bain. Before consulting, he taught 5th grade with Teach for America in Richmond, CA.
David X.
David X. is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into MBA programs, grad schools and colleges. He takes Full-Time, Part-Time and Deferred MBA clients. He was admitted to Columbia and UChicago himself, and he uses that own application experience in his coaching. His background is in finance, and he has done pro-bono work across the Americas. He helps clients link their work history to their personal values in their story. He is based in Montreal.
Delaney Carlson
Delaney Carlson is an admissions counselor who coaches applicants on college and MBA applications. Delaney is a current MBA student at Harvard Business School and a Princeton Alumni Interviewer. Before business school, Delaney worked as a recruiter at Anheuser-Busch, where they screened resumes and ran hundreds of interviews. Delaney was admitted to seven top MBA programs, including Harvard, MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Kellogg, Yale SOM, Michigan Ross and Berkeley Haas.
Dione Chen
Dione Chen is a full-time MBA admissions consultant who also coaches college applicants and professionals on careers. She has 15+ years of experience and has coached hundreds of applicants. She worked as a coach for four leading admissions consulting firms. She holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and worked in startups, corporations and nonprofits across the US, Asia and Europe. She builds a personal application strategy for each client.
Donna Sakabu
Donna Sakabu is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their families plan for college. She founded Insightful College Planning and works from McKinney, Texas. She has visited more than 200 colleges in person. She worked with hundreds of students in California and knows the UC and CSU application systems well. She has also focused on college affordability for more than a decade.
Eleanor Roberts
Eleanor Roberts is a college admissions counselor who helps students with Common App and BYU essays. She spent six years as a BYU application reader and admissions counselor, and she has read hundreds of applications. She also worked as a financial aid manager from 2007 to 2018 and as an associate registrar at Ensign College. Today she is Director of NCAA Compliance. Her focus is helping students get into Brigham Young University.
Ellen Chao
Ellen Chao is a college admissions consultant who guides high school students through course choices, activities, summer plans and the application process. She runs South Bay Educational Consultants and has helped families since 2015. Ellen began her career as an investment banking analyst and holds an NYU MBA in Finance. She raised two recruited athletes as a single parent, so she knows athletic recruiting and financial aid. She works with students in Southern California.
Eshaan Sharma
Eshaan Sharma is an LSAT tutor who helps students raise their scores on the law school entrance exam. He also works as a private writing tutor and admissions consultant. He scored a 175 on the LSAT and reached the 99th percentile on multiple graduate exams, including the GRE. He has taught standardized tests since 2020. His clients have hit scores from 162 to 178. He focuses on Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension.
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.
Haelee Norton
Haelee Norton is a college admissions counselor who helps undergraduate applicants tell their story. She focuses on essays, resumes, interviews and full application support. Before coaching, she spent five years in the nonprofit industry, where she wrote grant proposals, fundraising letters and marketing materials. She is a Licensed Master Social Worker and a recent MSW graduate. She studied at Baylor University and worked at American Philanthropic.
Hailee DeMott
Hailee DeMott is an Independent Educational Consultant who helps students and families plan for college and graduate school. She owns DeMott College and Education Consulting. Before starting her practice, she worked in student recruitment and admissions, academic advising, and as a faculty member. She is a 2013 Fulbright Scholar who studied in Berlin and Strasbourg. She also serves as the Las Vegas Community Coordinator for the Higher Education Consultants Association.
Hamid Arbab
Hamid Arbab is an admissions consultant who helps applicants with college, law school and policy school applications. He has coached 60+ applicants on school selection, essays and overall strategy, including international applicants. He got into Harvard Law School two years early through the Junior Deferral Program. He studied at Princeton and is now a Marshall Scholar and DPhil candidate at Oxford. He focuses on making every part of an application point in the same direction.
Hanna Stotland
Hanna Stotland is an independent admissions consultant in Las Vegas. She helps students with college, law school and grad school applications. She focuses on crisis management, working with students who have faced discipline, mental health issues, academic failure or criminal charges. She has worked with paying clients since 1999, first as a contractor for Kaplan and Brody and then in her own practice. She serves families from California to Maine.
Hillary Hewins
Hillary Hewins is a college admissions counselor who helps students with US and global university applications. She has 18 years of experience and has guided over 600 students. She has led college counseling at Hunter College High School and Léman Manhattan Preparatory School in New York City. She has visited over 100 US campuses to talk with admissions committee members. She also speaks at admissions conferences in the US, Europe, and Asia.
