College Counselor / Admissions Strategist

Telos College Consulting, LLC; United States; On-site; USD 50,000 - 80,000; Full time

Job summary

Telos College Consulting, LLC helps ambitious students build stronger academic paths, meaningful extracurricular work, and applications that feel strategically sharp and human. We seek a counselor who can review transcripts, activities, and essays to identify gaps, strengths, and the best way to turn good into exceptional.

Strong candidates bring UC admissions expertise, essay coaching, and a track record guiding students to selective colleges, while maintaining authentic development and

Qualifications

• Experience as a college admissions reader, admissions officer, or experienced independent-school or private college counselor.
• Deep familiarity with UC admissions, including A-G requirements, course rigor, GPA calculation, PIQ strategy, and holistic application review.
• Strong essay coaching, interviewing, editing, or narrative-development experience.

Responsibilities

• Own or support a caseload of students through academic planning, profile development, college strategy, and application execution.
• Read transcripts strategically, including course rigor, GPA context, UC A-G eligibility, UC honors distinctions, and preparation for an intended major.
• Help students choose courses and experiences that strengthen authentic development and admissions positioning.
• Identify the narrative thread connecting a student’s interests, choices, activities, and goals.
• Elevate essays from technically competent to memorable, without flattening the student’s voice.

Skills

Admissions counseling

UC admissions

Essay coaching

Interviewing

Cross-domain mentorship

AI collaboration

Job description

Help ambitious students build stronger academic paths, meaningful extracurricular work, and applications that feel both strategically sharp and genuinely human.

Telos is not looking for someone who only tracks requirements or keeps students on schedule. We want a counselor who can look at a transcript, activity list, early essay, or half-formed project idea and quickly recognize what is missing, what is promising, and how to turn good into exceptional.

What you will do

• Own or support a caseload of students through academic planning, profile development, college strategy, and application execution.
• Read transcripts strategically, including course rigor, GPA context, UC A-G eligibility, UC honors distinctions, and preparation for an intended major.
• Help students choose courses and experiences that strengthen both authentic development and admissions positioning.
• Identify the narrative thread connecting a student’s interests, choices, activities, and goals.
• Elevate essays from technically competent to memorable, without flattening the student’s voice or manufacturing a story that is not theirs.
• Push students beyond generic extracurricular participation toward purposeful, tangible work such as initiatives, publications, research, community programs, or other meaningful artifacts.
• Guide purpose projects from vague concept to credible execution, matching the form of the project to the student’s strengths and intended direction.
• Evaluate student profiles holistically and spot gaps, inconsistencies, underdeveloped strengths, and missed opportunities early.
• Use AI tools to brainstorm, analyze, compare, and improve work while applying independent judgment to every recommendation.
• Collaborate with Telos counselors, editors, tutors, mentors, and operations staff to deliver coordinated, high-touch support.
• Communicate clearly and reliably with students, families, and teammates.

Strong candidates may bring

• Experience as a college admissions reader, admissions officer, or experienced independent-school or private college counselor.
• Deep familiarity with UC admissions, including A-G requirements, course rigor, GPA calculation, PIQ strategy, and holistic application review.
• A record of guiding students into selective colleges while keeping the process grounded in fit and authentic development.
• Strong essay coaching, interviewing, editing, or narrative-development experience.
• Expertise in business, engineering, technology, humanities, or another domain relevant to student mentorship.
• Experience helping young people design and execute substantive extracurricular or community-impact projects.
• Comfort learning new systems and working within an AI-enabled, highly collaborative environment.