Admissions consultants for transfer students
Compare 228 admissions consultants who focus on transfer students. Besides transfer students, the most common focus areas are college admissions, college essays, financial aid and scholarships and grad school and PhD. They most often work with students, parents and athletes. Most charge $69 to $175 per hour or session.
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Lorraine Serra
Lorraine Serra is the founder and managing director of Portfolio College Counseling. She guides art, design and architecture students through college and graduate admissions. She has worked with these students for 17 years. Her clients include U.S. and international students, and transfer students. She helps them build a portfolio that stands out. She has also consulted for other educational consultants and coached as a volunteer with College Summit.
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.
Abby Friedman
Abby Friedman is an independent educational consultant in Berkeley, California. She helps students and parents plan for college and apply. She is a Certified Educational Planner and a lifelong educator. Her work covers US colleges and also programs in the EU, UK and Canada. She pays close attention to fit, including academic, social and financial fit. She holds a master's in education and a UC Berkeley certificate in college admissions and career planning.
Abigail Lind
Abigail Lind is a college admissions consultant who helps students build applications that tell a clear story. She has 13 years of experience and has helped over 600 students get into top colleges. She started out tutoring in California, where she learned the Stanford and UC applications well. She holds an MFA in creative writing, which shapes her story-driven approach. She left larger agencies to offer custom plans and unlimited support.
Abigail Simkus
Abigail Simkus is an independent college admissions consultant who helps high school, transfer and returning students plan for college. She founded The College Connection in 2008 and works from Washington Crossing, Pennsylvania. Her team has helped over 400 students prepare for college. Most clients come from Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York. She also works online with students outside the region and with international students applying to U.S. colleges.
AdmissionSight
AdmissionSight is an admissions consulting firm that helps students and parents apply to Ivy League and other top universities. The team covers college, transfer, graduate and MBA applications. Founder Eric Eng has over 15 years of experience and graduated from Princeton. He works one-on-one with only 15 students per year. Senior consultants include graduates of Harvard, Stanford and Carnegie Mellon. Services also include essay editing, extracurricular planning and test tutoring.
Allyson Felix
Allyson Felix is a college admissions counselor who helps students and their parents plan for college and apply. She founded Rivertowns College Counseling to match each student with a best-fit school. Before counseling, she held senior marketing jobs at Tri-Star Pictures, Children's Television Workshop, King World and Dan Klores Communications. She graduated with distinction from the UCLA College Counseling program. Her work covers essays, interviews, college lists, testing plans and final school choice.
Amanda Hirko
Amanda Hirko is an independent educational consultant in San Diego, California. She helps students and parents with college admissions. She holds an M.Ed and is a Certified Educational Planner. She works with families from eighth grade through the senior year, and with college students who want to transfer. Her recent Class of 2026 students are heading to schools such as UC Berkeley, Indiana U, Virginia Tech, Boston U and Cal Poly SLO.
Annie Wang
Annie Wang is an MBA admissions consultant who also coaches on college and career goals. She has coached for over 5 years. She started as a paid consulting and admissions coach at the University of Michigan Career Center. She also worked as a writing coach for under-resourced transfer applicants to Michigan Ross. She competed as a USA powerlifter and ties fitness and wellness habits into her coaching. First-generation college students get a discount.
Barbara Rifkind
Barbara Rifkind is a college admissions consultant and the founder of Arise Advising. She works one-on-one with students and parents in New York City, across the US, and worldwide. Before advising, she was an executive at Pearson Education and Oxford University Press, and a literary agent who helped writers tell their stories. She also served as a longtime alumni interviewer. Her support starts with course planning in the early grades and runs through college applications.
Barry Beach
Barry Beach is a college advisor and portfolio coach who helps students and parents with college admissions. He works with high school students, transfer students, international students, first-generation students and arts applicants. He spent several years scoring freshman applications at UC Berkeley, so he knows how that review works. He has also worked in admissions at two art schools. He has advised families independently since 2009 from San Rafael, California.
