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Sydney Caldwell

Graduate Coach

  • PhD Biological and Biomedical Sciences | Harvard Medical School

  • BS Molecular Genetics, Minor in Spanish | University of Vermont

Hollie Buttery

Graduate Coach

  • PhD, History of Art and Architecture Department | Harvard University

  • MA, Art History | Stanford University

  • MA, Art History | University of East Anglia

  • BA, Art History and Literature | University of East Anglia

Gabriella Goddard

Graduate Coach

  • Ed.D Leadership & Learning in Organizations | Vanderbilt University

  • MS Education (Elementary & Special Education) | Johns Hopkins University

  • BA American Studies | Kenyon College

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 University

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

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

My Tang

Former Admissions Officer

  • Former Application Reader | UC Santa Barbara

  • MS Counseling | California State University

  • BS Cognitive Science | University of California

Molly Fenster

Former Admissions Officer

  • Seasonal Admissions Reader | University of Rochester

  • Master’s in Education | George Washington University

  • Certification in English and Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages | George Washington University

  • BA English | Hamilton College

Natalie Shteiman

Graduate Coach

  • MPhil in Global and Area Studies | University of Oxford

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

Orcel Kounga

Former Admissions Officer

  • Senior Director of Admissions, Enrollment, & Student Affairs | Drexel University – College of Medicine

  • Former Assistant Director of Student Conduct | Drexel University – Office of Student Conduct

  • PhD Education in Educational Management & Leadership | Drexel University

  • MS Education in Higher Education | University of Pennsylvania

  • BS Engineering | Drexel University

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

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

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

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