Admissions consultants for parents
Compare 1,308 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 teens. 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Laurie Kopp Weingarten
Laurie Kopp Weingarten is a college admissions counselor who guides teens and their families through the whole admissions process. She is a Certified Educational Planner and President of One-Stop College Counseling. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School. She starts with students as early as eighth or ninth grade. She visits colleges often and speaks with admissions officers to keep up with current practices.
Lea Baechler-Brabo
Lea Baechler-Brabo is an independent college consultant who guides students and families through college planning. She runs Great Choices College Advising and serves students in Berkeley, the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond. She began as a college student advisor. She later worked as an education consultant for the Berkeley Unified School District on college and career readiness. She has advised students on college and career paths for over five years.
Les Levy
Les Levy is a college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with the full application process. He earned an honors degree from Stanford, where he also worked as an Admissions Associate. Since July 2022 he has been an Associate Consultant at Inspira Education, focused on top 20 American universities. He was accepted to 14 of the 18 schools he applied to and was the first in his high school to attend Stanford.
Marcia Farias
Marcia Farias is an independent educational consultant who helps students apply to college and graduate school in the United States, Canada and Europe. She founded College Admissions International in Brasília, Brazil. She has advised students who want to study abroad since 2018. Her students have been accepted to every Ivy League university and most top-50 universities in the US and Europe. She works with students and parents around the world.
Marco DeGaetano
Marco DeGaetano is an independent college admissions consultant in Boulder, Colorado. He helps students and parents manage the college application process and find affordable colleges where the student can thrive. Before consulting, he practiced and taught law and theater for over three decades. He was a College and Career Counselor at Accelerated Schools in Denver and a Harvard alumni interviewer. He started his business in 2007.
Margaret Jiang
Margaret Jiang is an SAT and ACT tutor and college admissions counselor in Los Angeles. She helps students raise test scores and guide them through the college application process. She graduated cum laude from Harvard College with a degree in English and worked in investment banking at Goldman Sachs. She earned a perfect SAT score in high school. She also tutors for the SSAT, ISEE, LSAT, GMAT, and GRE.
Maureen Eagle Gelberg
Maureen Eagle Gelberg is a college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with the application process. She spent 10 years as Associate Director of Admission at the University of Southern California. She personally reviewed up to 1,800 applications a year there. Over her career she has evaluated over 15,000 applications. She is based in West Bloomfield, Michigan and leads Beasley College Consulting.
Mausami Kakkar
Mausami Kakkar, known as MK, is an Independent Educational Consultant in the Bay Area. She guides high school students and their parents through the college application process. She works with students from both public and private high schools, starting as early as freshman year. She tours colleges every year to keep up with programs and new majors. Many of her families are immigrants sending their first child to college.
Nita June
Nita June is an educational consultant who helps students and families with college admissions. She specializes in visual arts portfolio guidance and performing arts audition coaching. She also works with transfer students, graduate students and athletes. Before starting her own practice, she taught high school English, literature and theater for almost a decade. She has focused on college counseling since 2012. She also directs and produces for her own theatre company.
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.
Ryan Clark
Ryan Clark is a college admissions and financial aid consultant in Charlotte, North Carolina. He helps students get into right-fit colleges and helps families plan how to pay for them. He is president and CEO of Clark College Consulting and has worked with more than 1,200 families. He wrote the book College Aid for Middle Class America. His work joins admissions strategy with affordability planning for each family.
Scott Hampton
Scott Hampton is a college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents plan for college. He runs Hamp's Champs College Consulting LLC in Florida. Before starting his own business, he spent 10 years as a high school and college counselor. He was Director of College Counseling for 7 years at a college preparatory school. He has mentored over 800 students who were accepted to over 320 colleges. He has visited over 150 campuses in 27 states.
Shellee Howard
Shellee Howard is a college admissions consultant who helps middle and high school students and their parents get ready for college. She is the founder and CEO of College Ready and has worked as a paid independent college consultant for 13 years. She helps each student build a Stand Out Strategy and find a good academic, social, athletic and financial fit. She also wrote a book on paying for college and has appeared on FOX, CBS and NBC.
