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Our Team

A dynamic team of education professionals who are graduate alumni of Stanford, Columbia, and several Ivy League institutions and who have decades of experience as educators, college counselors and directors of Admissions for those institutions.

ANDREW ANDREASON

  • U.S. Merchant Marine Academy, B.S.

  • Stanford University, M.A., Ph.D.

  • Founding Executive Director, Stanford University Center at Peking University

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HYONG BUM KIM

  • University of Virginia, B.A.

  • Stanford Univeristy, M.B.A

  • Senior Associate, Mckinsey & Co.,

  • Managing Director, Monitor Group

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JON REIDER

  • Stanford University, B.A., Ph.D.

  • Senior Associate Dean of Admissions, Stanford University

  • Author of Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting into College

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BILL COX

  • Cornell University, B.A.

  • Harvard University, Ed.M.

  • Assistant Dean of Admissions, Princeton University

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RAFE MAZZEO

  • MIT, B.S., M.S., Ph.D

  • Professor, Stanford University

  • Faculty Director, Stanford Pre-Collegiate Studies Program

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WILLIAM SHAIN

  • Princeton University, A.B.

  • Columbia University, J.D.

  • Dean of Admissions, Vanderbilt University

  • Dean of Admissions, Bowdoin College

  • Dean of Admissions, Macalester College

  • Regional Director of Admissions, Princeton University

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KRISTAL SERNA

  • University of California--Davis, B.A.

  • ​University of Michigan, J.D.

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All students enrolled in our residential programs benefit from our team’s specially designed assignments, workshops, and activities. These are provided to help students prepare themselves for a highly selective college transfer.

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