Financial coaches for students
Compare 48 financial coaches. Besides their main focus, the most common focus areas are saving and investing basics, money mindset, business finances and budgeting. They most often work with students, parents and professionals. Most charge $75 to $200 per hour or session.
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Louise Love
Louise Love is a budget and accountability coach who helps professionals bring order to their money. She also coaches retirees, small business owners, self-employed people, college grads and young professionals. She is a YNAB Certified Budget and Personal Finance Coach. She pairs practical money strategies with work on the mindset and emotional habits that make money stressful. She has a special focus on therapists whose income is uneven and whose finances feel messy.
Chris Jacob
Chris Jacob is a product marketing coach and mentor who helps startup founders build and grow their businesses. He has been a founder and global executive at tech and SaaS companies including Salesforce, Adobe, Jive and Gravity, with 2 exits. He now runs Data+AI and mentors at Score. He also teaches financial literacy in New York City public high schools and mentors 80 startups at a time.
Shal Ahmed
Shal Ahmed is an equity research coach who also helps people apply to top MBA programs. Shal worked at Morgan Stanley, Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs, and was a Vice President on the Growth Equity Team at Goldman Sachs Asset Management. Shal is a CFA Charterholder with an MBA from Harvard. Shal was accepted to Harvard Business School with only two years of work experience. Shal also founded SHALnCO, which teaches women how to invest in the stock market.
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.
Admissionado
Admissionado is an admissions consulting firm for college, MBA, law and medical school applicants. Two Brown University classmates started it in 2007, and it now has a team of 60+ consultants. The firm has reviewed over 40,000 applications. Every client works with a lead consultant on strategy and a separate essay specialist on writing. The firm does not pre-qualify clients, so it takes applicants with lower stats or unusual backgrounds.
Alicja Jahnke
Alicja Jahnke is a college admissions consultant in Milford, Michigan. He helps students and parents pick colleges and build strong applications. He runs ACE College Consultants with Lisa Acton. Alicja is a licensed teacher and school and college counselor with three master's degrees, in Music, Learning Disabilities and Counseling. The practice limits its number of clients and visits colleges in person. Students get a personalized list of best-fit schools and help with essays.
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.
Chris Hathaway
Chris Hathaway is the founder and lead advisor of Dimension Admissions in Costa Mesa, California. She helps students and parents with prep school, undergraduate and graduate school admissions. She is a Yale educated teacher and consultant, and an essay specialist who focuses on personal narrative. Her firm uses a 4-D approach built on determination, direction, discovery and distinction. She is a professional member of the IECA. 93% of her clients arrive by word of mouth.
Jeff Miles
Jeff Miles is an admissions consultant who helps students apply to master's programs and MBA programs. He spent 26 years as Director of Graduate Admissions at the Elliott School of International Affairs at George Washington University. There he made final admission and fellowship decisions on tens of thousands of applications. Since 2014 he has advised students at Edvice Princeton. His clients have gained admission to Columbia, Stanford, Harvard, and other top schools.
Julie Ekkers
Julie Ekkers is an independent educational consultant in Minnesota's Twin Cities. She helps students and their families find strong college fits and complete their applications. She is a former admission professional and holds a law degree. That gives her special depth in law school preparation and pre-law counseling. She is also known for essay development and review. She works through College Connectors, a group practice, and meets clients in person, online, or both.
Kamali Clora
Kamali Clora is an admissions consultant who helps applicants get into master's programs, MBA programs and private high schools. He also works as a Division Administrator at Rush University Medical Center. Before that, he ran a free clinic as Executive Director and taught healthcare finance and policy at Yale. He holds an MPH from Yale and is finishing an MBA at Kellogg. He focuses on applicants who lack insider networks in academia or healthcare.
Kate Coffman
Kate Coffman is a private college admissions counselor in Indianapolis, Indiana. She helps students and their parents with the college search, financial aid and applications. She has over twenty-five years of experience in admissions and financial aid. She worked in admissions at four Indiana schools, including Butler University and Indiana University. She also ran a state-wide college counseling program for school counselors. She works with families in Central Indiana and with students online across the country.
Liane Crane
Liane Crane runs The College Dollar, a practice that helps families understand the cost of college and how to pay for it. She also helps recent graduates make sense of their student debt. Before starting her own business, she spent 10 years at a college consulting company. Earlier, she worked as a teacher, a non-profit director and a paralegal at a large NYC law firm. She focuses only on college finances.
