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Dear Families,
Kweller Prep offers high school seniors college application consulting services. Our company has over 15 years of experience guiding students and navigating the ever-so-convoluted college admissions journey. We have successfully assisted thousands of students with their college applications.
The most popular service we offer is the Single Early Decision/Action Application. Together with the student, our staff assists with everything from selecting the target ED or EA college, planning the personal statement, drafting essay supplements, and practicing for interviews.
Throughout the process, our team remains with the student from start to finish. Tutors serve as mentors who minimize any stress along the application journey. Parents are part of the process the entire time, always on a shared google doc, so there is full transparency among the tutor, student, and parent throughout the application process.
At Kweller Prep, we go out of our way to make the college application an enjoyable, memorable, and positive experience for the family. This single ED/EA application service will build a framework and lay the foundation for the next 8-12 college applications should the student need to independently apply to more schools after submitting the ED/EA application.
Sign up before September 1, 2025, for ED and December 1, 2025, for RD.
Kweller Prep is a traditional tutoring program led by a mother with three children of her own. This company maintains a strict policy of keeping parents involved in every part of the application process. We firmly believe that choosing a college is a family decision, not an independent one.
Often, parents are the ones determining a college based on finances, scholarships, and loans. As such, Kweller Prep will not help students submit applications without their parent’s consent. We are firm on this policy.
Parents/guardians are welcome to call us to discuss college application options at 1(800) 631-1757 or email us at info@Kwellerprep.com before signing up. We encourage you to contact us ahead of deciding how to proceed.
Frances Kweller is a well-recognized education advocate and a leading expert in college admissions, with over 20 years of experience helping students gain admission to top 50 universities and Ivy League schools. She is the founder of Kweller Preparation Tutoring and Educational Services, Inc., a premier learning incubator based in New York City. Frances has been featured in The New York Times, The New York Post, Noticias, CityBizList, and Russian Ladies World for her groundbreaking work in education and college access.
Frances created Kweller Prep with one mission in mind: to give students the tools, confidence, and support they need to succeed. A first-generation American raised in a one-bedroom apartment in Forest Hills, Queens, she understands the challenges many families face when navigating the college process. Her flagship center—now a 6,200-square-foot learning hub in the same neighborhood where she grew up—serves as both a resource and a second home for motivated students preparing for competitive college admissions.
A graduate of New York University’s Steinhardt School of Education (cum laude), Frances went on to earn her law degree from Hofstra University School of Law and passed the New York State Bar Exam on her first attempt. While in law school, she interned at the New York City Supreme Court and worked in immigration law, helping international students gain entry to top graduate programs in the U.S. Her background in education law and policy, combined with her lifelong passion for mentoring, set the foundation for the comprehensive college prep services Kweller Prep offers today.
Under Frances’ leadership, Kweller Prep has guided thousands of students through every stage of the college application process—from selecting best-fit schools and preparing for standardized tests to writing powerful personal statements and navigating financial aid. Her team of nearly 100 hand-picked tutors and advisors provides highly personalized support, and Kweller Prep’s proprietary exam-specific textbooks (available on Amazon) are used by students across the country.
Frances is fluent in Russian and Spanish, and she takes pride in supporting families from diverse backgrounds. She is the proud daughter of immigrants, a mother of two, and a true champion of the American Dream. Through Kweller Prep, Frances continues to make a lasting impact on the lives of students and their families—one college acceptance at a time.
Paula Lee is a platinum-level tutor and expert college consultant at Kweller Prep. She served as the Director of New York University’s Wasserman Center for Career Development. She recently retired from NYU after 35 years and is now a college application and career counselor at Kweller Prep. Paula possesses a wealth of expertise in undergraduate college admissions and graduate school applications. She has reviewed over 10,000 resumes throughout her professional career and guided thousands more through the tough application process.
As this Director at NYU, Paula advised and mentored students, engaged faculty in career-related efforts, and created programs, services, and online resources to enhance student and alumni career development. She achieved this through effective use of the internet and inter-university collaborations abroad and around the world.
As Director, Paula stayed current on national and international trends and ensured opportunities for internships and employment throughout NYU. She consulted with academic deans to ensure that NYU programs and services addressed students’ needs. Paula solicited faculty involvement in identifying opportunities to bridge classroom skills and help undergraduates secure internships and employment. Furthermore, as Director, Paula developed and implemented campus-based and industry-based NYU career fairs, seminars, presentations, workshops, and alumni networking events.
Paula completed her Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at Barnard College, Columbia University, and a Master of Science in Rehabilitation Counseling from Hunter College. Her coursework included: social psychology, psychology and ethics, and cognitive psychology, as well as several humanities and social sciences courses.
