Admissions consultants for medical school admissions
Compare 194 admissions consultants who focus on medical school admissions. Besides medical school admissions, the most common focus areas are college admissions, grad school and PhD, college essays and ivy league and top schools. They most often work with students, parents and professionals. Most charge $69 to $200 per hour or session.
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Grad School Road Map
Grad School Road Map is a graduate school admissions coaching practice. It helps applicants to MBA, law, medical, master's and doctoral programs across all fields. The team includes former deans and directors of admissions at Columbia, Northwestern and University of Chicago. In 18 years, it has worked with just over 1150 applicants. It also speaks on campuses and has written a book on the application process from start to finish.
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.
Aditya Shah
Aditya Shah is a medical school admissions consultant who helps applicants get into medical school. He is a current MD candidate at CMU School of Medicine and sits on its Admissions Committee. He also evaluates Multiple Mini Interviews and traditional interviews. He reviews applications, coaches interviews, and guides waitlist strategy.
Admissionado
Admissionado is an admissions consulting firm for college, MBA, law and medical school applicants. Two Brown University classmates started it in 2007, and it now has a team of 60+ consultants. The firm has reviewed over 40,000 applications. Every client works with a lead consultant on strategy and a separate essay specialist on writing. The firm does not pre-qualify clients, so it takes applicants with lower stats or unusual backgrounds.
Alex Reznik
Alex Reznik is a medical school admissions coach who helps pre-med students, medical students and residency applicants. Alex is a current MD/PhD student at the University of Miami School of Medicine and also does research at Baptist Health. Alex has coached more than 50 applicants and has 60+ medical school clients on the profile. Clients have gained spots at schools such as the University of Pennsylvania, the University of Pittsburgh and USC. Alex also coaches MD/PhD program (MSTP) applicants.
Alex Valenzuela
Alex Valenzuela is a USMLE tutor who helps medical students prepare for Step 1, Step 2 CK, shelf exams and clinical rotations. Alex earned an MD from UCLA and completed a general surgery intern year at Weill Cornell. Alex scored a 258 on Step 2 CK and has worked with more than 60 USMLE clients. Sessions use UWorld and NBME-style questions to build clear frameworks for clinical vignettes.
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.
Alexandra Matthews
Alexandra Matthews is a college admissions counselor who runs College Odyssey in Mill Valley, California. She helps high school students find best-fit colleges and get in. She has worked as a life coach with teens for 20 years, focusing on anxiety and stress. She also taught writing at an Ivy League college and has interviewed applicants as an alumni interviewer for an Ivy League school. She works with clients across the country and abroad.
Amanda 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.
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.
Annika Liu
Annika Liu is a medical school admissions consultant who helps pre-med students with applications and interviews. She is a current MD candidate in the 7-year BS/MD Medical Honors Program at the University of Florida. She has mentored students since January 2020 and has guided 62 aspiring medical students. She also worked as a student interviewer at the University of Florida. She focuses on early assurance and BS/MD programs.
Asli Pisano
Asli Pisano is a dental school admissions consultant and DAT tutor. She helps students and families plan and complete dental school applications. She has a DMD from Harvard and serves as an admissions interviewer and committee member there. She also worked six years as a dental assistant. She is the first in her family to attend college in the United States.
Aysha Syeda
Aysha Syeda is a medical school admissions consultant who helps pre-med students with personal statements, application edits and interviews. She is an incoming medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at UPenn. She has tutored writing and biology for more than 3 years. She spent two summers in the Penn Access Summer Scholars program and did clinical research on an apoE chatbot. She also mentored pre-med students through QuestBridge at Haverford College.
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.
Carlos Noel
Carlos Noel is a medical school admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications. He is a third-year student at Harvard Medical School. He applied in the 2022 to 2023 cycle and was accepted to Cornell, Johns Hopkins, Penn, and Yale before choosing Harvard. He has mentored friends and mentees on personal statements, secondary essays, and interview prep. He also works on activities lists and application strategy.
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.
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.
Charlotte Lawson
Charlotte Lawson is an admissions consultant who helps people decide whether to pursue medical school or an MBA, and then get through the process. She is a physician with an MBA from Harvard Business School. She founded a healthcare startup and raised venture capital for it. She works with career switchers, parents, older applicants, and people coming off a rejection. She is most useful early, when clients are working out their reasons for choosing a path.
