The College Advisor of NY is an Albany, New York-based admissions consulting firm providing services to New York City/Long Island students and nationwide college-bound students. In 2004, the firm was founded by Dr. Dean Skarlis, who has spent decades working in the educational sphere and conducted presentations at hundreds of colleges, universities, and high schools across the United States. He has written extensively about the college admissions process in many different nationwide publications.
About Company
The College Advisor of NY provides full-service college counseling for high school sophomores, juniors, and seniors. Generally, they work with students and parents for one to two years to help them gain admission to universities that fit them socially, academically, and financially. Also, the College Advisor of NY website indicates that their services improve acceptance rates, college graduation rates, client savings, overall satisfaction, enhanced peace of mind, better decision making, and save time for clients. Specifically, as part of their service, they offer college search assistance, essay coaching, deadline tracking, application critique, an online portal for enhanced user-friendliness, financial strategies, test preparation, high school course selection, parent coaching, campus visits, interview preparation, and other application assistance. Additionally, they offer consulting services to international students aspiring to study in the United States. Though they have amassed a team of admissions consultants with varied experience, few if any of their consultants have previous experience in the admissions offices of top colleges.
The College Advisor of New York Score
The College Advisor of New York Review
​It receives a 3 in web presence (Sixth-page Google organic rating). It receives a poor score of 1 with no verified, third-party reviews. It receives a 2 in results with no known information on outcomes. It receives a 0 in team quality with no identified college consultants. It receives a 4 in team size with eight college consultants. It receives a 5 in combined institutional experience with 38 years of industry experience. It receives a 0 as an educational influencer with 432 Twitter followers and 0 YouTube subscribers. Overall, The College Advisor of New York receives a poor score of 2.57 across all categories.