TESTIMONIALS

Lelaine’s guidance was incredibly helpful throughout my college application process. She helped me refine my essays, highlight my unique experiences, and present the best version of myself. Her support and insight played a crucial role in my acceptance to my dream school. I was originally so anxious and Lelaine helped me calm my nerves during the entire process. I couldn’t have done it without her!

Lelaine’s guidance was invaluable in all parts of the college application process. She spent time getting to know me to help me reflect on authentic qualities I could highlight in my college essays. The writing I produced when working with Lelaine was the most genuine and thorough writing I have ever produced, and I entered college as a better writer because of her. Lelaine's insights and comprehensive knowledge about universities across the country helped guide my research for which colleges to apply to and ultimately aided my decision about which college was the best fit for me. When I reflect on my college application process, I am confident that I would not have been nearly as successful as I was without Lelaine’s counsel.

I can't recommend working with Lelaine highly enough. She kept my son on track and helped him present his best self to colleges. He ended up getting into all of his top three choices (and several others)!

We are so grateful to have had Lelaine work with our child. From the moment they met, Lelaine spent significant time getting to know our child and learning about her interests inside and outside the classroom. Lelaine is genuinely invested in helping students find colleges and programs that excite them, and we witnessed our child’s growing confidence through the admissions process with Lelaine’s encouragement. Lelaine empowered her to believe in her talents and trust her instincts about colleges that would be a good fit. She masterfully kept our child on task, counseling her as she completed college research, application work, and essay writing on a reasonable, stress-free schedule. With Lelaine’s guidance, our child became the agent of her future.

Lelaine brings expertise and knowledge borne of deep research, especially important in the ever-changing landscape of college admissions. She is consistently attuned to admissions data and news. And she does not do this work from a desk. Lelaine visits campuses (multiple times) and commits significant time to understanding the growing variety of programmatic opportunities available to her students.

We’ve used Lelaine for three of our children, and we can’t imagine surviving this without her! She brought order and structure to an otherwise chaotic and stressful process. Early in high school, she provided feedback on classes, extracurricular activities, and summer jobs to help develop a coherent story for application time. She provided realistic and candid feedback on potential school options and uncovered gems that we might have otherwise ignored. But Lelaine really shines at application time: she is willing to jump in at a moment’s notice, spend as much time as necessary to get the application right, and provide quick and helpful feedback to polish the applications to perfection. We can’t recommend Lelaine highly enough!

At Onsen Education, my team and I have worked with Lelaine and her families for over five years. As an education professional with 15+ years in the industry, I’ve collaborated with many consultants, and Lelaine stands out as a supportive, patient partner in the ever-complicated admissions process. She is highly attuned to her students' unique needs, perceptive in helping tailor their targets and tutoring, and refreshingly direct. I've recommended her to many families, and they've always been grateful for the connection. Lelaine is simply the best, and I wholeheartedly recommend her to any family navigating this process.

Lelaine was so helpful throughout the whole admissions process. Whether it was helping me figure out problems with my schedule at school or helping me revise my supplemental essays, she was always there to talk through everything with me to put me in the best position possible. I found her the most helpful with revising my essays, as we worked well together to tighten up the verbiage and the word count to make them more cohesive. She gave great advice on how to present what I wanted to say, making sure that my message was at the forefront of everything I wrote but was presented in a more sophisticated way. Lelaine was incredible and if I had to go back and choose her all over again, it would be a no-brainer.