Admissions consultants for veterans
Compare 35 admissions consultants. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are MBA admissions, ivy league and top schools, grad school and PhD and college admissions. They most often work with veterans, students and professionals. Most charge $69 to $150 per hour or session.
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Spencer Shih
Spencer Shih is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants choose schools and tell their story based on career goals. He is a Navy veteran who used a full-time MBA to move into marketing. He has worked with more than 60 MBA clients and has coached full-time MBA students on recruiting for over 5 years. He starts by asking what career you want after the MBA and what experience you want during the two years.
Alec Emmert
Alec Emmert coaches people who want into top MBA programs and elite consulting firms. He works with applicants from non-traditional backgrounds. He was admitted to Wharton at age 35 with a 2.85 undergraduate GPA. He then joined McKinsey & Company as an Associate and worked in its Private Equity practice. He also led Service to School, a nonprofit that helps veterans get into top universities, and wrote a book on MBA success for veterans.
Alex Clark
Alex Clark is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications for top business schools. Alex is a Stanford GSB graduate, a former U.S. Army Infantry Officer and a former Strategy Consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Alex also served as a TALK Coach at Stanford. Alex has worked with more than 10 MBA clients on strategy, essays and personal stories, with a focus on applicants from non-traditional paths.
Colin Weidmann
Colin Weidmann is an MBA admissions consultant who helps veterans and other non-traditional applicants. He is a Stanford GSB graduate and a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer with 11 years of service. He got into Stanford GSB, Harvard Business School and Wharton himself. He has coached veterans into Stanford GSB, Harvard, Wharton, Kellogg, Booth and Haas. He also works as a Chief of Staff at a private equity-backed healthcare company.
Dee Taylor
Dee Taylor is an MBA admissions consultant who helps veterans, engineers, and other non-traditional applicants get into business school. Dee is a Harvard Business School MBA and a former U.S. Navy officer with an engineering background. Through Service2School, Dee has supported applicants admitted to Tuck, Wharton, Harvard Business School, Kellogg, and Chicago Booth. Dee also works as a product leader in gaming and has founded a business.
Grant Miller
Grant Miller is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps clients with consulting recruiting and the move from military to civilian work. He has conducted over 30 MBA admissions interviews for Georgetown and interviewed job candidates at Deloitte and in government. He is a Georgetown MBA candidate and a former Deloitte Senior Consultant. He now works at Visa Consulting & Analytics. He also has U.S. Army experience.
Hailee DeMott
Hailee DeMott is an independent college admissions consultant in Las Vegas, Nevada. She guides students and families through the admissions process from start to finish. Before starting her own practice, she worked in admissions at Westminster University in Salt Lake City, where she recruited top scholars. She also taught college transition courses. She served more than ten years as the Las Vegas Regional Coordinator for the Higher Education Consultants Association.
Ian Kennedy
Ian Kennedy is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches startup founders and executives. He served in the Army Special Forces as a communications sergeant, then earned an MBA and an MS in electrical engineering at Stanford. He later worked in venture capital at Khosla Ventures, where he supported over $1B in new financings and a portfolio of over 60 startups. He now coaches full time and takes on a few comprehensive MBA clients each cycle.
James Palmer III
James Palmer III is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches students, veterans and professionals on service academy and ROTC applications, career strategy and leadership. He is a West Point graduate and former U.S. Army officer with a Columbia Business School MBA. He has coached more than 100 people. He serves as a Columbia Business School Admissions Ambassador, a Management Leadership for Tomorrow coach and a West Point Admissions Liaison.
Jeremy Wano
Jeremy Wano is an admissions consultant who helps people get into MBA and MPA programs, get into dental school, and land jobs in consulting. He studied at Tuck School of Business and worked at Boston Consulting Group. He served as a dentist in the US Navy. He has also worked as a strategy consultant and as a Head of Customer Success Strategy.
John Blackmar
John Blackmar is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants tell a clear story about their background. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and served in Air Force intelligence and acquisitions. He led software teams before business school. He has guided four clients through the MBA application process. He works with military candidates who are more qualified than they realize but struggle to explain their experience. He lives in Anchorage, Alaska.
Kasey Crumpton
Kasey Crumpton is an MBA admissions consultant who helps non-traditional and military applicants. Kasey has a Kellogg MBA from the Class of 2026 and has worked in consulting at Boston Consulting Group. Kasey also served as Director of Network Operations for the Space Force and as an Army Signal and Infantry Officer. Kasey has guided 5 clients through the MBA application process and received offers from multiple top-25 MBA programs.
