Bespoke College Admissions & Life Path Consulting for Future World Leaders
We help ambitious students craft original paths to college—and beyond.
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Welcome To The Edvisory
The Edvisory is the Ivy League of admissions consulting—but made personal, poetic, and powerfully bespoke. Founded by Harvard-trained researcher, educator, executive coach, and leadership expert Cathleen McCaffery, we blend strategy and soul to help creative, driven students unlock their purpose, discover their natural gifts, skills, and talents, and gain admission to their dream colleges and graduate programs.
We don’t just check boxes. We rewrite the whole playbook.
Our mission is to honor the full story of each student—offering transformational guidance rooted in psychology, spirituality, storytelling, and elite academic rigor. With our curated programs, immersive coaching, and concierge-level support, we help students not just get in—but light up from within, creating a life of success, happiness, and fulfillment on their own terms.
Elevating the collective consciousness of humanity, one student at a time.
Bespoke College and Graduate Admissions Consulting
Our most premium experience. The Roadmap is a white-glove, concierge-style consulting journey for families seeking personalized, elite admissions strategy with full access to Cathleen and The Edvisory’s top experts. Designed for students ready to approach their college admissions journey with clarity, purpose, and distinction starting as early as 8th grade through graduate school admissions.
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The Admissions Roadmap
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A narrative-driven 1:1 essay coaching experience designed to elevate a student’s voice, story, and confidence. Includes intensive essay support, storytelling coaching, and personal branding with Ivy League mentors who know what it takes to stand out and get in.
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explore the pathway
The Application Pathway
A transformative group experience for visionary students of all genders who are ready to own their narrative, refine their voice, and show up as the leader they already are. In just 5 weeks, students create a custom roadmap to acceptance at top-tier colleges, crafting a strategic extracurricular plan to implement throughout high school or college.
Next Cohort Opens Summer 2025. Join the Waitlist Now.
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ivy league queen™️ (formerly theme queen)
Write your way into top-tier colleges in 12 weeks—without needing a perfect GPA or stacked resume. This hybrid masterclass and mentorship program helps students craft unforgettable essays, develop a powerful personal narrative, and write with clarity, originality, and emotional resonance.
Next Cohort Opens Summer 2025. Join the Waitlist Now.
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The College Essay Experience
Hear from Rohan who is now attending Northwestern, even though he didn't believe he could get accepted!
Hear from Hana, the first student from her high school to get into Brown University and an Ivy League University!
Hear from our student, Evie, who is now attending her dream program, Plan II Honors at UT Austin as a Dedman Distinguished Scholar.
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Meet Cathleen McCaffery
Harvard alumni, researcher, writer, certified executive coach, and visionary behind The Edvisory, Cathleen has helped thousands of students unlock their unique path to success and gain admissions to top-tier colleges, leading with visionary resonance, intuitive clarity, and a gift for transformation.
With a background in English Literature and Creative Writing from USC, and advanced studies across Harvard’s Graduate School of Education, Business School, Law School, Divinity School, and Kennedy School, she has cultivated an interdisciplinary approach to consulting, coaching, and education that merges scholarship, soul, and strategy.
From researching ethics and character in higher education at Harvard to getting certified as an executive coach, Cathleen draws from a rare interdisciplinary foundation—spanning literature, practical theology, psychology, leadership development and business. Her signature approach doesn’t just get students accepted; it gets them seen.
Her work began with a simple insight—no one was asking students the deeper questions. The system was pushing them through applications without ever pausing to consider who they really were.
She created The Edvisory to be what the current system isn’t: personal, imaginative, and transformational. Her team now works with students all over the world—creatives, visionaries, and trailblazers—crafting custom paths to college and graduate school that are as original as they are successful.
The Edvisory’s team is curated from the world’s best institutions—experts who are not only academically accomplished, but also exceptional mentors, lifelong learners, and soulful educators. Our team brings together Ivy League alumni, educators, writers, and leadership coaches who understand what makes students extraordinary. We don’t just review résumés—we decode potential, activate purpose, and elevate vision.