Beth Coyle
Beth Coyle is a college admissions advisor who works one-on-one with students to find a college that fits them. She taught in classrooms for over 20 years before moving into advising. She serves the Concord and Walnut Creek area. She has 15 seniors in her current class and is building her sophomore and junior classes. She helped 10 transfer students this cycle and also takes pro bono clients from low-income families.
Brandon Mack
Brandon Mack is an independent college admissions consultant in Houston, Texas. He helps students, parents, and organizations through the admissions process. He worked in admissions for 13 years, including as Associate Director of Admission and Coordinator of Transfer Admission at Rice University. He later served as Interim Director of Operations at the International Association for College Admission Counseling. He also offers equity, inclusion, and diversity consulting and meeting facilitation through B. Mack Strategies.
Christine Chapman-Fierz
Christine Chapman-Fierz is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with private school, college and graduate school admissions. She runs Chapman Education from Shrewsbury, Massachusetts. She has worked in admissions since 1991 and has coached over 5,000 students. She once served as the first Director of International Students at a Boston-area independent school. She also runs Next Act Consulting, which helps parents plan their next career step after their kids leave for college.
Christine Luksza
Christine Luksza is an independent college admissions counselor who runs My Best College Plan Counseling. She helps high school students and college transfer students choose schools, write essays and build strong applications. She works with students in Sonoma, Marin and across the country. She leads a team of counselors and wrote the My Best College Planner book, which has a 2026/2027 edition. Her team supports students aiming for engineering, STEM, pre-med, athletics and the arts.
Claudine Vainrub
Claudine Vainrub is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college, MBA and graduate school admissions. She founded EduPlan in 2004 and has over 15 years of admissions counseling experience. She works one-on-one with every student and leads a team of editors and writing specialists. Her practice is in Hollywood, Florida, and she has served clients in countries from India and Brazil to Italy and Saudi Arabia.
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.
Darla Trendler
Darla Trendler is a college admissions counselor who helps students apply to BYU. She focuses on application essays. Darla spent 10 years as a professional editor and worked on executive-level writing. She has coached applicants through BYU admissions since 2017. She is a BYU graduate who first got in as a transfer student after community college. That path gives her a close view of the process for students who doubt they belong.
Donna Sakabu
Donna Sakabu is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their families plan for college. She founded Insightful College Planning and works from McKinney, Texas. She has visited more than 200 colleges in person. She worked with hundreds of students in California and knows the UC and CSU application systems well. She has also focused on college affordability for more than a decade.
Elizabeth Stone
Elizabeth Stone is a college admissions counselor and the Executive Director of Campanile College Admissions Counseling in San Mateo, California. She helps students and parents with college applications, essays, and transfers. She wrote the book The Better College Essay. Her Class of 2026 students were admitted to 73 different universities and earned over $3.4 million in merit scholarships. She is a professional member of the IECA.
Hailee DeMott
Hailee DeMott is an independent college admissions consultant in Las Vegas, Nevada. She guides students and families through the admissions process from start to finish. Before starting her own practice, she worked in admissions at Westminster University in Salt Lake City, where she recruited top scholars. She also taught college transition courses. She served more than ten years as the Las Vegas Regional Coordinator for the Higher Education Consultants Association.
Hailee DeMott
Hailee DeMott is an Independent Educational Consultant who helps students and families plan for college and graduate school. She owns DeMott College and Education Consulting. Before starting her practice, she worked in student recruitment and admissions, academic advising, and as a faculty member. She is a 2013 Fulbright Scholar who studied in Berlin and Strasbourg. She also serves as the Las Vegas Community Coordinator for the Higher Education Consultants Association.
Hanna Stotland
Hanna Stotland is an independent admissions consultant in Las Vegas. She helps students with college, law school and grad school applications. She focuses on crisis management, working with students who have faced discipline, mental health issues, academic failure or criminal charges. She has worked with paying clients since 1999, first as a contractor for Kaplan and Brody and then in her own practice. She serves families from California to Maine.
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.
Heejung Laird
Heejung Laird is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs Song & Laird Education Partners in Nashville, Tennessee. Before consulting, she earned a doctorate and worked in global organizations. She holds a certificate with distinction from UC Irvine. She has visited colleges and met admissions officers to give informed advice. Her firm also offers essay help, transfer applications, graduate school guidance, and career counseling.
