Admissions consultants for students with learning differences
Compare 187 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 boarding and private school. They most often work with students, parents and athletes. Most charge $150 to $330 per hour or session.
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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.
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.
Asli Pisano
Asli Pisano is a dental school admissions consultant and DAT tutor. Asli helps students and families plan and complete dental school applications. Asli has a DMD from Harvard and serves as an admissions interviewer and committee member there. Asli also worked six years as a dental assistant. Asli is the first in Asli's family to attend college in the United States.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Will Taylor
Will Taylor is an LSAT tutor who helps students raise their scores. Will scored a 177 on the June 2025 LSAT after starting at a 164 on Will's diagnostic. Will has tutored for a year and a half and logged over 500 hours. Two of Will's students moved from the mid 160s to 173. Will also works with students who have learning differences and test accommodations.
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.
Christopher Lopez
Christopher Lopez is a medical school admissions consultant who helps students apply to medical school and MD/PhD programs. He is an MD/PhD student at Stanford Medicine, working on a PhD in Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative Medicine. He worked as a researcher at the National Institutes of Health before Stanford. He has coached more than 10 medical school clients. He also went through a misdiagnosed learning disability in middle school.
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.
Kimberly Hildebrand-Faust
Kimberly Hildebrand-Faust is an independent college admissions consultant who runs Kim for College. Kimberly helps students and parents plan the college search, write essays, and manage applications. Kimberly also served as an application reader at two schools, where Kimberly cast the first vote on international student decisions. About half of Kimberly's students apply to schools both in the USA and abroad.
Matt McGee
Matt McGee is a private tutor and college admissions counselor who founded MRM Education in 2020. He helps late middle school and high school students through the full college application process. He has worked in tutoring and admissions for 15 years. His team has placed students at multiple Ivy+ universities and the top UC schools. He also supports athletes, homeschooled students and neurodivergent students.
Micah Levinger
Micah Levinger is a GMAT, GRE and LSAT tutor who helps people get the scores they need for MBA, law school, master's and PhD programs. Micah has coached 250 GMAT students over a decade and has logged over 10,000 hours of grad admissions test instruction. Micah runs GMAT Attack, and Micah worked at Juris Education and Varsity Tutors. Several of Micah's students have raised their GMAT scores by 100+ points.
Rebecca Field
Rebecca Field is a college admissions consultant and college success coach. She works with high school and college students who have learning differences. She also works with students who do not. Before consulting, she taught middle and high school, directed a middle school, and was the founding Academic Dean at the Julia Morgan School for Girls in Oakland. She earned a UC Berkeley certificate in college admission and career planning.
Susan Carr
Susan Carr is an independent college counselor who helps students with undergraduate and graduate admissions. She also guides them on choosing a major and planning a career. Susan is a licensed civil engineer and holds a College and Career Counseling Certificate from UC San Diego. Her focus is passion over prestige. She leads Meta College and Career Counseling, works with US and international students, and has given workshops on mental health awareness at schools and conferences.
Michael Davila
Michael Davila is a Partner at College Inroads LLC and has worked as an educational consultant since 2003, after previously serving as faculty at the United States Naval Academy in the late 1990s.
Moni Schlotter
Moni Schlotter runs Magna College Consulting, primarily serving West Coast students as well as boarding school students since the 2020 admissions cycle. She serves an average of 15 students a year, currently with 12 on her roster, ranging from high school juniors to transfer and learning-difference students.
Rachel Coleman
Rachel Coleman is a college admissions coach and essay editor who helps high school students plan for college and apply. She has worked with College Admission Coach for 6+ years. She began as a Writing Coach while finishing her UCLA certification. For the past two years she has been a full-time College Coach. Her students include three National Merit Finalists and a student who went on to study theater.
Robin Colt
Robin Colt is a college admissions counselor who helps high school students and their families with the admissions process. She taught AP classes and worked as an academic advisor in private boarding and public schools. She has also been an AP Exam Reader for the College Board. Robin uses structured task management to help students who struggle with executive functioning handle college timelines. She has worked directly with high school students for nearly two decades.
Tira Harpaz
Tira Harpaz is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents through the whole application process. Tira runs CollegeBound Advice. Tira reviews applications line by line and helps students make their extracurricular activities stand out. Tira works with homeschooled students, students with special talents and students with learning disabilities. Tira's students aim for Ivy League and top 50 colleges, and also for less competitive schools that fit them well. Tira keeps cost in mind and helps families find affordable schools.