Skyler Adams
Skyler Adams is a college and MBA admissions consultant who helps students and families with the application process. Skyler co-founded and runs Adams Admissions Consulting. Clients have been admitted to schools such as Yale, MIT, Berkeley, USC and Northwestern. MBA clients have gained acceptance to Chicago Booth, MIT Sloan, Yale SOM, Kellogg, Darden, Columbia and Duke Fuqua. Skyler also sits on the board of a college access nonprofit for first-generation students.
Sophia McCorkle
Sophia McCorkle is a college admissions counselor who helps students apply to universities in the US and abroad. She has guided over 500 students through admissions and financial aid. Her clients have gained admission in the US, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Japan and Germany. She holds a post-graduate certificate from Columbia and has worked in high school guidance offices. That experience shows in her knowledge of transcripts and school application systems.
Susan Lawson
Susan Lawson is an educational consultant in Oakville, Ontario. She helps students apply to universities and colleges in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. She has worked with 466 clients in the past 8 years. She knows NCAA rules and has worked with many elite athletes. She also interviews applicants for The Loran Scholars Foundation, a national scholarship program. Her clients include high school students, graduate school applicants and young adults who need a new path.
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.
Timothy O'Hair
Timothy O'Hair is an admissions consultant who helps students and families apply to selective colleges in the United States, the UK and Ireland. He also guides film school and MBA applicants. Tim spent twenty years in the film business and uses that skill in storytelling to shape applications. He holds a UCLA college counseling certificate and British Council training in UCAS and Oxbridge applications. He visits campuses in the US, England and Scotland.
Virginia Blackwell
Virginia Blackwell has been an Independent Educational Consultant since 2001, after directing and associate-directing admissions at Hollins University in the 1980s and interning in Harvard's scholarship office.
Amelia Chan
Amelia Chan is a college admissions counselor who works with homeschooled and non-traditional students. She also helps students in traditional schools. She has a math degree from UC Berkeley and did graduate studies at Columbia. She worked in finance as an investment banker and software engineer before moving into education. She has helped more than 60 college clients. Her students have gained admission to Ivy League schools, highly selective colleges and UCs.
Barbra Rosenstein
Barbra Rosenstein is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with the college application process. She founded Clear College Choices in 2015. She helps students build a balanced college list, choose essay topics, and review essays and applications. She also works with College Dream Team, a community based organization that supports first generation, low-income students. Families in California use her services.
Cathy Copeland Titus
Cathy Copeland Titus is an independent college admissions consultant with College Hero in Mashpee, Massachusetts. She advises high school juniors and seniors and their families on finding the right colleges. She keeps her case load to 15 students. She also spends part of her time on the company newsletter and other strategic projects. Her work centers on college lists that fit both the student's record and the family's budget.
Elisa Anderson
Elisa Anderson is an independent college and career consultant who helps students and their parents through the college admissions process. She founded Crossroads Mentors in 2016 and works with families in Western Washington and Central Texas. She is a certified Career Direct consultant and a former admissions counselor at Northwest University. She also edits essays each season for College Coach, reviewing more than 30 a week. She meets students in the evenings and on Saturdays.
Ellen Kuppersmith
Ellen Kuppersmith is a college admissions consultant in Los Angeles. She helps students find colleges that fit them and guides them through the whole application process. She has over 18 years of experience in education and college advising. She began in the College Center at LACES, a Los Angeles magnet school. She opened her own practice, College Kupp, in June 2019. She also holds the NACAC International University Advocate Badge, so she can help students apply to universities around the world.
Gerene Keesler
Gerene Keesler is an independent college admissions consultant in Tampa, Florida. She runs Admissions Untangled and helps students in 9th to 12th grade and their parents plan for college. Her work covers college list building, essay editing, summer program search, and career and major exploration. She is a professional member of IECA. She works in both English and Spanish, and she is known for close attention to detail.
Heather Holly-Freitag
Heather Holly-Freitag is an independent college admissions consultant in Oregon. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college, from building a school list to finishing applications. She founded Options Abound Educational Consulting in January 2022 after a career in medical social work. She has a special interest in affordability and financial aid, and she offers pro bono and discounted services. She meets clients in person and on Zoom.
