Our Mission
We believe that all students who would benefit from graduate school and living in the United States should have the opportunity to do so. The specific obstacles of applying to graduate school can be confusing, especially for international students. This should not stop them from living their dreams. We are here to make sure that they get the opportunities they deserve.
Our Team
Associate Professor of Philosophy
Dr. George Tsai is currently a Philosophy Professor and the Director of Graduate Studies at at the University of Hawaii.
He received his graduate education at Stanford (M.A. studies) and UC Berkeley (PhD in Philosophy), and his undergraduate education at Amherst College. He received the Rhodes Scholar nomination from Amherst College, where he graduated Summa Cum Laude (top 3%). After receiving his BA in Economics and Philosophy, he worked in the Investment Banking Division at Morgan Stanley.
He has held academic appointments in Australia, Germany, and the United States. He has successfully placed students into institutions including: Chicago, Yale, Princeton, Brown, Duke, Rice, Harvard, Columbia, Tulane, Colorado, Notre Dame, Michigan, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Georgetown, Northwestern, Texas, Pittsburgh, Johns Hopkins, UC San Diego, Berkeley, UCLA, Stanford, and Yale.
As a first-generation college student, and an immigrant from Taiwan, Dr. Tsai draws on both his own academic journey and his many years of experience helping students get into the most selective higher education institutions in the United States.
Over the past 20 years, Dr. Tsai has worked with hundreds of students. He has been featured as a graduate admissions expert and speaker in public and private institutions in the U.S., Hong Kong, and Taiwan.
Associate Professor of
Environmental Science
Dr. Yancey Orr has over 20 years of consulting high school and college students for admissions into undergraduate and graduate programs in North America, Australia and Europe.
He has placed students in such institutions as Harvard, Yale, Stanford and The University of Chicago among many prestigious schools in both Australia and the United States.
His clients have received full funding for undergraduate, graduate, and professional schools from programs such as the Fulbright Scholarship and Australian Research Council.
Dr. Orr is currently a professor at Smith College, a private liberal arts college in the United States, and has held academic appointments in the United States, Canada, Australia and France.
He graduated early from Yale University with his BA and received a MA, also from Yale, an MA from UC Berkeley and a PhD from the University of Arizona.
He has received fellowships from the National Science Foundation and the Ford Foundation.