Hillary Mantis
Hillary Mantis is a law school admissions and career coach. She helps applicants get into law school and helps students and professionals plan or change careers. She spent years as Assistant Dean of the Pre-law Advising Program at Fordham University. She has advised hundreds of applicants into almost every law school in the country, including most of the T14. She also wrote The Essential Guide to Law School Admissions and Alternative Careers for Lawyers.
Jaime Smith
Jaime Smith is a college admissions consultant in Eugene, Oregon. She helps students and parents, with a focus on transfer admissions. She has 25 years of experience in education and taught English at the middle, high school and college levels. She founded Online G3, a virtual K-12 program where she still teaches gifted and twice-exceptional students. In 2023 she finished a post-master's certificate in transfer leadership and practice.
Jake Berlin
Jake Berlin is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches college applicants. He helps people plan applications, prepare for tests, and think through careers after business school. He earned his bachelor's degree and his MBA on scholarships and was the first in his family to attend business school. He works in strategy at 3M and received offers from Bain and Johnson & Johnson before choosing that path.
Jake Winans
Jake Winans is a college admissions counselor who helps students get into top schools and prepare for careers. He founded Aventira Admissions Consulting. Before that, he worked in investment banking and consulting at RBC and Deloitte, then in corporate strategy at The Walt Disney Company. He has helped over 200 students gain admission to schools like Harvard, Stanford, MIT and Princeton. He also speaks at high schools and industry conferences.
James Palmer III
James Palmer III is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches students, veterans and professionals on service academy and ROTC applications, career strategy and leadership. He is a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer with a Columbia Business School MBA. He has coached more than 100 people. He serves as a Columbia Business School Admissions Ambassador, a Management Leadership for Tomorrow coach and a West Point Admissions Liaison.
Jason Milan
Jason Milan is a college admissions counselor who works one-on-one with teenagers on applications to top-choice colleges, with a focus on early admission rounds. He has guided more than a hundred students across STEM, business and humanities. His Class of 2023 students had a 100% acceptance rate in early admission and are going to schools like Stanford, U Chicago and Brown. He studied screenwriting and uses it to shape application stories.
Jennifer Stephan
Dr. Jennifer Stephan is a college counselor who helps students and families with college admissions, college success, and academic recovery. She has more than thirty years in higher education. She was Dean of Academic Advising and Undergraduate Studies for the School of Engineering at Tufts University for ten years. Before that, she taught computer science and served as an academic dean at Wellesley College. She focuses on engineering, computer science, STEM, and undecided students.
Jesse Shamshoian
Jesse Shamshoian is a college admissions consultant and essay coach who helps students with college applications. He founded Gramma's Jam in San Diego. Before consulting, he wrote for a living, taught English, and worked as a tutor and director at two tutoring companies. He wrote a book on college application essays. He works with students by Zoom on personal statements, supplements, and the rest of the application.
Jessica Ferraro
Jessica Ferraro is a college admissions advisor who helps students and families get into elite colleges. She founded Cambridge Prep and works with families in and around Los Angeles. She also teaches standardized test prep. She holds perfect scores on the SAT, ACT, and several subject tests, and a 760 on the GMAT. She has supported students since 1996 and works both in person and remotely.
Jigisha Doshi
Jigisha Doshi is an independent college admissions counselor and the founder of Sojourn Consulting LLC. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college, from building a college list to finishing applications. She holds a UCLA certificate in college counseling and is an ICF Professional Certified Coach. She also uses the Birkman assessment with students. Her students have been admitted to schools such as Stanford, Rice, Duke and Carnegie Mellon.
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.
Jodi Walder
Jodi Walder is a college admissions counselor and the founder of College Admission Coach. She helps students find a right-fit college, apply, and get admitted. Since 2005, she has worked with over 1000 students. She has also read applications for a highly-selective east coast college. Before counseling, she worked as an English teacher, media buyer, magazine editor and marketing manager. She visits at least 25 colleges each year.
Joey Barnett
Joey Barnett is an admissions counselor who coaches students on college and MBA applications. He grew up in the rural San Joaquin Valley of California and went to Princeton on full financial aid through the Questbridge College Match. He later earned an MBA at Stanford. He works full time as a Senior Strategy Manager at Samsara and schedules sessions around that job. He offers discount codes to first-gen and low-income students.
