Sally Rubenstone

Senior College Counselor and Contributing Editor

Sally Rubenstone knows the competitive and often convoluted college admission process inside out: from the first time that "C" word comes up at the dinner table, until the last duffel bag is unloaded on a dorm-room floor. She is the co-author of Panicked Parents Guide to College Admissions; The Transfer Student's Guide to Changing Colleges; and The International Student's Guide to Going to College in America. Sally has appeared on NBC’s Today program and has been quoted in countless publications, including The New York Times, The Washington Post, People, USA Weekend, USA Today, Newsweek, and Seventeen.

Sally has viewed the admissions world from many angles: as a Smith College admission counselor for 15 years, an independent advisor serving students from disadvantaged backgrounds and a keynote speaker at parent nights and community events. She also taught language arts, social studies, study skills, and test preparation in 10 schools, including American international schools in London, Paris, Geneva, Athens, and Tel Aviv. Since joining forces with College Confidential in 2002, Sally has helped hundreds of students make careful college matches and to showcase their strengths in their applications.

While Sally has been dispensing advice to anxious families for more than two decades, she only became a first-time mother herself 10 years ago, at the ripe old age of 45. Now, as a "senior-citizen 4th-grade room mother," she admits that, if her knowledge and experience don't see her through her son's college admission experience when the time arrives, she hopes that senility will.

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