Emily Herring

As an Associate Director with over a decade of higher education and admissions experience, Ms. Herring provides invaluable leadership and guidance to Spark’s Senior Admissions Consultants while also helping her own students achieve exceptional results in their admissions journeys. Her students have gained hundreds of acceptances to selective universities, including Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Duke, and Cornell, among many other highly competitive institutions.

Ms. Herring’s work with students is distinguished by her caring, empathetic approach, deep knowledge of writing and editing, and creativity in helping students develop unique and compelling narratives. Her students appreciate her detail-oriented, highly organized, and structured yet customized approach to admissions counseling.

Before joining Spark, Ms. Herring advised students in academic development at Harvard University, where she taught in the Harvard Writing Center and the Slavic Department. As a writing instructor and trained linguist, she worked one-on-one with Harvard students to improve their writing skills and essays. This work, along with her experience in admissions consulting, makes her uniquely equipped to help students organize, develop, and revise their college applications and essays.

Ms. Herring earned her M.A. from Harvard University, where she received two Certificates of Distinction in Teaching. She also graduated summa cum laude from The George Washington University Elliott School of International Affairs, where she was a Presidential Scholar and selected as a Fulbright Scholar. She currently lives in New York City.