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Ashley Yingling
Ashley has experience on both sides of college placement, working for the admissions offices of highly competitive colleges and guiding families through the application process as a high school counselor in Virginia.
From 2018 to 2021, Ashley worked for the undergraduate admissions office at Stanford University as a freshman and transfer admissions reader. Prior to her position with Stanford, Ashley worked two years as an adjunct admissions reader for Dartmouth College. Ashley began her career in educational admissions as an Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at American University in Washington DC.
In her roles at Stanford, Dartmouth, and American, Ashley reviewed and evaluated thousands of undergraduate applications, gaining firsthand knowledge about the competitive placement process and how students get noticed by admissions deans.
Ashley also has extensive experience working with students as a school counselor and educational advisor. She spent several years working in Virginia’s public schools (Broad Run High School and Albemarle High School) as a counselor, advising students and parents on the college admissions process. Ashley also worked at the Jack Kent Cooke Foundation as an academic advisor, facilitating academic and extracurricular opportunities for merit and need based high school scholarship recipients. Finally, Ashley worked as an assistant coordinator for academic programs at Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth, coordinating summer enrichment programs for gifted high school students.
Ashley holds a Master of Education in School Counseling and graduated Phi Beta Kappa with a Bachelor of Arts in Political Science from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. She is an associate member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) and a member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC).