Admissions consultants for ivy league and top schools
Compare 672 admissions consultants who focus on ivy league and top schools. Besides ivy league and top schools, the most common focus areas are MBA admissions, college admissions, college essays and international students. They most often work with students, parents and professionals. Most charge $75 to $236 per hour or session.
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Ahab Chopra
Ahab Chopra is a college admissions counselor who works with students and their families. He has more than eight years of admissions experience, plus a decade of teaching and six years of research. His students have gained admission to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford, UC Berkeley, Williams and Swarthmore. He taught courses at Harvard, including CS50, and founded a non-profit for adolescent mental health. He also led operations for the 988 Lifeline chat and text service.
Robert Piazza
Robert Piazza is a college admissions coach who helps students with essays and application strategy. He spent two decades writing and editing for large newspapers and magazines, and he has published personal essays. He has taught at two colleges and logged more than 1,500 coaching hours. His students have gained acceptance to Yale, Berkeley, Duke, Rice, Georgetown, and the US Naval Academy, among other schools.
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.
Abby Troy
Abby Troy is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with strategy, essays and interviews. She holds a Kellogg MBA and a Yale BA. Before business school she worked at American Express as a product marketing manager and product manager. She has worked with more than 30 MBA clients, including 19 who got into M7 schools. Her admits include 10 at Kellogg, 5 at Columbia and 4 at Yale SOM. She has coached for 13,031 minutes.
Abel Geleta
Abel Geleta is a college admissions counselor who helps students with applications, essays, interviews and strategy. He holds a Yale BA and is now earning an MPH at the Yale School of Public Health. He works as a First Year Advisor and has been a writing instructor at Yale. He also worked in investment banking at Baird and in strategy consulting. He has coached 18 students.
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.
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.
Adam Hoff
Adam Hoff is a college admissions coach who helps students and families with applications, essays, and interviews. He ran the admissions committee for Seaver College at Pepperdine and later led MBA admissions consulting at Veritas Prep. He also co-owned an MBA practice that helped hundreds of candidates get into top business schools. He co-founded the podcast studio Campside Media and has written screenplays. He has coached over 100 college clients.
Aditi Singh
Aditi Singh is an MBA admissions consultant who helps people apply to business school. She is a Stanford MBA graduate and served as an MBA Admissions Ambassador there. Before Stanford, she worked in strategy, operations, venture capital and international business. She led expansion into APAC and Middle East markets at Teachmint. She has guided 18 clients through their MBA applications and also helps with interview prep and career transitions.
AdmissionSight
AdmissionSight is an admissions consulting firm that helps students and parents apply to Ivy League and other top universities. The team covers college, transfer, graduate and MBA applications. Founder Eric Eng has over 15 years of experience and graduated from Princeton. He works one-on-one with only 15 students per year. Senior consultants include graduates of Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. Services also include essay editing, extracurricular planning and test tutoring.
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.
Adwoa Boateng
Adwoa Boateng is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into Wharton and other top 10 programs. She is a former U.S. government professional with five years in international development oversight and foreign policy. In the last two years, she helped over five applicants win Wharton admission, with funding from 25% to full tuition. Her focus is storytelling. She helps clients show how an MBA fits their personal and professional goals.
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.
Alec Emmert
Alec Emmert coaches people who want into top MBA programs and elite consulting firms. He works with applicants from non-traditional backgrounds. He was admitted to Wharton at age 35 with a 2.85 undergraduate GPA. He then joined McKinsey & Company as an Associate and worked in its Private Equity practice. He also led Service to School, a nonprofit that helps veterans get into top universities, and wrote a book on MBA success for veterans.
Alex 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 Clark
Alex Clark is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications for top business schools. Alex is a Stanford GSB graduate, a former U.S. Army Infantry Officer and a former Strategy Consultant at Boston Consulting Group. Alex also served as a TALK Coach at Stanford. Alex has worked with more than 10 MBA clients on strategy, essays and personal stories, with a focus on applicants from non-traditional paths.
