Gloria Anglon is a Former Admissions Officer at InGenius Prep. She holds a Master of Arts in Applied Sociology from the University of Maryland and a Bachelor of Science from Providence College. She served as Assistant Director of Graduate Admissions at Harvard University’s School of Engineering and Applied Sciences, coordinating admissions operations, faculty review, recruitment, and admitted-student engagement, and later as Assistant Dean for Graduate Education and Director of Diversity Initiatives at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she directed the MIT Summer Research Program and led graduate preparation, holistic selection, faculty partnerships, and mentoring initiatives including CONVERGE and GradCatalyst.
Gloria advises prospective master’s and PhD students on program and faculty fit, research direction, statements of purpose, recommender strategy, interviews, funding, and enrollment decisions. She works especially closely with first-time researchers, first-generation applicants, and students from historically underrepresented backgrounds, helping them understand not just how to build a competitive application but how graduate education itself works: how research fit differs from institutional prestige, what makes a supportive faculty mentor, and how funding and program structure shape the graduate experience.
Gloria is currently pursuing a PhD in Urban Education Policy at the University of Southern California’s Rossier School of Education, where her research examines mentoring, belonging, and the institutional conditions shaping doctoral student experiences. She is also a National Board Certified Health & Wellness Coach, bringing strengths-based inquiry and reflective listening to her advising. As a Former Admissions Officer, her approach is collaborative, candid, and individualized: she offers institutional insight and strategic guidance while keeping students the authors of their own applications and decisions, with the goal of helping them find where they can learn, contribute, and thrive, not just where they can gain admission.