Betsy Klene
Betsy Klene is an independent college advisor who guides high school students through the admissions process. She uses a set plan with a yearly agenda for each grade from freshman to senior year. She built workshops for La Jolla High School that the school still uses. She also worked with the US State Department at college fairs for US universities in Singapore. She advises 20 to 30 students each year, including students who live far away.
Elizabeth Katz
Elizabeth Katz is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their parents plan for college. She runs Spark College Consulting in Menlo Park, California. She has worked with paying clients since November 2013. Her clients come from public and private high schools. They include athletes, artists and students with special needs. She covers college list creation, essay preparation and the application process.
Jennifer Mohr
Jennifer Mohr is a college admissions consultant who runs Launchpad Advisory Services LLC. She helps high school students and their families, college students who want to transfer, and young adults who want to return to college. She began working with students in December 2019. She spent 6 months as a practicum student with Bright Futures LLC in Houston. She also works with students who have learning challenges and want options after high school.
Patricia Finer
Patricia Finer is a college admissions consultant who helps students and families with applications, financial aid and immigration questions. She runs Finer College Admissions and Immigration Consultants, founded in 2007. Her team starts where the student is now and builds a list of schools that fit. The firm does not charge by the number of applications a student sends. It also covers arts programs, learning differences, athletes, DACA recipients and international students.
Scott Garbini
Scott Garbini is a college and career consultant. He helps students and families find the right college or career. He is the owner and lead consultant of Garbini Education and Career Consulting LLC. He works with students who have anxiety, attention deficit disorders, dyslexia, dyscalculia, or who are on the autism spectrum. He also helps LGBT students find schools with strong support services. He coaches families and students on executive function and life skills.
Kathryn Miller
Kathryn Miller is a college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents plan for college. She runs Miller Educational Consulting, Inc. Her work starts in high school. She builds a timeline, helps pick classes and activities, and plans the testing schedule. She also builds a balanced college list with low, medium and high chance schools. Her services cover essays, interviews, scholarships and the move to college.
RCHI Education Group
RCHI Education Group specializes in helping students with a range of mental health, ASD, and learning differences transition to college, providing transitional support that continues until the student reaches campus.
Stephanie Adkins
Stephanie Adkins runs Open Gate College Advising, a college advising and career consulting practice. She works with students from 9th grade through college and into their careers. Her work covers selective college admissions, athletic recruiting, military academies, conservatory and vocal performance auditions, and art portfolios. She also handles merit aid and financial aid, including appeals. She has a background in gifted education, mentoring and education reform research.
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.
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.
Alida Smit
Alida Smit is an independent college admissions counselor who helps high school and transfer students plan for college. She has over 30 years of experience teaching students, including children with learning disabilities. She also worked as a College & Career Advisor at a high school. She focuses on first-generation students from low-income backgrounds and works closely with their families through each step of the process.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Gary Matloff
Dr. Gary Matloff is a college admissions coach who works with students and parents through his practice, Psyched 4 Kids, in Newbury, Massachusetts. He is a licensed psychologist and a nationally certified school psychologist. He helps students plan, set deadlines and choose colleges that fit. He can also give learning and psycho-educational testing, so he can match a student's learning needs to the right school.
Imy Wax
Imy Wax is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. Imy founded The Aspire Group in Deerfield, Illinois. Imy is also a licensed clinical professional counselor and a Certified Educational Planner. Imy co-wrote The K&W Guide to Colleges for Students with Learning Differences. Imy's team has supported more than 2,000 families. Imy works with clients from age 8 through high school, college, and adults into their 60s.
Jacqueline Pravda
Jacqueline Pravda is an independent educational consultant who guides students and their parents through the college process. She runs NorthStar College Advisors in Santa Monica, California. She has over 20 years of experience and holds a graduate degree and certification in education. She has worked in public and private high schools and in college and university admissions. Her work covers course selection, college lists, essays, applications, and financial aid review.
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.
Jeff Schnitzer
Jeff Schnitzer is an independent educational consultant and licensed school psychologist in Lexington, Massachusetts. He helps students and parents with school placement and applications, from elementary school to graduate and professional school. His practice, Schnitzer Associates, has run for three decades. He also offers psycho-educational testing, reading help, tutoring and test prep. Clients get hot chocolate and bagels at the office. Sessions can also be held over Skype.
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.
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.
