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Compare 1,990 admissions consultants. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are college admissions, college essays, financial aid and scholarships and grad school and phd. They most often work with students, parents and professionals. 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.
Lorraine Serra
Lorraine Serra is the founder and managing director of Portfolio College Counseling. She guides art, design and architecture students through college and graduate admissions. She has worked with these students for 17 years. Her clients include U.S. and international students, and transfer students. She helps them build a portfolio that stands out. She has also consulted for other educational consultants and coached as a volunteer with College Summit.
Robert Piazza
Robert Piazza is a college admissions coach who helps students with essays and application strategy. He spent two decades writing and editing for large newspapers and magazines, and he has published personal essays. He has taught at two colleges and logged more than 1,500 coaching hours. His students have gained acceptance to Yale, Berkeley, Duke, Rice, Georgetown, and the US Naval Academy, among other schools.
Abby Bittler
Abby Bittler is a college admissions consultant who helps students plan for college and move into it successfully. She works with students in regular education and with students who learn differently, including those with ADHD or dyslexia. She started as an independent educational consultant in 2014. Before that she was a teacher, tutor and academic coach. She focuses on colleges in the Southeast, including public and private schools with moderately selective admissions.
Abel Geleta
Abel Geleta is a college admissions counselor who helps students with applications, essays, interviews and strategy. He holds a Yale BA and is now earning an MPH at the Yale School of Public Health. He works as a First Year Advisor and has been a writing instructor at Yale. He also worked in investment banking at Baird and in strategy consulting. He has coached 18 students.
Abigail Hagan
Abigail Hagan is an admissions consultant who helps students get into PhD, MBA, master's and undergraduate programs. She has coached 100+ clients into top STEM PhD, master's and undergraduate programs, including MD/PhD and dual-degree paths. She also helps early-career professionals land roles at firms like Amazon, BCG and Morgan Stanley. She works on PwC's AI Strategy team under the Chief AI Officer and scored 331 on the GRE.
Abigail Lind
Abigail Lind is a college admissions consultant who helps students build applications that tell a clear story. She has 13 years of experience and has helped over 600 students get into top colleges. She started out tutoring in California, where she learned the Stanford and UC applications well. She holds an MFA in creative writing, which shapes her story-driven approach. She left larger agencies to offer custom plans and unlimited support.
Afton Kuebitz
Afton Kuebitz is a college admissions and essay coach who helps high school seniors through the application process. Afton has nearly two decades of writing and editing experience. Students have gained admission to BYU, the University of Oxford, UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, UC San Diego, Cal Poly San Luis Obispo and San Diego State University. Afton offers a free BYU essay review with a Common App essay review package.
Albert Choi
Albert Choi is an admissions consultant who helps students and professionals apply to MBA programs, colleges and other graduate schools. He has coached for nearly two decades, starting with tutoring at age 15. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and worked in strategy consulting at Deloitte. His clients have been admitted to schools such as Harvard, Stanford GSB, Yale Law and Princeton. He keeps his client roster small.
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.
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.
Alicen Adams
Alicen Adams is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their families plan for college. She has worked in higher education since 2001, including residence life, academic support and transfer advising. She started her private practice in 2018. She keeps her caseload to 15 to 20 students per graduating class, and she visits more than 20 colleges each year.
Amanda Wirtz
Amanda Wirtz is a college admissions counselor who helps students get into college, graduate school and MBA programs. She spent years working on the school side of admissions as a director at the University of Redlands and a recruiter for the Claremont Colleges. Her students have gained entry to schools such as UCLA, Cornell, UPenn, Duke and BYU. She also worked at Google and Kaplan, and she co-authored a Kaplan writing textbook.
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.
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.
Anna Gee
Anna Gee is an admissions coach who helps students apply to college and law school. She is a public defender in New York and an alum of BYU and Harvard Law School. She clerked for a federal district court judge and worked as a legal research and writing advisor at Harvard Law School. She helps clients shape their story and share it clearly. She coaches on essays, nerves, and interviews.
Annie Wang
Annie Wang is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches on college and career goals. She has coached for over 5 years. She started as a paid consulting and admissions coach at the University of Michigan Career Center. She also worked as a writing coach for under-resourced transfer applicants to Michigan Ross. She competed as a USA powerlifter and ties fitness and wellness habits into her coaching. First-generation college students get a discount.
