Admissions consultants for international students
Compare 400 admissions consultants who focus on international students. Besides international students, the most common focus areas are college admissions, college essays, ivy league and top schools and grad school and phd. They most often work with students, parents and professionals. Most charge $99 to $150 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 Lind
Abigail Lind is a college admissions consultant who helps students build applications that tell a clear story. She has 13 years of experience and has helped over 600 students get into top colleges. She started out tutoring in California, where she learned the Stanford and UC applications well. She holds an MFA in creative writing, which shapes her story-driven approach. She left larger agencies to offer custom plans and unlimited support.
Alexandra Eitel
Alexandra Eitel is an MBA admissions consultant who helps candidates plan and write strong business school applications. She is a first year student at Stanford Graduate School of Business. Before that, she worked at Creative Artists Agency and helped start YouTube's Public Figures business. She was admitted to Stanford GSB, Columbia, INSEAD, MIT Sloan, Berkeley and UCLA. She focuses on school selection, essays and interviews.
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.
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.
Anurag Gandhi
Anurag Gandhi is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top business schools. He holds an MBA from Chicago Booth and studied at Stanford. Before coaching, he worked in supply chain at Nike and Apple, then in consulting at Keystone Strategy. He is now Director of Corporate Strategy at Mawson, a publicly traded digital infrastructure company. His clients have gained admission to Wharton, Booth and Haas.
Avi Yulzari
Avi Yulzari is a test prep tutor who helps students prepare for the GMAT, GRE, Digital SAT and ACT. He is based in the Netherlands and works with applicants from around the world. He scored 805 on the GMAT and has worked with 100+ GMAT clients. His students have gained seats at Harvard, Stanford GSB and INSEAD. He teaches students to spot common test-maker traps and to handle the pacing of computer-adaptive tests.
Barbara Coward
Barbara Coward is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into business schools around the world. She has worked in admissions for over two decades. She was the Director of Admissions at the University of Bath and an admissions reader at Johns Hopkins University. Her clients have gained admission to Harvard, Stanford, Wharton and INSEAD. She has helped more than 100 people earn top MBA admits. She works with clients on every continent except Antarctica.
Barry Beach
Barry Beach is a college advisor and portfolio coach who helps students and parents with college admissions. He works with high school students, transfer students, international students, first-generation students and arts applicants. He spent several years scoring freshman applications at UC Berkeley, so he knows how that review works. He has also worked in admissions at two art schools. He has advised families independently since 2009 from San Rafael, California.
Beatriz Gorostiaga
Beatriz Gorostiaga is an MBA admissions consultant who helps international applicants build strong applications. She graduated from Harvard Business School in 2025 and went through the MBA process as an international applicant herself. She has worked in financial services, non-profits and tech ventures in the U.S. and Latin America. She has also mentored international students applying to U.S. colleges through the EducationUSA program since 2017.
Begum Cital
Begum Cital is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with essays, interviews and overall application strategy. She is a Harvard Business School Class of 2025 graduate. She was admitted to both HBS and MIT Sloan, and she won a scholarship at Sloan. She moved from Turkey to the U.S. for college. She focuses on nontraditional and international candidates, and she coaches Turkish applicants in Turkish. She has logged 1,530 minutes of coaching.
Cathy Manlow
Cathy Manlow is an MBA admissions consultant who helps candidates get into global business schools. She earned her own MBA at INSEAD and now interviews applicants for the school. Before that, she worked on Wall Street and in the gourmet chocolate world. She has coached candidates since 2018. Her clients have gained admission to INSEAD, LBS, Bocconi, Booth, Wharton, HEC Paris, IESE, Cambridge Judge, Oxford Said and NYU Stern.
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.
Connie Chan
Connie Chan is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build their story and land offers at top business schools. She is a Harvard Business School student in the Class of 2026 and spent three years at Bain & Company. She applied from abroad and was the only admit from Hong Kong in her HBS class. She has guided 30+ friends through MBA admissions and has worked in consulting, startups, retail and sustainability.
Daniel Gabriel
Daniel Gabriel is a medical school admissions consultant who helps aspiring doctors apply to medical school. He is a student physician at Harvard Medical School on a full scholarship. He studied Biochemistry and Neuroscience at Sewanee and graduated Summa Cum Laude. He has helped more than 100 medical school clients. He also runs a YouTube channel that guides international students who want to study medicine in the United States.
