Admissions consultants for grad school and phd
Compare 478 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 mba admissions. They most often work with students, parents and professionals. Most charge $69 to $235 per hour or session.
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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.
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 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 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.
Andrea Santambrogio
Andrea Santambrogio is a GMAT tutor and admissions and interview coach for people applying to business school and consulting jobs. He is a BCG consultant with an MBA from SDA Bocconi and a Columbia Business School exchange. He has prepared more than 400 students for the GMAT Focus, the Executive Assessment, MBA admissions and consulting interviews. His 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
Jasmine Brittan
Jasmine Brittan is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into PhD programs and win top scholarships and fellowships. She has won over 40 national and international awards, worth over $248,000 in scholarships. She works as an Aerial Mobility Research Scientist at NASA. She focuses on fellowships such as Fulbright, Knight-Hennessy, Rhodes, Gates-Cambridge and Commonwealth Scholarships. She also helps with master's course choice and institutional scholarships.
Jennifer P. Draeger
Jennifer P. Draeger is a GMAT, GRE and SAT tutor and admissions coach based in Berlin, Germany. She has coached test takers since 2013 and works with clients worldwide. Her former students have gone on to INSEAD, London Business School, Oxford, Stanford, Cornell, HEC Paris and Sciences Po. She sits on the Alumni Advisory Board at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, and she attends meetings with the people who oversee the GMAT exam.
Jennifer Stephan
Dr. Jennifer Stephan is a college counselor who helps students and families with college admissions, college success, and academic recovery. She has more than thirty years in higher education. She was Dean of Academic Advising and Undergraduate Studies for the School of Engineering at Tufts University for ten years. Before that, she taught computer science and served as an academic dean at Wellesley College. She focuses on engineering, computer science, STEM, and undecided students.
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.
Jessica Anderson
Jessica Anderson is a medical school admissions consultant who helps pre-med students and applicants build strong applications. She is a current MD-PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. She got into Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other top programs herself. She has worked with 20+ medical school clients. She also interviews applicants for Penn and volunteers as a career counselor for first-generation, low-income students interested in medicine.
Jessica Burlingame
Jessica Burlingame is an MBA and EMBA admissions consultant who also coaches leaders. She has worked with applicants worldwide since 2006. She is a Columbia MBA, an ICF-certified leadership coach, and a three-time Poets & Quants Top Consultant. Before coaching, she was a magazine editor, and she uses that eye for story to shape each client's essays and narrative. She offers her services in English and Italian.
Jesus Santos
Jesus Santos is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to master's programs. He began coaching when he founded an academy for his peers at university. Since then he has worked with 300+ students on grad school and professional applications. He studies at Stanford on a full-ride scholarship and worked at McKinsey and Morgan Stanley. He also helps Spanish-speaking students.
John Kincaid
John Kincaid is a medical school admissions consultant who helps applicants with personal statements, application strategy and interviews. He is a current MD-PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School. He also holds degrees from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Cambridge. He co-founded the Undergraduate Research Society at Case Western, where he built a mentor-mentee program with over 100 pairings. He has worked with more than 10 medical school clients.
Jonathan Trapani
Jonathan Trapani is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to PhD programs and MD/PhD programs. He is a third-year MD/PhD student at Vanderbilt University, where he studies cell signaling in a research lab. Since August 2021 he has advised Vanderbilt undergraduates on MD, MD/PhD and PhD applications. He edits application drafts and runs mock interviews. He also began by tutoring students in premedical courses and the MCAT.
Joseph Kemp
Joseph Kemp is an admissions consultant who helps people apply to law school, MBA programs and master's programs. He also advises founders. He has worked on admissions at the University of Michigan and Carnegie Mellon University. He holds a JD and MBA from Michigan and a master's in education from Penn. He co-founded JMK & Co., a firm for unconventional students.
Kamali Clora
Kamali Clora is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into master's programs, MBA programs and private high schools. She also works as a Division Administrator at Rush University Medical Center. Before that, she ran a free clinic as Executive Director and taught healthcare finance and policy at Yale. She holds an MPH from Yale and is finishing an MBA at Kellogg. She focuses on applicants who lack insider networks in academia or healthcare.
Kanishka Elupula
Kanishka Elupula is a PhD admissions consultant and life coach. Kanishka helps people apply to graduate programs and work through career and life decisions. Kanishka holds a PhD in Anthropology from Harvard and spent nearly a decade on its campus. Past work includes energy research, entrepreneurship and academia. Kanishka also performs stand-up comedy and uses storytelling to help clients shape their personal narratives.