Alex L
Alex L is a college admissions counselor who also coaches professionals on resumes and interviews. He has been an alumni undergraduate candidate interviewer for Stanford. He advises students on choosing top programs, building an admission strategy and writing essays. Before coaching, he worked in hi-tech in product management, marketing and business development. He holds an MBA from Stanford Business School. He also co-founded a STEM tutoring startup for high school students.
Alex Leventhal
Alex Leventhal runs Prep MBA, an admissions consultancy for people applying to MBA programs, law schools and other graduate programs. Alex has worked with hundreds of US and international applicants, in person and by video. Alex stays a boutique firm, so clients work with Alex directly and not with a junior consultant. Poets & Quants added Alex to its MBA Consultant Hall of Fame in 2021. Alex has more than 19 years of experience.
Alex MacArthur
Alex MacArthur is a college admissions counselor who helps students apply to top schools. Alex was admitted to Princeton and nearly every other school applied to in the regular decision round. Alex taught the process to himself by reading everything on admissions and essay writing and by talking with dozens of Ivy League students. Alex is also a working journalist and a peer-reviewed academic, and uses storytelling skills to bring out what makes each student unique.
Alex Weinberger
Alex Weinberger is a dental school admissions consultant who helps students apply to dental programs. Alex is a fourth year student at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and sat on the school's admissions committee this past cycle. Alex started coaching dental admissions in 2022 and also worked as a tutor with Cambridge Coaching and a consultant with Inspira Advantage. Alex has an undergraduate background from UCLA and just finished the residency application cycle.
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.
Alice Reid
Alice Reid is an MBA admissions consultant and consulting case coach. She helps people with MBA applications, interviews and consulting recruiting. Alice was accepted to Harvard Business School, Wharton, Booth and Kellogg, and won merit scholarships at all four. She enrolled at Harvard. She worked at Bain & Company and served as an official Bain interviewer for two years. She has coached and mentored for 6+ years.
Alice Shang
Alice Shang is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches college applicants. She began her career in investment banking and growth equity, covering tech companies. She now works as a founder of a women's health startup. Her focus is story-telling. She helps clients build an application narrative that sounds like them. She has helped clients land spots at Harvard, Stanford, Wharton and MIT. She also helps with finance job recruiting.
Alice Zeng
Alice Zeng is a college admissions counselor who runs Polaris College Counseling in Redmond, Washington. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college and apply. Her practice reports more than 10 years of admissions experience. Her counselor team holds Ph.D. degrees and trained at UC Berkeley. Students have been accepted to 150+ unique colleges, including 8 Ivy League schools, Stanford, MIT, Caltech and Duke. She serves families in Greater Seattle and beyond.
Alissa Orlando
Alissa Orlando is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants tell their story clearly. She focuses on reapplicants, nontraditional candidates, and people changing careers. She was rejected by Stanford GSB one year and accepted the next. Before that, she worked at McKinsey and led operations at Rocket Internet and Uber. She has coached more than 10 MBA clients and also co-founded a Broadway production company.
Allen Koh
Allen Koh is the founder and CEO of Cardinal Education, an admissions consulting firm for private school, boarding school and college applicants. The firm has advised families for more than 20 years. It is a boutique practice with a team of consultants and tutors. It has offices in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, New York and Seattle. It reports a 98% top-three placement rate for its admissions clients.
Allie Kim
Allie Kim is a law school admissions consultant who also helps with MBA applications. She works with applicants who have finance, high-rigor, or non-traditional backgrounds. Allie applied to 13 T-14 law schools and was admitted to 7. She also earned a spot in Columbia's deferred MBA program. She spent nearly three years as a Public Finance Investment Banking Analyst at J.P. Morgan before starting at Harvard Law School.
Allie Kronthal
Allie Kronthal is an MBA admissions consultant who helps candidates build strong applications to top business schools. She has coached people from finance, private equity, consulting, healthcare, technology, real estate and impact investing. She also works as a writing coach and alumni interviewer for Penn. Her clients have gained admission to schools such as Harvard Business School, Stanford GSB, Wharton, Chicago Booth, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, Columbia and Yale SOM.
