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Alfredo Rodriguez

Graduate Coach

  • PhD Mechanical Engineering, Minors in Electrical Engineering and Communication | Cornell University

  • BEng Mechanical Engineering, Minor in Management and Administration | The City College of New York

Nick Strohl

Former Senior Assistant Director of Admissions, Yale University

  • PhD, History and Educational Policy Studies, University of Wisconsin-Madison
  • MPhil, Education, University of Cambridge
  • BA, History, Yale University

Zak Harris

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Senior Assistant Director & Multicultural Recruiting Coordinator, Johns Hopkins University
  • Former Director of Undergraduate Admission, Regis College | Former Associate Dean of Admissions, Undergraduate Admissions, Bowdoin College | Former
  • Assistant Director & Multicultural Recruitment Team Member, The George Washington University
  • MA, The George Washington University
  • BA, Connecticut College

Bruno Villegas

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Admissions Officer, Harvard College
  • EdM, Education Policy and Analysis, Harvard Graduate School of Education
  • AB, Social Studies, Harvard University

DJ Rock

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Assistant Director of Admissions for Multicultural Recruitment, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
  • MEd, Higher Education Administration, Northeastern University
  • BS, Journalism, Boston University

Marianna Irizarry

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Part-Time Admissions Reader, Stanford University
  • JD, Harvard Law School
  • Master’s in Education, Stanford Graduate School of Education
  • BA, Political Science, Stanford Universit

Wes Mills

Assistant Director of Enrollment

  • Former Senior Admissions Counselor, University of Chicago
  • MA, Humanities, The University of Chicago
  • BA, Cinema and Media Studies, The University of Chicago
  • BA, English Language and Literature, The University of Chicago

Natalia Ostrowski

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Assistant Director of Admissions, University of Chicago Former Director of India, University of Chicago
  • BA, History, University of Chicago

Heather McCutchen

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Admissions Reader, Dartmouth College
  • MFA, Playwrights’ Workshop, University of Iowa
  • BA, Dartmouth College

Natalie Shteiman

Graduate Coach

  • MPhil in Global and Area Studies | University of Oxford

  • BA Middle Eastern Studies modified with Art History | Dartmouth College

Allan Davis

Former Admissions Officer

  • Assistant Dean, Advising, Washington University in St. Louis

  • Former Assistant Dean, Admissions and Recruitment | University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine, Office of Admissions

  • Former Manager, Admissions and Recruitment | University of Missouri-Kansas City, School of Medicine, Office of Admissions

  • PhD Philosophy, Theatre & Performance Studies | College Park

  • BA American Studies | Brigham Young University

Meghan DeFord

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Seasonal Application Reader | University of Maryland – Office of Undergraduate Admissions & College Park Scholars

  • Former Independent College Admissions Consultant

  • BA English | University of Maryland

Cassandra Clifford

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Assistant Director of Admission, Wellesley College

  • Former Admissions Staff, Barnard College

  • B.A., History, Barnard College

Laura Gitelson

Former Admissions Officer

  • Admissions Reader, Massachusetts Institute of Technology

  • Former Associate Director of Admissions, Boston University School of Law

  • J.D., New York University School of Law

  • B.A., Economics, Swarthmore College

Kerri Budhu

Former Admissions Officer

  • Director of Admissions & Financial Aid | NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • Former Director of Admissions | NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • Former Assistant Director of Admissions | NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • Former Coordinator of Admissions | NYU Grossman School of Medicine
  • MBA | SUNY Empire State College
  • BS Management of Sports Industries | University of New Haven

Caitlin LaFontaine

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Application Review Specialist Seasonal | University of Michigan – Ann Arbor, MI | Office of Undergraduate Admissions & College of Engineering

  • M.A.Ed, Institutional Research, Higher Education | University of Michigan

  • B.S.E. Mechanical Engineering | University of Michigan

Bryce Ervin

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Associate Dean of Admissions | Bowdoin College

  • Former Admissions Reader | Harvard Law School J.D. Admissions

  • Ed.M Specialization: Higher Education Administration | Harvard University Graduate School of Education

  • BA Coordinate Major in Economics and Environmental Studies | Bowdoin College

Melanie Lachance

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Admissions Reader, Duke University

  • Former Assistant Director, Academic and College Counseling | Saint Mary’s School

  • Former Admission Counselor | Wittenberg University

  • MEd Counselor Education | North Carolina State University

  • BA Psychology | Kenyon College

Zhangbo (David) Cheng

Graduate Coach

  • M.S. in Computer Science & Information Systems, Johns Hopkins University

  • B.S. in Computational Data Sciences, Pennsylvania State University

Lakmali Jayasinghe

Writing Instructor

  • Ph.D., Comparative Literature, Stanford University
  • M.A., Comparative Literature, Fulbright Fellowship
  • B.A., English Literature and Language (First Class Honours), Top of Cohort
  • Recipient of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Dissertation Fellowship

Juno (Tianyi) Zhu

Graduate Coach

  • MA East Asian Studies | University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

  • BS Mathematics and Statistics | University of Toronto, Toronto, Canada

Alisa (Xiangying) Guo

Graduate Coach

  • M.A., Asian Studies, University of British Columbia (UBC)

  • B.A., International Relations (Minor in Japanese), University of Nottingham

  • Teaching Chinese as a Second Language (TCSL) certificate

Linxuan Zhao

Graduate Coach

  • MEd, Developmental Psychology and Education (Program Evaluation Emphasis) | University of Toronto, Ontario Institute for Studies in Education (OISE)

  • BA International Journalism | Shanghai International Studies University

Mihir Kumar

Former Admissions Officer

  • MD Candidate | Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine

  • BS Human Biology, Economics; Minor in Mathematical Finance | University of Southern California

Aaron Morrill

Graduate Coach

  • Master of Public Health, Sociomedical Sciences | Columbia University

  • MA Jewish Ethics | Jewish Theological Seminary of America

  • BA Data Science | Columbia University

  • BA Jewish Thought | Jewish Theological Seminary of America

Andrew Wesselmann

Former Admissions Officer

  • Senior Assistant Director | Washington University in St. Louis
  • Former Assistant Director | Washington University in St. Louis
  • Former International Admissions Coordinator & Counselor | University of Northern Colorado
  • Former International Admissions Evaluator | University of Missouri
  • MA International Relations | Webster University
  • BA Political Science | Columbia College

Meng-Run Zhang

Graduate Coach

  • PhD Educational Psychology | The Chinese University of Hong Kong

  • MEd Child Studies | Peabody College of Education and Human Development, Vanderbilt University

  • BM Information Management and Information Systems | Tsinghua University

Matthew Parsons

Graduate Coach

  • MSc Clinical Pharmacology | King’s College London

  • MBBS Medicine | Imperial College London

  • BSc Management | Imperial College London

Max Watson

Graduate Coach

  • DPhil, Military History | St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

  • MPhil, Modern British History | St Edmund Hall, University of Oxford

  • BA | Columbia College, Columbia University

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