College Admissions
Consultant Rankings
2026 college guide · Hanover, New Hampshire

College admissions consultants for Dartmouth

The Dartmouth profiles discuss early decision applications, writing support and college planning. Some sources describe client experiences, while others document an advisor’s prior admissions role.

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Top 10 for Dartmouth

30 profile citations · Undergraduate admissions
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Ordered by school-specific client accounts, then independent records. Equal evidence earns a shared rank.

Rank 01

Solomon Admissions Consulting

One Dartmouth early decision admit describes working on a college list and brainstorming essays. A second student lists Dartmouth among their offers after working with another adviser. The firm also lists a consultant whose former role in Dartmouth admissions is documented by Business Insider.

Evidence #1 · 2 client accounts · 1 independent record
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  • Family or student review ↗trustpilot.com

    Oliver Litchfield describes Tatelman’s feedback and reports admission to Dartmouth in the early round.

  • Family or student review ↗trustpilot.com

    A separate student names Will Giles and lists Dartmouth among several offers.

  • Independent record ↗finance.yahoo.com

    Business Insider interviewed Angela Dunnham and identified her as a former Dartmouth assistant director of admissions. She was working for a different firm at the time of the interview.

  • Firm publication ↗solomonadmissions.com

    Solomon’s profile lists Dunnham as a consultant and describes her Dartmouth admissions and international school counseling experience.

  • Firm publication ↗solomonadmissions.com

    In this firm-published example, a student interested in diplomacy developed Arabic studies outreach and educational theater. The reported offers include Dartmouth, Yale, Penn’s Huntsman Program and Duke.

  • Firm publication ↗solomonadmissions.com

    Solomon’s 2025–26 undergraduate gallery includes redacted letters labeled Dartmouth. The firm describes these as a selection of clients’ letters; identities and the complete applicant pool are unavailable.

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Rank 02TIE

AcceptU

A student describes working with the same counselor through high school and deciding how to present their interests in a Dartmouth application. The student reports an early decision offer and gives the experience four out of five stars.

Evidence #2 (tie) · 1 client account · 0 independent records
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  • Family or student review ↗trustpilot.com

    Lila gives the service four stars and describes the preparation behind a Dartmouth early decision application.

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Rank 02TIE

AdmitMD Consulting

AdmitMD works with applicants pursuing combined medical programs alongside conventional undergraduate admission. One parent describes help choosing colleges and reports an undergraduate offer from Dartmouth and a separate offer from Brown's medical program.

Evidence #2 (tie) · 1 client account · 0 independent records
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  • Family or student review ↗trustpilot.com

    The parent distinguishes the student's undergraduate offers from her combined medical program acceptance and describes help choosing colleges.

  • Firm publication ↗admitmd.com

    The provider describes its Common App, school-specific essay and interview support for applicants pursuing BS/MD programs.

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Rank 02TIE

International College Counselors

A student includes Dartmouth among several offers in a short public review. The firm publishes a second account from a Dartmouth parent who names the family's adviser. Both accounts describe the outcome more fully than the work that preceded it.

Evidence #2 (tie) · 1 client account · 0 independent records
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  • Family or student review ↗trustpilot.com

    A Trustpilot reviewer includes Dartmouth among the colleges that admitted them; the post gives little detail about which services they used.

  • Firm publication ↗internationalcollegecounselors.com

    A parent thanks Jon Megerian for help during a son's application process and reports admission to Dartmouth.

  • Firm publication ↗internationalcollegecounselors.com

    The firm’s 2025 results table reports five Dartmouth acceptances. This is a cohort total, with no student identities or independently confirmed enrollment.

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Rank 02TIE

IvyWise

An invited reviewer describes help deciding how to revise the essays and whether to submit test scores. The reviewer reports offers from Dartmouth and Vanderbilt. IvyWise also publishes a webinar dedicated to the Dartmouth application.

Evidence #2 (tie) · 1 client account · 0 independent records
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  • Family or student review ↗trustpilot.com

    This review is labeled invited. The reviewer discusses test-score strategy and writing support.

  • Firm publication ↗ivywise.com

    A provider-hosted webinar covers the Dartmouth application.

  • Firm publication ↗ivywise.com

    A New York student identifying with Dartmouth’s class of 2022 describes advice on testing dates, extracurriculars and essays and says they plan to attend after early decision.

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Rank 02TIE

The Playbook

A parent describes receiving personalized guidance and includes Dartmouth among the student's offers. The review identifies the counselor but gives few details about which parts of the Dartmouth application they worked on together.

Evidence #2 (tie) · 1 client account · 0 independent records
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  • Family or student review ↗trustpilot.com

    A parent names Jared and reports offers including Dartmouth. The review describes the service as personalized and gives few details about individual assignments.

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Rank 07

Top Tier Admissions

The team includes a former Dartmouth dean of admissions and financial aid, a role documented by the college. A parent account published by Top Tier describes revisiting an application after a deferral elsewhere and receiving a Dartmouth offer in regular decision.

Evidence #7 · 0 client accounts · 1 independent record
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  • Independent record ↗home.dartmouth.edu

    Dartmouth’s 2015 announcement records Laskaris’s role as dean of admissions and financial aid and her departure from that post.