Amanda Reisman
Amanda Reisman is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into dental school and dental residency. She is a current orthodontic resident at Columbia University and sits on the selection committee for her residency class. She earned her DMD with Honors at the University of Pennsylvania. She cofounded a pre-dental consulting service in 2021 and coached applicants there until 2024. She also helps with DAT and GRE prep.
Amanda Thomsen
Amanda Thomsen is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with essays, interviews, resumes and application strategy. She focuses on deferred MBA applicants. She was admitted to every school she applied to, including Stanford GSB, Harvard HBS, MIT Sloan, UChicago Booth and Northwestern Kellogg. She chose Stanford GSB. She applied from a non-target school and has worked in startups, academic research and corporate product management. She has coached 30+ MBA clients.
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.
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 Hazen
Amy Hazen is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top business schools. She spent 12 years on staff at the Wharton School, where she interviewed applicants, read files, and sat in admissions committee meetings. Before that, she worked 5 years as a journalist and editor. She has coached applicants to HBS, GSB, CBS, Wharton, and other M7 peer schools. She has 200+ M7 admits.
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.
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.
Andy Pelletier
Andy Pelletier is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build and tell a strong story for business school. He has coached applicants since 2002 at three consulting firms. He co-designed one firm's editing service and was its sole essay doctor for 100+ consultants. He also interviews applicants as a Stanford alumni interviewer. His clients have gained admission to schools such as Stanford, HBS, Wharton, and INSEAD.
Angela Winegar
Angela Winegar is an MBA admissions and career consultant. She helps candidates get into top business schools and land roles in consulting, tech and venture capital. She is a Harvard MBA and MPP graduate and a former Bain consultant. She also worked as a VC and PE associate. Today she leads marketing and growth at Invisible Technologies. She has sat on hiring committees across consulting and tech, and she has placed clients in top consulting firms, tech companies and Top 7 business schools.
Aniket Aggarwal
Aniket Aggarwal is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top business schools. He is an MBA candidate at Yale School of Management. He has coached for 3 years and has worked with 50+ MBA clients. His clients have been admitted to Yale SOM, ESSEC, Columbia, Kellogg and Chicago Booth. Before business school, he worked with startups in their early growth stages. He also scored 740 on the GMAT.
Ankur Chadha
Ankur Chadha is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top full-time MBA programs in the United States. He is a strategy consultant at Accenture and an incoming MIT Sloan student. He won admission to five top programs, including MIT Sloan, Columbia, Kellogg, Booth and Stern. He also guest lectures at UC Berkeley Haas on strategy consulting and career development.
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.
Anna Lasko
Anna Lasko is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong stories for top business schools. She is a Harvard Business School alum from the Class of 2018 and spent several years at McKinsey. She now leads operations at a healthcare startup. She has hired many people and sat in rooms where MBA applications get discussed. She gives direct feedback and says so when something is not working.
Anna McGuire
Anna McGuire is a law school admissions consultant who helps applicants turn their stories into strong applications. She is a current 3L at Stanford Law School and an editor of the Stanford Law Review. Before law school, she worked on Capitol Hill and as a legal assistant at a law firm. She also earned an MSc in Criminal Justice Policy at the London School of Economics. She has a focus on applicants with career paths that are not straight.
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.
Arianna Z.
Arianna Z. is a law school admissions consultant who helps applicants build personal statements and application materials. She is a Cornell Law School graduate and a former corporate attorney at Clifford Chance. While at the firm, she ran first-round interviews for law student candidates as part of its recruiting. She also worked at Gornitzky GNY. She helps clients brainstorm essays, prepare for interviews, and plan their overall application strategy.
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.