Isabel Hallows Hawkes
Isabel Hallows Hawkes is a law school admissions consultant who helps undergrads and transfer students plan and polish their applications. She went through two admissions cycles herself, first as a new applicant and then as a transfer. She studied political science at BYU and started law school there before moving to Texas Tech Law. She also worked in government relations at Intermountain Healthcare and interned for the Utah Senate.
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.
Jessica Azout
Jessica Azout is a college admissions counselor who works with students and their parents through the whole application process. She runs JumpStart Your Future in Aventura, Florida. She has counseled for 10 years and holds a certificate in Independent Educational Consulting from UC Irvine. She also volunteers as a college advisor for ScholarMatch and Breakthrough Miami. She helps students find right-fit colleges and build life skills along the way.
Jessie Martin
Jessie Martin is an independent educational consultant who runs Elevated Admissions in Branchville, New Jersey. Jessie helps high school students and their parents plan for college, build school lists, and write applications. The practice also handles transfer students and international students. It offers a winter sports student-athlete service. Students in the Comprehensive package have averaged $40K to $160K in scholarships, and 90% were accepted at their first choice match.
Julia Mitchell Varriale
Julia Mitchell Varriale is an independent college consultant who helps students and parents with the college process. She is a former admission officer at private and public schools and a former K-12 teacher. She has taught in the UCLA College Counseling Certificate Program since 2008. She also mentors a group of more than 300 college counselors who are all former students. Her site, CollegeVale, collects resources for counseling and admission professionals.
Julia Ross
Julia Ross is an admissions and career coach who runs Professional Tutoring in Northern Virginia. She helps students from sixth grade through graduate school with college and grad school applications, academic planning, and tutoring. Her center opened in 1994. She built a College Selection Decision Matrix with over 40,000 data points and spoke on student retention at a national registrar conference in 2019. She also wrote a college admissions handbook.
Kat Clowes
Kat Clowes is a college admissions consultant and the founder of March Consulting. She helps high school students and transfer students find colleges that fit them academically and financially. She also guides undecided students toward a major and career. Before starting her practice, she advised transfer students at Bakersfield College and worked there as the costume designer. She has been in practice for a decade and wrote the book Put College to Work.
Kelly Chan
Kelly Chan is an admissions counselor who helps students get into college and master's programs. Kelly also coaches career moves into tech and engineering. Kelly works with transfer students, applicants with lower GPAs, and people from non-traditional backgrounds. Kelly is a Bay Area native with over 10 years at Apple, Adobe, and Goldman Sachs. Kelly transferred into Cornell and now works as an Engineering Program Manager at Apple.
Marks Education
Marks Education is an educational consulting firm that helps students and parents with college admissions, graduate school admissions, test prep and tutoring. Nina Marks founded it in 2004 after more than 30 years as an independent school teacher and administrator. A team of full-time advisors and tutors works together on each student's plan. The firm has offices in Bethesda, McLean and Washington, DC, and works with students in the US and abroad.
Michelle Cassel
Michelle Cassel is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their parents find good-fit colleges and build strong applications. She founded College Search Navigators in 2006 after guiding several families through the process. Before that, she worked more than ten years as a public interest law litigator. She has toured over 300 college campuses and works with students from freshman year through transfer applications.
Mimi Doe and Michele Hernandez Bayliss
Top Tier Admissions is a college admissions counseling firm led by Mimi Doe and Michele Hernandez Bayliss. The team helps students and parents from grade 4 through graduate school. The founder is a former Dartmouth admissions officer. The team includes former Ivy League admissions officers, published authors and award-winning educators. They work with a limited number of families each year. They also run Application Boot Camp for essays and tutoring for test prep and executive functioning.
Nita June
Nita June is an educational consultant who helps students and families with college admissions. She specializes in visual arts portfolio guidance and performing arts audition coaching. She also works with transfer students, graduate students and athletes. Before starting her own practice, she taught high school English, literature and theater for almost a decade. She has focused on college counseling since 2012. She also directs and produces for her own theatre company.
