Meet Christina!

Christina is simply….AMAZING!! She met with us as a family to understand our desired outcome. She put in place a plan which resulted in a successful end goal! Christina is passionate, focused, hard working, understanding and compassionate. Most importantly, she is always available to answer any questions or concerns. She really cares and is very dedicated. We are so happy with our experience and will definitely use her once our younger daughter is ready for the college process!

Christina helped us a lot to sharpen our thinking and approach to the application and selection process. She was on target with her perspectives, providing timely constructive thoughts. She helped Mic develop and build on his strengths. Her experience and coaching style was really good and was a great fit for Mic. We also appreciated her flexibility and mentoring style. She is also very well coordinated, on top of her game and pushes the right buttons to get things done on time.

We couldn't have landed a better college advisor. Christina was so insightful and supportive and as parents we felt that she knew our son on personal level which helped narrow the field of colleges. She was realistic with admission goals and kept us grounded in our expectations. It was a crazy Covid year but Christina managed both us and our son with deadlines that made the entire college process less stressful. We decided to work with Collegewise as this was our first kid off to college. I will continue to use Collegewise for our other kids because each student is different, their needs vary and there are so many schools that could fit. Having someone with more insightful information about the choices and with excellent editing skills when it came filling out applications was a worthwhile investment.

My family and I had hit complete panic stage about college applications, and then Christina swooped in and saved the day! After the first meeting with her, I felt like our whole household felt calmer. She took all my scattered thoughts and helped me focus so I could figure out what I really wanted and what to do to get there. She made the essay process much easier—we did exercises that helped me narrow down what I wanted colleges to know about me, and then brainstormed ideas so we could tell the story in a fun way. I had no idea how many supplements were going to be required, and I’m not sure how the heck I would’ve gotten them all done if she wasn’t there to help me through it!

We benefitted tremendously from Christina’s knowledge of schools, BS/MD programs, and the application processes involved. She always went the extra mile to research and confirm important information to ensure the applications were on-point for each specific school. As a result, in addition to many acceptances, my daughter also received numerous scholarships and invitations to honors programs. Junior and senior years are hectic enough with school work and activities, college visits and research, preparing for the SAT and ACT tests, interviews, filling out applications and FAFSA/CSS forms, and writing essays for scholarships and special programs. However, Christina made those last two years much less stressful and much more successful. Her help was absolutely priceless!

My parents didn’t go to school in this country, so we weren’t familiar with the process or options. Christina gave us all clarity and confidence, helping me make informed decisions and present myself in the strongest way possible. With her guidance, I was accepted to Brown’s program in Liberal Medical Education (PLME), assuring a BA and MD at Brown. If I hadn’t been working with Christina early in my high school career, I wouldn’t have been prepared with the necessary high school courses or extracurricular activities to be a successful PLME candidate.