Keely Buchanan
Keely Buchanan is an independent educational consultant in Englewood, Colorado. She helps parents choose public and private schools from preschool through high school. She has worked with more than 500 Colorado families since 2015. She also helps families who are relocating to the state. She has been accepted as an expert witness in Denver and Jefferson Counties. She writes educational reports for divorce mediation, arbitration and court cases.
Laura Seese
Laura Seese is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents choose schools and programs, including boarding, college and wilderness placements. She holds a doctorate in educational psychology and has worked as a school psychologist, assistant principal and special education director. She serves on the board of the Independent Educational Consultants Association. Her firm, Educational Advancement Associates, is based in East Granby, Connecticut.
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.
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.
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 McViney
Melissa McViney is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions from start to finish. She works from Hingham, Massachusetts, and has also consulted in the Washington, DC area and in London. She spent several years as a family law and special education attorney before moving into admissions. She has worked with international students applying to US schools and US students applying to UK universities.
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.
Patricia Schabinger
Patricia Schabinger is an independent educational consultant and academic coach who helps students with college admissions and executive skills. She runs College Comprehensive Consulting LLC. She is a certified learning specialist with a master's in learning disabilities and special education. She works with a small number of students and teaches essay writing in one-on-one lessons.
Peggy Amdur
Peggy Amdur is an independent educational consultant in Dallas, Texas. She founded College Choices to help students and parents handle the college application process. Before this work, she owned several businesses. She holds a college counseling certificate from UCLA and finished the Summer Institute of College Admissions at Harvard College. She visits 15 to 30 campuses each year to keep her school knowledge current. She also helps with scholarships, financial aid, and graduate and law school applications.
Peter Wright
Peter Wright is an independent educational consultant in Norwell, Massachusetts. He helps students and parents with school and college placement, learning differences, and therapeutic placements. He also offers life and executive function coaching for children, teens and college students. Wright is a former teacher at boarding, day, parochial and public schools. He has worked with the National Endowment for the Humanities for over a decade. He meets clients in his office, at agreed locations, or online.
Phyllis Levine
Phyllis Levine is an independent education and college consultant in Seattle. She guides students and their families through college planning and admissions. Before starting Education Maven, she spent three decades in education and special education research and policy. She holds a PhD. Her clients range from gifted students to students with learning challenges. She focuses on essay coaching, college selection, and support through the full application process.
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.
Susan Hamilton
Susan Hamilton is a college admissions and career coach in San Jose, California. She guides high school students and their families through the college admissions process. She ran her own practice, SJH Development College and Career Coaching, from 2015. Before that she spent over ten years as an education and career consultant for San Jose Unified and Silicon Valley CTE. She also wrote the I'm Going to College Student Guide.
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.
Traecy Hobson
Traecy Hobson is an independent educational consultant who guides high school students and their families through the college search and admissions process. She founded Admissions on Track. She spends 20 percent of her professional time touring campuses across the United States and visits 25 to 30 colleges each year. She meets with admissions staff and faculty. She uses these visits to match students with colleges that fit their academic, social and financial needs.
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.
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.
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.
Elizabeth LaScala
Elizabeth LaScala is an independent college advisor who helps high school, transfer and graduate school applicants get into the schools they want. She has worked with students for over 15 years and added graduate and professional school advising 8 years ago, after former clients asked for it. She handles medical, dental and vet school applicants in small numbers with a team of experts. Her clients have gotten into at least one school they applied to every time.
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.
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 Stanton
Jennifer Stanton is an independent educational consultant who helps students and their families find colleges that fit them. She runs College Success Advisors in Southern California. Before consulting, she spent 20 years as a newspaper feature writer and editor, including a role as an editor at the Los Angeles Times. She also worked 10 years as an educator. She focuses on essay writing and on students with learning differences.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Abby Bittler | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alexandra Matthews | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Asli Pisano | Medical school admissions and Students with learning differences | $80 to $130 an hour |
| Caitlyn McGinley | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Eric Endlich | College admissions and College essays | $120 to $350 per session |
| Jaime Smith | College admissions and Transfer students | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Jodi Glou | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Julia Florey | Law school admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $80 to $230 an hour |
| Stephanie Mitchell | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Susan Lawson | College admissions and Grad school and PhD | $80 to $220 an hour |
| Will Taylor | Law school admissions and Students with learning differences | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Cassie Friend | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Christopher Lopez | Medical school admissions and College essays | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Heather Miles | College admissions and Students with learning differences | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Kimberly Hildebrand-Faust | 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.
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Common focus areas include college admissions, college essays, financial aid and scholarships and boarding and private school.
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Last updated September 2026.