About Me

As a former assistant director of admission and longtime senior admission reader at Brown University, I have read thousands of applications over the years. In that time, I gained a deep awareness of the intricacies of the college process and of the landscape of high school programs across the United States and abroad. For twenty-five years, prior to launching ALB College Consulting, I worked closely with students as a director of college counseling, class dean, English teacher, and advisor at institutions including The Wheeler School, Lake Forest Academy, Boston College, Providence College, and Assumption College. I have supported first-generation college students in the Upward Bound program, offering guidance about crafting engaging personal statements for their college applications.

I earned a bachelor of arts degree in English and American literature at Brown, where I was active in theater and completed the Undergraduate Teacher Education Program. I also earned a master of arts degree in English at Boston College.

I am a published author of short stories and creative nonfiction, a yoga enthusiast, an amateur gardener, a decent cook, a book nerd, a native of Latrobe, PA, and a proud dog mother. I have also been through the admission process twice with my own two (human) kids, both of whom had very different, but positive, journeys from high school to college.

At the heart of my consulting work is the belief that the college process can be a meaningful journey of self-reflection allowing students to develop lifelong skills in effective communication, task management, decision making, and resiliency. I bring to my practice insider expertise, a passion for helping students express themselves in their writing, and a genuine love of working with teenagers and their families.

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Rochester Institute of Technology, Providence College, Quinnipiac University, University of Rochester, Syracuse University, Temple University, Boston College, Boston University, Tufts University, Washington University in St. Louis, Fordham University, New York University, Brandeis University, The George Washington University, University of Vermont, University of California, Davis, University of California, Santa Cruz, Connecticut College, Hamilton College, American University, University of Wisconsin -- Madison, Macalester College, McGill University, City University London, Wesleyan University, Lehigh University, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, University of Southern California, Clemson University, Pennsylvania State University -- University Park, University of Richmond, Elon University, Grinnell College, Santa Clara University, Loyola University Chicago, University of San Diego, Brown University, Villanova University, San Diego State University, University of Georgia, Arizona State University -- Tempe Campus, James Madison University, University of Pittsburgh, Case Western Reserve University, Wake Forest University, Duke University, University of Massachusetts Amherst, California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, University of Washington, Seattle, University of California, Berkeley, Oberlin College, Emory University, Davidson College, Northeastern University, University of Colorado Boulder, Wentworth Institute of Technology, Drexel University, University of New Hampshire, SUNY -- Geneseo, SUNY -- New Paltz, Clark University, Whitman College, Reed College, University of Puget Sound, Bard College, University of the Pacific, University of Connecticut, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, University of Delaware, Indiana University Bloomington, Miami University -- Oxford, University of Dayton, College of Charleston, Michigan State University, Loyola Marymount University, Ithaca College, DePaul University, Hofstra University, Emerson College, Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, University of Rhode Island, The University of Utah, Champlain College, University of Hawaii at Manoa, University of San Francisco, Dickinson College, University of Maryland -- Baltimore County, University of Maryland, College Park, Virginia Tech, Tulane University, Salve Regina University, Marist College, Loyola University Maryland, Fairfield University, Pace University, Bryn Mawr College, Vassar College, Bucknell University, Sarah Lawrence College, California Institute of the Arts, The Ohio State University -- Columbus, Carleton College, Furman University, Skidmore College, Binghamton University, The State University of New York, Worcester Polytechnic Institute, Ohio University, University of California, San Diego, Lewis and Clark College, Durham University, University College London, University of Edinburgh, Colorado School of Mines, California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt, Willamette University, Linfield College, McDaniel College, Dominican University of California, Howard University, Guilford College, California State University, Chico, Ohio Wesleyan University, University of Hartford, Westminster College, SUNY -- University at Buffalo, Stony Brook University, SUNY -- Purchase College, Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Williams College, Muhlenberg College, Lafayette College, Haverford College, Cardiff University, The University of Chicago, The University of Manchester, University of Bristol, Gettysburg College, Norfolk State University, Duquesne University, West Virginia University, Colgate University, Southern Methodist University, University of Denver, Georgetown University, Yale University, University of California, Santa Barbara, University of Cambridge, Union College, University of St. Andrews, Babson College, University of Pennsylvania, Hampton University, Spelman College, Queen's University, College of the Holy Cross, University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor, Texas Christian University, The University of Alabama, University of Notre Dame, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Sacred Heart University, Pitzer College, Colorado College, The University of Tampa, University of Virginia, University of South Carolina -- Columbia, University of California, Riverside, Trinity University, Endicott College, Merrimack College, Auburn University, The American University of Paris, Carnegie Mellon University, Northwestern University, College of William and Mary, University of Maine, Bryant University, University of Massachusetts Lowell, University of Mississippi, Northeastern University London, Harvard University, Berklee College of Music, Vanderbilt University, Assumption University, Denison University, Princeton University, University of Glasgow, Columbia University.

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