Top Tier AdmissionsA former Admissions and Financial Aid Officer for Harvard University, Kristen brings over 20 years of experience working in higher education. Kristen has a PhD in Education with a concentration in Higher Education, an M.S. in Business Management, and a B.A. in English. Her PhD dissertation won the International Susan B. Anthony Institute Dissertation Award. In her role at Harvard, Kristen oversaw admissions for 17 departments and was also responsible for distributing funding from the National Science Foundation Fellowships Program and the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Student Research Fellowship Program. Kristen previously worked as a substitute K-12 teacher, as adjunct faculty at three universities in MA and NY, and as an educational researcher. Kristen recently published a book (Information Age Publishing) on faculty and tenure in academia which Stanford University Libraries featured on their recommended "Gender and Education Books" list. Kristen has written for Entrepreneur Magazine and published in journals such as the Journal of Critical Scholarship on Higher Education and Student Affairs and the American Association of Behavioral and Social Sciences Journal. Kristen has also been featured in and interviewed for publications such as U.S. News & World Report, the Washington Examiner, Yahoo News, and Business Insider.
Post by: Dr. Kristen Willmott I know many of you are using this summer to prep your fall graduate school applications, and I’m here to offer some tips and tricks on where to begin, AKA sort your grad school game plan and sort yourself. Creating your grad school admissions tracking file is key. Guidance on […]
Post by: Dr. Kristen Willmott “What will they ask me?” “How can I leverage a Zoom interview?” “What if they offer an in-person interview?” “Do I meet with a graduate school admissions rep or a faculty member, or both?” “How big is a ‘panel?’” “Is this a true ‘admissions interview’ or more of an ‘informational […]
By: Dr. Kristen Willmott If you’ve been even slightly entertaining the idea of applying for an MBA program, May 2020 is THE month to do it. This is an unprecedented time. The name on your MBA diploma MATTERS. An MBA follows you on your resume for life, as do your faculty and peer contacts, the […]
By: Dr. Kristen Willmott To say that the 2020 academic year has been interesting would be an understatement. We’ve been swamped with inquiries from parents and students trying to understand the changing college and graduate school admissions landscape. CONSIDERING GRAD SCHOOL? Do you fall into any of these categories? A current college student who was […]
By: Dr. Kristen Willmott The impact of the coronavirus is one we are actively following for our students past, present and future. So far, we have had high school students with cancelled spring break immersion programs, college tours and campus visits like those at MIT, admit weekends like those at Harvard, summer programs, study abroad […]
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