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Compare 1,847 admissions consultants. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are college admissions, college essays, financial aid and scholarships and ivy league and top schools. They most often work with students, parents and professionals. Most charge $69 to $150 per hour or session.
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Grad School Road Map
Grad School Road Map is a graduate school admissions coaching practice. It helps applicants to MBA, law, medical, master's and doctoral programs across all fields. The team includes former deans and directors of admissions at Columbia, Northwestern and University of Chicago. In 18 years, it has worked with just over 1150 applicants. It also speaks on campuses and has written a book on the application process from start to finish.
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.
Sowa Imoisili
Sowa Imoisili is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications for top business programs. Sowa graduated from Stanford's business school and served as Student Body Co-President there. Before that, Sowa worked as a teacher and a management consultant. Clients have come from the US, Hong Kong, China, and Singapore. Sowa has also coached undergraduate applicants in the US, Canada, China, and Singapore. Sessions focus on telling each applicant's true story.
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.
Tomilola Abiodun
Tomilola Abiodun is an MBA admissions consultant who helps international and domestic students with admissions, scholarships, and careers. She founded TitanR Consulting. In seven years she has helped 500+ students get into their target programs and secured more than $35M in scholarships for them. She has also supported 350+ career placements. She went through the process herself as an international student and earned her MBA at Fisher College of Business in 2019.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Alex L
Alex L is a college admissions counselor who also coaches professionals on resumes and interviews. He has been an alumni undergraduate candidate interviewer for Stanford. He advises students on choosing top programs, building an admission strategy and writing essays. Before coaching, he worked in hi-tech in product management, marketing and business development. He holds an MBA from Stanford Business School. He also co-founded a STEM tutoring startup for high school students.
Alex MacArthur
Alex MacArthur is a college admissions counselor who helps students apply to top schools. Alex was admitted to Princeton and nearly every other school applied to in the regular decision round. Alex taught the process to himself by reading everything on admissions and essay writing and by talking with dozens of Ivy League students. Alex is also a working journalist and a peer-reviewed academic, and uses storytelling skills to bring out what makes each student unique.
Alex Reznik
Alex Reznik is a medical school admissions coach who helps pre-med students, medical students and residency applicants. Alex is a current MD/PhD student at the University of Miami School of Medicine and also does research at Baptist Health. Alex has coached more than 50 applicants and has 60+ medical school clients on the profile. Clients have gained spots at schools such as the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh and USC. Alex also coaches MD/PhD program (MSTP) applicants.
Alex Valenzuela
Alex Valenzuela is a USMLE tutor who helps medical students prepare for Step 1, Step 2 CK, shelf exams and clinical rotations. Alex earned an MD from UCLA and completed a general surgery intern year at Weill Cornell. Alex scored a 258 on Step 2 CK and has worked with more than 60 USMLE clients. Sessions use UWorld and NBME-style questions to build clear frameworks for clinical vignettes.
Alex Weinberger
Alex Weinberger is a dental school admissions consultant who helps students apply to dental programs. Alex is a fourth year student at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and sat on the school's admissions committee this past cycle. Alex started coaching dental admissions in 2022 and also worked as a tutor with Cambridge Coaching and a consultant with Inspira Advantage. Alex has an undergraduate background from UCLA and just finished the residency application cycle.
Alexander Cheng
Alexander Cheng is a scholarships and fellowships advisor who helps candidates from non-traditional backgrounds build strong applications. He is a social impact consultant and a former consultant at L.E.K. Consulting. He was selected as a Schwarzman Scholar from a pool of more than 5,800 applicants. He also founded a not-for-profit that supports diverse professionals in Australia. His coaching focuses on turning lived experience into clear, honest stories that selection committees trust.
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 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.
Amanda Reisman
Amanda Reisman is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into dental school and dental residency. She is a current orthodontic resident at Columbia University and sits on the selection committee for her residency class. She earned her DMD with Honors at the University of Pennsylvania. She cofounded a pre-dental consulting service in 2021 and coached applicants there until 2024. She also helps with DAT and GRE prep.
