Making Life Easy with College Match Educational

Making Life Easy with Gwen Gistarb with special guests David Montesano

As an admissions strategist, David Montesano has helped hundreds of clients find and gain access to the best match undergraduate and graduate programs over the past ten years. From offices in the U.S., David serves families with students who hope to attend college from a wide range of achievement levels and high school backgrounds.
 
David 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. David 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. With encouragement and mentoring from college admission guru Loren Pope, David developed his company to guide students toward their best college matches using students' core values as well as their college preferences.
 
David is the author of “Brand U” 4 Steps to Getting Into the College of Your Dreams” and "Strategic College Admission", published in CollegeBound News (April, 2005). Profiled by Washington Post education writer, Jay Matthews, in Newsweek's "America's Hottest Colleges" http://www.collegematchus.com