College Admission Counseling-DYO Consultants

When the ranking dominates, the college admissions falls into panic. This is especially true to the Chinese students that select colleges by the college ranking. The ranking digitalizes the landscape of today’s higher education in the world but it also throws thousands of the college bound family into the disorder of a mindset. The digits can only present us some but not the entire of educational values a college confers. The fundamental value of the independent educational consultants is to help the families resume as informed and educated individuals to think beyond the “getting in” issues to set up a high bar of their educational pursuit and life journey, making their forthcoming college life meaningful and rewarding.

The values of a college can never been defined by ranking only. Rather, they can be identified in a wide range, by the faculties’ dedication in teaching and supporting, by the size of class in which how students are taught, respected, cared and supported, by the campus cultures in which how the students, especially the alien students, are included instead of separated, and by the external opportunities, social or academic, which helps the students establish meaningful connections with a wider world, etc. All these are vital to a successful college experience but never indentified in the digitalized college ranking.

As educational consulting firm mainly serving Chinese nationals, it’s sad to see so many young talents each year “fail” in the college admission of their “dream schools” since the ranking mindset narrows down their college choices. Among thousands of higher establishments in the US, how to find the good-fit ones is a time-consuming but rewarding job. Our college admission counseling service helps the families to go deep into the sophisticated higher education landscape to explore and connect with the colleges, either the highly-reputed colleges or the hidden-gem one, that most meet the educational needs of our clients.

College Counseling Services

Initial Assessment and Consultation: Assess the student’s English proficiency by test and interview; Understand the student’s learning style, academic performance, personality, activities by school reports. Answer the questions the families may have.

Drawing up a Personalized Educational Plan：Help the families to prepare for their college admission, including goal-setting, academic tutorial, testing planning, activity planning, character development, etc.

Financial Advising: help the families find more affordable solutions to fulfill their college education.

Execution of the Educational Plan: Help the families evaluate how educational plan goes and make amendment when necessary.

Organizational tools to help make the process more manageable: These tools help the student get the applications done with less stress. Application, Essay and Interview Guidance：Familiarize the families with the colleges, application process, essays, etc. Guide the students to brainstorm for the essay prompts to best reflect the unique qualities of the students in addition to editing and proofreading the essays.

Interview Preparation: Familiarize students with the face-to-face interview or the third-party interview; Advise them how to build up their theme used in the interviews and hone their interviewing skills by mocking the interviewing.

Advising on Final School Choice：Advise the families to select the college from the acceptances wisely and reasonably.

Undergraduate Acceptances 2014 – 2018

USA

Akron, University of
American University
Amherst College
Antioch University
Arizona , University of
Bard College
Beloit College
Berklee College of Music
Boston College
Boston University
Brandeis University
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
Buffalo University, SUNY
California, U of, Berkeley
California, U of, Los Angeles
California, U of, San Diego
California, U of, Santa Barbara
California State U - Northridge
Carnegie Mellon University
Case Western Reserve University
Chapman University
University of Chicago
Colorado , University of
Colorado State University
Connecticut College

Cornell University
College for Creative Studies
University of Denver
Dickinson College
Denison University
Dartmouth College
Earlham College
Elon University
Emerson College
Emory University
Fairfield University
Florida Institute of Tech
Franklin & Marshall College
Furman University
Geneseo College, SUNY
George Mason University
George Washington University
Georgetown University
Gettysburg College
Goucher College
Grinnell College
Hamilton College
Hobart and William Smith Colleges
Harvey Mudd College
University of Illinois
Indiana University

Ithaca College
Kettering University
Lafayette College
Lamar University
Lawrence University
Marist College
University of Maryland
Massachusetts Institute of Tech
University of Miami
Miami University
U of Michigan
New York University
Northeastern University
Northwestern University
Oberlin College
Ohio State University
University of Pennsylvania
Penn State University
University of Pittsburgh
Pratt Institute
Purdue University
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Rhode Island School of Design
The Rutgers University
University of Missouri
University of North Carolina – Chapel Hill

University of Richmond
University of Rochester
University of San Diego
Santa Clara University
University of Southern California
University of Washington
Smith College
Stony Brook University, SUNY
Swarthmore College
Texas A & M University
University of Texas Austin
Tulane University
University of Vermont
Villanova University
Wabash College
Wake Forest University
Washington and Lee University
Washington University in St. Louis
Wesleyan University
Wellesley College
Worcester Polytechnic Institute
College of Wooster
Yale University

注：黄底学校为本科申请难度最大的美国大学（出自Barron’s Most Competitive Colleges）。

Other Countries

澳大利亚 / Australia

Adelaide, Uni of
Melbourne, Uni of
Monash University
Western Sydney, Uni of

英国 / UK

The Arts, Uni of, London
Bristol, Uni of
Durham Uni (UK)
Edinburgh, Uni of
Exeter, Uni of
Imperial College
London School of Economics
University College London

加拿大 / Canada

British Columbia, Uni of
McGill University
Montreal, Uni of
Queen’s University
Toronto, Uni of
York University

爱尔兰 / Ireland

Dublin Institute of Tech
Limerick, Uni of
Shannon College of Hotel Management
Trinity College Dublin
University College Cork
University College Dublin

注：黄底学校为QS全球大学排名前50的大学。T