Meet Dr. Elizabeth Stone

Dr. Stone has spent nearly all of her professional career in higher education. She has a national reputation as a leader in college admissions and as a trainer to new college counselors.  As a former college professor, she approaches the college admission process with a keen awareness of how universities function and understands the expectations for student success.  Dr. Stone taught for several years in the UC Berkeley Extension Certificate Program in College Admissions & Career Planning. Counseling.

Background

Her background includes faculty appointments at the University of California, San Francisco (Department of Psychiatry), San Jose State University and San Francisco State University (Departments of Child and Adolescent Development), and two years as a Visiting Scholar in Language, Literacy, and Culture at Stanford University.  

PhD  UC Berkeley, School of Education

MA New York University, Steinhardt School of Education

BA (Phi Beta Kappa) UC Berkeley, Social Welfare

CONSULTANT TO ORGANIZATIONs

Center for Children and Youth - JFCS Advisory Board member

Henley & Partners - Consultant

Council on International Schools - Affiliate Consultant

Books, Talks, And Published Work

Dr. Stone and Meredith Joelle Charlson are co-authors of The Better College Essay: From Start to Finish, just released in May 2021. The foreword is by Jonathan B.Williams, Assistant Vice President for Undergraduate Admissions at NYU. Dr. Stone is the author of The Better College Essay:  Fitting in and Standing Out (Wintergreen Orchard House) with the foreword written by Dr. Douglas Christiansen, Dean of Admissions at Vanderbilt University.Her first book, Part of the Group, on social skills intervention with special needs students, was published by DawnSign Press.

Dr. Stone was featured in an article in Dance Spirit Magazine, in Money Magazine for her expertise on college admission and college entrance exams and was interviewed for the New York Times for her volunteer work with students impacted by the fires in Paradise, CA.

Dr. Stone has written more than eighty articles on higher education and was a columnist for several years for Examiner.com.  

MEMBERSHIPS

Professional Member of IECA (Independent Educational Consultants Association) (sub specialty in services to students with learning differences).

International Association for College Admission Counseling

Enrollment Management Association

Education Writers Association, Community Member

AWARDS

Dr. Stone was awarded the Irving Katz Award by the Independent Educational Consultants Association for exemplary service to youth in the community.