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Compare 1,280 admissions consultants. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are college admissions, college essays, financial aid and scholarships and international students. They most often work with parents, students and athletes. Most charge $69 to $150 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.
Tanya Keeney
Tanya Keeney is an independent college admissions consultant and the founder of College Pragmatics LLC in Massachusetts. She helps students and their parents plan the college search and application process. She is a licensed school counselor with 25+ years in higher education. She has helped over 1,000 students and has visited over 200 colleges. She uses a family systems counseling approach that includes both students and parents.
Abby Friedman
Abby Friedman is an independent educational consultant in Berkeley, California. She helps students and parents plan for college and apply. She is a Certified Educational Planner and a lifelong educator. Her work covers US colleges and also programs in the EU, UK and Canada. She pays close attention to fit, including academic, social and financial fit. She holds a master's in education and a UC Berkeley certificate in college admissions and career planning.
Abby Siegel
Abby Siegel is an independent college admissions consultant in New York City. She helps students and their parents plan for college and finish applications. She has more than 24 years of experience in top public and private schools. She started her own practice in 2006 after years as a school counselor. She has visited hundreds of campuses across the country. Her work covers college lists, essays, financial aid, and scholarships.
Abigail Simkus
Abigail Simkus is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school, transfer and returning students plan for college. She founded The College Connection in 2008 and works from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. Her team has helped over 400 students prepare for college. Most clients come from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. She also works online with students outside the region and with international students applying to U.S. colleges.
Adam Hoff
Adam Hoff is a college admissions coach who helps students and families with applications, essays, and interviews. He ran the admissions committee for Seaver College at Pepperdine and later led MBA admissions consulting at Veritas Prep. He also co-owned an MBA practice that helped hundreds of candidates get into top business schools. He co-founded the podcast studio Campside Media and has written screenplays. He has coached over 100 college clients.
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.
Admissionado
Admissionado is an admissions consulting firm for college, MBA, law and medical school applicants. Two Brown University classmates started it in 2007, and it now has a team of 60+ consultants. The firm has reviewed over 40,000 applications. Every client works with a lead consultant on strategy and a separate essay specialist on writing. The firm does not pre-qualify clients, so it takes applicants with lower stats or unusual backgrounds.
Adrienne Frumberg
Adrienne Frumberg is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs Lighthouse Guidance in New Milford, Connecticut. She has spent 18 years helping clients reach opportunities that were otherwise out of reach. She worked as a school counselor at three schools and built the guidance program at Aaron School from the ground up. She also co-founded a social skills program for students with special needs and learning disabilities.
Adrienne Spraggins
Adrienne Spraggins is a college admissions consultant in Nashville, Tennessee. She helps students and their parents with the college search, applications, and final decisions. She used to be an admissions officer at Vanderbilt University, where she reviewed over 6,400 applications for admission and scholarship. She has guided more than 700 students. Her work covers athletes, arts students, students with learning differences, and students who want to study abroad.
Alan Sheptin
Alan Sheptin is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. He runs Sheptin Tutoring Group in Chappaqua, New York. He has toured over 200 campuses worldwide and knows admissions directors at many schools. His team also offers tutoring and test prep from middle school through graduate school. Sessions run by Zoom or in person, with private or small group options.
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.
Alice Zeng
Alice Zeng is a college admissions counselor who runs Polaris College Counseling in Redmond, Washington. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college and apply. Her practice reports more than 10 years of admissions experience. Her counselor team holds Ph.D. degrees and trained at UC Berkeley. Students have been accepted to 150+ unique colleges, including 8 Ivy League schools, Stanford, MIT, Caltech and Duke. She serves families in Greater Seattle and beyond.
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.
Alicja Jahnke
Alicja Jahnke is a college admissions consultant in Milford, Michigan. He helps students and parents pick colleges and build strong applications. He runs ACE College Consultants with Lisa Acton. Alicja is a licensed teacher and school and college counselor with three master's degrees, in Music, Learning Disabilities and Counseling. The practice limits its number of clients and visits colleges in person. Students get a personalized list of best-fit schools and help with essays.
