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About
College applications are not for the weak of heart. However, after thirty years of success helping students from all walks of life gain acceptance at: Princeton, Harvard, Yale, Penn, Columbia, Dartmouth, Brown, Cornell, Stanford, U Chicago, Duke, Amherst, Williams, Swarthmore, Berkeley, UCLA, Rice, Vanderbilt, many other fine liberal arts colleges, and excellent state schools, we can help you achieve your dreams as well.
We are here to put students back in control of their academic lives and their bright, innovative futures. To give them a chance to shine for their dream colleges in a way they might never do on their own. To remove some of the soul-stealing stress and confusion that comes with being a high school student.
You will find everything you need, in one place, on demand, and delivered with tremendous care, at College Admission Central. We're a different kind of company, where every student is prized and empowered to present themselves to college admission committees with intelligence, craft, strategy, and art. We'll provide the essential tools, information, resources, and assistance: everything you’ll need to succeed—the rest is up to you. We can't wait to watch you excel.
College Admission Central's team includes: our CEO and nationally renowned Admissions Advisor, Dr. Bedor; vetted subject matter and AP tutors; science research coordinators and competition coaches; AMC competition coaches; admissions essay specialists and college advisors; and software developers.
Leadership
About our CEO: As one of the nation’s top admissions advisors and author of best-sellers The Exceptional Applicant and Getting IN by Standing OUT, Dr. Bedor (known as Dr. B) has had the pleasure of coaching and advising top-tier and Ivy League-bound pre-college students for the past 30+ years, guiding them to acceptance into our nation’s finest universities. Dr. B works with students from 8th-12th grade as a mentor, résumé-builder, essay consultant, and high school life coach—structuring and elevating every part of the students’ college application journey to help them become standout candidates for acceptance and fascinating, young minds. She is the Executive Director of LaureateCert.org which produced the first high school on-line course in Advanced Science Research Writing certified by Nobel Laureates in Medicine or Physiology. Available here. Dr. B has lectured at both Harvard and Columbia University on student entrepreneurship, and graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude.
A Special Message from the CEO
Every admission counselor or expert of any acclaim will have something valuable to impart to you. Something you never thought of. Something you left out that could change the course of your admittance. Something creative, or strategic, or comforting. But not everyone is able to afford the very high cost of traditional one-on-one college consulting. That led us to develop our unique value proposition—delivering all the counseling and brand new admission technology products and information resources at a very affordable cost—because every student needs help today. We are living in a time that is brutally hard on the pre-college student. Expectations are through the roof at our nation's top schools, arts schools, best state schools, and excellent liberal arts colleges. The furious standardized testing does not help; the push towards receiving top grades in all courses—even in those that will never figure in your life's work—is enormous. The emphasis on STEM, even for those students who have no proclivity towards those fields, is turning off young scholars and writers and artists from even trying.
The need for every high school student to appear as a superstar, a global traveler, pundit, or expert on things that take years of study, observation, and emotional intelligence to cultivate—is out of control. So many top students feel overwhelmed and uncertain of their futures (even if they won't talk about it). So many artistic students feel underappreciated. So many struggling students feel lost. The possibility for mistakes along the way—whether in writing your essays, crafting your resumé, course scheduling, testing, deciding on summer options, rehearsing interview techniques, keeping up with scholarship deadlines—are too many to shoulder alone.
But now, you don't need to go it alone. We are here, ready to help. We will work with you at all hours and for as long as it takes for you to win the admittance that will launch your future success—your brand, new life. We will give you the latest technology tools to organize the feverish pace of high school, offer insight into the psychology of admission, show you how to create a multimedia resumé that will blow the competition out of the water, and teach you to craft your unique voice in a way that's compelling to admissions officers. After 30+ years of helping students from all walks of life gain acceptance at their top schools, I know we can help you achieve your dreams too.
Dr. Deborah Bedor, CEO
College Admission Central, LLC