Top Tier AdmissionsAnita has devoted over 15 years to mentoring and motivating students to realize their goals. She taught and coached students in every grade 7-12 in top private schools before founding her own successful business providing personalized support for college and graduate school applicants. Anita’s high standards and skill in connecting with young scholars proved paramount in her students’ admission to undergraduate and graduate programs at selective schools such as UChicago, Columbia, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Harvard, UPenn, and Stanford.
Anita holds a BA in Philosophy from Princeton, where she is an alumni class officer and former interviewer, and an MA in English from Middlebury. At Princeton she also contributed her drive and competitiveness to the women’s lacrosse team, winning an NCAA Division I National Championship and three Ivy League Championships while earning national scholar-athlete academic distinction and the Connie McAllister athletic department award for “effort, selfless dedication, enthusiasm and heart.” She brings these qualities to her relationships with students as she helps to bring out the best in them.
As a Senior Private Counselor and former Ivy League athlete, I work closely with student-athletes aiming to leverage their athletic talent in the college admissions process, often in pursuit of what feels like the “Holy Grail”: competing at a Division I program within a highly selective academic institution. But the reality is far more complex. […]
The start of a new year kicks all of us into resolution mode. In my house, that looks like pledges for better weekly meal organization, more family reading time, and more moments of stillness away from the daily treadmill of school and extracurricular activities. With the onset of January, high school juniors have officially entered […]
For the past several years, I’ve written a blog post about gratitude in the weeks leading up to Thanksgiving. Grateful every day for a career that lets me work with motivated students, caring families, and warm, supportive admissions professionals, I wanted to reflect on gratitude more personally this year. I’ve been inspired by a recent […]
The passing of Labor Day signals the unofficial end of summer for high schoolers, and cooling fall breezes bring college application deadlines into view. In search of inspiration for starting their main Common Application essay, many seniors will turn to troves of examples like Johns Hopkins’ Essays That Worked or the Harvard Crimson’s book of […]
As U.S. high schoolers read headlines about faculty layoffs, institutional trials, budget freezes, and visa crackdowns, many are looking abroad for a college experience free of political turmoil. Joining the ranks of the more historically popular UK university destinations like Oxford and Cambridge, Ireland has emerged as a new hotspot for college-bound Americans. And it’s […]
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