One on One NYU Admissions Counseling To Help You Tell Your Story

Joy is an independent film producer who facilitates storytelling and narrative crafting in artistic and educational endeavors. Her films have been showcased at film festivals such as Sundance, Toronto, Venice, and Cannes.

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Joy has a Bachelor's Degree from Columbia University in History and a Master's Degree in Screenwriting and Directing from the NYU Tisch School of the Arts. She is the recipient of a SAG Award for her work in television during her five seasons as an actress on ABC's Desperate Housewives.

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Joy's unique background and experience as an NYU Admissions Committee member have drawn her to Quad Education, where she can mentor non-traditional candidates for elite programs. She especially enjoys getting to know candidates to help develop a strong, cohesive, and persuasive narrative to support their application.

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.

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.

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.

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.