About Us

Patti Demoff and Peggy Saferstein have been advising students on college admissions since 1986. Suzanne Rubenstein, the "new" partner, joined them in 1999.

Drawing on a wealth of experience and expertise in all aspects of college admissions, we are knowledgeable about the particular interests of student athletes, actors, journalists, scientists, musicians, linguists, artists and students with learning disabilities.

Although most of our clients come from Southern California, we frequently work with students all across the country. We have also advised students attending secondary school in foreign countries, including England, Switzerland and Russia.

Each of us is a member of the National Association of College Admissions Counselors (NACAC) and its regional affiliate WACAC, and each has earned a Certificate in College Counseling from the UCLA Extension program.

To assure the personal attention that applying to college requires, we work with a limited number of students, and never use assistants. Our senior group is capped at a total of thirty.

Our Results

College Circuit graduating seniors for the years 2010 and 2011 were admitted to a wide variety of colleges and universities.

They matriculated at:
Bard College (3), Barnard College, Boston College, Bowdoin College, Brown University (4), College of Charleston, University of Chicago, Colgate University, Colorado College, George Washington University (2), Hamilton College, Harvard University, Johns Hopkins University, Loyola Marymount University, Mills College, New York University (3), Northwestern University, Pomona College, Princeton University (2), Swarthmore College, Tufts University (2), University of California Berkeley, University of California Davis, University of California Santa Barbara (College of Creative Studies), University of Colorado, University of Georgia, University of Michigan (3), University of Pennsylvania (2), University of Rochester, Wake Forest University, Washington University, St. Louis, University of Maryland, University of Southern California (2), Wesleyan University (3), Williams College, and Yale University (3)

Other notable schools to which students were accepted but did not matriculate:
Amherst, Boston University, Brandeis, Carnegie Mellon, Case Western Reserve, Colby, College of William and Mary, Columbia, Connecticut College, Cornell, Dartmouth, Emory, Indiana University, Lewis and Clark, Pitzer, Reed, Scripps, Skidmore, Southern Methodist University, Stanford, Tulane, Vassar, UCLA, UC San Diego, University of Miami, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill, University of Oregon, University of Puget Sound, University of Texas, University of Virginia, and University of Wisconsin