Admissions consultants for students with learning differences
Compare 199 admissions consultants who focus on students with learning differences. Besides students with learning differences, the most common focus areas are college admissions, college essays, financial aid and scholarships and athletic recruiting. They most often work with students, parents and athletes. Most charge $150 to $330 per hour or session.
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Tanya Keeney
Tanya Keeney is an independent college admissions consultant and the founder of College Pragmatics LLC in Massachusetts. She helps students and their parents plan the college search and application process. She is a licensed school counselor with 25+ years in higher education. She has helped over 1,000 students and has visited over 200 colleges. She uses a family systems counseling approach that includes both students and parents.
Abby Bittler
Abby Bittler is a college admissions consultant who helps students plan for college and move into it successfully. She works with students in regular education and with students who learn differently, including those with ADHD or dyslexia. She started as an independent educational consultant in 2014. Before that she was a teacher, tutor and academic coach. She focuses on colleges in the Southeast, including public and private schools with moderately selective admissions.
Adrienne Frumberg
Adrienne Frumberg is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs Lighthouse Guidance in New Milford, Connecticut. She has spent 18 years helping clients reach opportunities that were otherwise out of reach. She worked as a school counselor at three schools and built the guidance program at Aaron School from the ground up. She also co-founded a social skills program for students with special needs and learning disabilities.
Adrienne Spraggins
Adrienne Spraggins is a college admissions consultant in Nashville, Tennessee. She helps students and their parents with the college search, applications, and final decisions. She used to be an admissions officer at Vanderbilt University, where she reviewed over 6,400 applications for admission and scholarship. She has guided more than 700 students. Her work covers athletes, arts students, students with learning differences, and students who want to study abroad.
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.
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.
Allison Henderson
Allison Henderson is an independent college counselor who helps students and parents with the college admissions process. She runs A+ College Consultants in the San Diego area of California. She has counseled over 1,000 clients across the country and abroad. Her work covers college search, applications, essays, deadlines, and merit-based aid. She also writes a blog with data-driven advice on admissions. She holds a college counseling certificate from UC San Diego.
Allison Matlack
Allison Matlack is an independent educational consultant who guides students and families through the school and college search and application process. She opened Matlack Educational Consulting in 2015, after 12 years as a consultant with AHP Educational Consulting. She began her career as an English teacher, dorm head and college counselor at Westtown School. She has served on the national board of IECA, the professional group for educational consultants.
Amy Romm Lockard
Amy Romm Lockard is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with the college search and applications. She runs Dovetail College Consulting in Portland, Oregon, and serves families across the U.S. She worked in secondary and higher education before starting her practice. She works with students who have learning differences, mental health differences, or significant financial need. She does not work with private high school students or those aiming for the most highly selective universities.
Ann Rossbach
Ann Rossbach is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents through college admissions. She has worked with students for 18 years and has helped hundreds of them. Before consulting, she taught community college reading, English and study skills. She served 15 years on two Boards of Education, 12 as president. She also teaches educational consulting at the University of California, Irvine, and works from Rumson, New Jersey.
April Miller
April Miller is an independent educational consultant who helps neurodivergent students plan for college and apply. She is a speech-language pathologist and began her education career 26 years ago. Before consulting, she spent 15 years in pediatric clinical work and taught at Maalot Baltimore, the University of Washington and Towson University. She runs LD College Expert in Middletown, Connecticut. She also guides students through gap and transition 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.
Bettina Weil
Bettina Weil is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents plan for college. She has advised families since 2007 and runs Weil College Advising, a boutique firm in Westchester, NY. Before that, she was Dean of High School Partnerships at the State University of New York. She also served as Director of College Programs at Yonkers Partners in Education. Her firm supports students in Latin America, Asia and Europe who want to attend college in the U.S.
