Admissions and enrollment support grounded in experience and clarity.
Drawing on nearly two decades in higher education — including graduate admissions work at UC Berkeley and UCSF — I help education-focused organizations strengthen their enrollment systems and support graduate applicants navigating high-stakes admissions decisions.
Across both settings, the work is the same at its core: understanding how admissions processes actually function in practice and helping people navigate them with better structure, clearer communication, and informed judgment.
For institutions, this means improving how prospective students move from inquiry to enrollment and supporting teams during periods of growth, transition, or added complexity.
For applicants, it means thoughtful guidance through applications, interviews, and program decisions grounded in real experience inside admissions.
When this support is most useful
After years working inside PhD admissions at UC Berkeley and a joint UC Berkeley–UCSF doctoral program, I've seen the same patterns repeatedly: strong programs losing applicants between offer and enrollment, teams managing more inquiries than their processes were built to support, and applicants with real potential who didn't understand how decisions were actually being made.
That experience — from both sides of the process — is the foundation of this work.
This work tends to be most valuable when decisions depend on how admissions processes actually function in practice — whether from the institutional side or the applicant side.
For example:
An organization is managing enrollment growth, uncertainty, or process strain and needs experienced support without adding permanent staff
A program is launching, scaling, or refining its admissions and enrollment approach
A graduate applicant is preparing for interviews, offers, or important program decisions
An applicant is reassessing next steps after a challenging admissions cycle and wants clearer insight into how decisions are made
Initial consultations are designed to understand your situation, goals, and questions so we can determine whether support would be useful and what form it might take.
For organizations, this often means discussing enrollment challenges, internal workflows, or areas where additional perspective may help clarify next steps.
For applicants, it usually focuses on application strategy, decision-making, or navigating upcoming milestones in the admissions process.
There is no expectation to move forward beyond the consultation. The goal is simply to have a thoughtful, practical conversation about what would be most helpful.
About the consultation
After you submit the form, I'll follow up within 1–2 business days to schedule a 30-minute conversation. There's no obligation to move forward — the goal is simply to understand your situation and whether this support would be useful.