Admissions consultants for international students
Compare 423 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.
Sabrina Fathi
Sabrina Fathi is an MBA admissions consultant. She helps applicants with non-linear paths, global backgrounds, or careers in transition. She earned her MBA at Wharton and served as an Admissions Fellow, so she has reviewed candidates from the evaluation side. Before business school she moved from investment management into tech startups, and she worked at Nike. She takes a small number of clients each cycle and has 40+ M7 admits.
Sowa Imoisili
Sowa Imoisili is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications for top business programs. Sowa graduated from Stanford's business school and served as Student Body Co-President there. Before that, Sowa worked as a teacher and a management consultant. Clients have come from the US, Hong Kong, China, and Singapore. Sowa has also coached undergraduate applicants in the US, Canada, China, and Singapore. Sessions focus on telling each applicant's true story.
Tomilola Abiodun
Tomilola Abiodun is an MBA admissions consultant who helps international and domestic students with admissions, scholarships, and careers. She founded TitanR Consulting. In seven years she has helped 500+ students get into their target programs and secured more than $35M in scholarships for them. She has also supported 350+ career placements. She went through the process herself as an international student and earned her MBA at Fisher College of Business in 2019.
Abby Friedman
Abby Friedman is an independent educational consultant in Berkeley, California. She helps students and parents plan for college and apply. She is a Certified Educational Planner and a lifelong educator. Her work covers US colleges and also programs in the EU, UK and Canada. She pays close attention to fit, including academic, social and financial fit. She holds a master's in education and a UC Berkeley certificate in college admissions and career planning.
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.
Abigail Simkus
Abigail Simkus is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school, transfer and returning students plan for college. She founded The College Connection in 2008 and works from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. Her team has helped over 400 students prepare for college. Most clients come from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. She also works online with students outside the region and with international students applying to U.S. colleges.
Admit Expert
Admit Expert is an MBA admissions consulting company that helps applicants get into top global business schools. Clients apply to schools such as Harvard, INSEAD, ISB, LBS and NUS. Every client works with a lead consultant, school mentors and a quality assurance manager. The team includes former admissions committee members and business school alumni. Admit Expert holds a 5.0 rating on GMAT Club from more than 120 verified reviews.
Alan Sheptin
Alan Sheptin is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. He runs Sheptin Tutoring Group in Chappaqua, New York. He has toured over 200 campuses worldwide and knows admissions directors at many schools. His team also offers tutoring and test prep from middle school through graduate school. Sessions run by Zoom or in person, with private or small group options.
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.
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.
Alison Forbes
Alison Forbes is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents plan the college search and application process. She founded Forbes College Consulting more than 20 years ago with a former Harvard Admissions Dean. She spends 20 percent of each year visiting colleges and meeting admissions staff. Her firm serves families worldwide, and 16 percent of its families are international.
Allison Henderson
Allison Henderson is an independent college counselor who helps students and parents with the college admissions process. She runs A+ College Consultants in the San Diego area of California. She has counseled over 1,000 clients across the country and abroad. Her work covers college search, applications, essays, deadlines, and merit-based aid. She also writes a blog with data-driven advice on admissions. She holds a college counseling certificate from UC San Diego.
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 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.
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.
Bettina Weil
Bettina Weil is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents plan for college. She has advised families since 2007 and runs Weil College Advising, a boutique firm in Westchester, NY. Before that, she was Dean of High School Partnerships at the State University of New York. She also served as Director of College Programs at Yonkers Partners in Education. Her firm supports students in Latin America, Asia and Europe who want to attend college in the U.S.
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 Mack
Brandon Mack is an independent college admissions consultant in Houston, Texas. He helps students, parents, and organizations through the admissions process. He worked in admissions for 13 years, including as Associate Director of Admission and Coordinator of Transfer Admission at Rice University. He later served as Interim Director of Operations at the International Association for College Admission Counseling. He also offers equity, inclusion, and diversity consulting and meeting facilitation through B. Mack Strategies.
Bryan Chao
Bryan Chao is an MBA admissions consultant who also teaches test prep for the GMAT, GRE, SAT and ACT. He helps applicants build one clear story from their career, experiences and goals. He has coached 50 MBA applicants aiming at top 10 programs over 12 years. His own career covered M&A, venture capital and startup operations in the U.S. and China. He holds an MBA from MIT Sloan and scored a 770 on the GMAT twice.
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.
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.
Carolyn Francis
Carolyn Francis is an independent college admissions consultant in Englewood, Colorado. She helps students and parents with college search, applications and post-high school planning. Before consulting, she worked in retail and manufacturing, then served on the board of the Denver Waldorf School. She started as an ad-hoc college counselor for its high school. She visits college campuses across the US and the world, and she has worked with international students, first generation students and students with learning differences.
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.
Charbel Bou Younes
Charbel Bou Younes is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps clients with recruiting for finance and consulting. He earned admits to both Harvard Business School and Stanford Graduate School of Business. He worked in management consulting at BCG, where he became the youngest Project Leader in BCG Middle East history. He also worked in long/short equities at Citadel. He coaches in English or Arabic.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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 Beecher
David Beecher is an independent education consultant in Madison, Connecticut. He advises families on prep and boarding school placement, college admissions, athletic recruiting, and students with learning differences. He co-founded Sound Consulting with Chrissie Pape. He is a former college athlete, a former NCAA Division 1 coach and athletic administrator, and spent 9 years as a Director of Admission. He also leads Prep Hockey Advisors, a division of the firm.