Cheryline Pezzullo
Cheryline Pezzullo is a dental school admissions consultant who helps students apply to dental school. She is a general dentist and an associate professor at a dental school. She has sat on an admissions committee and has worked with more than 60 dental school clients. She co-directed a pathway program for high school and college students for over 12 years. She also helps dental students choose between residency options and specialties.
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 Pollack
Connie Pollack is a college admissions consultant in Pittsburgh who helps high school students and their parents plan for college. She also guides students applying to graduate school. She started her practice in 2004 after 15 years of teaching and work in school counseling. She recently served as a college counselor at an independent high school in Pittsburgh. She tours 10 colleges a year to keep her advice current.
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 Gilbert
David Gilbert is an admissions consultant who helps students with medical school and college applications. He is an OB/GYN resident at UPMC with an MD from Case Western Reserve University. He also worked in health tech consulting at Deloitte. He has coached students for over 10 years, and some of them raised their MCAT, SAT and ACT scores above the 90th percentile. He works mostly asynchronously around his clinical schedule.
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.
Elizabeth LaScala
Elizabeth LaScala is an educational consultant who helps high school and graduate students with college and graduate school admissions. She founded Doing College and works from Lafayette, California, with clients in the US and abroad. She has more than 25 years of experience. In 2025, 85% of her students were admitted to one or more top choice colleges. Her clients also received over $4 million in financial aid.
Ellen Huhulea
Ellen Huhulea advises students on medical residency and fellowships, USMLE prep, and school applications. She is a graduating medical student at New York Medical College with AOA honors and a top quartile rank. She scored 272 on Step 2 CK and earned Honors in all clinical clerkships. She has matched into an Internal Medicine residency. She has helped clients with applications, essays, and Step 2 prep, and one client got into Princeton University.
Firo Cole
Firo Cole is a medical school admissions consultant who helps applicants plan their strategy, write personal statements, and prepare for interviews. Firo is a UCSF-trained physician in ophthalmology residency and a former member of the UCSF Admissions Committee. Firo has coached over 200 students. Clients include first-time applicants and people who are applying again with a stronger story.
Gloria Liu
Gloria Liu is a medical school admissions consultant who helps applicants build their story and finish strong applications. She is a second-year medical student at Northwestern and a Case Western Reserve graduate with degrees in Biology and Finance. She got 15 interview invites and 13 acceptances after writing 40 secondaries for AMCAS. She coaches on secondaries, the activities list and the AMCAS application.
Habib Akouri
Habib Akouri is a medical school admissions consultant who helps pre-med applicants build stronger applications. He is a medical student at the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. He went through the process recently and was accepted to 11 programs. He also worked as an MCAT tutor with Blueprint Test Prep. He coaches on school lists, essays, activities lists and interviews, both before and during an application cycle.
Hannah Shapiro
Hannah Shapiro is a medical school admissions consultant and MCAT tutor. She helps pre-med students study for the MCAT and build strong applications. She is a first year student at Harvard Medical School. She worked for three years as a clinical research coordinator at McLean Hospital. When she applied, she got interview invitations from 12 schools and acceptances to Harvard, Johns Hopkins, the University of Washington and UCLA.
Hector Gonzalez
Hector Gonzalez is a medical school admissions consultant who helps premed students with applications and interviews. He is a fourth-year medical student at Stanford School of Medicine and has served three terms on its MD Admissions Committee. He raised his own MCAT score from 493 to 517 and earned 17 acceptances after four gap years. He has coached 62 aspiring medical students on their applications, interviews and personal stories.
Ilene Rosen
Ilene Rosen is an independent educational consultant in Bala Cynwyd, Pennsylvania. She helps students and parents with college admissions, college essays, and medical school applications. She runs InsightEd and InsightMed and keeps a smaller practice so each student gets individual attention. She holds a Master's Degree in Education and a UC Irvine certificate in independent educational consulting. She is an IECA Professional member and has guided her own three children through the process.
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.
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.
Jaspreet Kohli
Jaspreet Kohli is an MCAT tutor and medical admissions consultant. Jaspreet is an MD/PhD candidate at Yale who scored in the 99th percentile on the MCAT. Students get personalized Anki decks for each AAMC content outline and set protocols for each MCAT section. Jaspreet also advises on applications for BA, BS-MD, and MD programs, and has served on the admissions committee of a Top 10 US MD program. Tutoring covers first attempts, retakes, and post-exam application advice.
