I founded Compass College Advisory based on the research of my doctoral program at Stanford, combined with my mom intuition. There isn’t anything else I would be doing . . . it’s truly my calling.
Not only am I a first generation college-student, I’m a first generation high school graduate. My mom finished 8th grade and my dad finished 10th so they did not know how to guide me through high school. My mother desperately wanted me to stay at home and commute to a local college. She had never heard of Stanford and having her “baby” that far from home was unthinkable.
What if my mother didn’t allow me to go away to college because it was a college that was a) too far away and b) she had never heard of it?
I vowed that I would never let this happen to anyone else again.
When I became a mom, I was obsessed with schooling and learning everything I could to help them navigate the education systems. This obsession got so bad that I returned to Stanford to get my doctorate degree in Education.
Fellow parents saw my success with finding my children the right out-of-school programs, advocating with teachers, and disciplining my children with grace. When parents asked me to help them, I developed a program that was based on the research of my doctoral program combined with my mom intuition.
Once my initial students were admitted to their top choice colleges AND getting big scholarship money, I knew it wasn’t a fluke. I had perfected my process and I decided that day to help as many families as I possibly could crack the code on getting in and getting money for college.