John Garbi
John Garbi is a college admissions counselor who helps high school students with applications, essays and strategy. He is a Columbia University graduate with a background in cognitive science and philosophy. He worked as a teaching assistant at the Rosetta Institute for Biomedical Research summer camp for high schoolers. Students he has advised went on to Harvard, Princeton, MIT and Yale. He is also finishing a Master's degree in Cognitive Science and Philosophy.
Julia Mitchell Varriale
Julia Mitchell Varriale is an independent college consultant who helps students and parents with the college process. She is a former admission officer at private and public schools and a former K-12 teacher. She has taught in the UCLA College Counseling Certificate Program since 2008. She also mentors a group of more than 300 college counselors who are all former students. Her site, CollegeVale, collects resources for counseling and admission professionals.
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.
Kate Coffman
Kate Coffman is a private college admissions counselor in Indianapolis, Indiana. She helps students and their parents with the college search, financial aid and applications. She has over twenty-five years of experience in admissions and financial aid. She worked in admissions at four Indiana schools, including Butler University and Indiana University. She also ran a state-wide college counseling program for school counselors. She works with families in Central Indiana and with students online across the country.
Kate Hatch
Kate Hatch is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students with applications and essays. She specializes in the BYU application and also works on the Common App. Kate has coached over 50 students and has worked in college admissions coaching since 2012. She holds a degree in advertising and uses it to help students present their story well. She works with students from first essay ideas through final edits.
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.
Kelly Chan
Kelly Chan is an admissions counselor who helps students get into college and master's programs. Kelly also coaches career moves into tech and engineering. Kelly works with transfer students, applicants with lower GPAs, and people from non-traditional backgrounds. Kelly is a Bay Area native with over 10 years at Apple, Adobe, and Goldman Sachs. Kelly transferred into Cornell and now works as an Engineering Program Manager at Apple.
Kelly LaBuff
Kelly LaBuff is an MBA and college admissions consultant who also coaches on career moves. Kelly works as a Principal at Antler, a global pre-seed VC firm, and led 8 investments in 2024. Kelly holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and a mechanical engineering degree from Stanford. Kelly has coached for 1,620 minutes on that platform.
Kevin Malaekeh
Kevin Malaekeh is a college admissions counselor who helps students plan and build their applications. He works on essays, activities and overall positioning. He likes to start early so the full story is shaped from the ground up. He is a Stanford graduate and a startup founder who has worked in private equity, strategy consulting and a U.S. Senator's office. He reports that every student he worked with last season got into a top-choice school.
Kevin Paul
Kevin Paul is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into undergraduate programs, law schools and MBA programs. He has 15 years of admissions experience. He worked as Assistant Director of Recruitment and Admissions for the University of Chicago Booth Executive MBA program. He lived in Hong Kong for more than a decade and now works from Raleigh, North Carolina. He holds a JD/LL.M. from Duke and briefly practiced law before moving into admissions.
Kim Anderson
Kim Anderson is a college admissions consultant and the founder of Spotlight College Advising. She helps students with the full college application process, from course planning to reviewing acceptance letters. Before starting her own business, she spent 3.5 years at Partners For Achievement. There she ran student workshops and oversaw both marketing and the essay program. Her comprehensive package includes 12 to 15 meetings and essay editing, and it runs 35 to 45 hours in total.
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.
Kristen Borsetti
Kristen Borsetti is the founder of College Alchemist. She is an educational consultant who helps international families with US and global college admissions. She spent 30 years in management consulting, first in technology and then in diversity, equity and inclusion work for schools and companies. She is a dual national of the United States and Italy and lived in Singapore. Her firm is based in Singapore and San Francisco.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Ahab Chopra | College admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Cyndy McDonald | College admissions | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Genevieve Morgan | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Lorraine Serra | College admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Robert Piazza | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abby Bittler | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abel Geleta | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abigail Hagan | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abigail Lind | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Afton Kuebitz | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Albert Choi | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alexandra Matthews | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Alexia Godron | College admissions and Law school admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alice Shang | MBA admissions and College admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alicen Adams | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $240 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an admissions consultant for college admissions cost?
Most admissions consultants charge $79 to $236 per hour or session.
What else do these admissions consultants help with?
Common focus areas include college essays, financial aid and scholarships, ivy league and top schools and grad school and phd.
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Last updated September 2026.