Top Tier AdmissionsA Senior Private Counselor at Top Tier Admissions, Kate has nearly 20 years of experience in the fields of both college counseling and college admissions. Most recently, Kate worked for five years as a Seasonal Reader at Stanford evaluating undergraduate applications. She is the former Director of Admissions and Assistant Director of College Counseling at Stanford Online High School. In her independent school college counseling role, Kate guided many students and families through the selective college application process, culminating in admission to a wide variety of top colleges. Kate has a Bachelor's degree in Psychology from Middlebury College, where she also served for many years as an Alumni Interviewer. She holds a Master's degree in Higher Education Administration from Harvard.
During the height of the COVID-19 pandemic, many colleges and universities suspended their requirements for applicants to submit standardized test scores. Post-pandemic, standardized testing requirements have gradually returned. As we enter the 2025-2026 admissions cycle, many of the most selective colleges in the country, including Cornell, Harvard, Dartmouth, Brown, and the University of Pennsylvania, will […]
Each May, over three million students in the United States and across the globe take AP exams. This past May, students sat for over six million AP exams across 40 different subjects. The College Board, the organization that owns the AP program, made headlines this past spring for several technology glitches it faced in transitioning […]
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