Caitlyn McGinley
Caitlyn McGinley coaches students and professionals in college admissions, executive functioning and career moves into product management. She leads AI Service Transformation at Natera. She is a former Stanford researcher. She has worked in research, clinical, school and workplace settings for over 5 years and has worked with over 800 people on school and work placement. She also helps people get accommodations at work and in school.
Cali Bottom
Cali Bottom is an independent college admissions advisor who helps students and their parents find and apply to colleges that fit. She runs EUREKA! College Prep & Admissions Advising in California. Her Find the Fit process builds a list of 20 to 30 suggested schools based on a student's interests, values and budget. She also teaches an SAT prep course and has helped graduate school applicants. Families use her online portal to schedule sessions and manage applications.
Calli Christenson
Calli Christenson is a college admissions consultant in Houston, Texas. She helps students and parents choose colleges and apply to them. She has worked in admissions and advising for over 15 years and started in undergraduate admissions at a small college in Southern California. She has visited over 200 colleges and spends several weeks each year on campus visits. She has led college counseling as a Director at a Houston-area private school.
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.
Carolyn Francis
Carolyn Francis is an independent college admissions consultant in Englewood, Colorado. She helps students and parents with college search, applications and post-high school planning. Before consulting, she worked in retail and manufacturing, then served on the board of the Denver Waldorf School. She started as an ad-hoc college counselor for its high school. She visits college campuses across the US and the world, and she has worked with international students, first generation students and students with learning differences.
Christine Hall
Christine Hall is an independent college admissions consultant in Cary, North Carolina. She helps students and parents plan for college and handle the application process. Dr. Hall worked as a teacher and school administrator in Florida and North Carolina for over 30 years. She is a former special education teacher. She has visited well over 250 college campuses in the US, Canada and Europe. She works directly with each student and does not work in volume.
Colleen Paparella
Colleen Paparella is a college admissions consultant who helps students and parents through the college application process. She founded DC College Counseling in McLean, Virginia, and leads a team of counselors. She spent the first decade of her career in undergraduate admissions and independent school counseling, including six years as a Director of College Counseling. She has a special interest in gifted and twice-exceptional students, and in students with ADHD, autism, and anxiety.
David Beecher
David Beecher is an independent education consultant in Madison, Connecticut. He advises families on prep and boarding school placement, college admissions, athletic recruiting, and students with learning differences. He co-founded Sound Consulting with Chrissie Pape. He is a former college athlete, a former NCAA Division 1 coach and athletic administrator, and spent 9 years as a Director of Admission. He also leads Prep Hockey Advisors, a division of the firm.
Eric Endlich
Eric Endlich is an independent educational consultant who helps students with college and graduate school admissions. He leads Top College Consultants, a nationwide team that focuses on students with learning differences such as autism, ADHD and dyslexia. His students have received acceptances from over 110 schools. He also spoke at a 2020 college planning conference. His practice is based in Walnut Creek, California.
Hannah Serota
Hannah Serota is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She founded Creative College Connections in Leesburg, Virginia, in 2010. Before that, she worked in college admissions and sat on admission committees in the 1990s. She now leads a team of four consultants. She visits 20 to 30 colleges each year and focuses on finding colleges that fit a student academically, personally, and financially.
Jaime Smith
Jaime Smith is a college admissions consultant in Eugene, Oregon. She helps students and parents, with a focus on transfer admissions. She has 25 years of experience in education and taught English at the middle, high school and college levels. She founded Online G3, a virtual K-12 program where she still teaches gifted and twice-exceptional students. In 2023 she finished a post-master's certificate in transfer leadership and practice.
Jan Kerchner
Jan Kerchner runs The College Blueprint, an independent college admissions consulting practice in Irvine, California. The practice helps middle school, high school and college students and their parents plan for college. Services cover admissions advising, essay writing, SAT and ACT prep, tutoring, scholarship help and career exploration. The practice began in 1999 and now has a nationwide network of counselors. It has a special focus on students with learning differences.
