Lydia is a Yale graduate in Cognitive Science and an incoming PhD student in Computational Neuroscience and AI at the Max Planck Society. With over eight years of experience, she has helped students gain admission to the most selective universities in the world, including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, and top liberal arts colleges.

She began her advising career as a top consultant at CollegeVine and CollegeAdvisor, where she worked with thousands of students worldwide, before launching her own practice. Known for her ability to help students find their voice, make meaningful connections across experiences, and write with clarity and originality, Lydia combines deep writing expertise with real-world experience as a published cognitive science researcher and AI communications lead.

What sets Lydia apart is her emphasis on teaching students how to create opportunities that stand out. As a student, she used cold outreach to publish in Teen Vogue in high school and to secure an internship that Apple created specifically for her in college — all without connections or geographic advantages. She now passes on those strategies, showing students how to design meaningful projects, affect real change wherever they are, and translate those experiences into powerful applications. With her unique background in communications, writing, and science, Lydia helps students stand out not only from other applicants, but also from those working with more formulaic admissions services.