Pam Hastings
Pam Hastings is an independent educational consultant in San Diego, California. She helps high school students and their parents with college admissions. She works with the team at College Admission Navigation, a boutique practice. Pam has a physical therapy master's degree from Duke University. She has experience with NCAA athletic recruiting. She has also interviewed applicants for Duke undergraduate admissions as an alumni volunteer. She works locally and remotely with students across the United States.
Paul Nicholas
Paul Nicholas is an independent college admissions consultant and the founder of Alma Mater Educational Services. She helps students and their parents with college applications, from early planning to decisions and follow-up. She is in the eleventh year of her practice and works with students across the country and around the world by Zoom. She earned her college counseling certificate at UCLA Extension and volunteered with Minds Matter in Los Angeles.
Reema Attyeh
Reema Attyeh is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents find a best-fit university. She runs Thrive College Planning as a solo practice and takes no more than 10 students per graduating class. She has over 15 years in higher education and has worked in US admissions offices. She also worked for ministries of education in the Middle East and Europe. She visits 20 to 30 campuses every year.
Ricardo Ortegón
Ricardo Ortegón is a college admissions consultant and the founder of GPS College Guidance. He helps high school students, college students and their parents plan for college and beyond. He has over 25 years in college admissions, enrollment management and academic advising. He held leadership roles at Texas A&M International University and Montclair State University. He also taught as adjunct faculty at American University. Sessions run online or in person.
Sara Haberman
Sara Haberman is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs Admission Sense in Pelham, New York. Her services cover students from 8th grade through senior year, plus recruited athletes and transfer students. Her class of 2026 clients earned close to 6 million dollars in scholarships. Her students have gone on to more than 175 colleges and universities. She also hosts a podcast on the college admissions process.
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.
Shari Powell
Shari Powell is a college admissions counselor who helps students and parents with the college search and application process. She runs Creating College Options in Princeton, New Jersey. Her background in admissions, marketing, market research, and youth activities shapes each student's profile and college list. She works with every client personally. She is currently helping the third child in several families. Her packages cover applications, academic advising, financial aid, and college selection.
Shellee Howard
Shellee Howard is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents plan for college. She founded College Ready after working as an academic advisor at a top university. She has over 18 years of experience and has served over 2,700 students across the U.S. and beyond. Her work covers essays, applications, interviews, and scholarships. Students she has guided have been accepted to Ivy League schools, Stanford, MIT, and UC Berkeley.
Stephanie Akers
Stephanie Akers is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college and graduate admissions. She works as a College Counselor with ESM Prep, which was formerly Metro Academic Prep, where she was a longtime leader. She has 20 years of experience and has guided hundreds of students through selective universities, transfer pathways and graduate programs. She is based in Weston, Connecticut.
Susanna Ordway
Susanna Ordway is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and their families plan for college. She has worked with students for 6 years on academic plans, college lists, essays, and financial aid. Before that, she taught and advised K-12 students in the San Ramon Valley school district for 10+ years. She has visited over 150 colleges and universities. She also helps students find internships and volunteer roles with local companies.
The Ivy Institute
The Ivy Institute is a college admissions consulting firm that helps students and their parents apply to selective colleges. Its team works with families on academic planning, essays, interviews and final application review. The firm has more than 10 years of experience. It offers the Top-Eight Promise on senior-year packages. Families pick eight colleges. If the student gets into none of them, the final payment is not due.
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.
Vini Amit Rupchandani
Vini Amit Rupchandani is a college admissions counselor who helps international students and transfer applicants. Vini moved from the American University of Sharjah to Brown University in junior year, as one of fewer than 10 international students in a transfer group of more than 150. Vini also won acceptances or waitlist spots at Penn, Dartmouth, Yale, Columbia, Barnard and Emory. Students Vini helped have gotten into Yale, Brown and Cornell. Vini also created a social card game used by groups like Girl Scouts.
Yvonne Espinoza
Yvonne Espinoza is an independent college admissions counselor in Austin, Texas. She helps students in grades 9 to 12 and their parents plan for college and apply. She has over 24 years of experience and has helped thousands of students. She does all the counseling herself and caps her senior caseload at 15 clients. She also advises transfer students and works with families across the United States.
