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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

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. Candidate, 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

Tyler Pugh

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Admissions Officer | Stanford University

  • MSc Social Policy and Intervention | University of Oxford

  • BS Industrial and Systems Engineering | Virginia Tech

  • BA Spanish | Virginia Tech

Jonathan Xavier

Graduate Coach

  • MBA | Stetson University
  • MSc Pharmaceutical Chemistry | University of Florida
  • BS Biochemistry | Florida Institute of Technology
  • BS Biomedical Sciences | Florida Institute of Technology

Isaac Schuchat

Former Admission Officer

  • Admissions Officer | Bowdoin College Admissions
  • Former Assistant Director of Programs and Outreach | Kennebunkport Conservation Trust
  • BA Double Major in Government and Legal Studies and Environmental Studies | Bowdoin College

Jessica Jackson

Graduate Coach

  • MA Contemporary Art Practice | Royal College of Art
  • BA Psychology with a Concentration in Studio Arts | Columbia University

Stacy Redd DeMartini

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Admissions and Academic Affairs Coordinator | UC Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism
  • Former Undergraduate Admissions Application Reader | UCLA Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools
  • Former Admissions Officer | UCLA Undergraduate Admissions and Relations with Schools
  • MA Literary Cultures | New York University
  • BA Literature | University of California, Santa Barbara

Mayank Keshaviah

Graduate Coach

  • MFA Dramatic Writing | University of Southern California
  • MA Teaching ESOL (English to Speakers of Other Languages) | American University
  • BA Economics | Dartmouth College

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