Rufaro J.

Rufaro J.

5.0

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Former Head Admissions Consultant | Acceptances include Cornell, MIT & Duke

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Studied at Harvard University

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Worked at Crimson Education

Admissions Committee

Available tomorrow at 1:00 PM UTC

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Rufaro's Coaching Offerings

Custom hourly

Get help with Financial Aid & Scholarships, Editing, and .

Rufaro’s College Qualifications

Coaches professionally

100+ people coached for College

With a B.A. in Government from Harvard University and nearly 10 years of international education and admissions experience, I specialize in guiding students to highly competitive colleges. As a former Head Admissions Consultant at Prepstart, I led a team that successfully helped students gain admission to Top 20 schools like MIT, Cornell, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern . At Crimson Education, I perfected the art of personalized strategy. I help students discover their most meaningful stories before crafting compelling applications that have resulted in successful admission to Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, and many others. Having coached over 100 students, I am adept at navigating the admissions process from high school freshman year to college matriculation by creating precise roadmaps for profile development. In addition to domestic students, I have worked with internationals from China, South Korea, South Africa, The UAE, and many others. I understand how to help students stand out within their context. Let's work together to create a standout application that gets you where you want to go.

Rufaro can help with:

Financial Aid & Scholarships

Editing

Recommendations

Interviews

Waitlist Strategy

School Selection

Secondary Review

Application Strategy

Essays

Resume

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Work Experience

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Co-Founder

The Laundry Company

May 2024 - Present

Hiring Manager

Changing the face of laundry with innovative pickup and delivery services for personal and commercial clients. Building a team of innovators to build out the client facing tech interface as well as the logistics, and processing plant infrastructure.

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ESL Admissions and Career Mentor

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April 2022 - Present

My clients have been admitted everywhere from top prep schools like Phillips Academy Andover, to MBA programs at Duke and MIT, to jobs at Google, Samsung, and Coupang. I worked with students and professionals from non-English speaking backgrounds to optimize their undergraduate and graduate school applications for top US universities.

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Strategy Consultant

Crimson Education

November 2023 - March 2025

I helped students gain admission to Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, NYU, the UCs and other Top 20 colleges by guiding them through personalized admissions roadmaps. I have extensive experience helping both domestic and international students get into at least one of the top 3 schools.

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Head Admissions Consultant

PrepStart

October 2020 - August 2023

Hiring Manager

I managed a team working closely with students and parents to create and implement personalized test preparation and college admissions strategies. In the process, we helped students into Top 20 schools like Cornell, Vanderbilt, and Northwestern, as well as their own personal 'reach' schools.

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International Recruitment Manager

ApplyBoard

April 2022 - December 2022

My main responsibilities in this role included initiating and maintaining partnerships with university admissions departments to develop a recruitment and scholarship pipeline, onboarding and managing international admissions agents, and utilizing CRM tools to better the client experience, leading to a smoother journey for global talent applying to leading universities in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

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Educational and Admissions Associate

Buckingham, Browne, and Nichols

January 2021 - July 2021

Admissions Committee

In this role, my goal was to provide academic support and advising to students at a top 30 private school in the US. In addition to this responsibility, I helped coordinate the school's recruiting, admissions events, and campus tours.

Education

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Harvard University

B.A., Government

2016 - 2020

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