Cian’s College Qualifications

Coaches professionally

Open to working with clients outside the U.S.

Cian has helped clients get into these schools:

I have helped students apply and be accepted to a number of prestigious undergraduate programs, including Ivy+ schools (e.g., Harvard, Columbia, Duke) and liberal arts colleges (e.g., Williams). I am deeply familiar with what these schools are looking for in candidates -- including what makes each institution unique. I also have excellent writing and storytelling skills which I will use to help you stand out from the crowd as an applicant. I am excited to help students from the planning phases (e.g., which clubs to join? which schools to apply to? how to position myself in an application?) all the way through execution (e.g., what should I focus on in my essay? how can I improve my first draft?), and with everything in between.

Cian can help with:

Application Strategy

Editing

Essays

Financial Aid & Scholarships

General Exploration

Interviews

Recommendations

Resume

School Selection

Secondary Review

Supplementary Materials

Testing & Assessments

Waitlist Strategy

Cian also coaches for Master’s Programs, Management Consulting, and Law School. View all.

Why do I coach?

I love working with people who are motivated to improve their skills and position themselves to lead. Growing up, I was passionate about academic and professional achievement -- my parents played an important part inspiring me to launch myself into the echelons of universities and other institutions that influence the way our world works: from policy, to politics, to the economy, to innovation. But, I didn't have role models who had the familiarity with how these places worked (and how to break into them) that so many of my peers did. I want to level the playing field by sharing my institutional knowledge, skills, and passion with others looking to achieve at the highest levels.

Education

National Tsinghua University

Masters of Global Affairs, Global Affairs

2022 - 2023

Schwarzman Scholar: https://www.schwarzmanscholars.org/

Columbia University

Bachelor of Arts, Political Science

2015 - 2019

Cian was also personally admitted to

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  University of Chicago

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  Washington University in St. Louis

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  Harvard Law School