Jodi Glou
Jodi Glou is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their families find the right fit in post-secondary education. She founded Custom College Consulting, LLC. She has worked as an educator, tutor and academic planner for over 25 years. She taught English composition at Montgomery College and co-authored The PR Style Guide while on the faculty at American University. She also worked in public relations at Hill and Knowlton and Feld Entertainment.
Joseph Heil
Joseph Heil is an independent educational consultant in Sebastopol, California. He helps students and parents with college admissions, starting as early as the underclass years of high school. He is a school psychologist and a longtime director of guidance at a top public high school. In that role he doubled the college-going rate at a local high school in two years. He also advocates for students with disabilities.
Julia Florey
Julia Florey is an LSAT tutor and law school admissions coach. She has tutored over 100 students, from first-time test-takers to repeat takers. Her clients have scored from 150 to 176. She is a Michigan Law graduate and a former federal court clerk in the District of Nevada. She tutors the LSAT full-time and trains new tutors at two LSAT prep companies. She also reviews application materials and talks admissions strategy.
Kathryn Lucas
Kathryn Lucas runs Square One Prep, an MBA admissions consulting firm for business school applicants. The firm has worked with 1,500 clients since 2009. Each client gets a team that includes an advisor, a career narrative expert, and a partnership manager. A former M7 admissions officer helps lead the team. Of the clients invited to interview, 92% were admitted, and 40% of those admitted received scholarships that averaged $113,000.
Laura Gatzionis
Laura Gatzionis is a college admissions consultant in Athens, Greece. She helps high school students and their parents choose colleges and apply. She focuses on international students and global nomads who want English-taught degrees outside their home country. She founded Educational Advisory Services in 2010. She also teaches two graduate courses on international college counseling at UC Irvine for school counselors and other consultants.
Malerie Simon
Malerie Simon is an independent college counselor who helps students and parents choose colleges and win admission. Malerie has 38 years of experience, including 23 years at a top public high school in New York and 20 years in private practice. Malerie has helped more than 1,700 students get into college. Malerie's students come from the U.S., Canada, Europe and Asia. Malerie serves on the board of the Hudson Valley chapter of GLSEN.
Marilyn Engelman
Marilyn Engelman is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents choose colleges, schools and therapeutic programs. She leads Educational Directions in Westborough, Massachusetts. She has worked as a special educator since 1971 and has taught at several universities. She has advised 1000's of students of all abilities. Her practice also offers psycho-educational and neuropsychological assessments, which is rare for an admissions consultant.
Marjorie Carlson
Marjorie Carlson is a college admissions consultant in Dallas, Texas. She works one-on-one with high school students to help them find colleges that fit. She directs Carlson Admissions and is also a learning specialist. Her background in teaching, school consulting and learning disabilities shapes her work. Her process covers student self analysis, college readiness and college search, including essays, visits, interviews and scholarship searches.
Mary Miele
Mary Miele is the founder and CEO of Evolved Education Company in New York City. She is also Director of College Counseling. She guides families through school admissions from nursery through college, and her firm also offers tutoring and executive function coaching. She has more than 30 years in education and has taught in the NYC DOE, at Hunter College, and at several independent schools. She created the Evolved Education Paradigm and hosts the Be Evolved Podcast.
MaryPat St.Jean
MaryPat St.Jean is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their parents with the college search and application process. She founded Compass College Advisors in 2012. Before that, she worked in admissions at Providence College and NYU, where she led the team for the Stern School of Business. She also worked as a high school guidance counselor and as a career counselor at MIT.
Maurice Frumkin
Maurice Frumkin is an independent educational consultant in Brooklyn who helps families with school admissions from Pre-K through college. He founded NYC Admissions Solutions. He is a former Department of Education official and a former independent school admissions officer. He has helped hundreds of families, trained hundreds of school counselors, interviewed hundreds of students, and reviewed thousands of school applications. He also writes about topics like the SHSAT and independent school essays.