Arthur Balagula
Arthur Balagula is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications and prepare for interviews. He was admitted to MIT Sloan and earned his MBA there in 2018. He has coached people who got into MIT Sloan and other top MBA programs. His own career runs through Deloitte consulting, Facebook, TikTok and Adobe. He now works in product marketing on the AI demand gen team for Google Cloud.
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.
Austin Lam
Austin Lam is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications and plan for careers in management consulting and private equity. He is an MBA student and Admissions Fellow at Chicago Booth. Before business school, he worked in management consulting at BCG and in software growth equity investing at Pacific Lake. He also applied to business school while working full time in private equity.
Austin Lee
Austin Lee is a college admissions consultant in Belmont, California. He helps high school students and their parents plan and complete the college application process. He spent 17 years in higher education at Stanford, Harvard and USC. He worked with Stanford's Office of Admission on applications from varsity athletes and read applications as a seasonal reader. He started his consulting practice in spring 2021.
Austin Moulder
Austin Moulder is a full-time college admissions counselor who helps students through the whole application process, from the first college search to the first direct deposit. He has worked with 60+ college clients. Students from his class of 2024 curriculum have been admitted to Northwestern, Columbia, and Yale. He worked at Boston Consulting Group and studied at Olin School of Business. His students can also book office hours with a network of 50+ mentors.
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.
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 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.
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.
Ben Lazaroff
Ben Lazaroff is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with essays, strategy, resumes, test prep and interviews. He has advised more than 400 admits into schools like Stanford GSB, HBS, Wharton, Kellogg, MIT Sloan, INSEAD and Haas. He worked at McKinsey, in Chicago city government and in Bain's Private Equity Group. He is a Stanford GSB graduate based in New York City. He also plays chess professionally.
Benito Nishizawa Rodriguez
Benito Nishizawa Rodriguez is a college admissions counselor who helps students and families through the application process. He has more than 18 years of experience. He once worked at the Harvard Admissions Office and later at Google. He has supported hundreds of students worldwide. His students have gone on to schools such as Harvard, MIT, Stanford, Princeton, UC Berkeley and the University of Chicago. He focuses on capstone projects and a clear academic identity.
Benjamin Caldarelli
Benjamin Caldarelli is a college admissions consultant who helps students and their families plan for selective colleges. He runs a boutique practice in Princeton, NJ, and works with a small group of clients. Since 2009 he has helped over 600 students through the admissions process. He built the Citizen Scholar Admissions Strategy, his own framework for positioning students. He also spent 10 years as Co-Founder of Princeton College Consulting.
Bill Chionis
Bill Chionis is an MBA admissions consultant who helps professionals apply to top business schools. He has worked with over 1000 traditional and non-traditional candidates. Hundreds of them won admission to M7 programs. Before consulting, he built a career in aerospace materials research and product management, and he earned his own MBA at the Merage School of Management. He now coaches applicants through Leland.
Bob Verini
Bob Verini is a private LSAT tutor who helps students raise their scores. He began teaching the LSAT at Kaplan 45 years ago. Stanley Kaplan, the company founder, hired him, and he later served as a Director of the LSAT program. He has scored a perfect 180 on the LSAT more than once. He has taught more than 10,000 students. His clients have reached scores from 166 to 180, and some have gained up to 30 points.
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.
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.
Brandon Monteith
Brandon Monteith is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches rising leaders on career moves. He helps people break into competitive programs and roles and sharpen their stories. Brandon led Infinite Athlete's exit to Exos, where he ran M&A, commercial strategy, finance and investor relations. He worked at McKinsey, PepsiCo and the Atlanta Hawks earlier in his career. He holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and connects the sports, tech and investment communities.
Brandon Pae
Brandon Pae is a college admissions coach who helps STEM students and applicants build a strong story for admissions committees and consulting interviews. He is a recent Columbia Engineering graduate in Computer Science and Entrepreneurship. He earned offers from eight colleges, including Columbia, Cornell and UPenn, and landed a BCG full-time offer through his own outreach. He has mentored 15+ students one-on-one on essays and positioning over four years.