Jennifer Liepin
Jennifer Liepin is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students plan for and apply to top colleges. She has two decades of admissions experience, starting as an Admissions Officer at her alma mater, the University of Pennsylvania. She later read applications for the USC Bovard Scholars program. She also taught SAT, ACT, and LSAT prep at The Princeton Review and graded over 85,000 essays. Each year she helps multiple students gain admission to every Ivy and Top 20 school.
Jessica Anderson
Jessica Anderson is a medical school admissions consultant who helps pre-med students and applicants build strong applications. She is a current MD-PhD student at the University of Pennsylvania's Perelman School of Medicine. She got into Harvard, Yale, Stanford and other top programs herself. She has worked with 20+ medical school clients. She also interviews applicants for Penn and volunteers as a career counselor for first-generation, low-income students interested in medicine.
Jessica Freedman
Jessica Freedman is a physician who founded MedEdits, a medical admissions consulting firm in New York. She and her team advise premeds and residency applicants. The firm started in 2007 and has guided thousands of applicants. Advisors have served on medical school admissions committees, education committees and hospital boards. The team also includes writing coaches who focus on medical admissions essays and applications.
Jocelyn Reckford
Jocelyn Reckford is a medical school admissions consultant who helps students with MCAT prep, school lists, essays, interviews, and residency applications. She is an internal medicine resident who recently finished the ERAS cycle, so her advice on program selection, interviews, and rank lists is current. She studied Public Policy at Princeton and chose medicine later in college. That gives her a clear view of nontraditional applicants.
John Catalano
John Catalano is the founder of Catalano Advising. He advises students and families on medical school, health professions school, and college admissions. He spent more than 30 years as a senior academic healthcare executive before starting his practice. He sits on the admissions team at NYU Grossman Long Island School of Medicine, where he reviews applications and conducts interviews. He also serves on the doctoral admissions committee at the UNC Gillings School of Global Public Health. The practice is based in Locust Valley, New York.
John Kincaid
John Kincaid is a medical school admissions consultant who helps applicants with personal statements, application strategy and interviews. He is a current MD-PhD candidate at Harvard Medical School. He also holds degrees from Case Western Reserve University and the University of Cambridge. He co-founded the Undergraduate Research Society at Case Western, where he built a mentor-mentee program with over 100 pairings. He has worked with more than 10 medical school clients.
Jonathan Trapani
Jonathan Trapani is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to PhD programs and MD/PhD programs. He is a third-year MD/PhD student at Vanderbilt University, where he studies cell signaling in a research lab. Since August 2021 he has advised Vanderbilt undergraduates on MD, MD/PhD and PhD applications. He edits application drafts and runs mock interviews. He also began by tutoring students in premedical courses and the MCAT.
Justin Dhindsa
Justin Dhindsa is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to medical school and PhD programs. He is an MD/PhD candidate at Baylor College of Medicine and sits on admissions committees for both medical and graduate schools. He also tutors the MCAT and mentors undergraduates. He earned his B.S. in Biology at Duke University. He knows the MCAT, the application process and graduate study from his own path.
Katherine Cohen
Katherine Cohen is the founder of IvyWise, a college and graduate admissions consultancy in New York. The firm helps students and parents with applications, test prep, and tutoring. Its counselors are former deans and directors of admission from selective universities. IvyWise has worked for over 28 years and has served students from over 90 countries. Its counselors meet weekly during application season at a review session called the Roundtable, where they go over student applications together.
Kaylyn Crawford
Kaylyn Crawford is a medical school admissions consultant who helps aspiring doctors build strong applications. She is a medical student at Emory University School of Medicine. She also served as a student member of the admissions committee at both Emory and Georgia Tech. She has a biomedical engineering background and has coached more than 60 medical school clients. She helps with secondary applications, interviews, resumes, and application review.
Krysta Foster
Krysta Foster is a medical school admissions consultant who helps students apply to medical school, PA programs, PhD programs and master's programs. She has worked with students for six years, with a strong focus on STEM applicants. Her applicants have landed at schools including Duke, Vanderbilt, MIT, Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She also works in higher education at Michigan State University and was a first-generation college student herself.