Karla Magana Figueroa
Karla Magana Figueroa is an admissions consultant who helps candidates get into top MBA, MPP and master's programs in the U.S. and Europe. She also preps clients for investment banking and consulting interviews. She has sat on the Admissions Committee at Harvard Kennedy School. Before coaching, she spent a decade in consulting, investment banking at J.P. Morgan and private markets investing. Her clients have landed spots at Stanford GSB, HBS, LBS and INSEAD, often with scholarship support.
Kelly B
Kelly B is an admissions counselor who helps students apply to college, graduate school, and specialized programs. She worked in admissions at Stanford, first in the undergraduate office and then as Head of Admissions at the Graduate School of Education. She ran graduate admissions alone and reviewed over 3,400 graduate applications each year. She also has deep experience with visual arts portfolios and works with students around the world.
Kelly Chan
Kelly Chan is an admissions counselor who helps students get into college and master's programs. Kelly also coaches career moves into tech and engineering. Kelly works with transfer students, applicants with lower GPAs, and people from non-traditional backgrounds. Kelly is a Bay Area native with over 10 years at Apple, Adobe, and Goldman Sachs. Kelly transferred into Cornell and now works as an Engineering Program Manager at Apple.
Kimberly Duong
Kimberly Duong is a STEM PhD coach who works one-on-one with PhD students on productivity, academic progress, and career development. She holds a PhD in Civil and Environmental Engineering from UC Irvine and moved into industry after finishing it. She works as a civil engineer and project manager on water infrastructure projects worth over $100 million for Los Angeles County. She has coached more than 10 PhD clients.
Krysta Foster
Krysta Foster is a medical school admissions consultant who helps students apply to medical school, PA programs, PhD programs and master's programs. She has worked with students for six years, with a strong focus on STEM applicants. Her applicants have landed at schools including Duke, Vanderbilt, MIT, Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She also works in higher education at Michigan State University and was a first-generation college student herself.
Kyle Sykes
Kyle Sykes is a master's programs admissions consultant who helps aspiring filmmakers and media professionals apply to graduate programs. He is an award-winning director with a Stanford film degree and a USC film MFA. He worked as Director of Photography for The Hollywood Reporter round tables, shooting stars like Viola Davis and Adam Sandler. He also interned at HBO. He offers full application packages, essay help and interview prep.
Kyra Weeks
Kyra Weeks is a college admissions counselor who helps students get into undergraduate and graduate programs. She began her career as an analyst at Legendary Entertainment, working on data and strategy, before building a tutoring and coaching business. She has worked with more than 60 college clients. Her students have gone on to Harvard, Stanford, Cornell, Amherst, Duke and the University of Chicago. She covers essays, application strategy, test prep and interview prep.
Laurisa Ankley
Laurisa Ankley is a PhD admissions consultant who helps students choose programs, plan their applications, and tell their story. She is the Director of Graduate Student Success at Michigan State University, where she works with faculty on admissions decisions across the natural sciences. She earned her own PhD at MSU as a first-generation student. She founded GRIT, an equity-focused admissions program, and has coached more than 20 PhD clients.
Lucas Santos
Lucas Santos is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches people on career choices in sports, technology and public service. He holds a joint MBA and MPP from Harvard Business School and the Harvard Kennedy School. He worked as a consultant at The Bridgespan Group and as a transportation and infrastructure director for a U.S. congressman. Today he works at WSC Sports, where he partners with large sports rights holders in Latin America.
Manjima Sarkar
Manjima Sarkar is an admissions consultant who helps people apply to MD and MD/PhD programs. She is a current MD/PhD student at UNC Chapel Hill. In her first application cycle, she got 11+ interviews across MD, MD/PhD and MSTP programs. She applied as a non-traditional applicant and built her story around her background. She now coaches on secondary applications, interviews, the activities list and the AMCAS application.
Marcia Farias
Marcia Farias is an independent educational consultant who helps students apply to college and graduate school in the United States, Canada and Europe. She founded College Admissions International in Brasília, Brazil. She has advised students who want to study abroad since 2018. Her students have been accepted to every Ivy League university and most top-50 universities in the US and Europe. She works with students and parents around the world.
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.
McKay Shumway
McKay Shumway is an admissions consultant who helps people apply to master's programs, with a focus on genetic counseling. McKay is a current genetic counseling student at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. McKay was interviewed by 6 of the 8 schools applied to and matched with a top program in the first application cycle. McKay has 3+ years of mentoring experience and helps applicants tell their own story.
Mel Baxter
Mel Baxter is a coach who helps students with college and graduate school admissions, and helps professionals with career and leadership goals. Mel spent a decade in university enrollment offices. That work included recruiting students and reading applications at the University of Texas at Austin. Mel holds a graduate degree in Executive Coaching and Organizational Consulting from New York University. Mel grew up in the US and is now based in the UAE.