Brandon Tran
Brandon Tran is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with resumes, essays, and storytelling. He has worked with more than 30 MBA clients and has logged 9,885 minutes of coaching. He was admitted to Stanford GSB through its deferred MBA program. He works full time as a management consultant at KPMG. As a first-generation student, he knows the application process from the applicant's side.
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.
Brian Bernstein
Brian Bernstein is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top business schools. He is a Wharton MBA graduate with honors and a former Admissions Fellow. He worked in investment banking before business school. He has helped more than 30 MBA clients. He was admitted to all 3 schools he applied to and won scholarships from two top programs. He works best with applicants from finance backgrounds.
Briana Johnson
Briana Johnson is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top undergraduate business programs and law schools. She has deep focus on Wharton and Penn Law. She spent six years in asset management and technology consulting before going to law school. She is now joining Gibson Dunn as an associate in real estate. She helps applicants with nontraditional backgrounds turn their experience into a clear story.
Brit Harding
Brit Harding is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches on early career tech sales and job applications. Brit spent the first 5 years of a career in tech sales at LinkedIn, Okta and Podium. Brit rose from sales development rep to Account Director at LinkedIn, then earned an MBA at Duke's Fuqua School of Business. Brit interned at Nike and returns there full time in Summer 2026. Brit also has sports marketing and partnerships experience.
Brooke Green
Brooke Green is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their parents get into the right schools. She founded Green College Consulting in Carlsbad, California. Brooke sat on the UC Berkeley Undergraduate Admissions Committee and read freshman applications in 2003, 2005, 2009 and 2016. She also holds a Harvard master's in higher education and has worked with students for over ten years.
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.
Caitlin Breen
Caitlin Breen is an MBA admissions consultant and consulting interview coach. She helps applicants get into top business schools and prepare for case interviews at consulting firms. She earned offers from Bain, McKinsey and BCG while at Kellogg. She was accepted at Kellogg, Booth and Fuqua with over $250K in scholarships. She later led Kellogg on-campus recruiting and served as an alumni interviewer.
Carfax Education
Carfax Education is a private education consultancy for ultra high net worth families around the world. It helps with school placement from nursery to boarding school, and with university admissions in the UK and US. The firm began in Oxford as Carfax Consultants and now has its global headquarters in London. Its team includes British and American specialists focused on areas like Oxbridge, Ivy League and Swiss international schools.
Carla Ramazan
Carla Ramazan is a law school admissions consultant who also coaches applicants on major scholarships and fellowships. She is a JD candidate and Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford. She won the Schwarzman, Soros and Truman scholarships. Three of her law school acceptances came with full-ride offers, from UMichigan, NYU and UC Berkeley. She helps clients find their own story and tell it well in essays and applications. She has also coached high school policy debate.
Carmen Tercilla
Carmen Tercilla is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college selection, applications and the move to college. She runs CT College Tactics in Coral Gables, Florida. She has worked with students for more than ten years, after a long career in healthcare sales and marketing. She serves on the Board of Directors of IECA and chaired its Learning Differences Committee. She also works with students who learn differently.
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.
Cayla Kaplan
Cayla Kaplan is a law school admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications and work the waitlist. She is a third-year student at Penn Carey Law. Before law school, she worked at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. She scored a 164 on the LSAT after starting at 148, and she got off multiple waitlists at top programs. She has coached four students through the full process, and each earned admission off a waitlist at a T14 law school.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Ahab Chopra | College admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Robert Piazza | College admissions and College essays | $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 |
| Abby Troy | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Abel Geleta | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abigail Hagan | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abigail Lind | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Adam Hoff | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Aditi Singh | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 an hour |
| AdmissionSight | 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 |
| Adwoa Boateng | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Albert Choi | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alec Emmert | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $145 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an admissions consultant for ivy league and top schools cost?
Most admissions consultants charge $75 to $236 per hour or session.
What else do these admissions consultants help with?
Common focus areas include MBA admissions, college admissions, college essays and international students.
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Last updated September 2026.