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.
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.
Eunhwa Lee
Eunhwa Lee runs Lee College Counseling, an independent college admissions practice for students and their parents. She focuses on engineering, business, music, art, and STEM-bound students, especially pre-med. She holds an M.Ed in Educational Administration and has worked with hundreds of students. Before consulting, she taught English in middle schools and mentored students at Oregon high schools. She works in English and Korean.
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.
Firas Atwa
Firas Atwa is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants plan and write strong applications. He is a current MBA candidate at Harvard Business School. He was admitted to three top 10 MBA programs: Harvard, Columbia and London Business School. Before business school he worked in investment and strategy at Algebra Ventures and Alvarez & Marsal. He focuses on applicants from underrepresented countries and backgrounds who need a distinct profile.
Ginny Park
Ginny Park is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches candidates for job interviews. She has helped 200+ applicants over 14 years. Before coaching, she worked in executive search at Heidrick & Struggles and in HR at Samsung, so she knows how candidates get assessed. She was accepted to Harvard and Stanford, including Stanford for both undergrad and MBA. Her clients have interviewed at firms like Google, Amazon, Meta, KKR and Bain Capital.
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.
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.
Hillary Hewins
Hillary Hewins is a college admissions counselor who helps students with US and global university applications. She has 18 years of experience and has guided over 600 students. She has led college counseling at Hunter College High School and Léman Manhattan Preparatory School in New York City. She has visited over 100 US campuses to talk with admissions committee members. She also speaks at admissions conferences in the US, Europe, and Asia.
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.
Irving Barrera
Irving Barrera is a medical school admissions consultant who helps applicants build a clear story for their applications. He is a current Harvard Medical School student. He got into eight top medical schools, including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, Yale and UCSF, and won major merit scholarships. He worked at the Broad Institute and as a Spanish medical interpreter. He focuses on applicants who do not follow the usual pre-med path.
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.
Jesse Lambdin
Jesse Lambdin is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top business schools in the United States and Europe. Every full-service client has been accepted to a top 30 program, and 95% have gotten into a top 20 program. Jesse also works with applicants who have low test scores, weaker GPAs, or work histories that are hard to measure. International applicants are welcome.
Jessica Brilz
Jessica Brilz is an MBA admissions consultant and career coach. She helps business school applicants choose the right school and plan their path to a global career. She was Assistant Director of Careers at INSEAD and a Manager at London Business School. She has 8 years in business education and corporate HR. She has also sat on several admissions committees. She has built partnerships with fortune 500 employers.
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.
Jin Zhou
Jin Zhou is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants plan and finish their business school applications. Jin is an MBA candidate at Wharton and has worked in investment banking at Citi, product strategy at ByteDance, and investing at IDG Capital. Jin has guided 5 clients to admission at top MBA programs. Work covers essay stories, interview practice, and overall application strategy, plus waitlist help.
John Naoum
John Naoum is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build a strong story for business school. He has coached for more than 17 years. He holds a Kellogg MBA and works in global brand management, where he leads brands like Rain-X and Black Magic at Illinois Tool Works. He uses his marketing skills to help clients shape their message and stand out. He works with applicants from the US and other countries.
Josh Poker
Josh Poker is a GMAT tutor who helps MBA applicants raise their scores. He has worked at BCG in Buenos Aires and San Diego, and he went through the M7 admissions process himself. His clients have won admits at schools such as HBS, Stanford GSB, Wharton and INSEAD. His top student scored 770. He coaches in English and Spanish.
Joy L
Joy L is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top programs, mainly Stanford and Harvard. Joy earned a Stanford GSB offer in 2018 as one of the few international students admitted during college. Joy then completed a Stanford MBA and a Harvard MPA. Joy reports an 80% placement rate at Stanford or Harvard over 8 years and has worked with more than 10 MBA clients. Joy also worked at the Stanford GSB.
Julia Florey
Julia Florey is an LSAT tutor and law school admissions coach. She has tutored over 100 students, from first-time test-takers to repeat takers. Her clients have scored from 150 to 176. She is a Michigan Law graduate and a former federal court clerk in the District of Nevada. She tutors the LSAT full-time and trains new tutors at two LSAT prep companies. She also reviews application materials and talks admissions strategy.
