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Fedjounie has a Bachelor’s degree from Princeton University and a Master’s degree from Columbia University. While at Princeton, Fedjounie served on the admissions team as Liaison to the Princeton University Preparatory College Admissions Program, facilitating application review and mock-interview workshops and hosting informational panels with admissions officials from the world’s top colleges and universities.

Fedjounie’s goal is to put students and families first. As a coach, their focus is centered on honoring students’ agency and recognizing the medley of mixed emotions students experience throughout the college admissions process. As a first-generation immigrant, Fedjounie knows firsthand how confusing and unclear the US education system is. They have spent the past decade learning the college admissions process inside-out while directly guiding hundreds of scholars to their best-fit schools.

Students Fedjounie has recently coached have gotten accepted into several top-tier universities, including the University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Yale University, Harvard University, and Princeton University.

Arianna is a counselor at Quad Education and has been on the admissions team at Dartmouth College. She loves being able to help guide students and lessen the anxiety that the process causes. Arianna likes to inspire students and help them reach the goals they were unsure were attainable prior.

Arianna is an expert at guiding students throughout the application process. She really enjoys helping students determine their strengths, guiding them through each step in an understandable way, college list creation, and helping students discover their theme to utilize for their application and personal essay. Although she loves helping all students, she is particularly passionate about helping diverse and POC candidates, STEM, LGBTQ+, women, and disadvantaged candidates.