College Counseling Services

Daniella assesses and enhances her students’ college qualifications, including curriculum and course selection, academic enrichment, standardized testing, extracurricular activities, community service, summer programs, jobs, and internships to make her students stand out from a sea of applicants.

Daniella guides her students to select a college major that highlights their academic and creative strengths and correlates with their passions and career interests.

Daniella advises students regarding applying Early Decision, Early Action, Rolling Admission, or Regular Decision to optimize their likelihood of acceptance to their preferred colleges. For each college, she analyzes whether the student should submit SAT or ACT test scores or apply test-optional, and which AP and IB test scores to submit, if any. Daniella also works with her students to strategically select a preferred term, college major, and alternative major for each college.

Daniella helps her students complete college applications on the Common App and other application platforms in a way that showcases their “it factor.” She reviews all sections of the applications for completeness and accuracy before submission.

Daniella compiles a list of potential colleges for her students taking into consideration academic rigor, college rankings, preferred major, acceptance rates, admitted student profiles, location, student-body size, campus life, social scene, sports, special interests, Greek life, diversity, religious preferences, housing options, and financial considerations. Working together with the student and parents, Daniella guides her students to formulate a final college list comprised of a balance of reach, target, and safety schools.

Daniella helps her students stay on track to meet college application deadlines and submit supporting materials (e.g., letters of recommendation, standardized test scores, school reports, and transcripts) on time.

Daniella assists her students with writing a compelling personal college essay that captures the reviewer’s attention, reflects the student’s authentic voice, and demonstrates strong writing skills.

Daniella helps her students draft a college resume and list of extracurricular, work, internship, and community service activities that demonstrates their leadership, stick-to-it-iveness, passions, service, and the all important “it factor.”

Daniella advises her students with writing customized supplemental essays that demonstrate her students’ fit and desire to attend their preferred colleges.

Daniella helps her students procure glowing letters of recommendation from teachers, counselors, and mentors highlighting their academic strengths, passions, good character, leadership, and likeability so that admissions committees take notice. She works with them to strategically select the recommenders, put together supporting “brag” materials, and communicate with the recommenders to get it done.

Daniella guides her students to ensure that each college application is complete and that all supporting documents (e.g., letters of recommendation, transcripts, standardized test scores, counselor reports, etc.) are submitted on time. Daniella also guides her students with self-reporting grades through SSAR and on college portals to ensure accuracy where it really matters.

Daniella helps her students demonstrate interest in colleges, prepare for college interviews, make the most of college visits, and respond to college communications, which can make all the differences for students to gain admission to their dream schools. ​Daniella also advises students to optimize their admission chances if they are deferred or waitlisted, including writing persuasive letters of continued interest and submitting updated information.

Daniella specializes in assisting students with gaining admission to selective Florida colleges. Her students have been accepted to public and private universities throughout Florida, including the University of Florida, University of Miami, Florida State University, University of Central Florida, Florida International University, Nova Southeastern University, Florida Gulf Coast University, Florida Atlantic University, University of South Florida, Florida Institute of Technology, and Florida Polytechnic University.

Daniella guides her students to obtain high school accommodations and to decide whether and how to disclose a disability and apply for accommodations in college.

Daniella assists students who are interested in majoring or minoring in art, music, or theatre find colleges that are a strong fit. Her art students have been accepted to the Rhode Island School of Design, The Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, Parsons School of Design, Fashion Institute of Technology, The Savannah College of Art and Design, School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, and Massachusetts College of Art and Design, among others. Her music students have been accepted to Berklee School of Music, NYU Steinhardt for Music, and Syracuse University’s Bandier Program for Music and the Entertainment Industries.

Daniella assists high school students, college students, and recent college graduates with writing resumes that highlight their educational achievements, work experience, extracurricular activities, community service, and skills.