Miller Liberatore
Miller Liberatore is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents with the college application process. Miller is based in the San Francisco Bay Area and works with students across the United States. Miller has two focus areas: Support for LGBTQIA+ students and prep for performing arts and theatre auditions. Miller is a theatre director and co-chairs the Advocacy/DEI committee for HECA.
Admit Advantage
Admit Advantage is an admissions consulting firm that helps students and parents with applications to college, business school, law school, medical school and graduate school. The firm was founded in 2007 and has worked with more than 5,000 clients. Its consultants are alumni of Harvard, Stanford, Columbia and Wharton. Each client works with one consultant who handles the whole application, from strategy through submission and up to decision day.
Cathy Copeland Titus
Cathy Copeland Titus is an independent college admissions consultant with College Hero in Mashpee, Massachusetts. She advises high school juniors and seniors and their families on finding the right colleges. She keeps her case load to 15 students. She also spends part of her time on the company newsletter and other strategic projects. Her work centers on college lists that fit both the student's record and the family's budget.
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.
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.
Julie Laymon
Julie Laymon is a college admissions advisor and essay coach who runs Insight College Advising in Del Mar, California. She helps high school students and their parents plan for college, build a college list, and finish applications. Before advising, she spent fifteen years in management at Wells Fargo Bank. She also read over 800 applications for UC San Diego in 2017 to 2018, so she knows how that process works from the inside.
Kat Clowes
Kat Clowes is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents with college admissions. She runs March Consulting in Bakersfield, California, with a team of private college counselors. The team has served 250 admissions clients. Their students have won over $34 million in scholarships. Kat and her team cover applications, testing, financial aid and career planning. The service is built for the whole family, not just the student.
Lynne Fuller
Lynne Fuller is an independent educational consultant in Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania. She founded College Flight Path to help students and parents with college admissions, four-year academic planning, test prep, financial aid and career planning. She also runs a tutoring company that she started in 2010. She leads summer test prep programs at several Philadelphia area schools.
Malinda Schantz
Malinda Schantz is an independent college admissions consultant in Raleigh, North Carolina. She helps high school students and their parents with the college search and application process. Her firm, Runways to College, works with students in grades nine to twelve. She also offers a plan for students who want to study aviation or become pilots. She helps transfer students find a better fit and guides students through essay writing.
Marta M Miskolczy
Marta Miskolczy is an independent college advisor who runs Prep to Enroll in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. She helps students and their families with high school planning, boarding schools, college placement, gap year plans and college transfers. Her recent students earned acceptances at Brown, Tufts, Colby College and the University of Colorado Boulder. Some won large scholarships, including $82,000 at Santa Clara University. She builds each plan around fit, match and cost.
Mary Kolbenschlag
Mary Kolbenschlag is an independent educational consultant in Louisville, Colorado. Mary runs Discover Pathwaze, which helps high school students and their parents plan for college and careers. The work starts with a career assessment that looks at a student's strengths. It then moves to matching majors, building a college list, and guiding applications. Mary is a professional member of IECA.
Melissa Mieyr
Melissa Mieyr is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents plan for college. She runs InfoQuest College & Financial Solutions. Before consulting, she taught business and technology and then worked for over a decade as a high school counselor. Her firm ties the admissions plan to a financial plan, so parents understand what college will cost. Her team offers career path assessments, essay and resume help, and application tracking.
Peter Ratzan
Peter Ratzan is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and parents plan for college and pay for it. He runs Your College Concierge, which he founded in 2007. The practice has helped more than 7,300 families, with students coming from nearly every U.S. state and several other countries. Services cover applications, essays, and financial aid. Peter works from Florida, in person and online.
Rose Ellen Mocombe
Rose Ellen Mocombe is an independent educational consultant in Oviedo, Florida. She runs Beyond Ivy Educational Consulting and helps students and parents with college admissions. She uses a method called the Inside-Out Method, which starts with who the student is. She has firsthand experience as a homeschool parent and an athletic-recruiting parent. She works with families as early as 9th grade and gives monthly guidance at each grade level.
Tonica Johnson
Tonica Johnson is an independent educational consultant who helps students and parents plan for college. She founded Cardinal College Planning in Morrison, Colorado. Before that, she taught high school English. She has over a decade in education and has worked with hundreds of students and their families. Her work covers building a college list, writing applications and essays, and comparing financial aid offers. She also helps families pick a major and stay on top of deadlines.
