Founded by Cassie Nichols in 2010, College Specific provides college admissions consulting services to families throughout the world. In addition to individual consulting, College Specific is the creator of “College Specific Toolkits”: a collection of multimedia products designed to help students prepare for and apply to college.Headquartered in Santa Barbara, California, College Specific’s counselors meet one-on-one with families – in person or online – working with them to make wise academic and extracurricular choices throughout high school, build an ideal list of colleges, complete their college essays and applications, and stay organized along the way.College Specific’s counselors travel throughout the United States and abroad, conducting workshops and presentations on college admissions for schools as well as private groups and organizations.
A native of Santa Barbara, California, Cassie Nichols earned a Bachelor of Arts degree in English from Princeton University. At Princeton, she was an NCAA All-American and Academic All-American athlete, as well as captain of the Princeton women's water polo team.After graduating from Princeton in 2002, Cassie settled in New Haven, Connecticut and conducted educational research at Yale University. Cassie later accepted a faculty position at Choate Rosemary Hall in Wallingford, Connecticut, where she taught American and World Literature, as well as the college essay, to high school juniors and seniors.Cassie founded College Specific in 2010 in response to the clear need for guidance and reassurance on the college admissions process. In 2012, Cassie published "The College Essay Trap" (available on Amazon), and works with the College Specific team to produce "College Specific Toolkits", a collection of multimedia products that focus on preparing for and applying to college.
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Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, 93103 United States