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.
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 […]
In my conversations with high schoolers over the years, I’ve noticed a familiar theme when they describe their dream schools. Many are hoping for that perfect blend—small, discussion-based classes and the energy of Friday Night Lights big college football; close relationships with faculty and access to world-class research; an academically challenging environment and a lively, […]
The rapidly changing landscape of higher education and the evolving challenges in college admissions have left many families feeling uncertain about what awaits their high schoolers after graduation. With shifts in policies around admissions practices, standardized testing, and institutional priorities, it can be difficult to determine what still holds weight in the college application process. […]
The role of writing in the high school curriculum has evolved drastically over the last few decades alongside the digital media explosion, the advent of laptops and tablets in the classroom, and the arrival of ChatGPT. Fewer students are hunching over Blue Books, racing to hand-write a five-paragraph essay defending their stance on the leading […]
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