Admissions consultants for grad school and PhD
Compare 458 admissions consultants who focus on grad school and PhD. Besides grad school and PhD, the most common focus areas are college admissions, college essays, ivy league and top schools and international students. They most often work with students, parents and professionals. Most charge $69 to $235 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.
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.
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.
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.
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 Bastoky
Alex Bastoky is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong stories for top business schools. He holds an HBS MBA and is a former Bain consultant, Fulbright Scholar and West Point graduate. His own HBS essay was printed in the book "50 Successful Harvard Application Essays." He scored a perfect GRE Verbal and adds test help to his coaching. His clients have won offers from Stanford GSB, HBS, Wharton, Kellogg, Haas and Fuqua.
Alex Leventhal
Alex Leventhal runs Prep MBA, an admissions consultancy for people applying to MBA programs, law schools and other graduate programs. Alex has worked with hundreds of US and international applicants, in person and by video. Alex stays a boutique firm, so clients work with Alex directly and not with a junior consultant. Poets & Quants added Alex to its MBA Consultant Hall of Fame in 2021. Alex has more than 19 years of experience.
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.
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.
Amritha Mani
Amritha Mani is an admissions consultant who helps people apply to master's programs. She holds an MBA from Columbia Business School and worked as an MBA admissions consultant with The Red Pen. She has helped 50+ applicants get offers at schools including LSE, Michigan, Columbia, IIM, and Harvard (MPA). Before admissions, she spent 14+ years leading strategy and transformation work at Director and Principal level in financial services, government, and global consulting.
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 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 Santambrogio
Andrea Santambrogio is a GMAT tutor and admissions and interview coach for people applying to business school and consulting jobs. Andrea is a BCG consultant with an MBA from SDA Bocconi and a Columbia Business School exchange. Andrea has prepared more than 400 students for the GMAT Focus, the Executive Assessment, MBA admissions and consulting interviews. Andrea's students have reached GMAT scores from 685 to 785.
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.
Antoine Gamberini
Antoine Gamberini is an admissions consultant who helps people apply to master's programs and MBAs. He earned a place in the Stanford GSB MSx program, Class of 2025. Before that, he spent twelve years in telecom in Europe. He led large teams and turned around multimillion-euro businesses. He has coached dozens of applicants, first informally and then more intentionally. He now works in strategy and operations at Google. He also offers coaching in communication and public speaking.
Arielle Martin
Arielle Martin is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants plan and tell their story. Her clients have been admitted to M7 and Top 20 programs, including HBS, GSB, Wharton, Booth and Kellogg. She is a 2022 Harvard Business School alum who applied in Round 2 with 3 years of work experience. She works in healthcare strategy at Teladoc Health and coaches applicants across time zones from the Bay Area.
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.
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.
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.
Betsy Woolf
Betsy Woolf is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college and graduate school admissions. She runs Woolf College Consulting in Mamaroneck, New York. Betsy is a lawyer and a Certified Educational Planner. She is a Professional member of IECA. She serves families in the New York, New Jersey and Connecticut area, across the United States and Canada, and around the world. She also tours campuses, including Northeastern University London.
Bill Gao
Bill Gao is an independent educational consultant who helps international students and their parents with US school admissions. He is a senior manager at A Dream Student Services, a studio that serves Chinese students in Los Angeles and Orange County. He has 6 years of study abroad work and knows SEVIS rules and I-20 issues in detail. He also helps students recover or change their visa status.
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.
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.
Caitlin Andersen
Caitlin Andersen is an independent educational consultant who helps working professionals, current students and recent grads get into top business master's programs. She founded Auxilium Education in Tampa, Florida. Caitlin holds an MBA from Oxford's Saïd Business School and has guided graduate applicants since 2018. She chairs the Business Roundtable for the IECA Graduate Committee. Her clients have earned interviews and admits at schools such as Chicago Booth, Cornell Tech and LSE.
Cali Bottom
Cali Bottom is an independent college admissions advisor who helps students and their parents find and apply to colleges that fit. She runs EUREKA! College Prep & Admissions Advising in California. Her Find the Fit process builds a list of 20 to 30 suggested schools based on a student's interests, values and budget. She also teaches an SAT prep course and has helped graduate school applicants. Families use her online portal to schedule sessions and manage applications.
Carfax Education
Carfax Education is a private education consultancy for ultra high net worth families around the world. It helps with school placement from nursery to boarding school, and with university admissions in the UK and US. The firm began in Oxford as Carfax Consultants and now has its global headquarters in London. Its team includes British and American specialists focused on areas like Oxbridge, Ivy League and Swiss international schools.
