Expert Consulting
Founded & Led by Meri Khnkoyan
We like to call Meri's story the Yin and Yang of college admissions.
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Meri had everything right on paper — every grade, every extracurricular, every award, and every qualification a top university looks for.
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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.
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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.
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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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