Consultants
Consultants
Our admissions consultants live and breathe the application process – and they don’t rest until you’ve got an acceptance letter in your hands. Our consultants reviewed over 75,000 undergraduate admissions applications. With personal admissions committee experience at the top universities and private schools across the country, you can breathe easy knowing you’ve got the best of the best at your back.
Margaret
Former Assistant Director of Admissions
Former Admissions Officer at Princeton University
Total Years in Admissions Role: 9
Total applications reviewed: 10,000
Students accepted to: Columbia, MIT, Yale, Stanford, Johns Hopkins, Brown, UC Berkeley, UCLA
and many other universities.
Margaret has admissions experience at an Ivy league school, a national university, and a small liberal arts college and extensive experience as Managing Editor of a college magazine. Margaret received her BS in Arabic, Georgetown University (Summa cum Laude, Phi Beta Kappa, Valedictorian) and MS in International Relations at Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced International Studies.
Sonja
Former Senior Admissions Officer
Former Admissions Officer at Columbia University, University of Pennsylvania
Total Years in Admissions Role: 5
Total applications reviewed: 5,000
Students accepted to: Princeton, Harvard, Oxford, Cambridge, Columbia, MIT, Yale, Stanford, University of Chicago, Brown, University of Pennsylvania
and many other universities
Sonja earned her Bachelor’s in Asian and Middle Eastern Cultures from Columbia University and a Master’s of Education in International Educational Development, at Penn’s Graduate School of Education. She worked as an admissions officer at both institutions - first as a Senior Admissions Officer at Columbia University responsible for all international recruitment and then as an Admissions Manager at Penn, where she oversaw admission to undergraduate, post-baccalaureate and graduate programs. For the past seven years, she has been a school based counselor in Asia and the Middle East. Sonja believes that transparency in this process and the ability to identify students’ individual narratives are crucial to helping them find their best match. The most rewarding aspect of her work is that she gets to support and encourage her students from start to finish, and cheer them on through every milestone along the way!
Michael
Former Assistant Director of Admissions
Former Admissions Officer at New York University
Total Years in Admissions Role: 3
Total applications reviewed: 30,000
Students accepted to: Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, MIT, Yale, Stanford, University of Chicago, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Cornell
and many other universities
Michael attended New York University, where he received his bachelor's degree in 2004 and master's degree in 2007. From 2004-2007, he worked on the admission committee at NYU, first on the College of Arts & Science committee for a year before being promoted to the Stern School of Business committee for two years. He then transitioned to the high school side in 2007, working as a counselor at a School in Riverdale, NY. He works closely with a caseload of sophomores, juniors, seniors, and parents on the college admission process. His students have been admitted to a wide range of competitive colleges.
David
Former Admissions Reader
Former Admissions Reader at Brown University
Total Years in Admissions Role: 1
Total applications reviewed: 600
Students accepted to: Yale, University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Brown University, Johns Hopkins, Brown, Cornell, UC Berkeley, UCLA
and many other universities
David is a Former Admissions Officer based in Providence, Rhode Island. He earned his Bachelor of Arts degree from Brown University with a dual concentration in History and Biomedical Ethics. After working for a large law firm in Washington DC for a year, he attended Cornell Law School graduating with a Juris Doctor in Public Law. Following his graduation from law school, he served in the United States Navy as a Judge Advocate for three years on active duty while stationed in Great Lakes, Illinois and Newport, Rhode Island. Following his military service, he worked as an attorney for the U.S. Citizenship & Immigration Services. Thereafter, he practiced immigration law for over 10 years.
After a diverse legal career, he transitioned into higher education with the goal of helping undergraduate students find engaging internships and post-graduation positions and assisting them with applications to top graduate and law schools. While at Northeastern University, he served as a Pre-Law & Career Advisor helping numerous undergraduates and alumni apply to law school and other graduate programs. He also taught many international students in a professionalism and career readiness course designed to prepare them for working in the United States. Following my work at Northeastern University, he had the privilege of working at Suffolk University Law School, one of the largest law schools in the country with over 80,000 alumni worldwide. From there he ran a program for student veterans at the University of Massachusetts Boston, helping students prepare and gain admittance to regional colleges. Having found his niche in providing one on one advising to students, he returned to my Alma Mater to work as an Admission Specialist for the Brown University admission office. Since that time, he has been working in private admissions consulting for both high school and college students.
Vincent
Former Admissions Associate Director & Director
Former Admissions Officer at MIT
and at Harvard University
Total Years in Admissions Role: 29
Total applications reviewed: 21,000
Students accepted to: Rice University, UC Irvine, Carnegie Mellon, Rochester Institute of Technology and University of Illinois - Urbana Champaign
Vincent received his bachelors at MIT in 1978 in chemical engineering and MBA at Rutgers University in 1990. He served as an alumni interviewer for MIT for about 25 years and submitted reports as part of the application process. He worked in undergraduate admissions which included reading applications, making the case with committees, and speaking to prospective students and parents. This was the same at Harvard except that he also oversaw the operational aspects and worked with graduate students.
Katrina
Former Diversity Outreach in Undergraduate Admissions
Former Admissions Officer at Stanford University
Total Years in Admissions Role: 2
Total applications reviewed: 9,000
Students accepted to: Princeton, Harvard, Columbia, MIT, Yale, Stanford, University of Chicago, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Northwestern University, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Dartmouth College, Cornell
and many other universities
Katrina earned her BS in Political Science from Santa Clara University and her M. Ed in Curriculum and Instruction from Texas A&M University. She also received her certification in Diversity and Inclusion from Cornell University. In her 7-year admissions career, Katrina has worked 2 years in Stanford Undergraduate Admissions and 3 years as a college counselor and 2 years as a high school administrator.
Racquel
Former Admissions Assistant Director
Former Admissions Officer at Dartmouth College
Total Years in Admissions Role: 1
Total applications reviewed: 650
Students accepted to: Princeton University, University of Chicago, UCLA, Emory University and University of Rochester
and other universities
Racquel Bernard is a PhD student at UCLA in Musicology. She served as an assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth College after graduating with a bachelor's in African and African American Studies. She completed her Master's in Cultural Studies at University of the West Indies in Kingston, Jamaica. During her time as an admissions officer, she read over 650 applications and she uses her experience to advise students on how to create an application that stands out in the admissions pool. In her admissions role, she lead personal statement workshops for prospective student groups and regularly presented about best essay practices.
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