Melissa Masland
Melissa Masland is an independent college admissions consultant in Walnut Creek, California. She helps high school students and their families choose colleges and complete applications. She started her practice in 2010 and earlier worked as a college counselor at Orinda Academy. In most years, about half of her students have learning challenges such as LD, anxiety or dyslexia. She has worked with students admitted to Carnegie Mellon and UCLA, and with students who need schools with strong support.
Pam Tedeschi
Pam Tedeschi is an independent educational consultant in Potomac, Maryland. She helps students and parents find the right day school, boarding school, or therapeutic program. She has worked in the field since 1999 and is a Certified Educational Planner. She meets with the child first, before the parents, to learn the child's strengths and needs. She is the only consultant in her office, so clients speak with her directly.
Pat Cannon
Pat Cannon is a college admissions consultant with Ravinia College Consulting, a practice near Chicago's North Shore that serves students and parents nationwide. The counselors on the team each have over 30 years of experience helping high school students. They hold master's degrees in counseling psychology and school counseling. They have visited over 250 colleges and universities, and they build a custom college list for each student.
Paul Nicholas
Paul Nicholas is an independent college admissions counselor in the Los Angeles area. He helps students and their parents plan for college, from choosing schools to accepting an offer. He finished UCLA Extension's college counseling certificate program with distinction and founded Alma Mater Educational Services. He also runs an exam proctoring service and is a member of the National College Testing Association. He is studying educational technology at Teachers College, Columbia University.
Robert Kohen
Robert Kohen is a college admissions consultant and test prep tutor in New York. He helps students find best fit colleges and build applications that reflect their interests and values. He has evaluated applications for Northeastern University and worked as an essay coach at Prep for Prep. He visits 10 to 20 colleges each year and speaks with admissions officers about current trends. He also tutors for the SAT, ACT, ISEE and SSAT.
Sarah Epstein
Sarah Epstein is a college admissions coach who helps students and parents with college search, applications and essays. She is a former admissions officer who worked at Rice University, where she read thousands of applications and helped make final decisions. She has more than 12 years in admissions and college counseling, in both university and high school settings. She focuses on highly selective colleges, liberal arts colleges, fine and performing arts programs, and students with learning differences.
Shari Piracha
Shari Piracha is a college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with the college search and application process. She runs YouQuest College Advising near Ann Arbor, Michigan, and works with clients in person and online. She has been an educator for over 27 years. She has a master's degree in special education and has guest lectured for the UCLA College Counseling certificate program. She focuses on students who do not fit the usual mold.
Stacey Cunitz
Stacey Cunitz is a Certified Educational Planner who guides students and their families through college admissions. She founded Blue Moon Educational Consulting in 2017 and ran college counseling at The Crefeld School from 2005 to 2023. She also offers executive functioning coaching for school success. She has visited over 260 colleges and universities. She served as President of the Pennsylvania Association of College Admissions Counselors from 2022 to 2023. Meetings take place over Zoom.
Stephanie Mitchell
Stephanie Mitchell is a college placement and transition advisor who helps students with learning differences find the right school after high school. She has worked in this field for over 15 years. She spent 15 years teaching decoding and one-on-one remediation at a private school for students with learning differences. She also served as its Director of College Placement and Transition Planning for over 10 years. Today she is a partner at The Bertram Group.
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.
Tali Nesher
Tali Nesher is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their families through the application process. She has guided students for nearly a decade. Her practice, UCollege Consulting, is based in Los Angeles and works with students across the United States. She has a focus on film, arts and creative majors, and she is a member of the Directors Guild of America. She also reviews film portfolios.
Tara Powers-Hausmann
Tara Powers-Hausmann is an independent college consultant based on Bainbridge Island, Washington. She helps students and parents find colleges that fit them and guides them through the admissions process. She spent decades as an editor before moving into consulting. She has visited more than 100 college campuses. She has a special focus on students with learning differences and neurodiversity, and she works with families locally and around the world.
