In the college admissions process, the interview is the final step and one students tend to dread. It's the one moment that can't be revised or done for them — just the student, the interviewer, and a few questions that suddenly feel enormous.

Here's what I learned on the other side of that table as an admissions interviewer for both Stanford and Duke: the students who did well were simply prepared to be themselves. And that calm isn't luck; it's practice. Saying the words out loud, before it counts, with someone who knows what an interviewer is really listening for.

That's what I do — real mock interviews, honest feedback, and the reps it takes to walk in steady and sound like themselves. No script, no rotating team of counselors: just me, working with each student until the part they dread becomes the part they're ready and excited for.