Julia Gareeva
Julia Gareeva is an MBA admissions consultant who helps international students with non-traditional backgrounds apply to business school. She grew up in Russia and began her career at EY in Moscow. She moved to Boston with the firm in 2017 and later joined the MBA program at Harvard Business School. She has mentored students in Moscow and Boston for 15 years through UStrive. She offers application strategy, essay help and mock interviews.
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.
Kevin Paul
Kevin Paul is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into undergraduate programs, law schools and MBA programs. He has 15 years of admissions experience. He worked as Assistant Director of Recruitment and Admissions for the University of Chicago Booth Executive MBA program. He lived in Hong Kong for more than a decade and now works from Raleigh, North Carolina. He holds a JD/LL.M. from Duke and briefly practiced law before moving into admissions.
Kieran Carty
Kieran Carty is an MBA admissions consultant who helps first-gen and international applicants get into top business schools. He got into both Stanford GSB and HBS without a coach or an Ivy League degree. Before that he worked in investment banking, private equity and impact investing across Africa, India and the Middle East. He wrote Mastering B-School Apps, a guide that has helped 100 people gain admission to HBS and GSB.
Kimberly Kim Chorosiewski
Kim Chorosiewski is a college and school planning counselor at McMillan Education. She helps students and families find the right school or college, with a focus on athletic recruiting. She spent 25 years as an educator, coach and administrator in schools and colleges. She also chairs the firm's Athletic Recruiting College Planning area. She was an All-American in field hockey and lacrosse and played for the US National Team in both sports.
Kristen Borsetti
Kristen Borsetti is the founder of College Alchemist. She is an educational consultant who helps international families with US and global college admissions. She spent 30 years in management consulting, first in technology and then in diversity, equity and inclusion work for schools and companies. She is a dual national of the United States and Italy and lived in Singapore. Her firm is based in Singapore and San Francisco.
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.
Marie Bercik
Marie Bercik is a GMAT and GRE tutor who also coaches MBA applicants. She teaches all sections of each test, and Quantitative is her main focus. She taught at Kaplan and later ran a private tutoring business while working as a math teacher. She has worked online full-time since 2016. Her students are mostly in the US, and some are in Asia, Europe and South America. Her students have been admitted to programs like HBS, Wharton and Kellogg.
Maurice Levin
Maurice Levin is a GMAT tutor and admissions coach who helps international students and working professionals. He also teaches TOEFL, SAT and academic and business English. He has 25+ years of teaching and coaching experience. He holds a Harvard MBA and scored 720 on the GMAT. Before coaching, he worked in finance, real estate, executive search and horticulture. He has coached more than 60 GMAT clients.
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.
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.
Monica Okrah
Monica Okrah is an MBA admissions and career coach who helps high-potential professionals plan their applications and tell their leadership story. She founded Helium Coaching in 2018. Since 2006 she has coached 750+ leaders in 45+ countries on top MBA and Executive MBA programs, including Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Columbia, INSEAD and London Business School. She also works as an executive search partner, so she knows how boards and C-suite leaders judge leadership potential.
Nakul Khanna
Nakul Khanna is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top business schools. He is a Kellogg alum and a former Kellogg admissions committee reader and alumni interviewer. He worked at Meta, Uber and Google, and he now works in fintech venture capital. He has mentored MBA applicants for over 6 years. His clients have gained admits to schools such as Harvard Business School, Wharton, Columbia, INSEAD and LBS.
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.
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.
Omolegho U
Omolegho U is an MBA admissions consultant and management consulting coach. Omolegho helps MBA candidates and aspiring consultants. As a former Bain & Company consultant with an MBA from Yale School of Management, Omolegho coaches on casing, interviews and the 'why' behind an MBA. Omolegho helps applicants with non-linear career paths tell their story clearly to admissions committees.
Oren Margolis
Oren Margolis is an MBA admissions consultant who also offers career, leadership and executive coaching. He spent 6 years in admissions at NYU, including the Stern School of Business, where he sat on committees and made decisions on thousands of applicants. He later worked in HR, marketing and strategy, and led the People function at Nova Credit. He holds ICF and executive coach certifications and is based in Los Angeles.
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.