Annika Liu
Annika Liu is a medical school admissions consultant who helps pre-med students with applications and interviews. She is a current MD candidate in the 7-year BS/MD Medical Honors Program at the University of Florida. She has mentored students since January 2020 and has guided 62 aspiring medical students. She also worked as a student interviewer at the University of Florida. She focuses on early assurance and BS/MD programs.
April Paris-Joseph
April Paris-Joseph is a college admissions counselor who helps students find schools that fit them academically, socially, and financially. She also advises student athletes on recruiting. She began working as a college counselor in the 2021-2022 cycle. Her class of 2022 students were admitted to over 50 unique colleges and earned over $2 million in combined merit aid. Her student athletes all secured roster spots on D1, D3, or NAIA teams.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
Beth Coyle
Beth Coyle is a college admissions advisor who works one-on-one with students to find a college that fits them. She taught in classrooms for over 20 years before moving into advising. She serves the Concord and Walnut Creek area. She has 15 seniors in her current class and is building her sophomore and junior classes. She helped 10 transfer students this cycle and also takes pro bono clients from low-income families.
Beverly Brutzkus
Beverly Brutzkus is an independent college counselor who helps students and their families through the college application process. She runs Conejo College Consulting and also serves as a college counselor for Synergy Academics in West Hills, CA. She started her private practice in 2018. She has read and scored essays for UCLA Alumni scholarships, UC Davis alumni scholarships, and a youth essay contest. She also coaches virtually for ScholarMatch.
Brandon Benson
Brandon Benson is a PhD admissions consultant and mentor for graduate students and future tech leaders. He holds a PhD in Applied Physics from Stanford, with a focus on neuroscience and machine learning. He is also co-founder and CTO of an AI marketing company. His research has been published in Science and Nature. He helps clients with PhD applications, research development, and moving research into a venture.
Bri Mirabile
Bri Mirabile is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants turn their experience into a clear story. Before graduate school, Bri worked in government consulting and advised state health agencies on Medicaid innovation. Bri also coaches clients who want offers and MBA sponsorships at Big 4 firms like Deloitte and Accenture. Clients have been admitted to Harvard Kennedy School and MIT's MSRED. Bri is a dual-degree student at Harvard Kennedy School and MIT Sloan.
Brit Harding
Brit Harding is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches on early career tech sales and job applications. Brit spent the first 5 years of a career in tech sales at LinkedIn, Okta and Podium. Brit rose from sales development rep to Account Director at LinkedIn, then earned an MBA at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Brit interned at Nike and returns there full time in Summer 2026. Brit also has sports marketing and partnerships experience.
Bruce Hanson
Bruce Hanson is a test prep coach who helps clients earn top scores on the GRE, GMAT, ACT and SAT and get into their target schools. He founded First Choice Admissions and has coached tests for 15 years. ETS links to his GRE bootcamp and has hired him to write GRE instructional materials. Before teaching full time, he was a touring musician and a marketer at General Mills.
Brynnen Ford
Brynnen Ford is an independent educational consultant in Seattle who helps students and parents find the right college or school. She works with families from PreK through college. Her past roles include college faculty member, school administrator and teacher. She helps families sort out what matters most, learn how admission and financial aid systems work, and finish the whole application process or only the parts they choose. She meets in central Seattle or online.
Caitlyn McGinley
Caitlyn McGinley coaches students and professionals in college admissions, executive functioning and career moves into product management. She leads AI Service Transformation at Natera. She is a former Stanford researcher. She has worked in research, clinical, school and workplace settings for over 5 years and has worked with over 800 people on school and work placement. She also helps people get accommodations at work and in school.
Carla Ramazan
Carla Ramazan is a law school admissions consultant who also coaches applicants on major scholarships and fellowships. She is a JD candidate and Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford. She won the Schwarzman, Soros and Truman scholarships. Three of her law school acceptances came with full-ride offers, from UMichigan, NYU and UC Berkeley. She helps clients find their own story and tell it well in essays and applications. She has also coached high school policy debate.
Cat Moc
Cat Moc is an SAT and LSAT tutor and admissions coach. Cat helps students with test prep, undergraduate college applications, and law school application strategy. Cat is an MIT graduate and TA'd for 3 MIT courses over four years. Cat has worked with 20+ students on testing and admissions. SAT students have improved by 150 to 200 points. Some admissions clients got into top-choice schools, including Notre Dame and Tufts.
Chelsea Joshi
Chelsea Joshi is a physician assistant who coaches people applying to PA programs and PA students. She has worked as a PA for over a decade in ENT and interventional radiology. She currently works in head and neck surgery at Kaiser Permanente. She has coached more than 10 PA clients through applications and interviews. She also offers shadowing in an ENT setting and serves as a preceptor to PA students.