Meet The Team
MEET Georgia
MEET anna
MEET SARAH
MEET hanna
MEET donald
Meet Sarah
Sarah graduated summa cum laude from Columbia University in 2014 with a degree in East Asian Languages and Cultures, focusing on Chinese language. She also completed one year of intensive Mandarin language training at Peking University in Beijing before earning her master's degree at the University of Cambridge in Chinese Studies. Sarah worked in Beijing for a leading Chinese e-commerce company and a popular internet media platform before committing herself to education full-time. While working in Beijing, she discovered her passion for education after successfully helping her boss' daughter gain acceptance to her dream university. Sarah works with highly motivated students from all over the world using a tailored approach to ensure cohesive, creative, and comprehensive applications. She is a strong believer in the importance of "fit" and very much enjoys helping each and every student applying to both boarding school and university reach his or her full potential!
MEET Georgia
MEET anna
MEET SARAH
MEET hanna
MEET donald
Meet Georgia
Georgia Soares is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at Harvard University, with a focus on 20th-century U.S., Brazilian, and French literatures. She holds a master’s in Comparative and International Education from the University of Oslo and a bachelor’s in English from the University of Southern California. At Harvard, she has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on French language and literature and African American Studies. Over the years, Georgia has also tutored high school and college students in support of their application to competitive undergraduate and graduate programs, in the U.S. and abroad.
MEET Georgia
MEET anna
MEET SARAH
MEET hanna
MEET donald
Meet Hanna
Hanna Fahsholtz graduated Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Southern California with a degree in Narrative Studies. She spent a year teaching in Madrid as a Fulbright scholar before working as an adjunct instructor at the USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism, where she led writing workshops for undergraduate students. Most recently, Hanna was accepted to graduate programs at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania and will start earning her master’s in UCLA’s Teacher Education Program this fall. She is thrilled to combine her passions for writing and education by empowering students to understand their stories and share them in authentic, compelling applications.
MEET Georgia
MEET anna
MEET SARAH
MEET hanna
MEET donald
Meet Anna
Anna Krakus holds a PhD in comparative literature from New York University and a BA in cultural studies from Stockholm University, Sweden, where she also completed two years of law school. She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses at New York University, the University of Southern California, and the University of Copenhagen in Denmark for over a decade helping students with their writing, creativity, and critical thinking skills. She has helped many students pursue graduate education by supporting their applications into PhD programs in the humanities, MA programs in education and administration, and law schools by writing letters for them as well as helping them with application materials. She has published one monograph and multiple academic articles. She is very familiar with the worlds of American and European higher education and loves working with students and big ideas.
MEET Georgia
MEET anna
MEET SARAH
MEET hanna
MEET donald
Meet Donald
Donald has an A.B. in English from Dartmouth College, and an MFA in Dramatic Writing from the University of Southern California. He's a Los Angeles-based writer, proudly hailing from Washington, D.C. As a playwright, Jolly wrote the historical drama bonded (nominated for the Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Playwriting and the GLAAD Media Award for Outstanding Los Angeles Theatre, and winner of the 2013 Arch and Bruce Brown Playwriting Award for LGBT Historical Plays). Jolly's playwriting has also been developed at Horizon Theatre Company, CalArts Celebration Theatre, Company of Angels, The Vagrancy, EST/LA, The Warehouse Theatre and Playwrights' Arena. He also teaches writing at Colorado College!
MEET Georgia
MEET anna
MEET SARAH
MEET hanna
MEET donald
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The Trailblazer’s Guide to College Admissions
On The Trailblazer’s Guide to College Admissions, you can expect strategies for navigating the college admissions process, stories from industry leaders that once felt lost in their pursuit of purpose and carved their own path, and insights from professionals at The Edvisory who have helped students through the process of self-discovery you or your child are currently on.
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