Sergey R
Sergey R is a college admissions counselor who helps students build strong applications and tell their own story. More than 300 of his students have been admitted to schools such as Stanford, Princeton, Brown, Cornell and UChicago. He taught over 30 courses at Harvard and worked there as an admissions application reviewer. He speaks five languages and works with international and multilingual families. He also coaches graduate students on admissions and academic writing.
Shani Campbell
Shani Campbell is a college admissions counselor who helps students apply to college. She founded Shani on Campus and has worked with 60+ college clients. Her past work includes serving on the admissions committee at the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and leading international recruiting for 10+ elite private schools. She focuses on one-on-one counseling, essay coaching and advocacy for underrepresented students, including first-generation and low-income students.
Siwei Liu
Siwei Liu is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications for top business schools. Siwei served on the student admissions committee at Kellogg, so the evaluation side of the process is familiar. Siwei has guided 50+ candidates to offers from top MBA programs, including HBS and GSB. Siwei also works as a product marketing manager in tech and coaches in English and Chinese.
Sophia McCorkle
Sophia McCorkle is a college admissions counselor who helps students apply to universities in the US and abroad. She has guided over 500 students through admissions and financial aid. Her clients have gained admission in the US, Canada, the UK, the Netherlands, Japan and Germany. She holds a post-graduate certificate from Columbia and has worked in high school guidance offices. That experience shows in her knowledge of transcripts and school application systems.
Susan Lawson
Susan Lawson is an educational consultant in Oakville, Ontario. She helps students apply to universities and colleges in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. She has worked with 466 clients in the past 8 years. She knows NCAA rules and has worked with many elite athletes. She also interviews applicants for The Loran Scholars Foundation, a national scholarship program. Her clients include high school students, graduate school applicants and young adults who need a new path.
Tara Allegra
Tara Allegra is an MBA admissions coach who helps deferred applicants and international students. She was admitted to the Stanford GSB at 21 as the first Indonesian accepted through its deferred enrollment program. She worked at the World Bank for over three years and later held a Princeton fellowship in Rwanda. Today she invests in early-stage companies in East Africa. She helps clients shape their story into the core of their MBA application.
Temi Olonilua
Temi Olonilua is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants shape their stories, plan their strategy and prepare for essays and interviews. Temi holds a Harvard MBA and trained as a chemical engineer. Temi applied to five top MBA programs and was admitted to all of them, with over $500K in scholarship offers. Temi has worked with 70+ MBA clients and has coached applicants across many backgrounds and time zones.
Timothy O'Hair
Timothy O'Hair is an admissions consultant who helps students and families apply to selective colleges in the United States, the UK and Ireland. He also guides film school and MBA applicants. Tim spent twenty years in the film business and uses that skill in storytelling to shape applications. He holds a UCLA college counseling certificate and British Council training in UCAS and Oxbridge applications. He visits campuses in the US, England and Scotland.
Tom Vosburgh
Tom Vosburgh is an MBA admissions consultant and public speaking coach. He helps applicants plan their strategy, write essays, prepare for interviews and negotiate financial aid. Tom earned an MBA/MPH at Berkeley Haas and worked at Deloitte. He has worked with more than 20 MBA clients. As a student, he was an official admissions ambassador and met hundreds of applicants. His own applications led to scholarships at multiple top 15 schools.
Tyler Wigington
Tyler Wigington is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants tell their story and prepare for interviews. He holds a Wharton MBA and a Lauder MA. As a Wharton Admissions Fellow, he led group interviews for dozens of applicants. He also interviewed candidates for the Lauder dual degree program. His clients have gone on to Harvard, Stanford, Wharton, Booth, Kellogg, Tuck, MIT Sloan and Columbia. He is based in Austin and works in strategy at Deloitte Digital.
Utku Dalan
Utku Dalan is an MBA admissions consultant who helps candidates plan their applications, write essays and prepare for interviews. He is a Stanford GSB MBA alumnus and a former consultant. He has coached more than 10 candidates into top programs. He also works with international applicants. At Stanford he co-led the Fintech Club and served as a GSB MBA Ambassador.
Vania Chow
Vania Chow is a college admissions counselor who helps international students apply to top universities. She is a current Stanford student who was also admitted to Oxford. Over three years, she has guided students into Columbia, UCLA and several Top 5 U.K. universities. Her focus is essay work. She helps applicants find personal stories that stand out to admissions readers, and she also helps with application strategy and editing.