Lisa Cummings
Lisa Cummings is an MBA admissions consultant who helps MBA and specialty master's candidates build strong applications. She spent 14 years as an admission advisor at MIT Sloan, where she read thousands of applications and interviewed thousands of candidates. Before that she worked in finance for over 10 years. She has consulted for 8 years and works with veterans and active duty military members who want to move out of the service or build their military careers.
Matt Kilby
Matt Kilby is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top business schools and undergraduate schools. He has coached for over 6 years. He is a former nuclear submarine officer and a Project Leader at BCG. Clients he has helped were admitted to Harvard Business School, Wharton, Chicago Booth, Kellogg and MIT Sloan, including the LGO program. He also works with military veterans, engineers and athletes.
Mennette Larkin
Mennette Larkin is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top US and European business schools. She was Associate Director of MBA Admissions at UC Berkeley Haas and made thousands of admissions decisions for full-time and part-time programs. She also read applications for the University of Chicago business school. She started consulting in 2008 and founded Admissions Unlimited in 2013. Her clients come from many countries, and she works with military veterans.
Nicole Carter
Nicole Carter is an MBA admissions consultant who helps non-traditional applicants, including veterans, build strong applications. She served five years in the U.S. Army before earning her MBA at Wharton. She now works as a consultant at Boston Consulting Group. She has helped more than 20 people get into top programs such as HBS, Wharton, Booth and CBS. She covers essays, interviews and overall application strategy.
Taylor Applegate
Taylor Applegate is a law school admissions consultant who helps transitioning military members, veterans, young professionals and senior undergraduates plan a future in law. Taylor served six years on active duty as an Air Force officer, then earned a JD at Stanford Law School. Taylor clerked for the Ninth Circuit and now practices as an attorney at Salahi PC. Taylor also helps clients apply to other graduate and fellowship programs.
Tyler Oates
Tyler Oates is a management consulting and MBA coach. He helps candidates get into elite MBA programs, land jobs at top consulting firms, and move into entrepreneurship through search and acquisition. Tyler worked at McKinsey & Company after Harvard Business School. He later became CEO of a Michigan-based manufacturing company. Before business school, he spent ten years as a U.S. Army Green Beret. He also coaches people leaving the military.
Walter Woo
Walter Woo is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps with master's programs, venture capital paths, and military transitions. He served as a US Army officer from 2015 to 2023 after graduating from the United States Military Academy. He later earned a Master of Public Administration at Harvard Kennedy School. He has invested in early-stage startups in Southeast Asia and other markets. He also interviewed and mentored prospective candidates for the Military Academy.
William Chung
William Chung is an MBA admissions consultant who helps veterans and service members get into business school and move into tech. He is a Product Manager at Microsoft and a former Army MEDEVAC Black Hawk pilot. He earned his own MBA at MIT Sloan. He has helped 20+ people win acceptances at top 25 programs, including HBS, Stanford GSB, Booth, Columbia and Kellogg. He also coaches career changers into product management and product marketing.
Zack Doherty
Zack Doherty is an admissions consultant and career coach. He helps clients with MBA applications, college applications and career pivots. He turns each client's experiences into a clear story. Zack is a Marine Corps officer with a Stanford MBA and a philosophy degree from Dartmouth. He captained the Dartmouth swimming and diving team and later served as Chief Revenue Officer at a startup. He focuses on people with nontraditional paths.
Austin Welch
Austin Welch is an MBA admissions and consulting recruiting coach. He helps candidates get into top business schools and land jobs at firms like McKinsey, BCG, and Bain. He is a former McKinsey Engagement Manager and interviewer who now leads a team of 30 as a Managing Director at FedEx. He was accepted at all seven business schools he applied to, then earned his MBA at Stanford.
Micah Levinger
Micah Levinger is a GMAT, GRE and LSAT tutor who helps people get the scores they need for MBA, law school, master's and PhD programs. He has coached 250 GMAT students over a decade and has logged over 10,000 hours of grad admissions test instruction. He runs GMAT Attack, and he worked at Juris Education and Varsity Tutors. Several of his students have raised their GMAT scores by 100+ points.
Sarah Brown
Sarah Brown is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their parents apply to college. She runs Right4U College Counseling from Alexandria, Virginia, and works with students across the U.S. She holds an M.Ed. in school counseling. She focuses on military dependents, service academy and ROTC scholarship applicants, and homeschoolers. She is a military spouse, and her business is military spouse-owned.
MBA & Beyond
MBA & Beyond is an admissions consulting firm that helps applicants get into global MBA and MIM programs. The team works on school selection, essays, resumes and interviews. Clients have won admit invites from INSEAD, HEC Paris, LBS, Oxford, Darden, Kellogg and Tuck. Applicants come from fields like consulting, product management, finance and the military. The firm also helps people with a low GPA or GMAT score build a strong case.