Tira Harpaz
Tira Harpaz is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents through the whole application process. She runs CollegeBound Advice from the New York City area. Her work covers line-by-line application review, essays, college lists, mock interviews and financial aid options. She has worked with homeschooled students, students with special talents and students with learning disabilities. She also helps with transfer, graduate, medical and law school applications.
Wendy Perlin
Wendy Perlin is an independent educational consultant and communication trainer. She helps high school, college and graduate students, and working professionals. She is president of Perlin Consulting and a speech language pathologist with over 20 years of experience. She spent more than a decade at the Shirley Ryan Abilitylab in Chicago. She also edited and researched the K & W Guide to Colleges for Students with Learning Differences. She is based in Kildeer, Illinois.
Will Taylor
Will Taylor is an LSAT tutor who helps students raise their scores. He scored a 177 on the June 2025 LSAT after starting at a 164 on his diagnostic. He has tutored for a year and a half and logged over 500 hours. Two of his students moved from the mid 160s to 173. He also works with students who have learning differences and test accommodations.
Adriane Donkers
Adriane Donkers is a college admissions consultant who guides high school students and their parents through college planning. She runs CollegeLine Consulting in Beltsville, Maryland. Since 2020 she has helped students choose majors and careers, research colleges, and finish applications. She holds a UCLA Certificate in College Counseling and a master's degree in psychology. She also works with students who have learning differences, mental health concerns, and food allergies.
Annie Reece
Annie Reece is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents find and apply to boarding schools. She runs Right Fit Educational Consulting in Topsfield, Massachusetts. She works with families across the country. Her work covers traditional and junior boarding schools, athletic admissions, and schools for students with learning differences. She also advises on gap years and summer programs. She builds a school list for each student after detailed meetings with the family.
Barbara Sams
Barbara Sams is a college admissions consultant and Managing Partner at McNeal Sams College Consulting in Saint Louis. She guides college applicants and their parents through the admissions process. She worked in university admission and high school college counseling before starting the firm with Cornelia McNeal. Her focus areas include athletic recruiting, international students, the US military academy process, and students with learning differences. The Princeton Review named her one of its 20 School Counselors Who Make a Difference in 2019.
Ben Mason
Ben Mason is an independent educational consultant who runs Mason Associates in Shelburne, Vermont. The firm helps young adults, teens and children find the right school or treatment setting when their current one is not working. Services include boarding school placement in the U.S. and abroad, therapeutic school and wilderness program placement, and college guidance for students in recovery. The practice has served families since 1987.
Cammie Bertram
Cammie Bertram is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents choose and apply to boarding and private schools. She runs Campus Direction from Saint Helena Island, South Carolina. She has worked with students at the junior, secondary and college levels for nearly thirty years. She also advises families whose child needs a therapeutic environment. She is a Certified Educational Planner and an IECA Professional member.
Carol Kinlan
Carol Kinlan is an educational consultant who places students in independent day and boarding schools. Carol works with families in the Boston area and across the Northeast. Carol has over 13 years of experience and has worked with hundreds of families. Many of Carol's students have learning, attention or executive function challenges. Carol knows the admission teams at many Northeast schools, both well-known and lesser-known. Carol's offices are in Chestnut Hill and Osterville, Massachusetts.
Cassie Friend
Cassie Friend is a college admissions consultant who works one-on-one with high school students and college students who want to transfer. She spent twelve years as a teacher before starting her practice, Gateway College Consulting. In her last four years in the classroom, she worked with seniors on the college essay and the application process. As an independent educational consultant, she has worked with 200+ students. She also runs essay and application workshops.
Claire Law
Claire Law is an independent educational consultant in Charleston, South Carolina. She helps high school students and their parents choose and apply to the right college. She also guides families toward boarding schools and special-needs programs. She founded Educational Avenues in 1999. Every family gets a financial aid affordability review. She wrote a book on controlling college costs using the Affordable Family Contribution.