Vidhan Bhaiya
Vidhan Bhaiya is an MBA admissions consultant who helps students shape their stories for admissions committees. He is a deferred admit to Harvard Business School's 2+2 program and founded Dr. Brinsley, which makes footwear for people with diabetes. He worked at Pillar VC, a seed-stage fund. He has coached students since his undergrad years. He helps with early whiteboarding, college selection, resumes, essays and test prep.
Vini Amit Rupchandani
Vini Amit Rupchandani is a college admissions counselor who helps international students and transfer applicants. Vini moved from the American University of Sharjah to Brown University in junior year, as one of fewer than 10 international students in a transfer group of more than 150. Vini also won acceptances or waitlist spots at Penn, Dartmouth, Yale, Columbia, Barnard and Emory. Students Vini helped have gotten into Yale, Brown and Cornell. Vini also created a social card game used by groups like Girl Scouts.
Zuwena Virani
Zuwena Virani is an admissions consultant who helps students get into master's programs and other graduate schools. She holds a master's degree from the University of Oxford and has over seven years of coaching experience. She has tutored at the University of Texas at San Antonio and taught English in the Trans-Himalayan region. Her students have earned places in graduate, medical, doctoral and law programs. She also helps with theses and dissertations.
Becky Song
Becky Song is an MBA admissions consultant and career coach. She helps applicants get into MBA, master's and college programs, and helps professionals land consulting, strategy and business roles. She holds a Wharton MBA and was a Wharton admissions fellow. She has coached more than 500 candidates through career moves, resumes, interviews and consulting recruiting. Her own path includes work as an actuary, nonprofit leader and strategy consultant.
Damon Chua
Damon Chua is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into business schools in the US and abroad. He has coached professionally for over 15 years, starting at Veritas Prep and later spending a long stretch at Admissionado. Before coaching, he worked in investment banking, media and tech, and film production. He is also an award-winning writer. He focuses on high-potential, BIPOC and international clients.
Ellen Kuppersmith
Ellen Kuppersmith is a college admissions consultant in Los Angeles. She helps students find colleges that fit them and guides them through the whole application process. She has over 18 years of experience in education and college advising. She began in the College Center at LACES, a Los Angeles magnet school. She opened her own practice, College Kupp, in June 2019. She also holds the NACAC International University Advocate Badge, so she can help students apply to universities around the world.
Jeffrey Yoon
Jeffrey Yoon is an independent educational consultant in Silicon Valley who advises high school students and their families on college admissions. He helps students applying to colleges in the United States and other countries. He also works with international students who want to study in the United States. Before admissions, he spent most of his career supporting manufacturing systems for semiconductor companies. He then earned the UCLA Certificate Program in College Counseling.
Jesse Schow
Jesse Schow is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants plan and tell their story for business school. Jesse holds an MBA from INSEAD and was accepted to all three programs applied to: INSEAD, Berkeley and Oxford. Jesse worked at Walmart in accounting, finance, strategy and product management. Jesse applied with two young children, tight money and average test skills, and now coaches applicants on strategy and storytelling.
Jue Wang
Jue Wang is a higher education admissions consultant who helps Chinese families with international education planning. She has worked in the field since 2008 and has run her own company, Edurizon, since 2018. Her focus is on building the reading and essay skills that strong applications need. Her students have gone on to Harvard, Columbia, UPenn, MIT, Oxford and Cambridge. She also helps families find good fits at lesser-known schools.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Lorraine Serra | College admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abigail Lind | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alexandra Eitel | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Amin Bagheri | Medical school admissions and Grad school and PhD | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Antoine Gamberini | Grad school and PhD and MBA admissions | $70 to $225 an hour |
| Anurag Gandhi | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Avi Yulzari | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $80 to $230 an hour |
| Barbara Coward | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Barry Beach | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Beatriz Gorostiaga | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Begum Cital | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Cathy Manlow | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Chichi A | MBA admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Christian Hansen | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Connie Chan | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $145 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an admissions consultant for international students cost?
Most admissions consultants charge $99 to $150 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 grad school and phd.
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Last updated September 2026.