Providing advice and counseling services to high school and college students and their families on career planning and college admissions processes for first-time freshman and transfer applications.

Awarded certificate in the College Admissions and Career Planning program with UC Berkeley Extension. Visited over 150 U.S. colleges and universities. To keep current on higher education policies, attended dozens of workshops, conferences and college fairs given by colleges & universities, professional organizations and federal agencies such as the UC & CSU systems, the Higher Education Consultants Association (HECA), the National and Western Associations of College Admissions Counseling (NACAC & WACAC), ACT, College Board and the California Student Aid Commission.

Services offered:
• Advising high school students and their families on college search & application process
• Advising college and community college students on transferring to 4-year schools
• Developing timelines to help students with college search and application tasks
• Helping transfer students to map out their requirements and to determine transferable credits
• Counseling on strategies for testing schedule and submitting scores
• Counseling on strategies for Early Decision, Early Application & Regular Decision applications
• Guiding various types of college essays and writings on how to best express strengths and skills
• Assessing and helping students explore career/major interest areas
• Offering resources for internships, volunteering and other extracurricular opportunities

Member of HECA, NACAC & WACAC

About Me

After more than 10 years of teaching K-12 students in the San Ramon Valley Unified School District, and seven years also with the City of San Ramon's summer camp and after school enrichment programs, I decided to move my focus to college admissions advising when I saw the great need that students and parents have for guidance in today's college process, which seems to get more and more complicated and stressful each year.

I hold a certificate with UC Berkeley's College Admissions and Career Planning post-graduate program, have a BA from Pomona College, and a Masters with Arizona State University's Thunderbird School of Global Studies. After 12 years of corporate experience in financial marketing, I realized that my calling was in education, where I can make a greater contribution by teaching and guiding our future leaders. I have taught and tutored both applied and fine arts, reading and STEAM (Science, Technology, Engineering, Arts, Math) - related subjects.

Because there is no governmental oversight for college admissions counseling, parents and students should make sure that college advisors they hire are members of professional organizations which have strict sets of standards for conduct and statements of principles of good practice that their members must follow. I am a member of HECA (Higher Education Consultant Association), WACAC (Western Association of College Admissions Counseling), and NACAC (National Association of College Admissions Counseling).

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