Admissions consultants for ivy league and top schools
Compare 673 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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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.
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.
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 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 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Cayo Gonzalez
Cayo Gonzalez is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with essays and personal narrative. Cayo holds a Stanford MD/MBA and works at Boston Consulting Group. Before focusing on MBA admissions, Cayo coached medical school applicants. Clients have gained admission to schools including Wharton and Stanford GSB. Cayo has worked with more than 10 MBA clients and offers sessions on weekends, with weekday times in Eastern Time arranged as needed.
Charlene You
Charlene You is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches candidates for consulting interviews. She helps ambitious professionals get into top MBA programs or land roles at leading consulting firms. She served as a Wharton Admissions Fellow, so she knows how admissions committees read applications. She currently takes a limited number of clients for Round 3 MBA applications.
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.
Chris Morgan
Chris Morgan is a college admissions counselor who helps students plan and complete their applications. Chris taught high school English for over two decades at a nationally ranked school in Illinois. Chris also reviewed applications and ran interviews for the University of Chicago admissions committee. Chris has worked with over 100 college clients and focuses on personal essays and applications to Ivy League and other elite schools.
Christian Stephenson
Christian Stephenson is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build their story, essays, resume, and interview skills. He graduated from the full-time MBA program at Kellogg School of Management in 2024. He earned multiple M7 acceptances himself. Before business school, he spent five years in Accenture's Strategy & Consulting practice and rose to Manager. He now works at Meta as a Product Marketing Manager.
Christina Chong
Christina Chong is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to top colleges and graduate schools in the United States. She runs Renaissance Admissions Consulting, a boutique firm. Before consulting, she worked in admissions offices at Harvard Law School, NYU School of Law, NYU College of Dentistry, Amherst College and Penn's School of Social Policy & Practice. She also taught middle school in Denver and Philadelphia. Her clients range from high school students to career changers with over 20 years of work experience.
Claire Qin
Claire Qin is an MBA admissions consultant and executive coach. She helps applicants shape their story and sharpen their positioning, and she coaches leaders through career moves. She holds a Stanford MBA and spent a decade in senior roles at Amazon, Uber, Sylvera and Morgan Stanley. She has trained in organisational psychology at the NHS Tavistock Clinic. She has also coached senior leaders and MBA students in INSEAD's Personal Leadership Development Programme.
Clay Phillips
Clay Phillips is a college admissions counselor who helps high school students build strong applications. He works as a technology consultant and has guided 20+ students through the process from start to finish. He builds custom timelines and oversees application submissions. He reports an acceptance rate above 80%, with students placed at Top 50 schools, including Ivies, some with scholarships. He also tutored children in STEM and coached lacrosse at inner-city schools.
Colin Weidmann
Colin Weidmann is an MBA admissions consultant who helps veterans and other non-traditional applicants. He is a Stanford GSB graduate and a former U.S. Army Special Forces officer with 11 years of service. He got into Stanford GSB, Harvard Business School and Wharton himself. He has coached veterans into Stanford GSB, Harvard, Wharton, Kellogg, Booth and Haas. He also works as a Chief of Staff at a private equity-backed healthcare company.
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.
Conor Ahern
Conor Ahern is a law school admissions consultant who helps applicants get into top programs. He has coached and tutored applicants for 10 years. He has a law degree from Harvard and has worked with 7Sage, Inspirica, Onsen Education, Diamond Education and NoodlePros. He helps clients raise their LSAT scores and build strong applications. His clients have won admission to all of the T14 law schools.
Courtney Bland
Courtney Bland is an admissions consultant who helps students with MBA and college applications. She is an MBA student at NYU Stern and a Duke graduate in Mechanical Engineering and Finance. She spent two years as an equity derivatives trader at Bank of America. She also interviews applicants as a Duke alumni interviewer. She was deferred by Duke and later admitted, so she guides clients through deferral and waitlist situations.
Curtis Yang
Curtis Yang is an MBA admissions consultant who coaches students applying to deferred MBA programs. He came from a T50 public university and earned admits to HBS, Wharton, MIT Sloan, and 2 other M7 schools. He did the process on his own. He also led campus-wide mentorship programs and gave 1:1 recruitment help to dozens of peers. He works at Microsoft and has a tech-focused, leadership-driven background.
Daniel Alameh
Daniel Alameh is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches on doctorate applications, elite industry jobs and career advice. He is a private equity investor at Salt Creek Capital. He got into Booth, Wharton, Kellogg, Haas, Columbia and NYU without a perfect GMAT or a top consulting résumé. He has helped dozens of applicants, including first-generation students and career-switchers, tell their story well. He played Division 1 college tennis.
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.
Daniel Saa
Daniel Saa is an MBA admissions consultant who helps candidates with STEM backgrounds. He is an MBA candidate at Harvard Business School and a former Chief Admissions Ambassador. Before business school he worked as a chemical engineer for 4 years, including at ExxonMobil. He also held venture capital roles and will join Bain & Company in consulting. He coaches on application strategy, essays and interview preparation.
Dario Zarrabian
Dario Zarrabian is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps people break into sports, media and entertainment. He worked as a Senior Manager, Strategy at Major League Baseball and as an Associate Consultant at LEK Consulting. He is an MBA candidate at Stanford Graduate School of Business. He applied to seven business schools, including Harvard, Stanford and Wharton, and got interviews and acceptances. He helps students pick schools, build their story and prepare for interviews.
David Gordon
David Gordon is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches consulting recruiting and undergraduate applicants. He is a Kellogg MBA student and a former Associate Consultant at L.E.K. Consulting. His MBA clients have gained admission to Harvard Business School, Chicago Booth and Northwestern Kellogg. His consulting clients have received offers from McKinsey, BCG and Bain. Before consulting, he taught 5th grade with Teach for America in Richmond, CA.