Debbie Lange
Debbie Lange is an independent educational consultant in Atlanta, Georgia. She helps families choose K-12 private and boarding schools for their children. Before starting her own firm, she spent more than 20 years in education as a teacher and as director of admission at two Atlanta schools. She also helps families who are moving to the Atlanta area and families looking for schools with specialized learning environments.
Eleanor Munson
Eleanor Munson is an independent educational consultant in Dallas, Texas. She helps parents find the right private school for their child, from pre-school through high school. She holds a Ph.D. in Psychology. She holds an IECA specialty designation in Learning Differences and focuses only on school placement.
Erin Avery
Dr. Erin Avery is a college and boarding school admissions consultant who helps students and their parents choose where to apply. She runs Avery Educational Resources, LLC in Red Bank, New Jersey. She wrote the book The College Labyrinth: A Mindful Admissions Approach. She starts with the student, not the school, and builds a plan around self-discovery. She also speaks about student anxiety and meets with families worldwide by video.
Eve Cooper
Eve Cooper is an independent college consultant in the Marin and Bay Area region of California. She helps high school students, college students and adults with college admissions and career planning. Her students have been accepted to Harvard, Yale, Brown, Amherst and many University of California campuses. She also advocates for students in student disability rights, art, technical and trade school admissions. She runs virtual college essay workshops after school and on weekends.
Geoff Stearns
Geoff Stearns is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college and boarding school admissions. He runs Stearns Group from Waccabuc, New York. He has placed hundreds of students at selective schools. He also draws on a global network of certified consultants, college coaches, athletic directors and tutors, and matches each family with the right consultant. The first hour is free.
Ginny Johnson
Ginny Johnson is an independent educational consultant who helps high school, undergraduate and graduate students plan for college and graduate school. She runs Pathways to Admission LLC in Berwyn, Pennsylvania. Her work centers on students headed into allied health fields such as pre-med, physician assistant, physical therapy and nursing. She has visited more than 500 schools and supported more than 18,000 students. She also advises students with ADHD, dyslexia and other learning differences.
Heather Miles
Dr. Heather Miles is a licensed educational psychologist and independent educational consultant. She runs Any Child Can Learn in Ventura County, California. She helps students with learning differences and their parents with high school college admissions consulting and executive function coaching. She also provides psychoeducational assessments, IEP support, and social skills programming. Most of her services are available online. She serves families from early childhood through college and career.
Janice Royal
Janice Royal is an independent educational consultant who runs Royal College Consulting in Idaho Falls, Idaho. She guides high school students, neurodiverse students and transfer students through college admissions, and she works with their parents too. All meetings happen on Zoom. She builds a balanced college list after learning the student's interests, goals and any accommodations. Her practice keeps a public list of college acceptances, including schools that offered full scholarships.
Jen Rigsby
Jen Rigsby is an independent educational consultant in Denver, Colorado. She helps parents and students choose schools, prepare for admissions and handle special education plans. She runs Front Range Educational Consulting. Her services cover public, charter and private schools in the Denver area. She also helps families moving to Colorado and families of gifted children. She is a professional member of IECA and holds an M.Ed.
Jennifer Mohr
Jennifer Mohr is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their families plan for college. She owns Launchpad Advisory Services LLC in Texas. She also works with college students who want to transfer and young adults returning to college after a break. Jennifer is a former teacher at St. John's School in Houston and works with many gifted and talented students, as well as students with learning challenges.
Jennifer Rucier
Jen Rucier is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents find colleges that fit and apply to them. She runs College Search Solution in Washington. She has guided students since 2009. Her master's degree is in student development, so she looks at campus services and programs when she helps families judge a college's fit.
Jill Madenberg
Jill Madenberg is a private college counselor who helps students and parents with high school planning and college admissions. She runs Madenberg College Consulting in Lake Success, New York. She has more than 30 years of experience and used to work as a high school guidance counselor. She has visited well over 1,000 colleges.