Abby McKinnon
Abby McKinnon is an independent college admissions coach in SE Portland, Oregon. She runs Garden Shed College Coaching and helps students and their parents find a college that fits. She takes on a small group of students each year. Her work draws on more than 20 years with kids and families. She is a HECA member.
Alexis Webster
Alexis Webster is an independent college admissions consultant who helps students and their parents plan for college. He runs Admissions U, LLC in Franklin, Massachusetts. His main package starts as early as second semester of 10th grade. It covers college list building, application plans with deadlines, essay support, and financial aid and merit guidance. He uses YouScience to link interests to majors and careers. He also offers smaller application and essay packages.
Cynthia Seidel
Cynthia Seidel is an independent college admissions consultant in Sammamish, Washington. She helps students and parents plan for college, from early high school through acceptance. She also supports transfer students and graduate school applicants. Her process covers academic fit, social fit and financial fit. She also advises on colleges in Canada, Europe and the United Kingdom. She runs On Course College Consulting LLC and is an IECA Professional member.
Dinky Hammam
Dinky Hammam is an independent college admissions consultant in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. Dinky helps students and parents plan for college, from early high school timelines to final applications. Services cover admissions strategy, essays, college lists, resume review, interview prep, and activity planning. Dinky offers set packages by grade level and takes on pro bono clients case by case. Dinky works with families across the world, not only in Oklahoma.
Phyllis Levine
Phyllis Levine is an independent college consultant in Seattle who helps students and their families plan for college. She holds a PhD and spent three decades in education and special education research and policy. Her work covers high school course planning, finding college matches, and guiding the full application, with close attention to essays. She works with students across a wide range, from those with learning challenges to academically gifted students.
Stephanie Griffith
Stephanie Griffith is an independent college admissions consultant in Los Gatos, California. She helps students and parents with the college search and application process. Before consulting, she worked in marketing and communications at Santa Clara University. She earned her college counseling certificate from UCLA. Her work centers on balance. She sets clear goals and timelines, stays in regular contact with families, and gets students to start applications early.
Tanja Fagan
Tanja Fagan is an independent college admissions consultant who runs College Trekking from Lanoka Harbor, New Jersey. She works with high school students and their families through one-on-one virtual meetings. She helps students build a college list, write essays, and finish applications. Her goal is to have all applications submitted by mid-October of senior year. She teaches students to research colleges and make their own decisions. She is a professional member of IECA.
Bryan Rodriguez
Bryan Rodriguez is a product management and career coach who helps students and early professionals with college admissions, hiring, career pivots and advancement. He is a Senior Product Manager at Nubank, where he leads a lending product launch in a new market. He was a Vice President and Head of Product for Financial Wellness at Goldman Sachs. He is a first-generation college graduate who earned a full ride to the University of Pennsylvania.
Jonny Koralnik
Jonny Koralnik is a career coach who helps students and early-career professionals find their direction and move through the job search. He spent five years at BlackRock after graduating in 2019. He started coaching as a peer advisor at the Washington University Career Center, where he ran five walk-in hours each week. He has research experience at Harvard, Brown, Boston College, Washington University and BlackRock. He began a clinical psychology doctoral program in August 2024.
Martin Adu-Boahene
Martin Adu-Boahene is a career coach who helps people break into finance and investing. His own background spans venture capital, investment banking and corporate development. He worked on a J.P. Morgan deal advising Popular on the $219.8m sale of EVERTEC shares. He also sat on the Morgan State University Board of Regents as a student member appointed by the Governor of Maryland. He now sits on the advisory council for the university's student-managed investment fund.
Jay Benanav
Jay Benanav runs College Inside Track, an independent college admissions consulting practice in Saint Paul, Minnesota. The practice helps students and parents pick a college that fits academically, socially and financially. It also covers applications, essays, scholarships and financial aid. The practice reports that 97 percent of its students got into at least one of their top 3 choices, and only 4 percent transferred. It has helped hundreds of families.
Jody Dubuque
Jody Dubuque is an independent college consultant with Concierge College Consulting. Jody helps students and parents with college admissions, from building a school list to final acceptance. The practice pairs each student with one advisor for the whole process. Its advisors have worked with students across the country for more than a decade. The firm also helps with BS/MD programs, art and performance applications, and law and medical school applications.