AcceptU
AcceptU is an admissions counseling firm that helps students and parents with college, graduate school and transfer applications. Every counselor is a former admissions officer. The firm has worked with families for more than 15 years and reports 8300+ students admitted. Students are matched with a counselor and work online, so families anywhere in the United States can join. The firm also offers test prep, tutoring and student development programs.
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.
Ann Auld
Ann Auld is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents plan for college. She works with Custom College Consultants, a team that focuses on Bay Area public school students. Before moving to the US, Ann worked in emergency medicine in South Africa and the UK. She has visited over 100 college campuses in 16+ states. She enjoys working with STEM, arts and undecided students, and with immigrant families.
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.
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.
Catherine Marrs
Catherine Marrs is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs Marrs College Admission Advisors in Dallas, Texas. She has more than 20 years of experience and works with students across the DFW area. She visits 15 to 25 college campuses each year to learn campus culture and what colleges want in applicants. Her services also cover transfers, law school, graduate school and career coaching.
Catherine McCarthy
Catherine McCarthy is an independent educational consultant who coaches students and parents through college admissions. She runs College Smart Advising in San Diego, California. She works with San Diego-area families and with students across the country. Her help covers college lists, essays, high school course planning, test plans, interviews, and financial aid applications. She is an IECA Professional member. She also offers guidance on community college transfer strategy.
Colleen Hart
Colleen Hart is an independent educational consultant who helps high school students and their parents through the college application process. She runs The Admissions Edge in Roswell, Georgia. She is a lifelong educator and a professional member of IECA. Each year she takes on a limited number of high school and transfer students. She also wrote a book on starting early and finding a college that truly fits.
College Advising Team
College Advising Team is a group of higher education professionals in Palo Alto, California. They help students with college applications, transfer applications, graduate school applications, and early career steps. The team works in Silicon Valley and serves students across the globe. They offer workshops, small group support, and one-on-one help. Their career services cover internships and first jobs for current college students and recent graduates.
Debbie Schwartz
Debbie Schwartz is an independent college admissions consultant in Redding, Connecticut. She helps high school students and their families through the college admissions process. Her work covers college lists, essays, applications, interview prep, and high school planning. She also works with transfer applicants and some graduate program applicants. She wrote an article on adoption and college admissions that ran in Adoption Today in April 2017, and she offers workshops on that topic.
Demetra Tzevelekos
Demetra Tzevelekos is an independent college admissions consultant who helps international high school students and their parents. She runs Ariston College Admission Experts. She guides families through the whole process, from choosing high school courses to weighing final offers. She is a certified IB HL and SL English Examiner, so she knows IB coursework well. She also helps with SAT, ACT, IELTS and TOEFL prep, essays, and transfer applications.
Denise Baylis
Denise Baylis is a college admissions consultant and the owner of Open Door Educational Consultants. She helps high school students, college transfer students and graduate school applicants with college search, applications and essays. She is a former Vice President at a Fortune 500 media company. She uses her marketing and branding background to show how a student fits a school. She also offers career advising to current students and new grads.
Elizabeth England
Elizabeth England is an independent educational consultant who coaches college applicants and their parents. She runs EE College Coach in New York. She gives one-on-one help with college essays, applications, transfer applications, graduate school essays and high school admissions. Her students have gone on to schools such as Johns Hopkins, NYU Tisch and the University of St Andrews. She also runs summer boot camps and offers writing coaching. Sessions happen by Zoom or in person.
Eric Stutman
Eric Stutman is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents find and apply to colleges. He founded Top Choice College Consulting in Needham, Massachusetts. He created the Top Choice Academic Value Rankings and a FitScore that rates how well each college fits a student. He works with freshman and transfer applicants in the Boston Metrowest area. He also helps students in other places by video, email and phone.
Ferah Aziz
Ferah Aziz is a college admissions coach and Certified Educational Planner. She helps students in grades 9 to 12, college transfer students and graduate school applicants. Her coaching covers college lists, essays, mock interviews, scholarships and choosing a major. She also helps college students and recent grads find internships and jobs. She runs launchphase2 LLC and taught college classes as an adjunct for 19 years before starting it.