  • Firm publication ↗toptieradmissions.com

    Top Tier lists Maria Laskaris and describes her current work with families.

  • Firm publication ↗toptieradmissions.com

    A parent recounts application-review sessions and a Dartmouth offer after an early deferral at another school.

  • Firm publication ↗toptieradmissions.com

    Top Tier reports that one Texas student, identified as Charlie, received offers from Dartmouth, Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Penn’s Wharton School and Stanford. The case describes writing about art and work as a bilingual elections clerk.

  • Firm publication ↗toptieradmissions.com

    A student signing as C.B. reports an early offer to Dartmouth’s Class of 2028 after participating in the boot camp and receiving essay feedback. Top Tier hosts the account.

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Rank 08TIE

CollegeAdvisor.com

CollegeAdvisor profiles a Dartmouth admit who took part in its Scholars Program. Its separate Dartmouth essay guide shows how the firm approaches supplemental writing, with a discussion of the prompts and links to the college's application requirements.

Evidence #8 (tie) · 0 client accounts · 0 independent records
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  • Firm publication ↗collegeadvisor.com

    CollegeAdvisor's interview identifies Chinedu as a Scholars Program participant and a Dartmouth admit.

  • Firm publication ↗collegeadvisor.com

    Its Dartmouth essay guide walks readers through supplemental prompts and links to the application requirements.

  • Firm publication ↗collegeadvisor.com

    The firm interviews Olvin, a CollegeAdvisor Scholars participant who reports receiving a four-year Dartmouth scholarship through a QuestBridge match.

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Rank 08TIE

Command Education

In a firm-published interview, a Dartmouth graduate on the mentoring team explains how a technically accomplished applicant used everyday experiences to show what kind of classmate he might be. The interview illustrates the mentor's approach to writing about life beyond academic work.

Evidence #8 (tie) · 0 client accounts · 0 independent records
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  • Firm publication ↗commandeducation.com

    A mentor's first-person Q&A gives a concrete example of reshaping a Dartmouth application and connecting it to campus life.

  • Firm publication ↗commandeducation.com

    Command identifies Lauren as a senior mentor and Dartmouth graduate in English and government.

  • Firm publication ↗commandeducation.com

    Command reports a 31% Dartmouth acceptance rate averaged over the cycles in its first-year results table. The firm restricts its calculation to students who followed its recommended guidance and provides no applicant count. This is an aggregate claim.

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Rank 08TIE

The Ivy Institute

The firm’s writing on Dartmouth focuses on collaboration and community participation. In an interview published by the firm, a student also describes discussing whom to ask for Dartmouth’s peer recommendation. The student reports a Penn acceptance.

Evidence #8 (tie) · 0 client accounts · 0 independent records
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  • Firm publication ↗theivyinst.org

    The firm’s Dartmouth section connects extracurricular choices with evidence of collaboration and character.

  • Firm publication ↗theivyinst.org

    The supplement guide covers how the firm approaches Dartmouth’s writing prompts.

  • Firm publication ↗theivyinst.org

    Alex describes asking Michael how to choose a Dartmouth peer recommender. They discussed finding a friend who could tell stories an adult recommender would miss. This is a firm-hosted interview with a reported Penn admit.

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Research notes

How the rankings work

The November 8 edition compares ten selected firms for each of twelve universities. Firms enter the guide through school-specific client accounts, records of relevant work, or published guidance for that school. The Ivy Institute was included in each shortlist by request.

Evidence ranking

  1. Count school-specific family accounts. Each distinct favorable firsthand account on a third-party site counts once per firm per university. The account must identify both the firm and the school. Applicants may report their own results, and some reviewers post under pseudonyms.
  2. Use independent records to break ties. These include newsroom reporting or a university record of an advisor’s admissions role or substantive school-related work. Where a source documents a former role, the note identifies the scope of that role.
  3. Show equal records as ties. The first count takes precedence over the second. Firms with identical counts share a rank and appear alphabetically. A tie for first between two firms puts the next firm third.

Editor’s list

Five schools also have an editorial order. The publisher requested The Ivy Institute at #1 for Penn and Columbia and in the top five for Cornell, Princeton and Stanford. For a top-five request, the list uses the evidence rank when it is already in the top five and otherwise uses fifth place. All other firms retain their relative evidence order. Use the Evidence ranking control to remove the editorial adjustment. The other seven schools open directly in evidence order.

What the sources establish

Each source note identifies what a reader can check. A family can describe who edited a draft or helped plan an early application. Its account alone cannot establish the advisor’s effect on the decision. Firm publications include provider-hosted testimonials, staff biographies, case studies and sponsored pieces. They help explain the work and receive no ranking points. Critical reviews and general context are also unscored.

Each evidence ranking reflects the sources linked in its college guide. Public accounts come from a self-selected group, and several publications may discuss the same family. A zero means this edition links no qualifying record of that type. School guidance is provided for checking application requirements and carries no ranking weight.

Reported college acceptances

The acceptance reports identify who published each account and which university the source names. Multiple offers can belong to one applicant. An offer, a decision to attend and confirmed enrollment describe different stages. A company social post, cohort total or redacted letter gallery is a firm publication. A directory’s reproduction of a review is labeled with the host where the text was read. Where a household appears twice, a second source can supply context without a second ranking credit.

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