Lauren Nash
Lauren Nash is an admissions consultant who helps students get into medical school and college. She also tutors the MCAT. Since July 2022 she has worked at City Test Prep as an MCAT tutor and med school admissions counselor. She has coached essays at College Essay Guy and HelloCollege. She also tutored SAT and ACT at LVL Prep and served on its SAT Content Analysis Team. One of her clients reached a 513 on the MCAT.
Longsha Liu
Longsha Liu is a medical school admissions consultant who helps aspiring doctors build strong applications. Longsha is an MD candidate and Knight-Hennessy Scholar at Stanford University School of Medicine. Before coaching, Longsha did brain cancer immunotherapy research at Harvard Medical School and co-founded a digital health startup, Vita Innovations. Longsha supports students on traditional and non-traditional paths, and covers the activities list, the AMCAS application, letters of evaluation, and interviews.
Lucas Mavromatis
Lucas Mavromatis is a medical school admissions consultant who helps aspiring physicians with applications and interviews. He is a fourth-year MD/MSCI student at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and interviews applicants for its admissions committee. As an applicant, he turned nine of eleven interviews into acceptances and won NYU's full cost-of-attendance Silverstein Scholarship. He has worked with more than 10 medical school clients.
Madeleine Fernando
Madeleine Fernando is an MBA admissions consultant who also helps with medical school and undergrad essays. She spent years in brand storytelling and publicity at Apple, Pixar, Capcom and Dolby, then earned her MBA at Columbia Business School. She applied to five MBA programs and was admitted to all five. She has more than 6 years of experience as an education essay consultant and likes working with applicants aiming for media, gaming or tech.
Mae Wimbiscus
Mae Wimbiscus is an admissions consultant who helps people get into medical school and residency. She is training in Anesthesiology at Massachusetts General Hospital. She earned both her undergraduate and medical degrees at Vanderbilt. She helps with school selection, interview prep, residency program signaling, and how to stand out. She teaches clients to tell their own story, the way she told hers, instead of relying only on test scores and GPA.
Marcella Mercer
Marcella Mercer is a college admissions counselor and essay editor who helps students write strong applications. She has worked with 60+ college clients. Her essay work has helped students get into medical schools and selective colleges such as Dartmouth, MIT, and Yale. She is an award-winning journalist and a former middle school Reading teacher. She has given 900+ tutoring lessons over five years and is a Master of Public Policy student at Duke University.
Margo Kozinn
Margo Kozinn is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into medical school and law school. She has read and evaluated over 7,000 medical school applications. She served as a file reviewer for Stanford University School of Medicine and gave recommendations straight to the Dean of Admissions. She also reviewed files for Chicago Medical School. Today she runs PrestigeMD Consulting and conducts interviews for a medical school.
Marissa Spies
Marissa Spies is a dental school admissions consultant who helps pre-dental students build strong applications. She is a current third-year student at the University of Michigan School of Dentistry. She also holds a U.S. Army HPSP Scholarship, so she can explain that path. She helps with application plans, personal statements, and the AADSAS application. She has given interview advice to students who now attend schools such as UMich, UPenn, Harvard, and Columbia.
Matthew Johnson
Matthew Johnson is a medical school admissions and interview coach. He helps premedical students with their applications and interview prep. He is an MD candidate at Harvard Medical School and has worked with more than 60 medical school clients. He has tutored Harvard College premedical students since December 2019. He also works with Cambridge Coaching. His help covers the AMCAS application, the activities list, Casper, and both types of interviews.
Maya Levinson
Maya Levinson is an MCAT tutor who helps students prepare for the medical school entrance exam. She has over seven years of experience tutoring science subjects. She took the MCAT three times herself and raised her score 17 points from her first diagnostic. Six weeks of a new study plan brought a 13 point gain. She also tutors AP exams. One student she worked with raised their CARS score by five points.
McKay Shumway
McKay Shumway is an admissions consultant who helps people apply to master's programs, with a focus on genetic counseling. McKay is a current genetic counseling student at Baylor College of Medicine in Houston. McKay was interviewed by 6 of the 8 schools applied to and matched with a top program in the first application cycle. McKay has 3+ years of mentoring experience and helps applicants tell their own story.
Melinda P.
