Expert mentors · professional guidance

A head of programmes, a school-selection specialist, American essay mentors, a former top-university admissions-office member and PhD researchers: each mentor draws on their own applications and careers to help students see the question that is theirs alone.

Head of Study-Abroad Programmes

Mentor Zhang Zhang 老师

Head of Study-Abroad Programmes

Seventeen years of hands-on and operations-management experience in international education, including eleven years at China’s largest listed education group, with deep familiarity with large-scale operations and standardised service processes. Formerly with a high-net-worth family education office, designing and executing personalised study-abroad plans for elite families, with a deep understanding of their needs.
Years in the industry have built a rich network of overseas resources, from scarce academic programmes to a rigorously vetted network of American professional mentors, supporting students all the way from application to arrival.

April Tang 四月老师

School-Selection Specialist

Studied and worked in Singapore for six years (2008–2014), at a university international-student services centre and a graduate careers centre.
Since 2014 at K-12 international schools in Beijing, serving in turn as assistant to the foreign principal, head of human resources, head of operations, executive principal and CEO of a study-abroad education group; took part in founding three new international schools.
Certified youth career planner and youth public-speaking coach.

Karl Lam

American Mentor

BS from the Cornell University School of Hotel Administration (GPA 3.81, cum laude), graduating with top grades and outstanding leadership; MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management. After Cornell he worked in the University of Chicago admissions office, taking part in core admissions work, reviewing application files and making admission decisions, so he knows top universities’ selection logic and essay-review standards first-hand and guides students precisely on strategy and personalised essays.
Career: led multi-billion-dollar strategic M&A and financing projects at Hyatt Hotels Corporation; now at Bain & Company.
A Hong Kong-born Chinese American, Karl attended the German Swiss International School in Hong Kong from kindergarten to graduation and is fluent in English (native), German, Mandarin and Cantonese.

Jimmy

American Mentor

American, graduated on a full scholarship from Tulane University with a double major in History and Asian Studies; former tutor at the Tsinghua Schwarzman College writing centre. Fluent in Chinese and based in Beijing, with many years of international-education consulting and a deep understanding of American educational philosophy and international curricula.
Planning and essay results: over the past three years, 63% of his students were admitted to U.S. Top 20 universities and 96% to the U.S. Top 50.
Competition coaching: many years of John Locke essay competition mentoring, with students repeatedly winning major prizes.
Working style: intensely focused, attentive to listening and detail, committed to a tailored path to the world’s top universities for every student.

Teri Wang

American Mentor

Graduated from Harvard in 2001 with a double degree in biochemistry and art history, active in the Harvard Voice, the student newspaper and other societies. She then worked in government, business, non-profits and journalism as an advocate for diversity, STEM and the arts.
Served four years as a Harvard alumni interviewer before returning to admissions consulting to give students candid, effective guidance. With more than 15 years in admissions consulting, Teri has helped over 300 students reach the universities they wanted and continues to advise them on growth and development. Rigorous and detailed, she helps students understand the whole process, uncover their potential and map a clear future.

Brian

American Mentor

Double BA in screenwriting and psychology from Loyola Marymount University.
Former editor at the UCLA School of Medicine, polishing academic writing and guiding grant applications. From 2020 to 2023 co-founded a writing company as deputy editor-in-chief, leading content strategy and producing several best-sellers including a guide to passive income.
Concurrently content director of the education podcast “Talking with Teens”, overseeing more than 200 episodes. Brings interdisciplinary thinking to application essays, matched precisely to what top universities look for.

Mentor Wu 吴老师

Senior International Education Planning Mentor

Fifteen years focused on U.S. undergraduate planning; member of International ACAC; long front-line experience in Beijing’s international divisions and international schools.
Expert in the A-Level, IB and AP systems; reverse-engineers the planning path from target schools’ admitted-student profiles and tracks admissions trends closely so that every step of preparation counts.

Yvonne

Application Strategy and Essay Mentor

Master’s from the Harvard Graduate School of Education, with a systematic grounding in education theory and cross-cultural research.
Builds sustainable growth paths centred on long-term academic development, blending Chinese and American perspectives, and deepens personal narratives in the humanities, social sciences and business.

Mentor Wei 魏老师

Academic Writing and Essay Mentor

MA from the University of Pennsylvania; BA from Bryn Mawr College, a top U.S. liberal arts college.
Strong foundations in humanities research and academic writing.
Mentors essays and academic writing in literature and cultural studies, helping students show intellectual depth.

Mentor Yang 杨老师

Senior Graduate Admissions Planning and Essay Mentor

Fully funded PhD at a leading North American university; reviewer for a first-quartile SSCI journal; deep academic grounding.
Dual master’s degrees from LSE and Trinity College Dublin; former United Nations data analyst, combining a top-university background with hands-on experience in international organisations.
Five years of master’s and PhD application experience with 150+ students mentored; admits span the UK, U.S., Europe and Asia, including Oxford, KCL, LSE, UChicago, Duke, HKU, NTU Singapore and ANU.
Core strength: interdisciplinary profile building and high-end essay refinement, drawing out each student’s academic potential to match what the world’s top universities look for.

Mentor Fang 方老师

Graduate Essay Mentor

BS from Zhejiang University, MS in Statistics from Stanford, visiting scholar at Harvard.
Ten years of mentoring focused on master’s applications, with students admitted to Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Stanford and MIT.
Currently a machine-learning engineer and senior data scientist at NVIDIA.
Core strength: AI, data science and financial engineering; reframes each student’s professional profile from an industry perspective to raise competitiveness.

Extensive mentor network

Rio Zhang | Planning Mentor

Master’s in data science from the University of Michigan and Kaggle competition silver medallist. Applies data-driven thinking to school selection and planning, and draws on first-hand experience of studying in the U.S. to support students academically, professionally and culturally.

Dr. Fang | Academic Research Mentor

Research scientist at MIT’s Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence Laboratory (CSAIL), working on frontier AI research and its application to sustainability; connects students with world-class research resources and project guidance.

Nailea | American Mentor

Admitted in the same undergraduate cycle to Dartmouth, Georgetown, Carnegie Mellon and Whitman College; chose Whitman on a full scholarship and graduated with honours.

Dr. Chen | Academic Research Mentor

Senior postdoctoral researcher at Harvard with a PhD jointly trained at MIT. Author of multiple SCI papers in advanced mathematical statistics and machine learning, with extensive experience supervising top undergraduate research, giving strong support to each student’s academic identity.

Our service scope

Chinese planning mentor

Follows the student’s growth and application throughout high school, keeps the timeline on track, handles efficient family–school communication, ensures the accuracy of every document, and resolves problems as they arise.

International essay mentor

Guides essay ideation and drafting, provides expert school-list advice, helps the student understand each target school’s strengths and requirements, and lands the personal narrative on the page.

Young alumni mentor

Current students or recent graduates of top universities share real campus experience, answer questions about majors, and offer emotional support so students know what university life is like before they arrive.

Academic mentor (professors and PhD researchers)

According to the student’s needs we connect them with professors or researchers at Harvard, MIT, Stanford and other top institutions for in-depth research guidance that strengthens their profile.

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