Rachel Rader graduated cum laude from Yale with a degree in English and holds a certificate in college counseling from UCLA.  She was an alumni interviewer for Yale for over 25 years.  Having seen literally hundreds of candidates, she has an excellent grasp of what works – and what doesn’t – in the college application process.

She worked in publicity and marketing for several top book publishers and made a career out of convincing people to review her books and interview her authors in national print and broadcast media.  She also coached her authors through countless interviews and can share these powers of persuasion with her clients.

Rachel has served on several non-profit boards, including the Chappaqua School Foundation, the Horace Greeley Scholarship Fund, the Pleasantville Cottage Schools, the Chappaqua Summer Scholarship Program, and the Yale Alumni Fund. She has also mentored first-generation high school students through the college application process through Latino U.

Rachel grew up in a family of academics on a college campus and has been surrounded by students and professors for her whole life.  Her father is a Shakespeare scholar and her mother worked in higher education public relations.  A product of her environment, she learned from an early age the importance of the art of communicating well.

Rachel's clients have been accepted into a broad range of schools, including Duke, Northwestern, Williams, Tulane, the University of Michigan, Harvard, Princeton, the University of Chicago, UCLA, the University of Pennsylvania, Washington University in St. Louis, Columbia, Tufts, Yale, Cornell, Saint Andrews, Wake Forest, Vanderbilt, the University of Vermont, Syracuse, the University of Texas, Emory, Colgate, Northeastern, Syracuse, Wesleyan, Union, Boston University, and Bowdoin. Having gone through the application process with her own children in the past few years, Rachel also understands the parent perspective.  She has one child who is a graduate of the University of Pennsylvania, another who graduated from Yale, and her youngest is at Williams. Based in Chappaqua, New York, Rachel is a member of NACAC, the National Association for College Admission Counseling and IECA, the Independent Education Consultants Association.