What's your Academic Index?

Dartmoose
Fri, 05 Dec 2008 00:43:29 +0000

Michelle Hernandez is a former (Head?) Admissions officer at Dartmouth. I don’t believe Dartmouth uses this system, it’s just that she developed it to help students estimate their chances at Ivy League schools. After leaving Dartmouth, she is now considered THE top private college consultant (the going rate is 40 grand or something), as well as a leading authority on admissions in general (her book A is for Admissions is the top selling admissions advice book).

As a college admissions consultant, she has an impressive record. I saw an interview of her on TV and she had 7 out of 7 get into Dartmouth that year, 3 out of 4 into Princeton, and I don’t remember the rest. She says that she doesn’t screen clients (to unfairly protect her acceptance rates), and lets them apply where they want. The reason she is so successful is that she works with students for 4 years, where she arranges the best tutors for SATs/High School and basically hand-sculpts their ECs.