About Us
Welcome to Emerson Educational Consulting
At Emerson Educational Consulting, we are committed to helping students and graduate school candidates find and apply to colleges and universities where they will be academically successful and happy.
We prioritize getting to know our students, and understanding their goals so that we can provide specific, meaningful and personalized guidance. There are lots of great schools out there, including some that are right for you. You are more than a transcript and a standardized test score; let’s work together to turn your two-dimensional applications into showcases for your three-dimensional personality.
Who is Emerson Educational Consulting?
Our Philosophy
Your college years should be a time for exploration and new experiences. In the words of Dr. J. S. Lehman, former Cornell president: “May you frequently travel beyond the places that are comfortable and familiar, the better to appreciate the miraculous diversity of life.” We enjoy helping students find exciting and challenging places in which to do this.
Why Students and Candidates Work With Us
Students seek help from EEC for all different reasons. Some want specific guidance on an issue or two; others seek guidance throughout the application process, or even earlier. Applying to college or graduate school can be overwhelming; students work with us to minimize stress and maximize results.
Community Involvement
As a first generation college student, Marilyn is proud to mentor students at the Possibility Project, a New York City based non-profit focused on empowering at-risk teenagers to take control of their future.
What Sets Us Apart?
Over 20 years of experience
We research and think strategically about the best colleges and universities for each applicant
We provide the most up-to-date information
We work only on the college and graduate school admission process
We consistently deliver exceptional service with extremely high standards.
Meet Marilyn
As a recognized expert in the field of educational consulting, Marilyn presents workshops all over the world on the college application process. She has taught university classes about college and graduate school consulting.
Marilyn has contributed as an expert to several publications, including The New York Times, Fox Business, Time, Businessweek, Newsweek and USA Today. She has also appeared on Fox News.
As a former president of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA), she is highly involved with IECA activities. She served as a board member for eight years and continues to serve as a mentor.
Marilyn holds a B.A. from Queens College as well as an M.S.W. in family counseling from Fordham University School of Social Work. In her spare time, Marilyn enjoys traveling, reading mystery novels, and playing Scrabble.
For a more complete list of her accomplishments, see her page on LinkedIn.
Marilyn Is A Member Of:
We visit colleges to help you find schools where you will feel
comfortable learning, eating and playing.
- Amherst
- Babson
- Bates
- Bentley
- Boston College
- Boston University
- Bowdoin
- Brandeis
- Brown
- Bryant
- Champlain
- Chester
- Clark
- Colby
- Colby-Sawyer
- College of the Holy Cross
- Curry
- Daniel Webster
- Dartmouth
- Dean
- Emerson
- Endicott
- Franklin Pierce
- Harvard
- Johnson & Wales RI
- Keene State
- Lesley
- Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT)
- Middlebury
- Museum School (Boston)
- New England
- Northeastern
- Plymouth State
- Providence
- Rivier
- RI School of Design
- Roger Williams
- Salve Regina
- Simmons
- Smith
- Southern NH
- St. Anselm
- Stonehill
- Tufts
- U New Hampshire
- U Rhode Island
- Wellesley
- Wheaton
- Williams
- Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI)
- Albertus Magnus
- Bard
- Barnard
- Baruch
- Bloomfield
- Caldwell
- Centenary
- City College of NY
- Colgate
- College of St Elizabeth
- Columbia
- Connecticut
- Cooper Union
- Cornell
- Culinary Institute of America
- CUNY – Hunter
- Drew
- Fairfield
- Fairleigh Dickinson
- Fordham at Lincoln Center
- Fordham University – Rose Hill
- Georgian Court
- Hamilton
- Hartwick
- Hobart & William Smith
- Hofstra
- Hunter
- Ithaca
- Manhattan
- Manhattanville
- Marist
- Marymount Manhattan
- Mitchell
- Monmouth
- Mt. St. Mary’s
- New School
- Pace
- Pratt
- Princeton
- Quinnipiac
- Rensselaer
- Rider
- Rochester Institute of Technology
- Rowan
- Rutgers
- Sacred Heart
- Saint Peter’s
- School of Visual Arts (NYC)
- Seton Hall
- Siena
- Skidmore
- Southern CT State
- St. John’s
- Stevens Institute of Technology
- SUNY Albany
- SUNY Binghamton
- SUNY Cortland
- Syracuse
- Trinity (CT)
- Union
- U at Albany (SUNY)
- U Conn
- U Hartford
- U New Haven
- U Rochester
- Vassar
- Wagner
- Wells
- Wesleyan
- Allegheny
- American
- Arcadia
- Bryn Mawr
- Bucknell
- Carnegie Mellon
- Cedar Crest
- Chestnut Hill
- Christopher Newport
- Delaware State
- DeSales
- Dickinson
- Drexel
- Duquesne
- Franklin and Marshall
- Gannon
- George Mason
- George Washington
- Georgetown
- Gettysburg
- Goldney-Beacom College
- Goucher
- Grove City
- Hampden-Sydney
- Haverford
- Hood
- Johns Hopkins
- Lafayette
- LaSalle
- Lehigh
- Loyola (MD)
- Lynchburg
- Marquette
- Mary Baldwin
- McDaniel
- MD Institute College of Art
- Mercyhurst
- Moravian
- Muhlenberg
- Notre Dame of Maryland U
- Old Dominion
- Philadelphia
- Pine Manor
- Randolph-Macon
- Roanoke
- Stevenson
- Swarthmore
- Sweet Briar
- Towson
- U of the Arts
- U Delaware
- U Pennsylvania
- U Pittsburgh
- U Richmond
- U of the Sciences
- U Scranton
- U Virginia
- Ursinus
- Villanova
- Virginia Commonwealth
- Virginia Tech
- Washington & Jefferson
- Washington & Lee
- Washington
- Westminster
- Widener
- William and Mary
- Agnes Scott
- Anderson U
- Barry
- Baylor
- Beacon
- Birmingham Southern
- Centre College
- Clemson
- College of Charleston
- Converse
- Davidson
- Duke
- Eckerd
- Elon
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical
- Emory
- Fisk
- Flagler
- FL Institute of Technology
- Florida Southern
- Florida State
- Full Sail
- Furman
- Georgia Tech
- Guilford
- High Point U
- Jacksonville
- Johnson & Wales NC
- Loyola (New Orleans)
- Louisiana State U.
