AdmissionWise Consulting:
Your Own Admission Professional
World Class University Experience
Personalized Approach
Commitment to Solid Ethics
As public school funding for college counseling has eroded in recent years, students have lost a valuable resource. Read about how AdmissionWise Consulting gives you the power of having your own personal admission consultant.
AdmissionWise Expertise
AdmissionWise Consulting injects calm, humor, compassion, and genuine expertise into the leviathan rite of passage we commonly refer to as “the college admission process.” Over the course of six years as an Associate Director of Admissions at Stanford University, I read and assessed approximately 10,000 applications for undergraduate admission, traveled to hundreds of high schools throughout the U.S., and observed first-hand the range of high school resources available to students in different parts of the country. My experiences as an admission director, academic advisor to Stanford undergraduates, and instructor at Stanford and the University of Michigan give me unique insight into what it takes to be a successful college applicant and undergraduate.
I founded AdmissionWise to provide thoughtful, compassionate, and expert guidance — beyond the conventional wisdom — to students and their families as they navigate the process of applying to college.
Who is Choosing Whom?
Climbing into the Driver's Seat
You can be you and still get into a terrific college where you will be happy and intellectually challenged. You don't need to become someone else — an alien applicant that you are convinced "they" (nameless, faceless admission officers) want you to be. I know because I was one of "them," and the worst applications — the most distressing and exhausting to evaluate — were those from well-intentioned students who truly believed they had to be superhuman to get into Stanford. So how do you just settle down and be you in your college applications?
I remember giving my "be yourself" speech to 20 or so high school students who were visiting Stanford in June after my colleagues and I had recently admitted the incoming freshman class. One student raised his hand and said, "So if I'm a serial killer, I should just come out and say so?”
“Hmm..not good,” I admitted reluctantly. “You won’t know whether we've already filled our serial killer quota.”
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