Pictured above are three things:
1) Those are the Cool Seals. Their names are “Cool Seal,” “Cool Seal,” “Cool Seal,” “Cool Seal,” “Cool Seal,” and “Monty,” respectfully.
2) My cat ran in the middle of the shot right before I took the picture.
3) The 68 T-Shirts on display match the 68 different students I have succesfully guided through the college admissions process these past six years. Each shirt is a college shirt and bears the name, colors, and logo of the eventual college or university that that student decided to make home. It’s an ever-growing collection that I view as both a memento of the wonderful young men and women I have gotten to spend time with, as well as a testament to the fact that I have found a calling in life.
I don’t care for misleading stats or curtailing the best results to make myself seem infallible. Instead, I present every student I worked with and their future school, and I do so with incredible pride. Enjoy.
*Multiple schools indicate that the student was at one point deciding between them but now has now picked the one listed in bold.
Class of 2025 Matriculations
Berkeley/Brown/Cornell/Penn/USC/UCLA/Williams: Art/Architecture
Cornell University: Pre-Med
Cornell University: Computer Science (Early Decision)
Berkeley/Caltech/Cornell/Hopkins/Penn/Yale: CS/Pre-Med
University of Michigan: Computer Science
University of Pennsylvania: Pre-Med (Early Decision)
Class of 2024 Matriculations
Barnard: Computer Science (Early Decision)
Boston College: Economics (Early Decision)
Boston University/Emory/Northeastern/Wisconsin: Pre-Dental
Brown/Dartmouth/Georgetown: Economics
Cornell: Computer Science (Early Decision)
Georgetown/Johns Hopkins/UC Berkeley (Regents): English
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Engineering (Early Action)
Oxford/Stanford: Computer Science
University of Chicago: Business (Early Decision 2)
UC Berkeley/UCLA/UPenn/USC: Poli-Sci
Class of 2023 Matriculations
Boston University School of Law
Columbia University: Economics (Via the School of Continuing Studies)
Columbia/Harvard/UPenn (Hunstman)/UVA (Jefferson Scholarship)/Yale: Pre-Law
Carnegie Mellon/Johns Hopkins/Texas: Computer Science
Cornell: Computer Science (Early Decision)
Cornell/University of Michigan: Computer Engineering
Cornell/Rice/UNC: Journalism
Duke University: Computer Science (Early Decision)
Emory: Pre-Med (Early Decision)
MIT/Stanford/UC Berkeley (EECS): Neuroscience/Computer Science
Penn Wharton: Business (Early Decision)
Texas: Psychology
UC Berkeley/UCLA: Data Science
UC Berkeley/UCLA: Economics
University of Chicago: History/Pre-Law (Early Decision)
Class of 2022 Matriculations
Bowdoin College: Poli-Sci
Caltech/Stanford: Astrophysics
Harvard/MIT/Yale/Princeton: Bio-Chem
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: Engineering
New York University: Electrical Engineering (Early Decision)
Rice/Wash U: Business/CS
UCLA: Business
UCSD: Computer Science + Math
University of Michigan: English
University of Michigan: Education
Yale University: Bio/Environmental Science
Class of 2021 Matriculations
Barnard College: Poli-Sci (Early Decision)
Boston University/Georgia Tech/Northwestern/Rutgers University/Stevens Tech (Full-ride Scholarship)/UC Berkeley/University of Michigan/Washington University in St. Louis: Computer Game Design (He wants me to post every school he got into)
Cornell: Business and Hotel Management
Duke: Environmental Engineering (Early Decision)
Dartmouth/University of Chicago: Pre-Law
Emory: Film and Media Management
Georgia Tech/USC: Computer Science
Georgia Tech/RISD: Industrial Design
Notre Dame: Business
Rice: Bio/Pre-Med
UC Davis: Mathematical Analytics and Operations Research
Stanford University: Neuroscience
Stanford/Yale: Engineering
University of Chicago: Finance (Early Decision 2)
University of Toronto: Pre-Med
University of Virginia: Electrical Engineering (Full-ride Jefferson Scholarship)
Williams College: Philosophy
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And then there’s 2019/2020… For my first year in this industry, I worked at a college admissions tutoring center in Cupertino, CA. While it’s true that I did most (all) the work required in getting 15 students into their eventual school, I’m not allowed to “claim” ownership over their results. It’s for similar reasons to why a Mcdonald’s employee isn’t allowed to claim ownership over the French fries he made, no matter how nummy.
Anywho, here are 15 other shirts I own. No particular reason.
Boston University
UC Berkeley
UC Berkeley
Case Western
Cornell
Northeastern
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara
UC Santa Barbara
University of San Francisco
University of Southern California
University of Washington Seattle
University of Washington Seattle
University of Washington Seattle
Wisconsin
– Mattie