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.
Charlotte Lawson
Charlotte Lawson is an admissions consultant who helps people decide whether to pursue medical school or an MBA, and then get through the process. She is a physician with an MBA from Harvard Business School. She founded a healthcare startup and raised venture capital for it. She works with career switchers, parents, older applicants, and people coming off a rejection. She is most useful early, when clients are working out their reasons for choosing a path.
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.
Chichi A
Chichi A is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps with MPP and JD applications. Chichi works in real estate finance at an affordable housing operator and worked in Goldman Sachs' Urban Investment Group. Chichi won admission to Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, Wharton, Kellogg and Harvard Kennedy School in one cycle, with full-tuition scholarships at three. Chichi has 10 years of admissions and career coaching experience and has worked with 20+ applicants in the U.S. and Nigeria.
Chidilim Menakaya
Chidilim Menakaya is an admissions consultant who helps students get into dental school, Master's programs and private high schools. Chidilim is a Harvard dental student who is also finishing an MPH at Harvard's public health school. Chidilim leads a Harvard program that guides more than 75 underrepresented pre-dental students through applications. Chidilim also mentored pre-dental students through essay edits, mock interviews and application strategy at Harvard Medical School's HOPE Medical Scholars program.
Chris Hathaway
Chris Hathaway is the founder and lead advisor of Dimension Admissions in Costa Mesa, California. She helps students and parents with prep school, undergraduate and graduate school admissions. She is a Yale educated teacher and consultant, and an essay specialist who focuses on personal narrative. Her firm uses a 4-D approach built on determination, direction, discovery and distinction. She is a professional member of the IECA. 93% of her clients arrive by word of mouth.
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.
Christine Chapman-Fierz
Christine Chapman-Fierz is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with private school, college and graduate school admissions. She runs Chapman Education from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. She has worked in admissions since 1991 and has coached over 5,000 students. She once served as the first Director of International Students at a Boston-area independent school. She also runs Next Act Consulting, which helps parents plan their next career step after their kids leave for college.
Claudia Pichardo
Claudia Pichardo is a dental school admissions consultant who helps pre-dental students apply. She is a dental student at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and sits on its student admissions committee. There she reviews applications, interviews candidates, and joins talks about admissions decisions. She has mentored pre-dental students one-on-one for two years and has led presentations on the application process. She has worked with 20+ dental school clients.
Claudine Vainrub
Claudine Vainrub is the principal of EduPlan, an educational consulting firm. She helps students get into college and graduate school. She has worked in admissions counseling for over 19 years and has supported thousands of candidates. Her students have been admitted to selective schools such as Harvard, MIT and Columbia. She reports that over 95% of her students earn merit scholarships each year. She works with students in the U.S. and in many other countries. She coaches in English, Spanish and Hebrew.
Claudine Vainrub
Claudine Vainrub is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college, MBA and graduate school admissions. She founded EduPlan in 2004 and has over 15 years of admissions counseling experience. She works one-on-one with every student and leads a team of editors and writing specialists. Her practice is in Hollywood, Florida, and she has served clients in countries from India and Brazil to Italy and Saudi Arabia.
Colleen Paparella
Colleen Paparella is a college admissions consultant who helps students and parents through the college application process. She founded DC College Counseling in McLean, Virginia, and leads a team of counselors. She spent the first decade of her career in undergraduate admissions and independent school counseling, including six years as a Director of College Counseling. She has a special interest in gifted and twice-exceptional students, and in students with ADHD, autism, and anxiety.
College Essay Advisors
College Essay Advisors is a New York team that coaches students on admissions essays. Advisors work one-on-one with applicants to plan, edit and refine their essays. The team has advised for more than 10 years and covers undergraduate, graduate, medical, business, law, international and private school applications. They also publish a book, a podcast, video tutorials and prompt guides for the Common App, supplements and UC essays.
Connie Pollack
Connie Pollack is a college admissions consultant in Pittsburgh who helps high school students and their parents plan for college. She also guides students applying to graduate school. She started her practice in 2004 after 15 years of teaching and work in school counseling. She recently served as a college counselor at an independent high school in Pittsburgh. She tours 10 colleges a year to keep her advice current.
Dana Ponsky
Dana Ponsky is an independent educational consultant in Brooklyn, New York. She helps high school students, college students and their parents with college and graduate school admissions. Her work draws on over 20 years in admissions counseling, career counseling and student development at the high school and college level. She has helped students get into top national and international colleges, and into medical, law, MBA and other graduate programs. She works in person and online with families in the U.S. and abroad.
