Expert Consulting
Founded & Led by Meri Khnkoyan
We like to call Meri's story the Yin and Yang of college admissions.
Meri had everything right on paper — every grade, every extracurricular, every award, and every qualification a top university looks for.
And yet she went through the process wrong — because no one in her family had done it before, and no one was there to show her how the American system actually works.
Knowing exactly what it feels like to be qualified yet lost is why she built College Who Consulting — to give families the guidance she wishes she'd had, so their children never have to learn the hard way.
Why Families Choose Us
We take only a few families a year — because that's the only way to give you our undivided attention.
We don't hand your child's future to a college student reading essays on the side. We're specialists who personally read every application and work with every student ourselves. We have a curriculum — but it bends to your child, and moves at your student's pace. The curriculum serves the student, never the other way around.
A Student We Won't Forget
He came to us after applying to QuestBridge with the wrong advice — told to write a "sob story" and become a number among many. He didn't even reach finalist.
We rebuilt his application from scratch on the Common App, and within two months he hit submit. He was admitted to every UC he applied to — including UC Berkeley with the Regents & Chancellor's Scholarship — plus Brown, Yale, and Georgia Tech.
That's What Undivided Attention Looks Like
· University of Pennsylvania · Yale University · Vanderbilt University · UCLA · University of Southern California · UC Berkeley · Cornell University · Boston University · Imperial College London · MIT
Our Services Broken Down by Grade
What we do for
families.
Every engagement is shaped to the student — not the brochure. Our work is organized by grade level because what a 7th-grader needs is not what a 12th-grader needs. Hover any card for the full scope of that stage.
MIDDLE SCHOOL FOUNDATIONS
7th & 8th Grade
Building the executive functioning muscles that high school will demand and supporting families in their search for the best-fit high school.
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SENIOR YEAR APPLICATION
12th Grades
Guiding your student forward through the intensive process -- every essay, every portal, every application tackled together.
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EARLY HIGH SCHOOL DISCOVERY
9th & 10th Grades
Helping your student identify their interests and ambitions, and filling in the gaps.
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TRANSFER STUDENT APPLICATION
Transfers
Helping your student from planning their classes to finding extracurriculars to applying to their desired universities.
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jUNIOR YEAR STRATEGY
11th Grades
Getting your student familiar with and started on the application process.
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BEYOND UNDERGRAD
Graduate Applications
Mentoring students pursuing graduate education — from law school and MBA programs to master's, medical school, and PhDs.
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