Ross

US College Admissions

Ross has over 15 years' experience as an applications consultant, specialising in Ivy League and Ivy-adjacent universities in North America and Oxbridge in the UK.

Ross McElwain

Ross has over 15 years' experience as an applications consultant, specialising in Ivy League and Ivy-adjacent universities in North America and Oxbridge in the UK. As well as adopting a bespoke approach to helping students and parents hone a shortlist of target schools, he is a personal statement/Common App personal essay expert and can guarantee to help applicants put their best feet forward with these most important pieces of writing. Additionally, he is highly experienced in the design and shepherding of longer-term Leadership projects and supercurriculars.

Ross has worked with hundreds of mentees over the last 15 years. He has helped both undergraduate and postgraduate applicants to gain places at prestigious institutions on both sides of the Atlantic, including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Cornell, NYU and USC, and Oxford, Cambridge, St Andrews, LSE, Imperial, INSEAD, Bocconi and ESADE.

A graduate of Cambridge University and currently the Director of a publishing company, he has expertise in a very broad range of fields, with particular specialisms in high-demand subject areas, including Computer Science, Business, International Relations, Sociology and Filmmaking. He has helped numerous applicants to develop distinctive Leadership and Supercurricular projects in these areas, often over a span of several years.

With a wealth of experience in the related field of standardised tests, he is also able to advise on the best approach to the SAT, ACT, GMAT, GRE and school-specific tests such as the Bocconi test.

Areas of Expertise

  • US College Admissions
  • Computer Science
  • Business
  • International Relations
  • Sociology Filmmaking