Lei Yu
Lei is an undergraduate college counselor known for combining a strong understanding of student development with a proven ability to deliver results.
With advanced academic training — including a master’s degree from the University of Southern California, a Ph.D. in Social Gerontology from Miami University, and a graduate certificate in Applied Statistics — he brings a long-term, research-informed perspective to undergraduate planning. He understands not only how admissions systems operate, but how students’ interests, motivation, and identity evolve throughout the high school years.
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Toby
With more than 15 years of experience in university admissions, Toby supports students as they develop thoughtful, compelling applications to leading universities in the U.K., the United States, and around the world. His work focuses not just on where students apply, but on helping them understand who they are as learners and how to communicate that clearly through their applications.
Before joining Interface, Toby served as an admissions officer at the University of Oxford and later worked closely with students applying to highly selective universities across the U.K. and internationally. During that time, he helped hundreds of students navigate competitive admissions processes and developed a deep understanding of how admissions readers evaluate academic preparation, intellectual curiosity, and personal character.
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Hope
Hope is passionate about guiding students to college admissions success. She is an Ivy League admissions expert and received her bachelor's degree from Princeton University, where she served as an Admission Officer and Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions.
Over the last 20 years, Hope has taught tens of thousands of students around the world how to optimize their applications to top US and UK colleges and universities. She has seen a 25% higher overall acceptance rate to Ivy League schools compared to the national average among the students she has guided. Many students she has worked with have been admitted to Princeton, MIT, Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Duke, Johns Hopkins, Northwestern, U Penn, Cornell, U Chicago, Columbia, Dartmouth, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Brown, Vanderbilt and Wellesley.
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Susan
Susan is a graduate of Harvard College, Harvard Law School, and Oxford University, where she was chosen as a Rhodes Scholar, one of the most prestigious scholarships in the world and awarded to a small number of college graduates.
Susan specializes in helping Interface students find creative and impressive ways to pursue their interests and passions beyond the usual high school activities, to help them stand out from other applicants. Her unique role at Interface is to team with counselors to help their students pursue unusual paths based on their interests and talents and to build an outstanding extracurricular resume necessary to get accepted to the most selective schools.
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