The Spark Admissions Team

At Spark, all of our admissions consultants have extensive experience in admissions and advising at Ivy League schools and other elite colleges and universities. Our consultants understand how to motivate high school students to accomplish ambitious goals, while maintaining empathy and building trust. By building in-depth relationships and coaching students through the complicated landscape of elite college admissions, Spark’s college counselors achieve the best college admissions results in the country.

Our admissions consultants have admissions and advising experience at Bowdoin College, Columbia University, Cornell University, Dartmouth College, Hamilton College, Harvard University, Northwestern University, Tufts University, University of Chicago, University of Michigan, University of Pennsylvania, Wake Forest University, and Yale University, among others.

The ability to extract and apply insights from admissions data, trends, and practices has been at Spark Admissions’ core since 2012, when Co-Founder Dr. Rachel Rubin authored a groundbreaking study on how the most selective U.S. colleges and universities make admissions decisions.

Today, Spark Admissions’ research team ensures that our college consultants are immersed in the most up-to-date trends in college admissions. Even more, we translate those trends into tactical steps our students can take to give them an edge as they prepare for college. Spark’s full-time research experts analyze every aspect of the college preparation, application and admissions process, partnering with our college admissions consultants to provide nuanced, informed, and transparent guidance throughout the college preparation process.