Private Georgetown Admissions Counseling by Admissions Experts

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!).

Brittney earned a Bachelor's degree in Political Science at UC Berkeley and a Master's in Public Policy at the Harvard Kennedy School. She has extensive experience in higher education, having served on the Academic Affairs Committee at Harvard University and worked at the Student Learning Center, coaching students in writing and research methods at UC Berkeley. Brittney also worked at the Transfer Center at UC Berkeley, which gave her an in-depth insight into what schools look for in transfer candidates.

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Having coached dozens of candidates over the last few years, Brittney is a specialist in selective school admissions. Her greatest strengths as a coach are helping candidates identify their strengths and effectively communicate their story as a cohesive narrative across all aspects of their application. Brittney loves helping candidates draw upon their life experiences to find a compelling, authentic story that brings out the best in them.

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Brittney has been formally trained in coaching and facilitation and, as a Quad counselor, brings the art of appreciative inquiry to helping students shine from within. Students that Brittney has coached have gotten into several top schools, including Harvard, Princeton, MIT, Columbia, UC Berkeley, and UCLA. Brittney also enjoys helping students build storytelling, writing, and organization skills through the application process to help them succeed in the future.

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In her free time, Brittney enjoys cooking, salsa dancing, and hiking with her rescue dog Odi.

Corey has a Bachelor’s degree from Georgetown University and a JD from Georgetown University Law Center. In addition, they have an MPH from the Harvard School of Public Health. Corey has served as an Interviewer at Georgetown University, where they interviewed and scored applicants. Professionally, Corey has served as an Attorney with over fifteen years of experience in public policy, including a decade of work in sexual and reproductive health and LGBTQ rights.

Corey’s interest in coaching stemmed from their own experience of applying to college as a first-generation student at a public school. They had to navigate the process solo and quickly became an expert among their friends. Corey’s guidance counselors even hung their application materials on the office walls as a template for other students! Since then, Corey has coached many students on their educational journey - whether as a teacher, an alum providing outreach, an employer mentoring interns, or a community volunteer working with youth programs.

As a coach, Corey thoroughly enjoys getting to know Quad applicants and learning about their goals. They pride themselves on being a good listener and motivating students to create what they hope to. Corey addresses any roadblocks honestly and works with students to find solutions together. Corey’s greatest strength as a coach is their approach to the application; they work with students to tackle it one step at a time while also planning ahead. This puts Quad applicants at ease, allowing them to enjoy applying to college with as little stress as possible. Corey is also a big fan of backward planning. They encourage applicants to start with what they are passionate about and what they can imagine spending their life doing - and working backward from there. At the end of the day, college admissions is very important, but it's only the first step on the road to your future.

Writing and reading are two of Corey’s main passions. They have contributed to two forthcoming books, but they also love to write just for them. Corey also loves spending time with their family, gaming, and traveling.

Corey’s Pro Tip?

An applicant might be identical on paper to many other students, but there is a lot that is unique about you that can come out in different ways in this process. What is your story? Why is this college perfect for you, and what can YOU offer to the college? Answering these questions is easily worth as much as a test score or GPA.

Terry is a senior admissions counselor at Quad Education. He has held high-level admissions committee positions at Carnegie Mellon University, George Washington University, and Purdue University.

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At Purdue, Terry supervised undergraduate recruitment and outreach programming and initiatives in states outside of Indiana in alignment with the university's enrollment goals. He also oversaw the review of applications for admission into Purdue's highly competitive First-Year Engineering program. At Carnegie Mellon, Terry led a team of admission staff to recruit academically and artistically qualified student applicants. Also, at CMU, he reviewed students seeking admission into the College of Engineering and School of Computer Science. Terry has reviewed over 35,000 applicants to selective programs throughout his admissions career. Across his years of admission, he has hired, mentored, and developed associates that have advanced their professional careers to lead teams of their own and become sought-after voices across the landscape of admission and enrollment management.

Terry's greatest strength as a coach is understanding how a student can take their interests and construct them, using a variety of candidacy-building elements, to compose a unique applicant persona that provides the avenue to stand out in their applicant pool. He has the ability to connect with students and their families and push students to consider how their career aspirations can be fulfilled beyond traditional pathways. Last but certainly not least, Terry's ability to help students craft compelling, insightful, and well-structured essays is very widely appreciated by families.

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Terry loves working with all students, but his professional background has given him expertise in students seeking selective college admission, particularly in STEM areas.

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In recent years, Terry's students have gotten into the University of Pennsylvania, Carnegie Mellon, UC Berkeley, Yale, Duke, Virginia Tech, Purdue, Emory, Illinois-Urbana Champaign, Wisconsin, William and Mary, Carleton, USC, Florida State, and Johns Hopkins, among other top schools.

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Outside of Quad, Terry actively promotes and engages in various activities with educational organizations in his local community, ranging from tutoring elementary school students to giving commencement speeches and serving on nonprofit boards. Besides personal fulfillment, these appointments have provided him ample opportunity to build relationships and assist students from various academic backgrounds. In his downtime, Terry enjoys cooking, playing all types of sports, and gathering with family.