Alison Forbes
Alison Forbes is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents plan the college search and application process. She founded Forbes College Consulting more than 20 years ago with a former Harvard Admissions Dean. She spends 20 percent of each year visiting colleges and meeting admissions staff. Her firm serves families worldwide, and 16 percent of its families are international.
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 Grandits
Allison Grandits is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents find colleges and finish applications. She owns Grand Fit Educational Consulting. Before this work she was a public school counselor with a caseload of 400 students. She has visited 193 campuses in 21 states and helped students write over 1,200 essays. She works with each family herself and does not outsource the work.
Allison Henderson
Allison Henderson is an independent college counselor who helps students and parents with the college admissions process. She runs A+ College Consultants in the San Diego area of California. She has counseled over 1,000 clients across the country and abroad. Her work covers college search, applications, essays, deadlines, and merit-based aid. She also writes a blog with data-driven advice on admissions. She holds a college counseling certificate from UC San Diego.
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 Felix
Allyson Felix is a college admissions counselor who helps students and their parents plan for college and apply. She founded Rivertowns College Counseling to match each student with a best-fit school. Before counseling, she held senior marketing jobs at Tri-Star Pictures, Children's Television Workshop, King World and Dan Klores Communications. She graduated with distinction from the UCLA College Counseling program. Her work covers essays, interviews, college lists, testing plans and final school choice.
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.
Amanda Hirko
Amanda Hirko is an independent educational consultant in San Diego, California. She helps students and parents with college admissions. She holds an M.Ed and is a Certified Educational Planner. She works with families from eighth grade through the senior year, and with college students who want to transfer. Her recent Class of 2026 students are heading to schools such as UC Berkeley, Indiana U, Virginia Tech, Boston U and Cal Poly SLO.
Amy Romm Lockard
Amy Romm Lockard is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with the college search and applications. She runs Dovetail College Consulting in Portland, Oregon, and serves families across the U.S. She worked in secondary and higher education before starting her practice. She works with students who have learning differences, mental health differences, or significant financial need. She does not work with private high school students or those aiming for the most highly selective universities.
Amy Sack
Amy Sack runs Admissions Accomplished, an independent admissions consulting practice in Ponte Vedra, Florida. She helps students and parents with college, MBA and graduate school applications. The practice also offers career counseling and works with international students. Her team includes a former deputy director of admissions at an Ivy League university. The practice has served students worldwide since 2000. She is a member of IECA, the Independent Educational Consultants Association.
Andrea Rieves
Andrea Rieves is an independent education consultant who helps students and parents plan for college. She owns ARC Education Planning in Huntersville, North Carolina. She spent over 22 years in education, teaching high school English and elementary literacy and advising in middle school. She earned her College Counseling Certificate with distinction from UCLA Extension. She tours colleges in person so she can share firsthand knowledge of campuses with families.
Ann Cadwallader
Ann Cadwallader is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their parents through the admissions process. She founded My University Coach in Wayzata, Minnesota. Ann began her career at The Princeton Review in 1992 and is a master trainer in the SAT, ACT, GRE, GMAT and LSAT. She has visited over 150 colleges and taught high school math. She also coaches students on test prep, essays and interviews.
Ann Rossbach
Ann Rossbach is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents through college admissions. She has worked with students for 18 years and has helped hundreds of them. Before consulting, she taught community college reading, English and study skills. She served 15 years on two Boards of Education, 12 as president. She also teaches educational consulting at the University of California, Irvine, and works from Rumson, New Jersey.
Annette Mackaness
Annette Mackaness is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their parents plan for college. She works from San Jose, California, and serves families in the South Bay and across the country. Before counseling, she was a CPA and then Director of HR & Recruiting at Ricoh Innovations. She uses that hiring background to match each student with a college that fits their needs, goals and interests.
Antonietta Breitenfeldt
Antonietta Breitenfeldt is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents plan for life after high school. She runs BrightSpot Labs in Seattle. Her background includes classroom teaching, school and district leadership, and professional learning. She has worked as an independent consultant since 2022. She helps with college lists, applications, essays, scholarships and interviews. She also guides families on PreK to 12 school choices.