Cheryline Pezzullo
Cheryline Pezzullo is a dental school admissions consultant who helps students apply to dental school. She is a general dentist and an associate professor at a dental school. She has sat on an admissions committee and has worked with more than 60 dental school clients. She co-directed a pathway program for high school and college students for over 12 years. She also helps dental students choose between residency options and specialties.
Chris Bell
Chris Bell is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students plan for college. He runs Bell College Consulting and works with students in Colorado. He spent more than 25 years in higher education before starting his practice. He has held roles in teaching, advising, counseling, student activities, and academic technology. He holds a graduate degree in Student Affairs in Higher Education, where he trained as a counselor. He guides students from self-discovery through the final application.
Chris Kim
Chris Kim is an educational consultant who helps students and their families plan for college. She co-founded Excellerate Learning Studio. Chris has nearly two decades of work in curriculum design, training, parent engagement and youth leadership. She also served as a youth pastor for over 15 years, advising teens and families on college and future plans. Her studio uses a five-part plan and collects data to shape each student's learning path. She teaches college prep seminars in her community.
Chris Morgan
Chris Morgan is a college admissions counselor who helps students plan and complete their applications. Chris taught high school English for over two decades at a nationally ranked school in Illinois. Chris also reviewed applications and ran interviews for the University of Chicago admissions committee. Chris has worked with over 100 college clients and focuses on personal essays and applications to Ivy League and other elite schools.
Christian Hansen
Christian Hansen is a full-time admissions counselor who helps students get into college, MBA and master's programs. He is a former Associate Director of the MBA program at UC Irvine and a former member of BYU's Admissions Committee. He also ran internships for LG Electronics in South Korea and China. He wrote the book The Influence Mindset and uses its ideas to teach students personal influence. He says every one of his students got into one of their top 3 programs.
Christina Chong
Christina Chong is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to top colleges and graduate schools in the United States. She runs Renaissance Admissions Consulting, a boutique firm. Before consulting, she worked in admissions offices at Harvard Law School, NYU School of Law, NYU College of Dentistry, Amherst College and Penn's School of Social Policy & Practice. She also taught middle school in Denver and Philadelphia. Her clients range from high school students to career changers with over 20 years of work experience.
Claire Qin
Claire Qin is an MBA admissions consultant and executive coach. She helps applicants shape their story and sharpen their positioning, and she coaches leaders through career moves. She holds a Stanford MBA and spent a decade in senior roles at Amazon, Uber, Sylvera and Morgan Stanley. She has trained in organisational psychology at the NHS Tavistock Clinic. She has also coached senior leaders and MBA students in INSEAD's Personal Leadership Development Programme.
Clay Phillips
Clay Phillips is a college admissions counselor who helps high school students build strong applications. He works as a technology consultant and has guided 20+ students through the process from start to finish. He builds custom timelines and oversees application submissions. He reports an acceptance rate above 80%, with students placed at Top 50 schools, including Ivies, some with scholarships. He also tutored children in STEM and coached lacrosse at inner-city schools.
Conor Ahern
Conor Ahern is a law school admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top programs. He has coached and tutored applicants for 10 years. He has a law degree from Harvard and has worked with 7Sage, Inspirica, Onsen Education, Diamond Education and NoodlePros. He helps clients raise their LSAT scores and build strong applications. His clients have won admission to all of the T14 law schools.
Courtney Bland
Courtney Bland is an admissions consultant who helps students with MBA and college applications. She is an MBA student at NYU Stern and a Duke graduate in Mechanical Engineering and Finance. She spent two years as an equity derivatives trader at Bank of America. She also interviews applicants as a Duke alumni interviewer. She was deferred by Duke and later admitted, so she guides clients through deferral and waitlist situations.
Curtis Yang
Curtis Yang is an MBA admissions consultant who coaches students applying to deferred MBA programs. He came from a T50 public university and earned admits to HBS, Wharton, MIT Sloan, and 2 other M7 schools. He did the process on his own. He also led campus-wide mentorship programs and gave 1:1 recruitment help to dozens of peers. He works at Microsoft and has a tech-focused, leadership-driven background.
Daniel Alameh
Daniel Alameh is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches on doctorate applications, elite industry jobs and career advice. He is a private equity investor at Salt Creek Capital. He got into Booth, Wharton, Kellogg, Haas, Columbia and NYU without a perfect GMAT or a top consulting résumé. He has helped dozens of applicants, including first-generation students and career-switchers, tell their story well. He played Division 1 college tennis.