- Lynn
- Mercer
- Morehouse
- Oglethorpe
- Oxford (Emory)
- Palm Beach Atlantic
- Rhodes
- Rice
- Rollins
- Saint Leo
- Savannah College of Art & Design
- Sewanee – U of the South
- Southern Methodist University (SMU)
- Southwestern
- Spelman
- St. Mary’s
- Stetson
- Texas Christian University
- Transylvania
- Tulane
- U Florida
- U Kentucky
- U Miami
- UNC Chapel Hill
- UNC Charlotte
- U New Orleans
- U South Carolina
- U South Florida
- U Tampa
- U Texas Austin
- Vanderbilt
- Wake Forest
- Winthrop
- Wofford
- Xavier U. Louisiana
- Antioch
- Austin College
- Ball State
- Baylor
- Belmont
- Beloit
- Carleton
- Case Western Reserve
- College of Wooster
- Columbia College
- Denison
- DePaul
- DePauw
- Dillard
- Gustavus Adolphus
- Hillsdale
- Hiram
- Indiana U – Bloomington
- Illinois Wesleyan
- John Carroll
- Kent State
- Kenyon
- Lake Forest
- Lawrence
- Loyola (Chicago)
- Macalester
- Marietta
- Miami (OH)
- Minneapolis College of Art and Design
- Mt. St. Joseph
- Northwestern
- Northwood
- Oberlin
- Ohio U
- Ohio Wesleyan
- Otterbein
- Purdue U
- Ripon
- Saint Louis U
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago
- Shepherd
- St. Olaf
- U Akron
- U Chicago
- U Cincinnati
- U Dayton
- U Illinois Chicago
- U Illinois Urbana-Champagne
- U Michigan
- U Minnesota
- U Notre Dame
- U Ohio
- U Wisconsin (Madison)
- Washington U in St. Louis
- Wittenberg
- Xavier U. Ohio
- Air Force Academy
- Arizona State
- Cal Tech
- Chapman
- Claremont McKenna
- Colorado College
- Colorado School of Mines
- Colorado State
- DeVry (AZ)
- Harvey Mudd
- Menlo
- Mills
- Occidental
- Olympic Training Center
- Pitzer
- Pomona
- Prescott
- Regis (CO)
- Scripps
- Stanford
- U Arizona
- UC Berkeley
- UCLA
- UC San Diego
- U Colorado – Boulder
- U Denver
- U Hawaii – Manoa
- U Northern Arizona
- U Northern Colorado
- U Puget Sound
- U San Diego
- U San Francisco
- U Seattle
- U Southern California (USC)
- U Washington
Global College Visits
Canada
- Acadia University
- Brock University
- Cape Breton University
- Dalhousie University
- Humber College
- Laurentian University
- McGill University
- Mount St. Vincent University
- Nova Scotia College of Art and Design
- Ryerson University
- St. Francis Xavier University
- St. Mary’s University
- Universite Sainte-Anne
- University of British Columbia
- University of Guelph
- University of King’s College
- University of Toronto
- University of Waterloo
- Western University
- Wilfrid Laurier University
- York University
- Queens University
England and Wales
- Cambridge University
- Cardiff University
- Imperial College of London
- Kings College London
- London School of Economics
- London South Bank University
- Royal Holloway
- Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama
- Swansea University
- University College London
- University for Creative Arts
- University London
- University of Derby
- University of Exeter
- University of Oxford
- University of Westminster
Hong Kong
- University of Hong Kong
- Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
Switzerland
- Cesar Ritz Colleges
- Culinary Arts Academy
- Hotel Institute Montreux
- School of Hotel Management (IHTTI)
- Swiss Hotel Management School
Panama
- The University of Panama
- Florida State University – Republic of Panama
Scotland
- University of Dundee
- University of Edinburgh
- University of Glasgow
- University of St. Andrews
Singapore
- Nanyang Technological University
- National University of Singapore
Ireland
- Trinity College Dublin, the University of Dublin
Argentina
- University of Buenos Aires
China
- Sun Yat-sen University
Netherlands
- University of Amsterdam
New Zealand
- University of New Zealand
Thank You Notes
We work with students worldwide
212-671-1972|914-747-1760
advice@emersonec.com
Office addresses:
Manhattan: 60 East 49th Street
Scarsdale: 2 Overhill Road
Mailing address:
860 United Nations Plaza
New York, NY 10017