Antonietta Breitenfeldt
Antonietta Breitenfeldt is an education consultant who helps students and families with college admissions and PreK-12 school decisions. She founded BrightSpot Labs and has more than 25 years in education. She has worked as a classroom teacher, school administrator, district leader, and professional learning specialist. Her work covers college lists, essays, scholarships, and school enrollment. She mainly serves families in the Greater Seattle area and works online with some families elsewhere.
April Miller
April Miller is an independent educational consultant who helps neurodivergent students plan for college and apply. She is a speech-language pathologist and began her education career 26 years ago. Before consulting, she spent 15 years in pediatric clinical work and taught at Maalot Baltimore, the University of Washington and Towson University. She runs LD College Expert in Middletown, Connecticut. She also guides students through gap and transition programs.
April Paris-Joseph
April Paris-Joseph is an independent college admissions consultant in Bellevue, Washington. She runs Paris Educational Solutions and helps high school students and their parents find a college that fits academically, socially and financially. She guides students through a four step process that starts as early as spring of 8th grade. She is a Certified Educational Planner and a former alumni interviewer for Middlebury and Stanford.
Ashley Dixon
Ashley Dixon is an independent education consultant in Seattle who helps high school students and their families with college admissions. She owns UMatch Consulting, which she started in 2022. Ashley holds a law degree and a college counseling certificate from UC San Diego. She also serves as Co-Director of College Counseling at Minds Matter Seattle, a program for high-achieving students from low-income backgrounds. She guides students through list building, essays, and financial aid.
Asli Pisano
Asli Pisano is a dental school admissions consultant and DAT tutor. She helps students and families plan and complete dental school applications. She has a DMD from Harvard and serves as an admissions interviewer and committee member there. She also worked six years as a dental assistant. She is the first in her family to attend college in the United States.
Austin Lee
Austin Lee is a college admissions consultant in Belmont, California. He helps high school students and their parents plan and complete the college application process. He spent 17 years in higher education at Stanford, Harvard and USC. He worked with Stanford's Office of Admission on applications from varsity athletes and read applications as a seasonal reader. He started his consulting practice in spring 2021.
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.
Barb Pasalis
Barb Pasalis is an independent college admissions consultant in Cleveland, Ohio. She guides students and their families through college search, testing, applications and financial aid. She started Northcoast Educational Consulting in 2003 and earned the Certified Educational Planner designation in 2010. She served as President of the Independent Educational Consultants Association from 2018 to 2020. She has visited over 250 colleges and taught middle and high school English before consulting.
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.
Benjamin Caldarelli
Benjamin Caldarelli is a college admissions consultant who helps students and their families plan for selective colleges. He runs a boutique practice in Princeton, NJ, and works with a small group of clients. Since 2009 he has helped over 600 students through the admissions process. He built the Citizen Scholar Admissions Strategy, his own framework for positioning students. He also spent 10 years as Co-Founder of Princeton College Consulting.
Beth Wilner
Beth Wilner is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and families through the application process and beyond. She has worked as an educator for over 25 years. Her past roles include college counseling, pre-law advising, law school admissions, and teaching undergraduate political science. She runs Rosecliff College Consulting in Charlotte. She offers full support through graduation or help with one task, such as essays.
Betsy Woolf
Betsy Woolf is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college and graduate school admissions. She runs Woolf College Consulting in Mamaroneck, New York. Betsy is a lawyer and a Certified Educational Planner. She is a Professional member of IECA. She serves families in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area, across the United States and Canada, and around the world. She also tours campuses, including Northeastern University London.
Bettina Weil
Bettina Weil is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents plan for college. She has advised families since 2007 and runs Weil College Advising, a boutique firm in Westchester, NY. Before that, she was Dean of High School Partnerships at the State University of New York. She also served as Director of College Programs at Yonkers Partners in Education. Her firm supports students in Latin America, Asia and Europe who want to attend college in the U.S.
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.
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.
