Kristin M. White is an educational consultant who helps students and families evaluate colleges, boarding schools and independent day schools, while also helping them navigate the admissions process. Kristin’s educational consulting firm, Darien Academic Advisors, LLC, is based in Darien, Connecticut, but works with students and families across the U.S. and around the world. In the last ten years, she has worked with hundreds of families from 19 different countries and 20 different states. Kristin is a member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association, where she is a member of the Outreach Committee, and the New England Association for College Admissions Counseling. She is a graduate of Georgetown University and has an MBA from the University of Texas—Austin.
Kristin is the author of Prep: The Parent’s Guide to Boarding Schools (Bloomsbury, 2025), The Complete Guide to the Gap Year (Wiley), now in its second edition, as well as It’s the Student, Not the College (The Experiment).
Kristin can be found on the web at www.kristinmwhite.com. Follow her on Twitter @KristinMWhite and follow her on Facebook