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.
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 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.
Deanna Chhor
Deanna Chhor is an admissions consultant who helps students with master's program applications, essays and resumes. She holds a Master of Public Health from Yale, with a focus on healthcare management. Over the past decade she has tutored students from pre-med tracks to data science masters programs and MBA programs. She does not write essays for clients. She teaches them to write their own essays and tailor their own resumes.
Deans of Admissions
Deans of Admissions is an admissions consulting firm that guides students and families into selective universities in the United States and United Kingdom. Dean D. Blackman, a former Dean of Admissions at both Harvard and Columbia, founded it more than three decades ago. Every advisor on the team held a senior decision-making role in a top admissions office. The firm covers boarding schools, undergraduate, master's, PhD, business, law and medical programs.
Dumi Mphamba
Dumi Mphamba is an admissions consultant who helps people apply to MBA programs, U.S. colleges and graduate schools. Dumi earned an MBA and an MA in Education at Stanford. Dumi served as an Admissions Ambassador and an Arbuckle Coaching Fellow at Stanford GSB, and spent three years leading the international business at wikiHow. Dumi came to the U.S. from Zimbabwe on a full-ride scholarship to Stanford, and knows the path for international applicants firsthand.
Elizabeth LaScala
Elizabeth LaScala is an educational consultant who helps high school and graduate students with college and graduate school admissions. She founded Doing College and works from Lafayette, California, with clients in the US and abroad. She has more than 25 years of experience. In 2025, 85% of her students were admitted to one or more top choice colleges. Her clients also received over $4 million in financial aid.
Emily Tench
Emily Tench is an MBA admissions consultant who helps people apply to graduate school. She graduated in June 2025 with an MBA from Stanford GSB and a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. She was accepted by every school she applied to, including Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Duke and INSEAD. Before business school she worked as a consultant at Dalberg Advisors and cofounded a climate technology company. She now runs an early-stage startup.
Eric Endlich
Eric Endlich is an independent educational consultant who helps students with college and graduate school admissions. He leads Top College Consultants, a nationwide team that focuses on students with learning differences such as autism, ADHD and dyslexia. His students have received acceptances from over 110 schools. He also spoke at a 2020 college planning conference. His practice is based in Walnut Creek, California.
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.
Estrela Consulting
Estrela Consulting is a college admissions consulting firm that helps students and their parents with the college search and application process. Kristina Dooley founded it in 2008 after years of working on the admission office side. The firm began in São Paulo, Brazil. Today a team of Independent Educational Consultants and Essay Specialists works with families remotely, in the U.S. and abroad, to find a college that fits academically, socially and financially.
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 Koh
Fiona Koh is a college admissions counselor who also coaches on careers. She helps students aiming for top universities and programs such as Schwarzman Scholars. She studied on three continents and is originally from Switzerland. Her work history includes cybersecurity consulting, business development and global affairs. She has coached 5+ students into Big 4 firms or grad school. She helps clients turn past achievements into one clear storyline.
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.
Francesco Rastelli
Francesco Rastelli is an admissions consultant for applicants to Master's in Management and business master's programmes. He also preps clients for the GMAT and admission tests. He earned a place at London Business School for the Class of 2027 after studying at Bocconi. He scored 705 on the GMAT Focus. He went through the full application cycle this year, so he knows the current process first-hand.
Fred Taylor
Fred Taylor is an admissions coach who helps students get into university, with a focus on maths and science at Oxford and Cambridge. He is a recent Cambridge graduate in Maths and Systems Biology and has tutored for 6 years. He has helped over 30 students receive Oxbridge offers. He has logged 350+ hours of admissions work, including mock interviews, admissions tests and personal statements. He also sat the TMUA himself.
Greg Zegas
Greg Zegas is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants focused on climate and the environment, and applicants applying from overseas. He has coached for six years. He holds an MBA and MS in Environment and Resources from Stanford GSB. He applied to Stanford from Mongolia, where he led climate finance programs at a commercial bank. His clients have won Fulbright and Chevening scholarships and gained admission to top-10 schools.
Gustavo Faúndez
Gustavo Faúndez is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into highly selective master's programs, mostly in public policy, economics and education. He holds a Master in Public Policy from Harvard and is starting a PhD in Education Policy and Program Evaluation there. He has worked with the Ministry of Education of Chile and on UNESCO-affiliated research. He also researches college admissions and co-founded a nonprofit for fair access to higher education.