Bonnie Stewart
Bonnie Stewart is a college admissions consultant with Smart College Selection in Indianapolis. She helps high school students and their parents choose colleges and apply. Bonnie spent 25 years as an educator and taught Humanities at Park Tudor School. She has visited more than 120 college campuses. She holds a UCLA Certificate in College Counseling and helps teens tell their own story in essays and applications.
Brandon Mack
Brandon Mack is an independent college admissions consultant in Houston, Texas. He helps students, parents, and organizations through the admissions process. He worked in admissions for 13 years, including as Associate Director of Admission and Coordinator of Transfer Admission at Rice University. He later served as Interim Director of Operations at the International Association for College Admission Counseling. He also offers equity, inclusion, and diversity consulting and meeting facilitation through B. Mack Strategies.
Brenda Shepherd
Brenda Shepherd is a college admissions consultant in Winter Park, Florida. She helps high school students and their families plan for college and complete applications. She founded Shepherd College Consulting in 2018 and works with 35 seniors each application cycle. Before that, she co-owned another college consulting firm and led a high school college and career center. She also served as a Duke University alumni interviewer for five years.
Brooke Green
Brooke Green is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their parents get into the right schools. She founded Green College Consulting in Carlsbad, California. Brooke sat on the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Admissions Committee and read freshman applications in 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2016. She also holds a Harvard master's in higher education and has worked with students for over ten years.
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.
Cali Bottom
Cali Bottom is an independent college admissions advisor who helps students and their parents find and apply to colleges that fit. She runs EUREKA! College Prep & Admissions Advising in California. Her Find the Fit process builds a list of 20 to 30 suggested schools based on a student's interests, values and budget. She also teaches an SAT prep course and has helped graduate school applicants. Families use her online portal to schedule sessions and manage applications.
Calli Christenson
Calli Christenson is a college admissions consultant in Houston, Texas. She helps students and parents choose colleges and apply to them. She has worked in admissions and advising for over 15 years and started in undergraduate admissions at a small college in Southern California. She has visited over 200 colleges and spends several weeks each year on campus visits. She has led college counseling as a Director at a Houston-area private school.
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.
Carmen Tercilla
Carmen Tercilla is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college selection, applications and the move to college. She runs CT College Tactics in Coral Gables, Florida. She has worked with students for more than ten years, after a long career in healthcare sales and marketing. She serves on the Board of Directors of IECA and chaired its Learning Differences Committee. She also works with students who learn differently.
Carol Tunstall
Carol Tunstall is an independent educational consultant in Media, Pennsylvania. Carol helps students and parents plan for college and other options after high school. Carol runs Smith Tunstall Education Planners, known as STEPlanners, with partner Fran. The two have over 30 years of combined experience in higher education and college admissions. They visit colleges and programs and attend industry trainings to keep their advice current.
Carolee Gravina
Carolee Gravina is an independent college admissions consultant who runs College Bound Guidance in New Jersey. She helps students and parents with the college search and the application process. She is a Yale graduate with a college counseling certificate from UCLA. She is a past president of the Higher Education Consultants Association. She visits 25 to 30 colleges each year and meets with admissions officers often. She also spent six years on her local high school board.
Carolyn Francis
Carolyn Francis is an independent college admissions consultant in Englewood, Colorado. She helps students and parents with college search, applications and post-high school planning. Before consulting, she worked in retail and manufacturing, then served on the board of the Denver Waldorf School. She started as an ad-hoc college counselor for its high school. She visits college campuses across the US and the world, and she has worked with international students, first generation students and students with learning differences.
Carolyn Geldermann
Carolyn Geldermann is a college admissions consultant who guides students and their parents through the application process. She runs Geldermann College Consulting in Lake Forest, Illinois. Before consulting, she spent over 15 years in business and marketing and earned an MBA in Marketing from Kellogg. She is a Certified Educational Planner, a title held by fewer than 300 people in the country. She has visited over 100 colleges.
Charlotte Lawson
Charlotte Lawson is an admissions consultant who helps people decide whether to pursue medical school or an MBA, and then get through the process. She is a physician with an MBA from Harvard Business School. She founded a healthcare startup and raised venture capital for it. She works with career switchers, parents, older applicants, and people coming off a rejection. She is most useful early, when clients are working out their reasons for choosing a path.