Jenifer "Jenny" Raver
Jenifer "Jenny" Raver is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into business school. She served two years on the Wharton admissions committee and later interviewed applicants as a Penn alumni interviewer. She has advised 130+ clients from 25+ countries since 2018. Before that, she coached MBA students at INSEAD and Singapore Management University, where she was also MBA Program Director. She has lived and worked in 10 countries.
Erin Jensen
Erin Jensen is a college coach who helps students with admissions, transfers, graduate school and paying for college. Erin runs Golden Ratio Northwest College Coaching. Erin has more than 15 years in college recruitment and admissions. Erin focuses on non-traditional students, including gap year students, working adults, veterans and foster youth. Erin also helps first generation students and high school students. Erin's rates change to fit each student's situation.
Greg Guglielmo
Greg Guglielmo is an MBA admissions consultant who founded Avanti Prep and helps business school applicants with applications, interviews, waitlists and scholarships. Poets & Quants ranked him the #9 consultant in the U.S. in 2026. He is one of 23 MBA consultants worldwide with 100+ lifetime reviews on that site. His firm reports a 42% lifetime Harvard-Stanford acceptance rate and works with military applicants.
Christina DeCesare
Christina DeCesare is a senior admissions counselor at Expert Admissions. She helps students and parents with college, transfer and graduate school applications. Her firm is staffed by former admissions officers from schools such as Harvard, Princeton, Columbia and the University of Chicago. The firm has worked with applicants for 22 years and reports that 99% of clients were admitted to at least one of their top three schools. Services range from full start to finish support to focused reviews of single concerns.
Alex Shushunov
Alex Shushunov coaches people who want to get into top MBA programs and management consulting firms. He is a former U.S. Army officer who worked at Accenture and McKinsey & Company. At McKinsey he was a trained interviewer and recruiting lead. He has coached since 2018 and has helped hundreds of candidates, both veterans and non-veterans, prepare for MBA programs and firms like McKinsey, Bain, and BCG.
Andy Fleischer
Andy Fleischer is a career coach who helps veterans and other professionals move into business, consulting, tech and top MBA programs. He began as a Special Operations Infantry Officer and led soldiers on three deployments to the Middle East. He then earned an MBA at Wharton and worked at L.E.K. Consulting. Today he leads a $1B+ business at Amazon. He has coached more than 60 clients through military transitions.
Kira Dalton
Kira Dalton is a career coach who helps professionals make big career pivots. She focuses on midlife professionals looking for a second or third act. She also works with MBA students, military veterans, and people moving into or out of entertainment. Before coaching, she spent 10 years in the entertainment industry in Los Angeles, including DreamWorks Animation, Disney, and Lucasfilm/ILM. She also worked in higher education.
Alex Olsen
Alex Olsen is a management consulting coach who helps people prepare for consulting jobs and top programs. Alex is a former Bain manager who led consulting teams on growth strategy, tech transformation, go-to-market strategy, and automation projects. At Bain, Alex interviewed 30+ candidates and reviewed 100+ resumes. Alex is also an Air Force veteran with a Harvard master's degree. Coaching covers management consulting, college, communication and public speaking, and master's programs.
Brendan Lorton
Brendan Lorton is a management consulting coach who helps people move into consulting and navigate business school. He went from the military to business school and knows what it is like to start from zero. He explored investment banking, worked at a startup, and spent a summer consulting with BCG. He now works at Boston Consulting Group. He has coached 1,516 minutes and has 21 reviews.
Lauren Stephenson
Lauren Stephenson is a coach for people aiming at service academies and ROTC, moving out of the military, or stepping into leadership roles. She is a former Navy officer and decision scientist with a background in operations research and analytics. She worked as a consultant at BCG and as Lead Data Scientist for the US Navy. She built the Surface Force Response Plan, a planning and decision system for Navy forces.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Spencer Shih | MBA admissions | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Alec Emmert | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Alex Clark | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Colin Weidmann | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Dee Taylor | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Grant Miller | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Hailee DeMott | College admissions and Grad school and PhD | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Ian Kennedy | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $145 an hour |
| James Palmer III | MBA admissions and College admissions | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Jeremy Wano | MBA admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $145 an hour |
| John Blackmar | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $125 to $275 an hour |
| Kasey Crumpton | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Lisa Cummings | MBA admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Matt Kilby | MBA admissions and College admissions | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Mennette Larkin | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $80 to $230 an hour |
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Most admissions consultants charge $69 to $150 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include MBA admissions, ivy league and top schools, grad school and PhD and college admissions.
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Last updated September 2026.