Hadi Hussaini
Hadi Hussaini is a GMAT tutor and MBA admissions consultant. He helps applicants prepare for the GMAT and build business school applications. He cofounded A1 MBA Consulting, which serves MBA, Masters of Finance, and Masters in Management applicants. Before that he worked in investing at TCW Group and PIMCO. His clients have reached GMAT scores from 605 to 770.
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.
Hailee DeMott
Hailee DeMott is an Independent Educational Consultant who helps students and families plan for college and graduate school. She owns DeMott College and Education Consulting. Before starting her practice, she worked in student recruitment and admissions, academic advising, and as a faculty member. She is a 2013 Fulbright Scholar who studied in Berlin and Strasbourg. She also serves as the Las Vegas Community Coordinator for the Higher Education Consultants Association.
Hamid Arbab
Hamid Arbab is an admissions consultant who helps applicants with college, law school and policy school applications. He has coached 60+ applicants on school selection, essays and overall strategy, including international applicants. He got into Harvard Law School two years early through the Junior Deferral Program. He studied at Princeton and is now a Marshall Scholar and DPhil candidate at Oxford. He focuses on making every part of an application point in the same direction.
Hanna Stotland
Hanna Stotland is an independent admissions consultant in Las Vegas. She helps students with college, law school and grad school applications. She focuses on crisis management, working with students who have faced discipline, mental health issues, academic failure or criminal charges. She has worked with paying clients since 1999, first as a contractor for Kaplan and Brody and then in her own practice. She serves families from California to Maine.
Harriet Katz
Harriet Katz is an independent college counselor who helps visual and performing arts students get into college programs. She owns Creative Kid College Coach in California. Before counseling, she spent over 20 years in film production and animation. She began counseling arts students at Freestyle Academy in 2007. Her practice now serves domestic and international students. She helps with portfolios, auditions, essays, and college lists for undergraduate and graduate programs.
Heejung Laird
Heejung Laird is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs Song & Laird Education Partners in Nashville, Tennessee. Before consulting, she earned a doctorate and worked in global organizations. She holds a certificate with distinction from UC Irvine. She has visited colleges and met admissions officers to give informed advice. Her firm also offers essay help, transfer applications, graduate school guidance, and career counseling.
Hirad Zafari
Hirad Zafari is a dental school admissions consultant who helps aspiring dentists apply to competitive programs. He is a Harvard-trained dentist with five years of clinical experience. He also served on the admissions committee at Harvard School of Dental Medicine, where he evaluated applications. He applied as an international student himself and earned spots in dental programs across the USA and Canada. He works on essays, secondary applications, interviews, and overall strategy.
InGenius Prep
InGenius Prep is an admissions consulting firm that helps students and parents with college, graduate, law, medical and business school applications. Each student gets a former admissions officer and a graduate coach. The team has 160+ former admissions officers from top 30 universities and has worked with 6,000+ students. All sessions run by video, phone and email, so students can join from anywhere.
Inspira Advantage
Inspira Advantage is an admissions consulting firm for people applying to medical, dental, physician assistant and veterinary school. The team also supports residency and BS/MD applicants. Their coaches include former admissions officers and MDs. They focus only on graduate healthcare programs. The firm reports 15K+ applicants supported, a 98% acceptance rate and an average scholarship award of $35K. Test prep for exams like the MCAT, DAT and GRE is also offered.
Jake Kirschner
Jake Kirschner is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants tell a clear story about their path. He holds an MBA from Wharton and a Master of City Planning from Penn. He focuses on dual degree and nontraditional applicants. He also guides people who want a real estate focus at any school, or who are targeting Wharton. Before grad school, he worked in real estate acquisitions and consulting. He has helped clients get into Wharton.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Grad School Road Map | MBA admissions and Law school admissions | $80 to $150 an hour |
| Lorraine Serra | College admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abigail Hagan | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| AdmissionSight | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Albert Choi | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alex Bastoky | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Alex Leventhal | MBA admissions and Law school admissions | $125 to $275 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 |
| Amanda Reisman | Medical school admissions and Grad school and PhD | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Amanda Wirtz | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Amin Bagheri | Medical school admissions and Grad school and PhD | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Amritha Mani | MBA admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Amy Greenstein | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an admissions consultant for grad school and PhD cost?
Most admissions consultants charge $69 to $235 per hour or session.
What else do these admissions consultants help with?
Common focus areas include college admissions, college essays, ivy league and top schools and international students.
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Last updated September 2026.