Jing “Jingru” Yang is a Graduate Coach who graduated cum laude from Williams with a degree in psychology, where she completed an honors research thesis, served as a teaching assistant across departments, and led the Equestrian Team as President. She has worked extensively with high school students at every stage of the college application process, including four years with GreatChina International Education and DuoWu. Her expertise spans strategic application positioning, interview coaching, and hands-on essay brainstorming and refining.
Throughout her advising career, Jing has guided applicants to admission at top-tier institutions including Dartmouth, Penn, UChicago, Emory, Amherst, Williams, UC Berkeley, UC Irvine, and UC Davis. Alongside her advising work she has built a substantial research record, working as a research intern in a social psychology lab where she recruited participants, ran in-person experiments, and analyzed behavioral datasets in Excel and R before presenting findings to peers and faculty. She has also held a summer scholar position at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, conducting field research on immigrant students and pitching evidence-based recommendations to university administrators. On campus she has worked as a statistics teaching assistant and an economics tutor, and she facilitates weekly lab meetings on journal discussions and research brainstorming.
Having navigated competitive admissions paths both personally and professionally, Jing takes pride in providing tailored mentorship that empowers students to highlight their unique strengths and find the programs that align best with their long-term goals. As a Graduate Coach, she specializes in helping students discover their authentic voice and build a distinguished, highly personalized application portfolio that stands out to admissions committees. She speaks fluent Mandarin and some Cantonese, and has studied abroad in both Italy and Hong Kong, which gives her a global perspective on the choices international and domestic families weigh together.
