The College App Roadmap

Polly is a higher education administrator and former school counselor who walks alongside students as they self-actualize so that they can realize their full potential and achieve their dreams.

For the past 15 years, Polly has helped students apply to college and followed them through to graduation. She initially built The CAR to help her primarily first-gen and low-income students navigate the application process in order to save both her students and herself (as an overworked school counselor) time. Her fellow school counselors found out about it and asked to share the guide with their students as well. Thus, The CAR was born. Since then, thousands of students across the world have Hopped in The CAR. In The CAR, Polly shares the same strategies that helped her students secure over $25 million dollars in scholarships and receive acceptances from countless universities including: Princeton, Yale, Brown, NYU, Columbia, Carnegie Mellon, and more.

Polly completed her undergraduate degree at Princeton and graduate studies at Yale. As a low-income student from Texas public schools, Polly recognized early on the tools and resources needed to navigate applications, college campuses, and beyond. She has since used these tools to work with thousands of students, parents, and educators over a decade in higher education to connect each student - no matter their background - with their unique calling.

Polly resides in New Haven, CT where she enjoys attending lectures, getting lost in Yale’s libraries, kayaking, and photographing events.