Admissions consultants for physicians
Compare 10 admissions consultants. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are medical school admissions, mba admissions, college essays and grad school and phd. They most often work with physicians, students and professionals. Most charge $69 to $150 per hour or session.
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Bara Sapir
Bara Sapir is a GMAT tutor who also coaches students on mindset and test anxiety. She has worked with hundreds of clients, including students who got into schools like Harvard, Stanford and INSEAD. Her clients also include physicians preparing for medical boards and executives at Fortune 500 companies. She brought mindfulness tools into test prep, using methods like hypnosis, NLP and tapping. She wrote The Full Potential Manual and created the MindFlow speed reading workshop.
Mark-Anthony Lingaya
Mark-Anthony Lingaya is a physician who tutors students for the USMLE and advises pre-medical students on admissions. Mark-Anthony teaches Step 1 and Step 2 and focuses on how students reason through clinical vignettes. Mark-Anthony has tutored for Kaplan and worked as an adjunct instructor and academic advisor. Mark-Anthony also works as a medical subject-matter expert who evaluates AI systems for clinical reasoning quality. Mark-Anthony did clinical training at Virtua Health and research at Michigan.
Alan Young
Alan Young is a management consulting coach who also helps prospective medical students and startup founders. He holds an MD and an MBA. He worked as a surgical physician at Kaiser Permanente and built a consulting career at Deloitte, Accenture, Slalom, McKinsey & Company and Point B. He taught MCAT and GMAT prep for Kaplan. He now mentors UCLA undergraduates and advises founders in healthcare technology, artificial intelligence and data analytics.
Jessica Freedman
Jessica Freedman is a physician who founded MedEdits, a medical admissions consulting firm in New York. She and her team advise premeds and residency applicants. The firm started in 2007 and has guided thousands of applicants. Advisors have served on medical school admissions committees, education committees and hospital boards. The team also includes writing coaches who focus on medical admissions essays and applications.
Tania Heller
Tania Heller is a medical school admissions consultant in Bethesda, Maryland. She helps college and graduate students who want to become doctors. Dr. Heller is a board-certified physician and has served as a Medical Director. She has written 6 books, including On Becoming a Doctor. She offers individual and group sessions that cover the application, the healthcare field, and career options in medicine.
Motivate MD
Motivate MD is a physician-led admissions consulting team that helps people applying to medical school and residency. The team works remotely across the USA. Services cover essay editing, interview prep, CASPer test prep, and BS/MD applications. It also helps with Canadian medical school applications and ERAS residency applications. Motivate MD adds MCAT and USMLE tutoring and mindset coaching for people studying or working in medicine.
Brian Holzer
Brian Holzer is an executive and career coach who works with MBA applicants, recent grads, physician executives and other professionals. He is a physician with a Wharton MBA and has been CEO twice at private equity-backed companies. He has 20+ years in healthcare, across biotech, health insurance, health systems, behavioral health and post-acute care. He moved from clinical medicine to the C-suite and now helps others make career moves and reach executive roles.
Carla Vaccarezza Bass
Carla Vaccarezza Bass is a career and executive coach who helps students, alumni, mid-career leaders and physicians moving into industry. She is Associate Director of Career Services and Executive MBA Career Coach at Kellogg School of Management. She has nearly twenty years of experience at Stanford, UC Berkeley and Northwestern. She has also served on admissions committees and led employer relations. She has worked with more than 100 career coaching clients.
Femi Giwa
Femi Giwa is an investment banking coach who helps people break into finance, get into top MBA programs, and pursue ETA. He is a former physician who became a Vice President at Goldman Sachs. He started in M&A at Bank of America Merrill Lynch and advised on deals from $200M to $11B+. He now runs Balufon, an independent sponsor private equity firm. He coaches non-traditional candidates.
Navin Balaji
Navin Balaji is a management consulting and career coach for people moving into business and healthcare roles. He helps clients break into consulting, move from academia to industry, or build a career that mixes clinical and business work. He worked at McKinsey's New York office, advising pharma companies, healthcare data companies and health systems. He is also a radiation oncology resident physician at the University of Miami and a freelance consultant.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Bara Sapir | MBA admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Mark-Anthony Lingaya | Medical school admissions | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Alan Young | Medical school admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Jessica Freedman | Medical school admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Tania Heller | Medical school admissions and College essays | $85 to $275 an hour |
| Motivate MD | College essays and Medical school admissions | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Brian Holzer | MBA admissions | $125 to $200 an hour |
| Carla Vaccarezza Bass | Career and executive coach at Kellogg School of Management | $100 to $175 an hour |
| Femi Giwa | MBA admissions | $90 to $185 an hour |
| Navin Balaji | Management consulting and healthcare career coach for future leaders | $90 to $185 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an admissions consultant cost?
Most admissions consultants charge $69 to $150 per hour or session.
What else do these admissions consultants help with?
Common focus areas include medical school admissions, mba admissions, college essays and grad school and phd.
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Last updated September 2026.