All Advisors on the Deans of Admissions team are former admissions executives with senior decision-making responsibilities at highly selective universities' admissions offices. Our team includes former admissions officers from Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, the University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Brown, Dartmouth, Cornell, MIT, Stanford, the Juilliard School, Oxford, and Cambridge.
We are the only college admissions advisory firm founded by the former Dean of Admissions of an Ivy League university. With a career that spans decades at the highest levels of selective admissions, Dean D. Blackman is one of the field's most influential architects. In her role as Dean of Admissions at both Harvard and Columbia, Dean Blackman created the contemporary framework for highly selective admissions. Several of her protégés have since become deans of admissions or senior enrollment leaders across the country.
Every early-start student has earned admission to a top-choice university. Since our founding more than three decades ago, 100% of students who begin with us in 8th grade and maintain the academic trajectory we advise have secured that result.
Our clients include royal families, single-family offices, public figures, entrepreneurs, Fortune 500 executives, technologists, investors, and philanthropists who all value discretion. Therefore, we neither request nor display references. We support undergraduate and graduate applicants seeking admission to universities in the United States and United Kingdom as well as independent and boarding school applicants. Our coverage is comprehensive, spanning independent schools, bachelor's, master's, and PhD programs, and professional degrees including business, law, and medicine.
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