About
Annie Roskin and AdmissionWise Consulting
My experience includes six years as Associate Director of Admissions in the Undergraduate Admission Office at Stanford University as well as two years of financial aid advising at Stanford. In addition, I was Associate Director of College Counseling at San Francisco University High School. I have designed and taught undergraduate courses at both Stanford and the University of Michigan, and served as an academic advisor to Stanford undergraduates throughout my years as Associate Director. I graduated from Stanford with an A.B. in Political Science, and was a Ph.D. Candidate in Sociology at the University of Michigan before becoming a mom to two fantastic kids who steered my commitment to education in a direction that better suited them. I served on the board of their private school in San Francisco for seven years, four of them as Board President. My ten years as an admission director, high school college counselor, academic advisor, and instructor of undergraduates at Stanford and Michigan have given me uncommon insight into the kinds of challenges that present themselves to bright, accomplished young people as they approach adulthood.
I founded AdmissionWise to provide thoughtful, compassionate, and expert guidance — beyond the conventional wisdom — to students and their families as they navigate the process of applying to college.
About College Consulting
If you have top-notch college counseling available at your high school, you can and should make good use of your college counselor. Unfortunately, it is more likely that you are one of 300 students assigned to a college counselor whom you have met once, or the basketball coach has recently morphed into the person who advises students about their college options after practice.
As public school funding for college counseling has eroded, students have lost a valuable resource. Some high schools no longer employ administrators familiar with admissions and financial aid availability at private colleges. Many high schools handle the dearth of funding by choosing to focus scarce resources on admission to large state universities, often at the expense of maintaining accurate information about admission to the nation’s private colleges and universities.
AdmissionWise is about access to expert college guidance. I work directly with you and your parents from as early as your freshman year of high school. As a former admission director and financial aid advisor at Stanford University, I share my expertise with your family, help you explore a wide range of private and public colleges and universities, and ultimately whittle your choices to a handful of schools where you would thrive.
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