Advisors
We want to help you to succeed. Work with one of our expert advisors to help turn your hopes and goals into a personalized educational strategy.
Whether you’re working with our founders or one of our highly qualified advisors in the U.S., the U.K., or China, you can be sure that every member of our team is committed to helping you identify the right schools. We are passionate about helping you navigate the educational landscape and providing you with credible and reliable expert guidance and advice.
We want to get to know you — but first, we feel it’s important for you to get to know us a little bit about us, our life experiences, and what motivates our work.
THE FOUNDERS
JEFFREY A. SHEEHAN
Jeff has been involved with education his entire life. Throughout his successful decades-long career, he has lived, studied, worked, volunteered and/or visited 85 countries in six continents. He served as Associate Dean for International Relations at The Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania for 30 years. Earlier in his career, Jeff taught U.S. History at The Dublin School, an independent college-preparatory school in New Hampshire, and later worked at The Fletcher School, one of America’s oldest and most renowned graduate schools of international relations.
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An accomplished educational professional, Jeffrey A. Sheehan has mentored and advised hundreds of young people and their parents from all over the world in pursuit of their educational goals. He draws on his academic expertise in global educational services, and his personal experience as a parent and a lifelong student.
After graduating from the Phillips Exeter Academy, Jeff earned his undergraduate degree in American History from Columbia University in New York City and his graduate degrees in Public International Law from The Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University in Massachusetts.
For his contributions to education in the city and its international relationships, The City of Shanghai recognized Jeff with the Silver Magnolia Award. Sheehan has written three books: My Year of Living Adventurously, 1966-1967; There Are No Foreign Lands: An Inquiry Concerning Intercultural Communication (published in both English and Chinese language editions); and The Children of Steung Meanchey: On Shortening the Distance Between My Heart and My Deed. He is now writing a history of the Cambodian Children’s Fund.
Among the many accomplished roles in which Jeff has served, his most important and rewarding has been as the father of his daughters, Annie and Angie.
CICI ZHANG YUE
Cici Zhang Yue is an education advisor with long-term experience and success helping Chinese students select and apply to U.S. schools and colleges. Educated at Nankai University, the Chinese Academy of Sciences, and The Wharton School of The University of Pennsylvania, Cici has a deep understanding of Chinese culture and firsthand experience with the challenges that Chinese students face when they pursue higher education in the U.S.
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Cici believes that the process of applying to U.S. and U.K. schools, colleges and universities is also a valuable educational experience in itself – as students will learn to identify the values that matter most to them through this decision-making process, to persevere in the face of pressure and conflict, and to overcome and thrive despite potential setbacks along the way.
Advising students from a range of years, Cici invests her time and great care in seeking to genuinely understand each student and the family’s needs so she can nurture the student’s growth and assist them in achieving the best possible fit in the admissions process and their educational journey.
Cici is the mother of Lucas, a sweet boy who loves planets and candy.