Michael Gallo
Michael Gallo is an admissions consultant who helps people apply to master's programs and top scholarships and fellowships. He was chosen as a Schwarzman Scholar in the 7th cohort from a pool of over 3,000 applicants. He was the first Schwarzman Scholar from his small liberal arts college. He has worked at the United Nations and as a data analyst for a state court office. He also works as a research and evaluation consultant.
Monisha Ahmed
Monisha Ahmed is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into master's programs. She holds a master's degree from Yale University and has a background as a Healthcare Product Owner and Strategist. She has secured admissions to nearly every top public health and professional program in North America. She has worked with 10+ master's clients. She treats an application like a product and builds the story around what admissions committees look for.
Nisarg Modi
Nisarg Modi is a master's admissions consultant and GMAT coach. He helps fresh graduates, working professionals who want to pivot, and international applicants get into master's programs. He earned admits to Imperial, LBS, Georgetown, and Duke, and scored in the 100th percentile in GMAT Quant. He worked at Deloitte before Georgetown. He takes only a small number of clients at a time, so each one gets his direct attention.
Nita June
Nita June is an educational consultant who helps students and families with college admissions. She specializes in visual arts portfolio guidance and performing arts audition coaching. She also works with transfer students, graduate students and athletes. Before starting her own practice, she taught high school English, literature and theater for almost a decade. She has focused on college counseling since 2012. She also directs and produces for her own theatre company.
Olivia Steele
Olivia Steele is an admissions counselor who helps students apply to UK universities, especially Oxford and Cambridge. She also covers Scottish schools like St Andrews and Edinburgh. She is a British-American tutor based in Los Angeles and a former senior tutor in London. She has helped 100+ clients. In the January 2025 cycle, all of her long-term students got into Oxford or Cambridge, and into their backup choices too.
Olutoyin Demuren
Olutoyin Demuren is a PhD admissions consultant who helps people apply to doctoral programs. Olu is a Sociology PhD student at NYU who studies environmental, economic and political sociology. Olu was admitted to every PhD program applied to and holds the NSF Graduate Research Fellowship. Most of the experience is in social science and humanities applications, and the guidance on research proposals and personal statements applies to all academic fields.
Rachel Kulchar
Rachel Kulchar is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to dental school, DDS/PhD, PhD and MD/PhD programs. She is a current DDS/PhD student at UCLA and an NIH predoctoral fellow. Her research looks at how cancer therapies affect the salivary glands. She has published more than 20 papers and sits on an admissions committee at UCLA. She has also gained admission to top dental, PhD and undergraduate programs herself.
Ram Rao
Ram Rao is an admissions consultant who helps applicants with PhD programs, medical school, and medical residency and fellowship applications. He is a physician who sits on admissions committees at University of Michigan Medical School and University of Washington. He also holds a PhD in biomedical engineering. He worked as a medical school admissions advisor at MedSchoolCoach for more than seven years, where he ran strategy sessions, edited essays, and ran mock interviews.
Rifat Mursalin
Rifat Mursalin is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong graduate school applications. He is an MBA student at Harvard Business School and serves as an Admissions Fellow there. He has coached over 60 applicants and earned over 10 acceptances to top MBA schools himself. Before business school, he worked in investment banking, education and social impact. He also taught English in Malaysia and won a Tutor of the Year award in college.
Rufaro Jarati
Rufaro Jarati is a college admissions counselor who helps students plan their path from freshman year of high school to college enrollment. Rufaro has coached over 100 students, both from the US and from countries like China, South Korea, South Africa and the UAE. Past roles include strategy consultant at Crimson Education and head admissions consultant at PrepStart, where Rufaro led a team. Clients have gained admission to schools like Cornell, Vanderbilt and Northwestern.
Sachin Waikar
Sachin Waikar is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps applicants to PhD and Master's programs. He has worked in admissions for 15+ years. His clients have gotten into top business schools worldwide, including Stanford GSB, HBS, Wharton, MIT and INSEAD. Before this, he was a McKinsey consultant in Chicago. He is also a published writer, so he helps applicants find and tell their own stories across every part of the application.
Sanam Ghazvini
Sanam Ghazvini is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to master's programs in healthcare. She has coached applicants for five years. Her clients have gained admission to top Master of Health Administration and Master of Public Health programs. Others have landed administrative fellowship offers at Stanford Health Care, UC San Diego Health, and University of Pittsburgh Medical Center. She holds an MHA from Columbia and works in healthcare strategy and operations at Oak Street Health.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| 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 |
| 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 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 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 |
| Amy Greenstein | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Andrea Santambrogio | MBA admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Andrew Ghadimi | Grad school and PhD and Ivy League and top schools | $80 to $230 an hour |
| Anna Gee | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Antoine Gamberini | Grad school and PhD and MBA admissions | $70 to $225 an hour |
| Arielle Martin | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 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 mba admissions.
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Last updated September 2026.