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.
In The Case for Humanities Majors, we advocated for the value of the history degree—not only for the admissions boost it provides high schoolers who show a developed interest in history, but also for career and graduate school preparation, long-term earning potential, and overall quality of life. In his report for the American Historical Association, […]
As this school year draws to close and students pick next year’s classes, one of the most important choices they’ll face is what math class to take. Whether preparing for a ninth-grade placement test or debating between AP Stats and AP Calculus, budding artists and engineers alike worry how their math class will affect their […]
In the realm of social sciences, psychology is one of the most popular undergraduate majors: a 2022 data set from the National Center for Education Statistics reports that in 2020-21, bachelor’s degrees awarded by US institutions in psychology (126,944) tripled those awarded in the category of all “liberal arts and sciences, general studies, and humanities” […]
Do coaches really have that much influence on the admissions process? How early does a student-athlete need to fill out recruiting questionnaires? Do athletes from smaller or lesser-known high schools have a chance of getting noticed by D1 teams? Here we’ll bust some of the most common myths surrounding the fundamentals of college athletic recruiting, […]
As we turn the calendar to 2024, it’s hard to believe it’s already time to plan for the summer. Colleges care about how you spend your free time: are you golfing and sunbathing at the beach, or are you cultivating your intellectual curiosity by delving more deeply into your areas of academic interest? The Common […]
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