Jill Margaret Shulman, author of College Admissions Cracked: Saving Your Kid (and Yourself) from the Madness, is a college admissions expert offering a low-stress, empowering approach to success. The founder of In Other Words, a college essay coaching service, she has counseled students applying to a wide array of colleges and has also evaluated thousands of applications for top college admissions offices. Shulman has taught writing at The New School, City University of New York, and NYU and has been featured in Forbes, the LA Times, The New York Times, and Parents.

She combines her experience as a teacher, writer, admissions insider, and empathetic parent to ease anxiety for students and families. She lives in Amherst, Massachusetts. n