Melinda P. is an admissions consultant who helps students and applicants get into medical school and other health professions programs. She has spent more than 20 years in higher education. She directed NYU's postbaccalaureate premedical program for career changers. She also redesigned and expanded prehealth programs at Barnard College and Sarah Lawrence College. She has advised hundreds of college students, from course planning to graduate and professional school applications.
Michael Zarra
Michael Zarra is an admissions consultant who helps students get into medical school. He also coaches on college admissions, PA school and career topics. He is a 4th-year medical student at Tufts University School of Medicine and sits on an admissions committee at Mass General Brigham. He has eight years of experience in admissions and career counseling. He also holds a B.S. in Neuroscience from Trinity College.
Monica James
Monica James runs The Competitive Edge, a college and career consulting practice in Atlanta that also works online. She helps students and families with college lists, essays, applications, interviews and financial aid. Before consulting, she taught public speaking to executives and worked as a speech writer. She also interviews applicants for Vanderbilt University. Her practice has helped students and job seekers since 2006. She works with students from 9th grade through college and into a first career.
Nagla Orlando
Nagla Orlando is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents in grades 7 to 12. She founded Knowledge Worx 4 College and works from Templeton, California. She was a California educator and college mentor before starting her practice. Her business has supported 950 students and reviewed and submitted 11600 applications. She also offers medical school admissions advising and support sessions for other independent consultants.
Natalie Lundsteen
Natalie Lundsteen is an educational consultant who helps people with graduate, professional and medical school admissions. She also advises PhD students and postdoctoral researchers on their careers. She has worked in higher education for over 20 years and holds a DPhil in Education from Oxford University. Her doctoral research followed students through summer internships in investment banking. She also advises businesses and organizations on graduate recruitment and internship programs.
Rabeea Khan
Rabeea Khan is a medical school admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong applications and prepare for interviews. She has seven years of experience in med school admissions consulting. She has helped over 200 students get into schools such as Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Columbia, Penn, and Cornell. She serves on the faculty at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai, where she mentors medical students. She also has admissions committee experience.
Radhika Gholap
Radhika Gholap is a medical school admissions consultant who helps students get into medical school. She recently graduated from medical school and is starting residency at Weill Cornell in New York City. She has worked as an admissions interviewer and applicant screener since September 2022. She advises on general strategy, personal statements and AMCAS applications. She was the first in her family to pursue medicine and focuses on the hidden parts of the process.
Ram Rao
Ram Rao is an admissions consultant who helps applicants with PhD programs, medical school, and medical residency and fellowship applications. He is a physician who sits on admissions committees at University of Michigan Medical School and University of Washington. He also holds a PhD in biomedical engineering. He worked as a medical school admissions advisor at MedSchoolCoach for more than seven years, where he ran strategy sessions, edited essays, and ran mock interviews.
Riggan Ayscue
Riggan Ayscue is a dental school admissions consultant and DAT prep coach. She helps applicants with personal statements, interviews, and full dental school applications. She is a fourth-year student at the UNC Adams School of Dentistry and is interviewing for orthodontic residency programs right now. She scored a 23 on the DAT. She offers packages and hourly sessions that cover the AADSAS application, secondary applications, and study plans.
Ryan Gray
Ryan Gray is the founder of Medical School HQ, a team that advises premeds and medical school applicants. She started the company in 2012 after she was not accepted in her first application cycle and got in on her second try. Her team includes former Directors of Admissions and admissions committee members. She hosts The Premed Years podcast, which was an Academy of Podcasters Awards finalist in 2015, 2016 and 2017.
Sandro L.
Sandro L. is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to medical school, business school, and college. He earned an MD and an MBA from Columbia and finished the dual degree in 5 years. He started medical school straight out of Stanford, where he graduated with honors in Human Biology. He has hosted "Applying to Med School" sessions for more than 200 college and high school students. He also works with non-traditional applicants and helps students find scholarships.
Sarah Hsieh
Sarah Hsieh is a medical school admissions consultant. She helps pre-med students and re-applicants build strong applications and stand out. She is a Med-Peds resident who studied at Georgetown University School of Medicine. She was not accepted in her first cycle, then got in after two cycles as a non-traditional applicant. She has coached 10+ medical school clients and 2,106 minutes of sessions.
