About Chelese

Over the past 15 years, Chelese Belmont has been a college admissions advisor, test-prep teacher, private tutor, and personal statement expert. While studying US History at UC Berkeley, she began working with a college counseling company that helped her to learn the ins and outs of the college application process. This led to her employment with Insight Education, where she first worked in-office counseling students on college applications, and she later continued to work remotely from New York while attending graduate school and in the years that followed.

 

Upon finishing her masters degree, Chelese moved to Los Angeles and began privately tutoring students in AP US History, AP English Language, and AP English Literature, plus their corresponding SAT II Subject Tests. She also began teaching SAT prep classes, and wrote practice curriculum for the newly designed SAT. In her fifteen years as an independent college counselor, Chelese has helped students to prepare applications and write personal statements that have gotten them into the Ivy League, the UC system, Big-10 schools, public and private universities, and graduate and doctorate/doctoral programs. She has also helped students compose essays that have helped them land coveted internships and spots in competitive summer programs, including ones at Stanford, Yale, and Harvard. Her goal has been to help students navigate the admissions process with the least stress, while helping them to present themselves in the best and most authentic light.