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.
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.
Doug Hundley
Doug Hundley is a college admissions counselor who helps students find and win admission to colleges in the US and around the world. He founded Encore after working with international students and creative thinkers. He has spent over 25 years as a university and high school educator. He has also served as an external examiner for both the College Board and the International Baccalaureate Organization. He holds a PhD in Theater and Cultural Performance.
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.
Eileen Swoboda
Eileen Swoboda is a college admissions consultant and founder of ThinkYes. She works one-on-one with high school students and their parents, with a focus on selective colleges. Before this, she ran a management consulting firm in Washington DC for 20+ years. She has visited admissions offices at 110+ colleges. Her students come from the US, Europe and China. Twenty-eight percent of her students' admissions have been to top 25 National Universities or National Liberal Arts Colleges.
Elizabeth Cashel
Elizabeth Cashel is an independent educational consultant who helps students and families with college and boarding school admissions. She founded Cashel Educational Consulting and works from Fishers Island, New York. She spent over twenty years working with and in schools across the United States and Europe. She once led upper school admissions at a New York City independent school. She serves families in the US and around the world, including expats.
Ellen Kuppersmith
Ellen Kuppersmith is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their parents find schools that fit. She runs College Kupp in Los Angeles. Ellen has over 18 years in education and college advising, including 12 years in the College Center at a Los Angeles magnet school. She started her own practice in June 2019. She holds a NACAC badge for advising on universities abroad and serves in national leadership roles in HECA.
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.
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.
Fabio Rodriguez
Fabio Rodriguez is an MBA admissions consultant who helps candidates apply to top European business schools. He holds an MBA from IESE Business School and was President of its Marketing Club. He has supported the IESE admissions process for four years. He also teaches as an adjunct professor and guest lecturer at GBSB Global Business School and ESADE. His clients have won admission to leading MBA programs, some with scholarships.
Filip Buscu
Filip Buscu is a college admissions counselor who helps students build strong applications to selective schools. He works with international and STEM applicants. He applied to US colleges from abroad with no US counselor and had no rejections. He now studies AI and Aerospace Engineering at Stanford. In high school he co-founded Romania's first spacecraft development team and launched its satellites on SpaceX rockets.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gloria Chun
Gloria Chun is a college admissions counselor who helps high achieving domestic and international students and their parents. She holds a Ph.D. from UC Berkeley and a B.A. from Cornell. She has taught at Bard, Columbia, Princeton and Berkeley, and she once worked in admissions at a leading research university. She has over a decade of admissions counseling experience. She also wrote a book and teaches writing.
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.
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.
Hannah Serota
Hannah Serota is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She founded Creative College Connections in Leesburg, Virginia, in 2010. Before that, she worked in college admissions and sat on admission committees in the 1990s. She now leads a team of four consultants. She visits 20 to 30 colleges each year and focuses on finding colleges that fit a student academically, personally, and financially.
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.
Hilary Lehn
Hilary Lehn is an independent educational consultant in White Rock, British Columbia. She helps students and parents with college and university admissions in Canada, the United States and abroad. She has worked on both sides of the admissions desk for thirty years. Her career includes admissions work at US universities and counselling in US and Canadian independent schools, dating back to 1994. She works one-on-one with each family and has helped hundreds of students.
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.
Ian Cash
Ian Cash is a university admissions consultant and creative writing tutor. He is a partner at American Education LLP and helps students from around Asia find the right college and build strong applications. He has worked with hundreds of students over many admissions cycles. Before consulting, he spent three years as an admissions associate at Johns Hopkins, where he led tours, interviewed applicants and helped create new admissions programs. He also holds a master's degree in history from SOAS, University of London.
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.
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.
Isha Goyal
Isha Goyal coaches MBA applicants and professionals who want to change careers. She is a Wharton MBA candidate in the Class of 2026 and a former quant researcher at JPMorgan. She scored 760 on the GMAT and got into Wharton from a technical background in India. She has been both the candidate and the person hiring analysts. She helps clients move between finance, tech, and startup roles and prepare for interviews.
IvySelect
IvySelect is a boutique college admissions consultancy. It helps high-achieving students apply to Ivy League schools and other top colleges in the United States, Canada and the U.K. The team also works with international students, B.S./M.D. applicants, student-athletes, transfer students, and law school and medical school applicants. Each counselor works with few students, which leaves more time for personal statements and supplemental essays. Clients get a strategic plan built around academics and activities.
Jan Kerchner
Jan Kerchner runs The College Blueprint, an independent college admissions consulting practice in Irvine, California. The practice helps middle school, high school and college students and their parents plan for college. Services cover admissions advising, essay writing, SAT and ACT prep, tutoring, scholarship help and career exploration. The practice began in 1999 and now has a nationwide network of counselors. It has a special focus on students with learning differences.
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.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Lorraine Serra | College admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Sabrina Fathi | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Sowa Imoisili | MBA admissions and College admissions | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Tomilola Abiodun | MBA admissions and International students | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Abby Friedman | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Abigail Lind | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abigail Simkus | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Admit Expert | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $80 to $230 an hour |
| Alan Sheptin | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Alex Leventhal | MBA admissions and Law school admissions | $125 to $275 an hour |
| Alexandra Eitel | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Alison Forbes | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Allison Henderson | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 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 |
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.