Paula is a Certified Rehabilitation Counselor. She serves as President of the National Rehabilitation Association, New York Chapter, the oldest professional member organization in the United States that advocates for the rights of individuals with disabilities while promoting high-quality, ethical, and collaborative practice across the rehabilitation profession. Paula’s special interest groups include helping first-generation students and individuals with disabilities achieve college success.
Paula has known Frances Kweller for twenty-two years and counting. Paula served as Frances Kweller’s college and career counselor when she was an undergraduate at NYU. Paula guided Frances Kweller to pursue an education degree, become a lawyer, and pursue a career in entrepreneurship. Paula has supported Kweller Prep since Day 1. She hosted students from Kweller Prep at NYU for 15 years, treating them to delicious rainbow bagels, giving them heartfelt college advice, and coordinating private tours of NYU’s campus.
Paula possesses a very calm and soothing demeanor. She is open-minded, friendly, and has a personality where all the students she works with feel at ease. She removes stress levels from families with her expert hands, guiding them to make the best college choices possible. Kweller Prep is extremely fortunate to have Paula Lee as an asset and student mentor.
Bill is a platinum-level, expert private tutor at Kweller Prep. He has worked with students from over 30 high schools throughout the United States. He offers expert college guidance, Early Decision application strategies, and financial aid/scholarship pathways. Bill helped many students gain admissions to top universities and liberal arts colleges throughout his career.
Bill has served as a college admissions recruiter for the University of Michigan for over 20 years. He provides a calm, level-headed, and focused approach to the competitive college application process. Bill leverages his experience and understanding to make sure each of his students finds the colleges where they will be happiest and thrive.
Outside of college counseling, Bill is a gifted math and science teacher; he taught a variety of Regents and Advanced Placement math and science classes at Stuyvesant, Bronx High School of Science, and Townsend Harris High School. His very first professional job was as a math teacher. He taught math classes at Bakersfield High School in California and Algebra 2, Precalculus, and Multivariable Calculus at Stuyvesant High School and the Bronx High School of Science. During the pandemic, Bill led a full-year AP Calculus AB weekend review class at Townsend Harris High School. He currently tutors students at Kweller Prep in AP Physics and AP Calculus. Bill has worked as a management consultant, AP Physics teacher, AP Calculus teacher, actuary, statistician, and data modeler for over twenty years.
Bill was born and raised in Brooklyn. He graduated from The University of California, Los Angeles, UCLA, magna cum laude and majored in mathematics. His Alma mater’s math department was ranked 11th best in the world. Bill’s college coursework included: linear algebra, real analysis, probability, ring and group theory, and differential geometry.
Bill later earned a Master of Science (MS) degree in statistics from the University of Michigan. While at Michigan, Bill received advanced training in mathematical and applied statistics, then worked in the industry using data science and statistics in management consulting and other corporate settings.
Bill is a lifelong educator who enjoys serving as a mentor and passing his extraordinary in-depth knowledge to help and inspire others. He serves as a platinum-level tutor and college consultant for Kweller Prep on evenings and weekends throughout the school year and summer. Bill has led college webinars for the Kweller Prep community on his mathematical approach to competitive college applications. Bill uses his extensive experience with financial aid and his quantitative abilities to guide parents on how to complete the FAFSA and CSS financial aid profiles and understand methods used to evaluate financial needs.
Bill is also a leader. He previously served as the elected PTA president at Townsend Harris High School, an institute ranked #1 based on merit and accelerated course offerings. In his role, he often led SAT and PSAT workshops at THHS sharing his insights on the college admissions process and how to navigate the FAFSA and the CSS Profile.
Experienced in working with specialized high school students, Bill is a valuable member of the learning community at Kweller Prep. He has a calm, pleasant demeanor and steady focus. Kweller Prep is extremely fortunate to have Bill’s ongoing help.
Mehrose is a biochemistry graduate of Barnard College of Columbia University. Alongside profound experience working and tutoring in various disciplines, she has diverse leadership and extracurricular experiences that allow her to support students at Kweller in all of their educational pursuits.
At Barnard, Mehrose’s research focused on a neuronal protein that has implications for various neurodegenerative diseases. She also had extensive experience in leadership and communication. She was president of two clubs at her institution, served as a Writing Fellow on campus, and previously was a journalist for the Townsend Harris High School Classic—an award-winning organization through which Mehrose herself received a national award. Aside from these experiences, Mehrose also participated in volunteer and community service initiatives throughout college.
Mehrose completed a four-semester intensive chemistry course as part of her college coursework, which entailed lecture and lab chemistry courses for four semesters. She also completed two semesters of college biology alongside the accompanying labs. She supplemented this work with upper-level science classes, such as Biochemistry, Quantum Chemistry, Genetics, and Biochemistry Lab Techniques. Aside from this rigorous science background, Mehrose has supplemented such coursework with intensive humanities and public health classes to diversify her skill set. Mehrose is a graduate of Townsend Harris High School, where she also took intense coursework in the form of Advanced Placement Classes and actual college courses on the Queens College Campus. She completed AP courses in Psychology, English, Calculus, World History, U.S History, and Spanish Literature. She was also heavily involved in the school’s award-winning newspaper, The Classic, as the paper’s managing editor. Her extensive coverage of the school’s interim acting principal’s controversies yielded her awards and recognition on the local and national levels.
