Hannah Borum

Hannah brings a rare combination of experience, expertise, and energy to the long-lasting relationships she establishes with students, families, and schools. Her multi-hyphenate status within education includes: private tutor, admissions consultant, standardized test prep instructor and content writer, published scholastic author, artistic portfolio advisor, athletic recruitment liaison, foreign visa application facilitator. She employs her versatility of knowledge and life experience to the finest point, relating to students as a dynamic role-player with their best interest at heart. Fuelled by a passion for multidisciplinary learning, Hannah has a knack for pushing students to unlock and prove their potential beyond even their own expectations. Since 2004, she has helped more than 1,500 students from the US, Europe, Asia, and the Middle East to gain admission to their top choice K-12, undergraduate, and graduate schools. What unites this wide population of pupils is that they thrive and succeed, whether at Stanford, Yale, Brown, Georgetown, M.I.T., Harvard Business School, or Johns Hopkins School of Medicine.

Hannah has a BA in English and Comparative Literature from Columbia University. She has developed a comprehensive, highly-effective methodology for the college application process, which includes managing expectations, setting a timeline with specific goals years in advance, and coaching students (and parents) through every step along the way. Hannah takes advantage of the intense pressure inherent to the process to motivate students to raise their own stakes so that they reach a higher threshold when the time comes. This mindset and approach came to perfect fruition for one of Hannah’s longtime students during the harshest year of college admissions to date. While her student received an admissions offer as an Echols Scholar to the University of Virginia, Hannah encouraged her student to dig deep while she composed letters of continued interest to the 9 schools at which she was waitlisted. In late July, she received an offer to join Duke University’s Class of 2026!