Jackie Postelnick
Jackie Postelnick is a college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents plan for college. She covers student resumes, applications, financial aid, and scholarships. She started as a Financial Aid Advisor in 2012, then joined a private college planning firm in 2015. In 2022 she launched Conscious College Planning. She has helped over 800 students get into best-fit colleges at the best possible cost. All sessions are held remotely.
Jeffrey Yoon
Jeffrey Yoon is an independent educational consultant in Silicon Valley who advises high school students and their families on college admissions. He helps students applying to colleges in the United States and other countries. He also works with international students who want to study in the United States. Before admissions, he spent most of his career supporting manufacturing systems for semiconductor companies. He then earned the UCLA Certificate Program in College Counseling.
Jennifer MacLure
Jennifer MacLure is a college admissions consultant in Encinitas, California. She runs My Pathway to College and helps students and parents plan the road to college. Before going independent, she spent eight years as Director of College Counseling at an independent school in San Diego. She starts with a set of assessments, then builds a timeline for each student. She also helps students build a list of best-fit colleges.
Joan Lockwood
Joan Lockwood is a college admissions consultant and career coach for students and young adults. She also coaches on confidence and life skills. Her practice is based on the North Shore of Massachusetts, and she serves the Boston area and beyond in person and online. She has worked with over 300 students. Of those, 99% were accepted to one of their top three schools. She starts with guided assessments and honest conversations.
Jue Wang
Jue Wang is a higher education admissions consultant who helps Chinese families with international education planning. She has worked in the field since 2008 and has run her own company, Edurizon, since 2018. Her focus is on building the reading and essay skills that strong applications need. Her students have gone on to Harvard, Columbia, UPenn, MIT, Oxford and Cambridge. She also helps families find good fits at lesser-known schools.
Julia Rivera
Julia Rivera is an independent educational consultant in the Dominican Republic. She helps international students get into universities in the USA and other countries. Before starting her practice, she worked in the admissions department of a Chicago college, so she knows how schools review applicants. She guides students and parents through college selection, applications, essays, test prep, and scholarships. She also advises on graduate school and medical residencies.
Karime Jankauskas
Karime Jankauskas is an independent educational consultant in Huntersville, North Carolina. She guides students and parents through college admissions. She started this work in 2010 and opened CollegeSavvy Consulting in 2018. Her planning can begin as early as 8th grade. She covers course choices, college lists, essays, financial aid and interview prep. She also talks with parents about the cost and long-term value of college.
Kathy Griswold Fine
Kathy Griswold Fine is an independent educational consultant in Charlotte, North Carolina. She helps students and parents with college admissions and also coaches executive function skills. She is a Certified Educational Planner and a professional member of IECA. She holds a Ph.D. and is a published author. Her firm, Fine Educational Solutions, also offers career counseling and test planning, including help choosing between the SAT and ACT.
Kim Bradley
Kim Bradley is an independent college advisor who helps students and their parents through the college search and application process. She works with students in grades 9 to 12 and with transfer students. She has visited 300 college campuses and keeps learning through conferences, webinars and information sessions. Her goal is for each student to finish with 6 to 8 colleges that fit academically, socially and financially. She is a member of HECA.
Kirsten Keller
Kirsten Keller is an independent college counselor who helps high school students find colleges that fit them and get into those schools. She owns Keller College Planning. She has over 25 years of combined experience as a college counselor, high school counselor and school psychologist. She starts with students as early as sophomore year. Her training in clinical psychology and educational counseling shapes how she guides teens through the move to college.
Kris Neely
Kris Neely is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their families. She runs Make It U College Consulting in Livermore, CA. Kris works with students at Granada High School and Livermore High School, and with families across Pleasanton, Dublin, and the Tri-Valley. She focuses on California public universities, including UC Personal Insight Questions and CSU application strategy. She also guides Common App private school applications. Sessions are one-on-one on Zoom.