Shash Kala
Shash Kala is a medical school admissions consultant who helps applicants build strong, authentic applications. Shash is a psychiatry resident at Massachusetts General Hospital and McLean Hospital and holds an MD from Yale. As an applicant, Shash earned interview invitations from 16 medical schools with a non-traditional pre-med background. Shash was accepted to more than half of the programs where interviews took place. Support covers each stage, from personal statements to interview prep.
Shreyas Hallur
Shreyas Hallur is an admissions counselor who helps students with college, medical school, and prestigious scholarships and fellowships. He is a medical student at Harvard. He studied public policy and statistics at Duke, then earned a master's in sociology at Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar. He worked in state and federal healthcare policy, including Arizona Medicaid. He mentored more than a dozen aspiring med students, and several were admitted to schools like Penn, Harvard, Hopkins, and Stanford.
Solomon Admissions Consulting
Solomon Admissions Consulting is a college admissions firm that helps students and parents with applications to college, medical school, MBA programs, law school and private K-12 schools. Every consultant is a former admissions officer. Two corporate attorneys who graduated from Georgetown Law lead the firm. The team has reviewed over 700,000 applications. The firm focuses on Ivy League and other elite colleges and has an independent accounting firm check its acceptance results.
Stratus Admissions Counseling
Stratus Admissions Counseling is a team of admissions consultants that helps applicants get into MBA programs. It also supports law, medical and college applicants. Each client works with at least four experts, including a Primary Counselor, an MBA Strategist, School-Specific Reviewers and a Proofreader. Many consultants are former admissions committee members. The firm has helped thousands of MBA applicants gain admission and earn millions of dollars in merit scholarships.
Susan Lawson
Susan Lawson is an educational consultant in Oakville, Ontario. She helps students apply to universities and colleges in Canada, the U.S. and the U.K. She has worked with 466 clients in the past 8 years. She knows NCAA rules and has worked with many elite athletes. She also interviews applicants for The Loran Scholars Foundation, a national scholarship program. Her clients include high school students, graduate school applicants and young adults who need a new path.
Taimur Kouser
Taimur Kouser is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to medical school, college, and master's programs. He is a neurology resident physician at Yale and earned his MD at Stanford. He also worked as an admissions professional and as an assistant college counselor. He was a peer mental health counselor, which shaped how he helps students tell their own life stories. He sees the admissions process as a chance for reflection and growth.
Tanner Hunt
Tanner Hunt is a dental school admissions consultant who helps applicants get into dental school and plan for early career success. He holds a Doctor of Dental Medicine degree from UNLV and is in a General Practice Residency at the University of Utah. As VP of Student Leadership, he worked with the admissions committee and the interview process for applicants. He also taught pre-doctoral Endodontics as a teaching assistant.
Ty Curtis
Ty Curtis is a DAT tutor and dental school admissions counselor. He helps students prepare for the Dental Admission Test and apply to dental school. He is a dental student at Harvard School of Dental Medicine and a First Lieutenant in the US Army. He has tutored one on one since June 2022. He also counsels applicants through Danny Ruderman College Counseling. He teaches all DAT subjects, with a focus on organic chemistry, general chemistry, perceptual ability, and quantitative reasoning.
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| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Grad School Road Map | MBA admissions and Law school admissions | $80 to $150 an hour |
| Ahab Chopra | College admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Aditya Shah | Medical school admissions | $100 to $250 an hour |
| Admissionado | College admissions and MBA admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alex Reznik | Medical school admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Alex Valenzuela | Medical school admissions | $100 to $250 an hour |
| Alex Weinberger | Medical school admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Alexandra Matthews | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Amanda Reisman | Medical school admissions and Grad school and PhD | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Amin Bagheri | Medical school admissions and Grad school and PhD | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Annika Liu | Medical school admissions and College admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Asli Pisano | Medical school admissions and Students with learning differences | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Aysha Syeda | Medical school admissions and College essays | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Carfax Education | College admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $80 to $220 an hour |
| Carlos Noel | Medical school admissions and College essays | $80 to $130 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an admissions consultant for medical school admissions cost?
Most admissions consultants charge $69 to $200 per hour or session.
What else do these admissions consultants help with?
Common focus areas include college admissions, grad school and PhD, college essays and ivy league and top schools.
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Last updated September 2026.