Daniel Gabriel
Daniel Gabriel is a medical school admissions consultant who helps aspiring doctors apply to medical school. He is a student physician at Harvard Medical School on a full scholarship. He studied Biochemistry and Neuroscience at Sewanee and graduated Summa Cum Laude. He has helped more than 100 medical school clients. He also runs a YouTube channel that guides international students who want to study medicine in the United States.
Daniel Thornton
Daniel Thornton is a GMAT and GRE tutor who helps people raise their test scores to get into MBA programs. He has tutored over 1000 clients in 10 years. He worked for big test prep companies before starting his own practice, Dan the GMAT Man. Every year, some of his clients get into all top 5 MBA programs. He also tutors the SAT and ACT. His clients have reached a 705 on the GMAT and a 336 on the GRE.
Dario Zarrabian
Dario Zarrabian is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps people break into sports, media and entertainment. He worked as a Senior Manager, Strategy at Major League Baseball and as an Associate Consultant at LEK Consulting. He is an MBA candidate at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He applied to seven business schools, including Harvard, Stanford and Wharton, and got interviews and acceptances. He helps students pick schools, build their story and prepare for interviews.
Darla Trendler
Darla Trendler is a college admissions counselor who helps students apply to BYU. She focuses on application essays. Darla spent 10 years as a professional editor and worked on executive-level writing. She has coached applicants through BYU admissions since 2017. She is a BYU graduate who first got in as a transfer student after community college. That path gives her a close view of the process for students who doubt they belong.
Dave Morris
Dave Morris is the founder of College Athletic Advisor. He helps student athletes plan their college search and admissions. He has over two decades of experience as an educator, coach and consultant. He has coached at NCAA Division I, II and III, NAIA and NJCAA levels. He uses the 5A College Search Model to find schools that fit a student in academics, athletics and social life. He is based in Tumwater, Washington.
David Baird
David Baird is a private tutor for the GMAT, GRE and LSAT. He helps students who plan to apply to business school and law school. He founded FuturePrep London in 2020. Before that he co-founded Quantum Test Prep in Canada and taught there for over 10 years. He has more than 15,000 hours of graduate test prep teaching experience. He works fully remotely and has lived and worked in over 10 countries.
David Gordon
David Gordon is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches consulting recruiting and undergraduate applicants. He is a Kellogg MBA student and a former Associate Consultant at L.E.K. Consulting. His MBA clients have gained admission to Harvard Business School, Chicago Booth and Northwestern Kellogg. His consulting clients have received offers from McKinsey, BCG and Bain. Before consulting, he taught 5th grade with Teach for America in Richmond, CA.
David McMillan
David McMillan is an admissions coach who helps students apply to master's programs and win scholarships. He finished an MSc at Oxford with Distinction as a Global Rotary Scholar. He also holds an MSc from Edinburgh. All of his own master's applications succeeded, including Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh programs. He has also consulted on PhD and DPhil applications at Oxford and Cambridge. He works on application strategy, personal statements and interview prep.
David X.
David X. is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into MBA programs, grad schools and colleges. He takes Full-Time, Part-Time and Deferred MBA clients. He was admitted to Columbia and UChicago himself, and he uses that own application experience in his coaching. His background is in finance, and he has done pro-bono work across the Americas. He helps clients link their work history to their personal values in their story. He is based in Montreal.
Delaney Carlson
Delaney Carlson is an admissions counselor who coaches applicants on college and MBA applications. Delaney is a current MBA student at Harvard Business School and a Princeton Alumni Interviewer. Before business school, Delaney worked as a recruiter at Anheuser-Busch, where they screened resumes and ran hundreds of interviews. Delaney was admitted to seven top MBA programs, including Harvard, MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Kellogg, Yale SOM, Michigan Ross and Berkeley Haas.
Dione Chen
Dione Chen is a full-time MBA admissions consultant who also coaches college applicants and professionals on careers. She has 15+ years of experience and has coached hundreds of applicants. She worked as a coach for four leading admissions consulting firms. She holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and worked in startups, corporations and nonprofits across the US, Asia and Europe. She builds a personal application strategy for each client.
Donna Sakabu
Donna Sakabu is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their families plan for college. She founded Insightful College Planning and works from McKinney, Texas. She has visited more than 200 colleges in person. She worked with hundreds of students in California and knows the UC and CSU application systems well. She has also focused on college affordability for more than a decade.