Jamie Smith
Jamie Smith is a life, leadership and financial coach in Meadville, Pennsylvania. He runs Lost Coin Coaching and helps people move forward on personal goals, career steps and personal finances. Jamie spent over twenty years in church leadership, including work as a lead pastor. He now works as a personal banker at PNC Bank. He also offers bookkeeping for small businesses, non-profits and churches.
Jacqueline Guzzetta
Jacqueline Guzzetta is an independent college admissions consultant in Irvine, California. She helps students and parents plan for college, from choosing schools to paying for them. She founded Cornerstone College Planning and leads a team there. Before that, she was a Senior Admissions Specialist at a large, nationally ranked university. She has over 20 years of experience reviewing applications and college essays. She also holds a college funding certification, so she covers the money side of admissions.
Simone Johnson-Smith
Simone Johnson-Smith is a life, career and money coach in Alpharetta, Georgia. She helps immigrants, expats, refugees and international students adjust to a new country. She spent more than 15 years in international affairs and served as a U.S. diplomat. She wrote Decoding America and hosts The Immigrant Experience in America podcast, which reaches listeners in over 100 countries. Her clients learn how money systems work in their new home and how to build belonging.
Bill Smith
Bill Smith is an independent educational consultant in Portland, Maine. He runs ScholarFITS, which helps students and parents find a college that fits them academically, socially, and financially. His work stands out for its focus on financial aid. He also gives talks to high school audiences and works with colleges and organizations on financial literacy messages for large groups.
Carol Doherty
Carol Doherty is an independent educational consultant in Athens, Georgia. She runs Doherty Educational Consultants and helps students and parents choose a college that fits the student and the family budget. She has over ten years of experience. Her work covers college lists, applications and essays. She also helps current college students who want to switch schools. Her firm hosts regular webinars on financial aid.
Jessica Frustere-Johnson
Jessica Frustere-Johnson is a mentor in climate tech and sustainability who helps people grow their leadership and communication skills. She has spent more than 12 years building new programs in corporate, nonprofit and public policy settings across the U.S. and Europe. She created the first CSR framework at a $100B aerospace company during a merger. She also built an ESG governance system at a multinational that spans hospitality, agriculture and pro sport. She works from Des Moines, Iowa, on Central Time.
Oana Maria
Oana Maria is a career and life coach in Romania. She helps professionals who feel stuck find clear direction and confidence in their careers. Before coaching, she spent more than 10 years as an engineer in Oil & Gas, Pharma, and IT. She brings that structured thinking to her sessions. She has worked with 46 people across coaching programmes, including students, young women, and professionals. She also offers OKR coaching for individuals and teams.
Sònia Victoria Werner
Sònia Victoria Werner is a certified transformation coach who works mainly with artists, creatives and students. Sònia founded Werner Learning & Coaching. Sònia is also a working artist and actress. Sònia grew up around the world as a first-generation American. Sònia helps clients find their purpose, set goals and build daily habits. Sònia also teaches stress reduction practices and explains how the creative industry works.
Side by side
| Coach | Focus | Hourly rate range |
|---|---|---|
| Louise Love | Budgeting and Money mindset | $75 to $150 an hour |
| Chris Jacob | Wealth building | $85 to $160 an hour |
| Shal Ahmed | Saving and investing basics | $60 to $160 an hour |
| Abby Friedman | College admissions consultant for US and international schools in Berkeley | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Admissionado | Admissions consulting team for college, MBA, law and med school | $70 to $130 an hour |
| Alicja Jahnke | College admissions consultant for students and parents in Milford, Michigan | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Cali Bottom | Independent college admissions advisor for students and parents in California | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Chris Hathaway | College admissions and essay consultant in Costa Mesa, California | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Jeff Miles | Master's and MBA admissions consultant, former graduate admissions director | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Julie Ekkers | College and law school admissions consultant in Minnesota's Twin Cities | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Kamali Clora | Admissions consultant for master's programs, MBA and private high school | $70 to $150 an hour |
| Kate Coffman | College admissions counselor in Indianapolis, working with students nationwide online | $150 to $240 an hour |
| Liane Crane | Getting out of debt | $70 to $135 an hour |
| Miller Liberatore | College admissions consultant in the San Francisco Bay Area | $150 to $225 an hour |
| Admit Advantage | Admissions consulting for college, MBA, law, medical and graduate school | $150 to $225 an hour |
Common questions
How much does a financial coach cost?
Most financial coaches charge $75 to $200 per hour or session.
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Common focus areas include saving and investing basics, money mindset, business finances and budgeting.
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Last updated September 2026.