“There was no harm in taking aim, even if the target was a dream.” – John Knowles

Frances Kao Educational Consulting was created with the sole mission to help students manage and navigate through the complex and demanding application process for admission to top overseas universities and graduate schools. Frances Kao Educational Consulting achieves this goal by transforming, shaping and enriching the narratives written by applicants of their experiences to more clearly present themselves to the admissions committees. After practicing law for 5 years, Frances realized that the same story with the same character can be depicted in multifaceted and myriad of ways utilizing differing perspectives and highlights. Recognizing the principle that “although no one knows your story better than yourself, some can tell it better,” Frances aims to help those applicants who aspire to convert their personal and professional achievements into winning applications by emphasizing the unique aspects in each of their stories, optimizing these impressive but otherwise arbitrary laundry-list items, and strategically packaging them in the best and most authentic light to render an original work of art. In doing so, applicants retain their own individualistic flair and tone and the most important element of all in admissions: sincerity.

In order to come up with one-of-a-kind stories for each of her clients, Frances endeavors to know and understand her students on multiple levels through close and extensive one-on-one brainstorming sessions, counseling, and discussion. Hence, the attention, support and guidance that Frances provides her students are unparalleled compared to other admissions advisors. In addition, possessing both a deep-rooted understanding of the Asian culture and all-around familiarity with the American educational system, from the undergraduate to the graduate level, Frances can assist students in conquering language barrier and other hurdles and craft convincing stories for the educational institutions that illuminate the particular applicant’s strengths, talents and personality, culminating in a comprehensive representation of a unique applicant with exceptional potential for future contribution to the target institution and beyond graduation.

Certainly no one can guarantee admission to any school, but Frances will accompany each of her students throughout this confusing, tedious and nerve-wracking application journey and stay by his/her side until the very end. Her personalized and versatile support and concrete methods will enable her students to properly evaluate, organize, prepare, execute, and finally, decide and make meaningful educational decisions that will have a defining and lifetime impact on that student’s ultimate career and personal objectives.

In her admissions counseling, Frances is dedicated to providing 100% personalized and tailored service to her students so that each of them feels as if he/she is her only client. To that end, Frances works with only a limited number of students to ensure the highest quality of service and level of attention.