Chris Bell
Chris Bell is an independent college admissions consultant in Boulder, Colorado. She runs Bell College Consulting and works with students and parents on college planning. Chris is the primary counselor for every student, so clients work with her directly. She is a Certified Educational Planner and sits on the AICEP Commission on Credentialing. She also teaches on the faculty of the IECA Summer Training Institute.
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 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.
Chris Holzwarth
Chris Holzwarth is an independent college consultant who helps students and their families choose a college and plan a career. Chris uses a process called IDEAL to match each student's strengths and talents to schools and careers. Chris was a classical ballet dancer before moving into this work. Chris also gives talks at national conferences and partners with other consultants on arts admissions and assessments. Sessions run online, so students across the country can work with Chris.
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 Teare
Chris Teare is an independent college admissions counselor in Madison, Connecticut. He works with high school students and their parents to find a college that fits, or another path after high school. He has helped more than a thousand students find their next step. He has worked as a high school college counselor and a college admissions officer. He also helped found the group that created ACCIS.
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.
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.
Christine Hall
Christine Hall is an independent college admissions consultant in Cary, North Carolina. She helps students and parents plan for college and handle the application process. Dr. Hall worked as a teacher and school administrator in Florida and North Carolina for over 30 years. She is a former special education teacher. She has visited well over 250 college campuses in the US, Canada and Europe. She works directly with each student and does not work in volume.
Christine Luksza
Christine Luksza is an independent college admissions counselor who runs My Best College Plan Counseling. She helps high school students and college transfer students choose schools, write essays and build strong applications. She works with students in Sonoma, Marin and across the country. She leads a team of counselors and wrote the My Best College Planner book, which has a 2026/2027 edition. Her team supports students aiming for engineering, STEM, pre-med, athletics and the arts.
Claudine Vainrub
Claudine Vainrub is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college, MBA and graduate school admissions. She founded EduPlan in 2004 and has over 15 years of admissions counseling experience. She works one-on-one with every student and leads a team of editors and writing specialists. Her practice is in Hollywood, Florida, and she has served clients in countries from India and Brazil to Italy and Saudi Arabia.
Colleen Paparella
Colleen Paparella is a college admissions consultant who helps students and parents through the college application process. She founded DC College Counseling in McLean, Virginia, and leads a team of counselors. She spent the first decade of her career in undergraduate admissions and independent school counseling, including six years as a Director of College Counseling. She has a special interest in gifted and twice-exceptional students, and in students with ADHD, autism, and anxiety.
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.
Connie Pollack
Connie Pollack is a college admissions consultant in Pittsburgh who helps high school students and their parents plan for college. She also guides students applying to graduate school. She started her practice in 2004 after 15 years of teaching and work in school counseling. She recently served as a college counselor at an independent high school in Pittsburgh. She tours 10 colleges a year to keep her advice current.
Cynthia Harlan
Cynthia Harlan is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents find the right college. She is in her twelfth year of work and serves both paying and pro bono clients. She holds a Master of Education and an MBA. She guides students one-on-one through testing plans, resumes, essay topics, and applications to colleges across the United States. She also helps families with scholarships and financial aid.
Dana Ponsky
Dana Ponsky is an independent educational consultant in Brooklyn, New York. She helps high school students, college students and their parents with college and graduate school admissions. Her work draws on over 20 years in admissions counseling, career counseling and student development at the high school and college level. She has helped students get into top national and international colleges, and into medical, law, MBA and other graduate programs. She works in person and online with families in the U.S. and abroad.
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.
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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 |
| Tanya Keeney | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Abby Friedman | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Abby Siegel | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Abigail Simkus | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Adam Hoff | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| AdmissionSight | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Admissionado | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Adrienne Frumberg | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Adrienne Spraggins | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Alan Sheptin | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Alexandra Matthews | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Alice Zeng | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
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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, college essays, financial aid and scholarships and international students.
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Last updated September 2026.