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your teacher

m.c. short

I’m an attorney, educator, and former Stanford admission officer.

I recruited, read, and voted to admit Stanford’s Class of 2015. I was the AO responsible for managing some of Stanford’s most competitive territories: All of the high schools in California’s Santa Clara County (The Dean read Palo Alto) and all of New England except Massachusetts: Connecticut, New Hampshire, Maine, Rhode Island, and Vermont. I also served on the International Committee as the AO responsible for Australia and New Zealand. I was the secondary AO responsible for the transfer review process. And I served as the liaison to the veteran’s community, led the Honors Symposium for community college students’ research, and represented Stanford at information sessions on campus and all over the country.

I left Stanford to attend Michigan Law. I litigated for Latham & Watkins, Gibson Dunn, and clerked for Judge Burns, U.S. District Court, S.D. California. Before Stanford, I taught philosophy and history at Cheshire Academy and Phillips Academy Andover’s Summer Session. I attended the U.S. Naval Academy and Boston College.

ethos

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College coaching shouldn’t exist. But college admission offices devoted to access to education won’t share the details on how to access their education. Instead, when they give advice, it’s usually something like: “Just be yourself.” And the average high school counselor to student ratio in public schools? 400:1. We created Admitium to help offer specific and candid college admission knowledge for all.

Admissions Masterclass offers you a logical, thoughtful, and specific approach for how you can demonstrate your compelling student-traits in your applications. By training with us, and using Stanford and Harvard’s demanding standards to push us, you’ll be in fighting shape when you apply to any school in the country.

But the course isn’t just about getting into college. I draw on my experience studying, teaching, and practicing law and philosophy to give you a capstone course on effective writing, thinking, and advocacy. Because all the skills you need to apply to college, you’ll need when you apply for jobs, graduate school, and any other goal that requires you to persuade. Masterclass is my best shot at passing on the compelling thinking, writing, and speaking I’ve learned from the best attorneys and judges and teachers.

the team

kevin ramos-glew

former dartmouth admissions

2022-2024

amanda washington

former harvard admissions

2019-2023

speaking events

I speak about college admissions to audiences all over the world. From nonprofits, to law firms, to schools. Below are a few schools I’ve spoken at with some links to samples of my talks.

Summer 2022 Talk (Sample)

coverage

The Stanford Daily: “Social Media Boosts Access to Higher Education” (Nov. 2022)

Stanford student Alondra Martinez highlights how resources like @admitium on TikTok helped her get into Stanford and “give prospective students, especially low-income and first-generation students, information that they normally would not have access to.” Article

College Confidential: “Former Stanford Admissions Officer Answers Your Hardest Questions.” (Nov. 2020)

In this Ask Me Anything, I tackled many of the tough questions you might want answers to: How students from different schools, cities, and states are evaluated; test-optional; APs and SAT scores; Early vs. Regular Decision. Ask Me Anything

partnerships

If you’re a school, nonprofit, or mentor organization interested in working together please reach out: [email protected]. We currently work with RoundPier: One of the best online platforms for students to build compelling extracurricular activities. Want to start a philosophy club? Don’t limit it to your school. Post on RoundPier and establish an international philosophy club with students from Los Angeles, London, and Lyon.

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