Private College Consulting in NYC: Make Your Higher Education Dreams a Reality

Alexander has a Bachelor's in Business Administration from George Washington University and an MBA from Columbia Business School. He is passionate about helping students reach their goals while prompting them to learn more about what makes them unique candidates for any school or program. Most recently, Alexander's coached students have gotten into Harvard, Princeton, Georgetown, Yale, UC Berkeley, and other top schools.

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Having been a college athlete, Alexander is intimately familiar with the recruitment process for athletes at selective colleges. Alexander also has extensive mentorship and coaching experience in a higher education setting. He held a leadership position as a counselor in the university writing center at GWU, where he was responsible for coaching dozens of students on how to write compelling essays. Additionally, at Columbia, Alexander has been an interview counselor, which has helped him understand how students can best position their academic and extra-curricular experiences.

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Alexander also specializes in helping middle school and high school candidates build strong profiles for college applications. In the past, Alexander has worked with Lemonaid, an organization in Washington, DC, that helped middle school and high school students start businesses, which turned into passion projects that they could write about when applying to college.

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In his free time, Alexander is an avid cyclist, swimmer, skier, surfer, and Bay Area sports fan. He is a former collegiate water polo player. He also enjoys reading - especially the New Yorker - and doing the NYT crossword (and now Wordle!).

Luke is passionate about innovation and entrepreneurship in medicine which led him to complete a dual MD/MBA degree at NYU Grossman School of Medicine and Stern School of Business. He was 1 of 5 applicants selected to be a Silverstein Scholar and receive a prestigious full cost of attendance scholarship.

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In business school, he worked for a healthcare venture capital firm, performing due diligence on medical device and diagnostic companies, as well as tech-enabled healthcare services, leading to several multimillion-dollar investments. Prior to medical school, he graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Emory University, where he studied Neuroscience and Behavioral Biology and Applied Mathematics. He was an Advanced-EMT with the Emory EMS service, which helped solidify his path to clinical medicine. Prior to matriculation, he conducted basic science research at the National Institute on Drug Abuse, investigating cocaine addiction and restless leg syndrome, resulting in multiple publications in Molecular Medicine.

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At Emory, he was a founding member of the Pre-Health Mentoring Office Peer Mentor program, helping underclassmen prepare for medical school applications. At NYU, he served on the admissions committee, reviewing applications and selecting interview candidates, and he currently interviews candidates for residency at Harvard.

Through her many professional roles at both the undergraduate and graduate levels, Mary has served as an important resource to students, faculty, and corporate partners for almost forty years.

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With her outgoing personality, Mary plays an integral role in the lives of every Quad Education applicant she works with, and she often builds relationships that last far longer than the typical advising experience. After teaching for more than 16 years as an educator, her graduate studies brought her to Columbia University, where she began a career in student services that would include senior positions in admissions, financial aid, athletics, academic advising and career services, and corporate outreach.

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Early in her career, Mary served at Columbia as the Associate Director of Athletics and then as the Director of Financial Aid. Her vast experience in both undergraduate and graduate school admissions includes positions as the Director of Admissions for the School of Education, Nursing and the Arts at New York University; the Director of Admissions, Columbia School of Nursing, and the Associate Director of Admissions for MBA Programs at the Columbia School of Business.

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Mary spent many years at the Columbia School of Business, where she also served as Assistant Dean of Student Affairs for MBA Academic Advising and as the Corporate Director for Executive Education Programs. In 2000, Mary moved back to one of her alma maters, the University of Colorado at Boulder, where she spent 12 years as Director of Career Services for both undergraduate and graduate students at the Leeds School of Business and an additional six years as Manager for Corporate Outreach and Student Engagement for Burridge Center for Finance.

Finally, in 2014, while still working part-time at CU Boulder, Mary accepted a 3-year assignment as Director of Colorado Mountain College in Buena Vista, CO.

Paolo completed his undergraduate education at New York University and his MBA from Columbia Business School. At Quad, he specializes in helping students seeking admission to competitive and highly selective schools and international students.

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During his time at NYU, Paolo was closely involved in helping international candidates apply to, get accepted, and get oriented at the school. Paolo is also an expert in helping candidates interested in business and visual & performing arts. After graduating from NYU, he started his career with dance documentaries and children's films that played at international venues like DocNYC and Newport Beach Film Festival. He then directed commercials for brands like PlayStation and Adobe under his own production company. For six years, Paolo co-organized the annual film festival at the Philippine Consulate in New York. He moved to Manila in 2019 to develop two independent feature-length films. Meanwhile, he became a journalist and senior content producer at Rappler, the same Filipino news site at the center of Ramona Diaz's 2020 Sundance documentary, "A Thousand Cuts."

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An all-around storyteller and advocate of the arts, Paolo uses his expertise to help candidates craft an amazing set of application documents. Paolo is also an expert in essay writing and project management. He has coached several candidates over the last few years and has helped them get accepted at top schools, including MIT and NYU. Paolo likes to write in his free time (a published children's author) and has been a professional breakdancer for 13 years.