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The Advisory

Former admissions officers & top-university graduates.

Two kinds of people read your child's application. The first is a young admissions officer at the target university, on their forty-third file of the day. The second is the alumni interviewer in your city. Crownbridge is built around advisors who have been the first kind, and who graduated from the schools that produce the second. That combination is what a parent is actually buying when they write a six-figure check.

S. Chen

Admissions Strategy and Review
Reader backgroundFormer university admissions reader.
Committee experienceMulti-cycle committee experience at a top-ten institution.

What they own. The cold read. School-list calibration, competitive positioning, and the final committee-grade review before any file is submitted.

M. Reyes

Narrative and Essays
EducationTop-university graduate.
CraftCareer in long-form writing and editorial.

What they own. The personal statement, supplements, and the voice of the file. Coaches the student through every draft; writes none of them.

A. Kapoor

Academic Architecture
BackgroundSTEM track at a top research university.
DomainDecade of testing and curriculum strategy.

What they own. Course rigor, AP and IB planning, SAT and ACT strategy, and the study systems that hold the plan together.

Anyone can edit an essay. Very few people can tell you, with the authority of having sat in the room, what the committee will see.
Who we will not hire

Hiring is part of the ethics posture.

We do not hire recent graduates who have never read a committee file. We do not hire counselors whose practice depends on volume; an advisor at Crownbridge carries a small caseload and is paid accordingly. We do not hire anyone who has ever fabricated a credential, exaggerated an outcome, or claimed influence at an institution they did not work for. The three rules above remove most of the names a parent might find on a public list.

Or read what we will not do

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