Jodie Small
Jodie Small is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs College Coordinators in Connecticut. Jodie has worked in secondary and college admissions for many years and brings a background in law, journalism and coaching. She matches each student's strengths to colleges where they can do well. She helps with essays, applications, financial aid and final decisions. She also offers add-on help for athletes, artists and students with learning differences.
Judy Bass
Judy Bass is an independent educational consultant in Olney, Maryland. She runs Bass Educational Services, which helps students who learn differently and their parents. The team offers college planning, essay coaching, ADHD and executive function coaching, test prep, and IEP and 504 support. The practice also offers a free Student Success Profile quiz for students in grades 8 to 12. It won Washington Parent Picks in 2021 and 2022.
Karen Herbst
Karen Herbst is an independent college and medical school admissions consultant in Colorado. She runs Admission Intuition and works with students and their parents. She helps students build a school list that fits them academically, socially and financially. She also guides them through applications that sound authentic. Her site covers college research, finances, scholarships, test prep, athletes, diversity and students with disabilities. She visits colleges to learn about them firsthand.
Kelly Scherr
Kelly Scherr is an independent educational consultant who helps students and families with college planning. She runs College Way Consulting in Potomac, Maryland. She matches student and family priorities with colleges that fit. She reserves part of her practice for students with ADHD, ASD and other learning differences. She also has experience as a one-on-one Executive Function Coach. She holds an MBA from Wharton and a Master of Education.
Kimberly Hildebrand-Faust
Kimberly Hildebrand-Faust is an independent college admissions consultant who runs Kim for College. She helps students and parents plan the college search, write essays, and manage applications. She also served as an application reader at two schools, where she cast the first vote on international student decisions. About half of her students apply to schools both in the USA and abroad.
Lainie Donnell
Lainie Donnell is an educational therapist and college counselor in Westlake Village, California. Lainie helps middle school, high school and college students, and their parents, with learning challenges and college admissions. Lainie works one on one with students who have diagnosed and undiagnosed learning issues, including dyslexia, ADHD and executive function deficits. Lainie is a professional member of the IECA. Lainie's goal is to give students a set of skills they can use in school and in life.
Lisa Hatch
Lisa Hatch is an independent college consultant and test prep tutor in Colorado. He runs College Primers and guides high school students and graduate students through admissions. He has worked in this field for over 30 years. His work covers college choice, applications, ACT and SAT prep, and graduate programs including law, MBA and medical school.
Liz Cooper
Liz Cooper is an independent educational consultant in Lexington, Massachusetts. She works with the College Consulting Collaborative, a team that helps college-bound students with learning differences and their parents. The team has more than 50 years of combined experience. They meet twice weekly to review student profiles and college offerings. They also visit campuses and meet with admissions officers and disability services staff to check the learning support at each school.
Lucia Tyler
Lucia Tyler is a college admissions consultant who helps students find the right college and apply. She runs Tyler Admissions Consulting and works with students across the country. She has visited more than 300 college campuses and belongs to the Independent Educational Consultants Association. She also guides parents through financial aid and helps students with learning differences plan for college support. Her services cover graduate and vet or med school admissions too.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Tanya Keeney | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Abby Bittler | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Adrienne Frumberg | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Adrienne Spraggins | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Alexandra Matthews | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Allen Koh | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Allison Henderson | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Allison Matlack | College admissions and Boarding and private school | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Amy Romm Lockard | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Ann Rossbach | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $240 an hour |
| April Miller | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Asli Pisano | Medical school admissions and Students with learning differences | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Bettina Weil | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Caitlyn McGinley | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Cali Bottom | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
Common questions
How much does an admissions consultant for students with learning differences cost?
Most admissions consultants charge $150 to $330 per hour or session.
What else do these admissions consultants help with?
Common focus areas include college admissions, college essays, financial aid and scholarships and athletic recruiting.
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Last updated September 2026.