Ginger Apperson
Ginger Apperson is an independent college admissions consultant and the founder of College-Fit. She helps students and parents find colleges that match the student's interests, goals and budget. She has run her business since 2013 and has visited hundreds of colleges. She serves families in Marin and Sonoma Counties in California and beyond.
Inomi
Inomi is a college admissions and career counselling practice in India. It helps students and parents choose careers, build profiles and apply to universities in India and abroad. The team has guided 9,000 families. Every year it places students in universities in the US, UK and India. Its Inomi Funnel uses psychometric tests, interviews, activities and workshops. Programs start in Grade VII and run through college applications.
Jamie Reich
Jamie Reich is an independent college admissions consultant in Port Washington, New York. She helps students and parents find the right schools and get through the application process. She has been a college advisor for 18 years and has worked with over 1,200 students. She holds a New York State school counseling certification and co-authored a book on college admissions. Her services cover college advising, essay editing, and transfer applications.
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.
Jaya Anthony
Jaya Anthony is an independent college admissions consultant in Irvine, California. She helps high school and community college students and their parents plan for college and choose a school that fits. Before consulting, she worked in the tech and service industries and taught at the university level. She is the founder and director of College Pro Consulting. Her students have been accepted at schools including Columbia, Cornell, Pomona and Georgia Tech.
Jeffrey Haig
Jeffrey Haig is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents plan for college. He founded Strategic College Consulting in California. His firm covers college planning, transfer planning, prep school, grad school, international students and paying for college. He also hosts seminars and workshops in the United States and abroad. One client was accepted to 7 of 8 Ivy League universities and earned a full scholarship to Yale.
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.
Joan Stern
Joan Stern is a college admissions consultant who helps high school students and transfer students plan for college. She runs College Endeavors LLC. For 11 years she has been a volunteer college advisor at El Camino Real High School in Woodland Hills, a public school with over 3600 students. She is also a trained UCLA Alumni Recruiter and represents UCLA at college fairs around Los Angeles and Ventura counties.
Jodi Glou
Jodi Glou is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents in Maryland, Washington, DC and Virginia. She runs Custom College Consulting and works with families from 9th grade through senior year. Her services cover college lists, applications, essays, interviews and paying for college. Her clients have been accepted to schools such as Duke University, Purdue University and the United States Naval Academy. She is a member of HECA.
Jody Bothe
Jody Bothe is an independent college admissions counselor in Oregon who runs College Counseling 4 U. Jody works one on one with high school students and their parents, from freshman year through senior year. Jody and partner Casey Jones bring 45 years of combined experience. Their package includes a one week App Camp, where students finish college applications in the summer before senior year. Hundreds of students and families have used the service.
Joyce Draper
Joyce Draper is an independent college admissions consultant who runs Draper College Consulting. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college, starting as early as ninth or tenth grade. She also works with college students who want to transfer. Joyce visits many college campuses each year and meets with students and admissions officers. She uses those visits to guide families. She works from the Washington, D.C. area and serves clients across the country by video or phone.
Juan-Camilo Tamayo
Juan-Camilo Tamayo is a higher education consultant and the founder of JCT4Education in Key Biscayne, Florida. He helps students and parents with college, graduate school, and law school admissions. His firm also covers financial aid, scholarships, transfer students, and boarding school placement. He works with international students and with US students who apply abroad. He leads a team of counselors and runs SAT and ACT tutoring under the 4U! Prep name.
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.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Lorraine Serra | College admissions and Grad school and PhD | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Tanya Keeney | College admissions and College essays | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Abby Bittler | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abby Friedman | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Abigail Lind | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Abigail Simkus | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| AdmissionSight | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Allyson Felix | College admissions and College essays | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Amanda Hirko | College admissions and Transfer students | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Annie Wang | MBA admissions and College admissions | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Barbara Rifkind | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Barry Beach | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Beth Coyle | College admissions and Transfer students | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Brandon Mack | College admissions and Ivy League and top schools | $130 to $300 an hour |
| Christine Chapman-Fierz | College admissions and College essays | $150 to $225 an hour |
Common questions
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Most admissions consultants charge $69 to $175 per hour or session.
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Last updated September 2026.