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.
Amin Bagheri
Amin Bagheri is a dental school admissions consultant who helps pre-dental students get into dental programs. He is a practicing pediatric dentist with a DDS from UCSF and a former Residency Program Director at UCLA. He has guided more than 100 dental school clients. He also works with international dentists who apply in the United States. His coaching covers every step, from high school exploration to dental school and specialty programs.
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.
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.
Andrew Ghadimi
Andrew Ghadimi is a dental school admissions consultant who helps pre-dental students get into dental school. He runs Predenting, an advising company for pre-dentals. He sits on the AADSAS Advisory Board and works with current and former admissions officers. He has created over 100 admissions strategies for his students. His students receive an average of 4 acceptances each, and some have won scholarships of $250,000 or more. He was also accepted to UCLA and UCSF dental schools himself.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Arman Entezari
Arman Entezari is an admissions mentor for pre-dental students. He helps applicants build strong dental school applications and win acceptances. He went through the pre-dental path himself. He took the DAT once, applied and interviewed at 8 schools, and was accepted to dental school. Friends and early mentees he guided earned multiple acceptances to top programs. His work covers extracurriculars, DAT study plans, personal statements, interviews, and application timelines.
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.
Atharva Abhyankar
Atharva Abhyankar is an LSAT tutor who also helps students with law school admissions. He works one-on-one and online with college students and working professionals. Every student starts with a diagnostic test, and he looks for patterns in their mistakes. He wrote a successful application to Harvard Law as a junior, and he uses that experience to help students shape personal statements and other application essays.
Atharva Deshmukh
Atharva Deshmukh is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with school selection, essays, resumes, interviews and GRE quant prep. He has a Biomedical Engineering degree from Georgia Tech and works in medical devices and healthcare. He was admitted to Harvard Business School through the 2+2 program, and also to Kellogg and Darden. He also coaches competitive swimmers, including 2 US Olympians.
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.
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.
Avi Yulzari
Avi Yulzari is a test prep tutor who helps students prepare for the GMAT, GRE, Digital SAT and ACT. He is based in the Netherlands and works with applicants from around the world. He scored 805 on the GMAT and has worked with 100+ GMAT clients. His students have gained seats at Harvard, Stanford GSB and INSEAD. He teaches students to spot common test-maker traps and to handle the pacing of computer-adaptive tests.
Aysha Syeda
Aysha Syeda is a medical school admissions consultant who helps pre-med students with personal statements, application edits and interviews. She is an incoming medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at UPenn. She has tutored writing and biology for more than 3 years. She spent two summers in the Penn Access Summer Scholars program and did clinical research on an apoE chatbot. She also mentored pre-med students through QuestBridge at Haverford College.
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.
Beatriz Gorostiaga
Beatriz Gorostiaga is an MBA admissions consultant who helps international applicants build strong applications. She graduated from Harvard Business School in 2025 and went through the MBA process as an international applicant herself. She has worked in financial services, non-profits and tech ventures in the U.S. and Latin America. She has also mentored international students applying to U.S. colleges through the EducationUSA program since 2017.
Ben Hackner
Ben Hackner coaches aspiring MBAs and consulting candidates on case interviews and MBA admissions. He worked at Boston Consulting Group and in sales strategy at Salesforce. He later joined the corporate strategy team at SSA Marine, a Blackstone portfolio company. He has run hundreds of case prep sessions with students at top programs like Kellogg and with private clients. He also supports candidates from diverse and Latino recruiting pipelines through MLT programs.
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 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.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Grad School Road Map | MBA admissions and Law school admissions | $80 to $150 an hour |
| 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 |
| Sowa Imoisili | MBA admissions and College admissions | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Tanya Keeney | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Tomilola Abiodun | MBA admissions and International students | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Abby Bittler | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 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 |
| 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 |
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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 college admissions, college essays, financial aid and scholarships and ivy league and top schools.
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Last updated September 2026.