Currently, Mehrose is working full time as a research technician in the Lopatkin Laboratory at Barnard, where she studies antibiotic resistance. Most recently, her work was published in the Journal of Antimicrobial Therapy.
Mehrose has tutored at Kweller Prep since 2016 and continues to support students through various aspects of their academic careers. At Kweller Prep, she has trained students for the SAT, ACT, Regents Exams, and New York State English and Math exams. She has also worked with students to support them in their school coursework and improve their writing. Mehrose is our go-to person to help high school students develop their resumes. She works with them from start to finish. Mehrose helps students develop resume templates they can use for years after they graduate. She is exceptionally skilled at assisting students in creating resumes that will help them secure college interviews. We are incredibly grateful for the expertise and experience of the Kweller Prep community and its students.
Krish Shah was accepted into the University of Pennsylvania, an ultra-selective Ivy League, as part of the Huntsman Scholars Program. Huntsman is a highly selective dual degree program, accepting only 45 students from around the world among thousands of applicants. Krish will pursue a Bachelor of Science in Economics from UPenn’s Wharton School of Business and a Bachelor of Arts in International Relations from UPenn’s College of Arts and Science. Krish is currently a senior at the Bronx High School of Science, a specialized high school. Krish has a current unweighted GPA of 98.5/100 as a senior year and an unweighted GPA of a 97.0/100 unweighted on his overall transcript. Krish enjoys challenging himself by taking the hardest classes possible and is grateful Bronx Science gave him this opportunity. Krish has taken 10 Advanced Placement courses throughout his high school career: AP Chemistry (4/5), AP World History (4/5), AP Calculus BC (5/5), AP Statistics (5/5), AP Physics (4/5), AP English Language and Composition (4/5), and AP US Government and Politics, AP Microeconomics, AP Macroeconomics, and AP English Literature during his senior year. After Kweller SAT Prep, Krish scored a 1500/1600 on his SAT with a perfect 800/800 and a 700/800 in English. Krish also scored a 780/800 on the Math SAT 2 Level 2 and a 790 on the Math SAT 2 Level 1. a special additional diploma credential that recognizes high school students who have demonstrated outstanding college-level achievement through their performance on multiple AP Exams. Krish also challenged himself by taking advanced college-level courses throughout his high school career, including Multivariable Calculus, Financial and Actuarial Mathematics, and Neuroscience 101. Krish is also involved in a variety of stem-based and business-based extra-curricular activities, including the math research program at Bronx Science. Krish also conducted a research study on consumer behavior at the Social Dynamics Laboratory at Cornell University while a high school student. Krish is heavily involved in the Student Government and Organization at Bronx Science. He’s on the leadership team and hosts a segment for the school T.V show, Wolverine T.V, He is a member of the Judicial Board, and a member of the Bronx Science Student Senior Council. He is currently the president of the Model United Nations team which has over 150 members. Krish previously served as the secretary last year. Krish is also currently the head chairman and founding member of Raise Your Placard, a nonprofit that coaches middle schoolers about how to compete in Model UN while providing them with high school guidance. His time on leadership has seen the team win best delegation at premier conferences held at Columbia University, American University, John Hopkins University, and Washington University in Saint Louis. He has also won individual accolades, such as Best Delegate at Brown University’s conference and Outstanding Delegate at John Hopkin’s conference. He is also the head chairman of Raise Your Placard, a nonprofit for teaching Model UN to underprivileged middle school students. Outside of school Krish worked as an intern at Meridian Strategies, a political campaigning firm. He worked with them from March to November 2020, quickly getting promoted to student intern manager. Over the summer Krish participated in FTE Economics for Leaders Summer Program, a highly selective program for top high school leaders across the country. Krish has served as a fierce student advocate. He was interviewed on Pix 11 spotlighted on MSN. Krish was also interviewed by the NY Post. Read the student body’s powerful letter to Cuomo. Krish has been a student of Kweller Prep since 7th grade. He was well known as “Sakshi’s little brother” when he started coming to Kweller for SHSAT Prep, setting up his foundation for future successes. Krish was accepted to Bronx Science after a long, grueling summer of SHSAT study, 4 days-per-week and 4 hours per day before he started 8th grade. He now works as a tutor and mentor at Kweller Prep. Krish was born and raised in Queens, New York. Neither of his parents attended college in the United States. Krish is the son of Indian immigrants from New Dehli. He is the first one in his family to ever attend an Ivy League University.
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