Linda Keiles
Linda Keiles is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students, transfer students and post-grad applicants find schools that fit them. She owns Keiles College Consulting and is a co-founder of K&L College Advising. Since 2015, she and her partner have advised more than 350 students and families. They help with applications in the U.S. and abroad. They also run Creative Edge, a service for students applying to arts programs.
Linda Wegrzyn
Linda Wegrzyn is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents plan the college process. She runs Your College Project, which she founded in 2015. She treats admissions like a project, using her background in business, project management and education. She has launched over 100 students to colleges across the country. She is a member of the Higher Education Consultants Association and works from Rhode Island.
Liz Murphy
Liz Murphy is a college admissions advisor who helps high school students and their families find and apply to colleges that fit. She is a Certified Educational Planner and has guided students for over 12 years. Before advising, she worked in public health and taught for the Peace Corps in Kenya. Her practice is built around a calm, organized setting where students focus on their strengths, interests and academic goals.
Lori Rosenberg
Lori Rosenberg is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents with college admissions. She runs College Steps Consulting in Tarzana, California. She has worked with students for over 7 years. Her work covers course planning, college lists, essays, applications, financial aid and choosing the best fit school. She also helps transfer students and graduate school applicants. She gives families a step-by-step plan to keep the process organized.
Melissa Mieyr
Melissa Mieyr is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents plan for college. She runs InfoQuest College & Financial Solutions. Before consulting, she taught business and technology and then worked for over a decade as a high school counselor. Her firm ties the admissions plan to a financial plan, so parents understand what college will cost. Her team offers career path assessments, essay and resume help, and application tracking.
Michelle Alessandria
Michelle Alessandria is an independent educational consultant in Lafayette, California. She guides students and parents through college admissions and runs an executive functioning program through OPEN EDvantage. She has 30 years of teaching experience and holds credentials in special education, English and history. She also trains new teachers at St. Mary's College and has taken college counseling courses through UCLA.
Mitchel Cordy
Mitchel Cordy is a college admissions coach who helps students with applications, essays and choosing a school. He spent 3 years as a Student Admissions Lead in the Brigham Young University Admissions office, High School Relations team. There he advised hundreds of freshmen and transfer students and took part in admissions decisions. He also works full time as a Technology Consulting Manager at Anglepoint. His offers include a full admissions package and essay coaching.
Nick Dawes
Nick Dawes is an independent college consultant who helps high school students and their parents plan for college. He runs Dawes Academic Consulting in the Bay Area. Nick has lectured at SFSU, worked in SAT and ACT prep for five years, and taught middle-school English at a private school for five years. He knows the South Bay academic scene well. He helps students find colleges that fit and tell their story in essays.
Patricia O'Keefe
Patricia O'Keefe is a college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with U.S. and international university applications. She has over 25 years in educational consulting and worked at the University of Southern California for over 10 years. She has visited over 250 universities in the U.S., the U.K., the EU and Asia. Her practice, Global Elite Scholars, is based in Newport Beach, California, and reports that 93% of students got into their top choice school.
Patrick Zylka
Patrick Zylka is a college admissions consultant at College Solutions. He works with students and their families, starting as early as 9th grade, to find the right college fit. He specializes in admission to highly selective schools and performing arts admission. He also worked part-time at InGenius Prep and Perceiver.
Rod Bugarin Jr
Rod Bugarin Jr is an independent college admissions consultant who works with students and parents. He helps students choose colleges, build their activities, and prepare applications. Before consulting, he spent more than fifteen years in admissions and financial aid offices at Hampshire College, Wesleyan University, Brown University, and Columbia University. He left Columbia in 2017 to consult full time. He was also featured in the book The Gatekeepers, published in 2002.
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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 |
| Alexandra Matthews | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Alicen Adams | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Asli Pisano | Medical school admissions and Students with learning differences | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Bara Sapir | MBA admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Barbara Rifkind | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Barry Beach | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Benito Nishizawa Rodriguez | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Beverly Brutzkus | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Brynnen Ford | College admissions and Financial aid and scholarships | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Charlotte Lawson | Medical school admissions and MBA admissions | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Chris Bell | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Chris Kim | College admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
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