Lynn Zerbib
I graduated from Yale University in 1991 with a degree in American Studies. At Yale, I was captain of the women’s tennis team and was the first Yale tennis player to be “All Ivy” all four years. I grew up in Larchmont, NY and attended Mamaroneck High School, where I played on the boys’ tennis team.
After college, I worked at Court TV in New York City for six years. As Vice President of Media Relations, I served as the network’s spokesperson during several high-profile trials, including the O.J. Simpson trial. I subsequently attended Columbia Business School. After graduating from business school with a marketing concentration in 2000, I worked at ABC, where I was responsible for bringing interactive TV to viewers of Sunday Night Football, The Academy Awards, The View, and the presidential election.
When I settled back in my hometown to raise my family, I assisted friends and family with their applications to summer internships, private schools, college, and graduate school. After helping a tennis player navigate the college process, I decided to transition to a career in independent college counseling. I received a certificate from UCLA’s College Counseling program and am a member of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC).
I have helped students throughout the country with the college admissions process. Before starting my own college counseling company, I worked as a college counselor at Breakaway Prep (formerly Collegewise) in White Plains for five years. My students have been accepted at a wide variety of schools, including Harvard, Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Brown, University of Pennsylvania, Cornell, Duke, Amherst, Williams, Tufts, University of Michigan, Wash U, Johns Hopkins, UVA, Middlebury, Colgate, Boston College, Vanderbilt, Northwestern, University of California Berkeley, Barnard, Oberlin, MIT, Emory, Tulane, Lehigh, SUNY Binghamton, Bucknell, Colby, Hamilton, and more.
Because of my background as a college athlete, I have worked with recruited and club athletes in many sports. However, most of my students have a wide range of interests and are entrepreneurs, artists, dancers, musicians, debaters, magicians, actors, and even palm readers. I have helped students apply to an array of programs, including business, computer science, engineering, exercise science, education, and traditional liberal arts.
I am a strong proponent of providing underserved students with access to college counseling and have volunteered with several not-for-profit organizations. I provided college preparatory workshops at the White Plains Youth Group’s Summer Career Academy, which serves at-risk high school students. I also volunteered at Let’s Get Ready in White Plains, which provides low-income high school students with free SAT preparation, admissions counseling, and other support services to help them gain admission to and graduate from college. From 2017-2022, I served on the board of directors of the Mamaroneck-Larchmont Student Aid Fund, which provides need-based college scholarships to Mamaroneck High School students.
I live in Larchmont, NY where my three children all attended Mamaroneck High School. My oldest daughter graduated from Yale University and is currently a first-year medical student at the Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai. My second daughter graduated from Bates College, where she was a recruited field hockey player; she is a Teach for America Fellow at Neighborhood Charter School in Harlem. My son is a sophomore at Yale majoring in Global Affairs. In my free time, I enjoy playing paddle, reading, watching Netflix, and spending time with friends.
Essay Specialists
Andrea Cohane
Andrea has experience working with students on essays for college, boarding school, and graduate school. She's a former attorney and recently co-authored a book: Paint Your Blue: A Celebration of Life with Hope for Tomorrow in the Face of Pediatric Cancer. She received a degree in Economics from Cornell University and a J.D. from Fordham Law School.
Kristina Dell
Kristina has worked as a staff writer and then editor at TIME Magazine covering business, law, and education, where she edited personal essays and opinion pieces for Time.com. She has also been an editor at Newsweek, where she ran its education website and edited personal essays. She worked at Yahoo News covering politics and as a Wall Street Journal contributor covering tennis. She’s a former attorney and has helped students edit essays for college and law school applications. She received a degree in History from Yale University and a J.D. from the University of Virginia School of Law.
Molly Katz
Molly is a former senior editor and lead writer at McKinsey, where she shaped executive thought leadership and long-form storytelling for senior business leaders. She now runs an independent editorial consultancy, drawing on a background in advertising and brand copywriting and works with students on college and private-school admissions essays. She received a degree in Marketing from McGill University.