About College Match
College Match is the college placement firm that
provides a strategic coaching approach to college admission
that results in higher percentage of successful admissions,
scholarships and awards for students.
Click here to view client testimonials
Over the past 10 years, we have helped hundreds of clients identify and
gain acceptance to the best college or university. The results for our
clients are impressive: 95% of our clients get into at least one of
their top choice colleges and many receive scholarships and funding
as part of the admission process.
Click here to view 2005-2007 client admission results
Our Expertise
Dave Montesano; Admissions Strategist
Jaye J. Fenderson; Admission Consultant
Dana Ponte; Admission Consultant
Kenneth Davis; K-12 Consultant
Naren Murthy; Writing Associate
Paula Bishop; CPA & Certified College Planning Specialist
Steve Sandweiss; Entrance Exam Specialist
StudyPoint; Test Prep Partner
Dave Montesano
As an admissions strategist, Dave has helped hundreds of clients find and gain access to the best match undergraduate and graduate programs over the past 10 years. From offices in the US, Dave serves families with students who hope to attend college from a wide range of achievement levels and high school backgrounds.
Dave received an A.B. with honors from Occidental College in Los Angeles and attended Trinity College, Dublin on a Rotary Ambassadorial scholarship. He later attended Amsterdam Law School where he studied international law. He taught at Trinity College, Dublin and California College of the Arts before working as a strategy consultant for Booz, Allen & Hamilton in San Francisco after which he specialized in brand strategy, counseling clients on marketing and identity development.
Dave is the author of "Strategic College Admission", published in CollegeBound News (April, 2005). Profiled by Washington Post education writer, Jay Matthews, in Newsweek's "America's Hottest Colleges" (2005 edition) Dave was called a "new breed of college admission consultants who use business school marketing principles to sell students to their preferred college". Dave gets consistently high approval ratings from his clients and is a speaker for parent and school groups.
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Jaye J. Fenderson
Jaye J. Fenderson, Admission Consultant with College Match, helps clients focus on opportunities for each student's distinct advantage in the applicant pool. She helps students prepare and deliver college applications that capture these opportunities. Jaye's creative style and approach helps students develop their academic passions and extra-curricular talents early on, by identifying ways that students can make a difference in their communities, the larger world and more importantly, in their own lives.
Jaye attended Columbia University where she received a Bachelor of Arts in English and French. After college, Jaye served as senior admission officer at Columbia University, reading hundreds of applications each year as part of this Ivy League university's Undergraduate Admission Office. During her tenure in Columbia's Admission Office, she managed the Pacific Northwest, Midwest, and New York City recruiting areas. Jaye served as co-chair of Columbia's Southern California Alumni Recruiting Committee in 2003-04. While working at Columbia, Jaye recognized a need for greater awareness about the college admission process and decided to use the medium of entertainment to educate students and families about what it takes to get into college.
Dana Ponte
Dana Ponte, admission consultant for College Match, partners with domestic and international clients to find the best possible educational match. Dana graduated summa cum laude from the Clark Honors College at the University of Oregon with a degree in Russian studies. Dana then coached students around the country on college admission and wrote a teaching manual as a volunteer with Americorps. She later attended Harvard University where she earned her M.A. in Russian and Central Asian Studies. Dana currently assists in editing the scholarly journal Problems of Post-Communism, and serves on a Harvard University editorial committee on change in higher education through the University of London.
Dana is a member of the Overseas Association for College Admission Counseling and is working toward a Certificate in College Admission Counseling from U.C.L.A. Dana draws on her knowledge of the admissions process within these diverse institutions and her educational counseling experience to strategically guide students through this exciting and important decision-making process.
Kenneth Davis
Ken Davis, a K-12 consultant with College Match, provides options for parents seeking placement in boarding, day, and private schools. Ken's experience includes therapeutic school placement for clients struggling with educational challenges such as emotional growth and learning disabilities, as well as families looking at traditional boarding and private, day schools. Ken's work in this area helps parents obtain critical academic support and the best learning environment to suit a studentıs specific needs.
Ken visits a minimum of 50 programs and schools across the country each year to match students with the right learning environment. As a therapeutic recreation specialist and a former special education teacher, Ken is familiar with the options that exist for parents. Ken earned his Master of Arts in Education from Pepperdine University and holds a Bachelor of Science from Abilene Christian University. He is also a member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association, National Therapeutic Schools and Programs Association, and Small Boarding School Association.
Naren Murthy
Naren Murthy, Writing Associate with College Match, works with students on their essays. He received his masters in fine arts from the Iowa Writer's Workshop and graduated from UC Berkeley with a focus on comparative history of ideas. He currently teaches creative writing at a private school and tutors students of all ages in expository writing. A former research assistant at the Iowa Artshare Program, he was also a recipient of a writing grant from the Jerome Hill Foundation and was writer-in-residence at the Camargo Foundation in Cassis, France in 2005. He is currently working on a novel.
Paula Bishop
Paula is a Certified Public Accountant and a Certified College Planning Specialist. Her expertise is working with families to identify the best strategies for paying for college including, financial aid and scholarships.
Steve Sandweiss
Steve has been helping students prepare for entrance exams to college, grad school, law school, and business school since 1991. Steve's personalized approach to test preparation results in higher test scores on college and graduate school entrance tests.
StudyPoint
StudyPoint, a test prep partner offers academic tutoring and test prep including, K-12 math, science, study skills, foreign language and SAT/ACT in 10 cities nationwide.
For further information please contact:
david@collegematchus.com
1-877-658-4400
One of a new breed of college admissions consultants who use business school marketing principles to sell students to their preferred colleges.