David McMillan
David McMillan is an admissions coach who helps students apply to master's programs and win scholarships. He finished an MSc at Oxford with Distinction as a Global Rotary Scholar. He also holds an MSc from Edinburgh. All of his own master's applications succeeded, including Cambridge, Oxford and Edinburgh programs. He has also consulted on PhD and DPhil applications at Oxford and Cambridge. He works on application strategy, personal statements and interview prep.
David X.
David X. is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into MBA programs, grad schools and colleges. He takes Full-Time, Part-Time and Deferred MBA clients. He was admitted to Columbia and UChicago himself, and he uses that own application experience in his coaching. His background is in finance, and he has done pro-bono work across the Americas. He helps clients link their work history to their personal values in their story. He is based in Montreal.
Delaney Carlson
Delaney Carlson is an admissions counselor who coaches applicants on college and MBA applications. Delaney is a current MBA student at Harvard Business School and a Princeton Alumni Interviewer. Before business school, Delaney worked as a recruiter at Anheuser-Busch, where they screened resumes and ran hundreds of interviews. Delaney was admitted to seven top MBA programs, including Harvard, MIT Sloan, Chicago Booth, Kellogg, Yale SOM, Michigan Ross and Berkeley Haas.
Dione Chen
Dione Chen is a full-time MBA admissions consultant who also coaches college applicants and professionals on careers. She has 15+ years of experience and has coached hundreds of applicants. She worked as a coach for four leading admissions consulting firms. She holds an MBA from Stanford GSB and worked in startups, corporations and nonprofits across the US, Asia and Europe. She builds a personal application strategy for each client.
Doug Phipps
Doug Phipps is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build a clear story for top business schools. He has coached more than 50 MBA applicants on their narratives. His clients have been admitted to HBS, Wharton, Booth, Kellogg and Yale. Doug taught for 5 years in Washington DC with Teach for America and now studies at Stanford's GSB. He also directed an outdoor orientation program at Dartmouth.
Elena Arida
Elena Arida is an MBA admissions and consulting recruiting coach. She helps applicants build their story and get into top business schools, with a focus on Stanford GSB and Harvard Business School. She is a former EY-Parthenon consultant who served on the firm's Americas strategy committee. As an applicant, she went from re-applicant to acceptances at Stanford GSB, HBS, Wharton, Columbia, and Darden, where she won the Jefferson Fellowship.
Elizabeth Arenz Hosbein
Elizabeth Arenz Hosbein is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with resumes, essays, and overall application strategy. She holds an MBA from Harvard Business School and was admitted to four of the top seven business schools she applied to, including Booth, Darden, HBS, Kellogg, and Wharton. Before business school, she worked in investment banking at Baird and in private equity at Insight Equity. She has worked with more than 10 MBA clients.
Elsa Sze
Elsa Sze is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants tell their story clearly and stand out. She earned a joint MBA and MPP from Harvard Business School and Harvard Kennedy School. She built a venture-backed startup out of the Harvard Innovation Lab. She began coaching while at Harvard, after co-founding a leadership institute for graduate students. She also tells clients honestly if an MBA is the wrong step for them.
Emily Lammers
Emily Lammers is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants present their best selves to admissions committees. She spent most of her career in product marketing and product management at BlackRock and Franklin Templeton. She has also worked on a political campaign, consulted for Silicon Valley startups, and worked in biotech investor relations. She lives in Salt Lake City.
Emily Malech
Emily Malech is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants with essays, application strategy and interviews. She also coaches consulting candidates through recruiting. She was admitted to Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan and Columbia Business School, and earned a full merit scholarship at Columbia. Her GMAT Focus score landed in the top 8% of test takers. She has over three years of coaching experience and works in management consulting in New York City.
Emily McClain
Emily McClain is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants to top business schools. She sat on the admissions committee at Columbia Business School, where she read applications and interviewed candidates. She also worked as an interviewer and reader at UNC Kenan-Flagler and as a senior recruiter at Bain & Company. She has over a decade in MBA admissions and recruiting. She helps clients tell a clear story and prepare for interviews.
Emily Tench
Emily Tench is an MBA admissions consultant who helps people apply to graduate school. She graduated in June 2025 with an MBA from Stanford GSB and a Master's in Public Policy from Harvard Kennedy School. She was accepted by every school she applied to, including Harvard, Stanford, Oxford, Duke and INSEAD. Before business school she worked as a consultant at Dalberg Advisors and cofounded a climate technology company. She now runs an early-stage startup.
Emma Teach
Emma Teach is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches people trying to break into investment banking and private equity. She lives in Cambridge, MA, and is pursuing her MBA at HBS. She applied to HBS and Wharton in 2019 in Round 1 and got into both. Before business school she worked in private equity, investment banking and strategic finance, with a focus on consumer and retail companies.
Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ifediba
Emmanuel Ifeanyi Ifediba is an MBA admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong stories for top business schools. He is a second year MBA student at Berkeley Haas and worked in consulting at Deloitte and Accenture. He has worked with 100+ MBA clients and helped secure 10+ acceptances and over $500,000 in scholarships. He also founded MBA to Commas, a free mentorship platform that has supported 400+ first generation professionals.
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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 |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| Alex Bastoky | MBA admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Alex Clark | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Alexander Cheng | Grad school and PhD and Ivy League and top schools | $80 to $230 an hour |
| Alice Shang | MBA admissions and College admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alissa Orlando | MBA admissions and College essays | $70 to $145 an hour |
| Allie Kronthal | MBA admissions and College essays | $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.