Eleanor Roberts
Eleanor Roberts is a college admissions counselor who helps students with Common App and BYU essays. She spent six years as a BYU application reader and admissions counselor, and she has read hundreds of applications. She also worked as a financial aid manager from 2007 to 2018 and as an associate registrar at Ensign College. Today she is Director of NCAA Compliance. Her focus is helping students get into Brigham Young University.
Elena Arida
Elena Arida is an MBA admissions and consulting recruiting coach. She helps applicants build their story and get into top business schools, with a focus on Stanford GSB and Harvard Business School. She is a former EY-Parthenon consultant who served on the firm's Americas strategy committee. As an applicant, she went from re-applicant to acceptances at Stanford GSB, HBS, Wharton, Columbia, and Darden, where she won the Jefferson Fellowship.
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.
Emma Teach
Emma Teach is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches people trying to break into investment banking and private equity. She lives in Cambridge, MA, and is pursuing her MBA at HBS. She applied to HBS and Wharton in 2019 in Round 1 and got into both. Before business school she worked in private equity, investment banking and strategic finance, with a focus on consumer and retail companies.
Eric Lucrezia
Eric Lucrezia is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps clients with Master's applications and job searches. He spent 6 years at ESSEC Business School in Paris and Singapore as Director of Recruitment for the Global MBA. He has worked full-time as a consultant since 2020. He is based between Paris and New York City and sets appointments across time zones. As a longtime English teacher, he also reviews essays for grammar and spelling.
Eshaan Sharma
Eshaan Sharma is an LSAT tutor who helps students raise their scores on the law school entrance exam. He also works as a private writing tutor and admissions consultant. He scored a 175 on the LSAT and reached the 99th percentile on multiple graduate exams, including the GRE. He has taught standardized tests since 2020. His clients have hit scores from 162 to 178. He focuses on Logical Reasoning and Reading Comprehension.
Eunhwa Lee
Eunhwa Lee runs Lee College Counseling, an independent college admissions practice for students and their parents. She focuses on engineering, business, music, art, and STEM-bound students, especially pre-med. She holds an M.Ed in Educational Administration and has worked with hundreds of students. Before consulting, she taught English in middle schools and mentored students at Oregon high schools. She works in English and Korean.
Faith Heinaman
Faith Heinaman is a master's programs admissions consultant who helps applicants with personal statements, interview prep, and overall application strategy. She holds a Master of Public Health in Health Policy from Harvard. She worked as a Managing Consultant at ADVI Health and as a Policy Coordinator at Community Catalyst. She also interned in the office of Senator Cory Booker. Her own applications earned acceptances from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She has coached several other applicants.
Fiona Taft
Fiona Taft is an admissions and career consultant who helps people get into specialty master's programs and land finance jobs. She spent 8 years running executive leadership programs at Stanford Graduate School of Business. She then worked in the Master of Quantitative Finance Program at UC Berkeley Haas, ending as its Executive Director. Today she runs her own firm, QuantMinds. She coaches on quantitative finance, investment banking, hedge fund and capital markets careers, and works with international students.
Firo Cole
Firo Cole is a medical school admissions consultant who helps applicants plan their strategy, write personal statements, and prepare for interviews. Firo is a UCSF-trained physician in ophthalmology residency and a former member of the UCSF Admissions Committee. Firo has coached over 200 students. Clients include first-time applicants and people who are applying again with a stronger story.
Gautam Kapur
Gautam Kapur coaches people who want to get into top MBA programs or break into sports and entertainment careers. He works with nontraditional candidates, from undergraduates to experienced professionals. He holds a Stanford GSB MBA and sat on an undergraduate admissions committee. He works in corporate development at Nike and worked in strategy at the NBA from 2016 to 2022. He also founded Brown Ballers, a media platform for South Asians in sports.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Ahab Chopra | College admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Cyndy McDonald | College admissions | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Genevieve Morgan | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Lorraine Serra | College admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Robert Piazza | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abby Bittler | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abel Geleta | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abigail Hagan | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abigail Lind | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Afton Kuebitz | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Albert Choi | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alex Reznik | Medical school admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Alexander Cheng | Grad school and PhD and Ivy League and top schools | $80 to $230 an hour |
| Alexandra Matthews | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Alexia Godron | College admissions and Law school admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
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 college admissions, college essays, financial aid and scholarships and grad school and phd.
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Last updated September 2026.