Our
Team

Our team

The College Shortcuts has an unparalleled team. Our team is highly diverse with over 150 years of work experience. We are proud to say that with every dollar you spend at College Shortcuts, a portion goes towards scholarships for underprivileged students, to parents who are supporting their children, educational tuition, and the global community. Our team speaks for itself.

Executive Team

Neha Gupta

Founder and CEO

Neha Gupta is a graduate of Rice University and UPENN, majoring in both Economics and Business, as well as a Masters from the Graduate School of Education in Educational Entrepreneurship joint with Wharton Business School. She is a Jacobs Fellow as well as the recipient of Wharton Innovation Fund for her ventures. Neha Gupta is the founder of College Shortcuts, Dream Life Foundation, Dream School TV, and winner of Houston's Fast 100 Companies by Houston Business Journal as one of the top 5 companies. Her past corporate experience of being an intrapreneur was at Goldman Sachs as one of the only interns picked from her college program. Neha Gupta is a three-time best selling author, TEDx speaker, and passionate about lighting passion in the next generation. She is a nerd who also spoke at her high school class, and her parents went to IIT. Her parents have owned schools in the US, a university in India, and brought teachers to America to educate students in schools in rural parts of the US. Education is part of her genetics. 

High performance families call on Neha to ignite their students into action and take a step by step approach to getting into their dream college and beyond. Organizations like Rice University, KPMG, hundreds of high schools, and more call on Neha to transform, change, and uplift their members into finding their passion and building their dreams.  She has been invited to Richard Branson's private island to discuss minority women in entrepreneurship, Tony Robbins' private island for business masterminds, and Mindvalley Universities goal of shifting the educational system as an advisor of their teen program. Neha has been featured on Good Morning LA, FOX News, ABC News, Entrepreneur Magazine, Vanity Fair, and over 100 publications for her expertise in business, entrepreneurship, and educational expertise. Gupta is passionate about self development and has been trained in NLP, attended every Tony Robbins event, Joe Dispenza Meditation, Silent Retreats, Global Youth Leadership Summit in both California and India, and infuses this into College Shortcuts. If you want to know more about Neha in depth, go to www.heyneha.com her personal site. 

She is the head of College Shortcuts and has decided to build a company that focuses on a smaller group of students with more hands-on attention and involvement. Her most recent passion is infusing her passion for achievement with fulfillment and bringing Dr. Rao onboard to help families achieve with the reduction of stress and anxiety through his teachings of ancient wisdom. She feels that when a child leaves home it is so important to have a strong bond in the family unit and harmony to enjoy this last year together - and this is what makes College Shortcuts unlike any other company in the industry. College Shortcuts is the most cutting edge in bringing technologies, partners, and heart-centeredness to a rat-race industry, that you just won’t find this type of service anywhere else.  

Jeff

Enrollment Director

Jeff is a seasoned enrollment director at College Shortcuts helping to ensure families are a solid fit for our program. Jeff has two kids in top 20 universities and is well-versed on what it takes to get in.

Marketing Team

David

Marketing and Advertising Specialist

Erik

Graphic Design and Branding Specialist

Richard

Brand and Site Development

Cecile

Site Development

College Admissions Consultants

This is a taste of our amazing consultants to get a sense of the amazing caliber of consultants we have on our team.

William

William hails from Rice University and is one of the most driven, precocious, professional people you will ever meet. He has a voluminous history of guiding students to diversify their extracurricular packages and guiding them to college admittance. He is one of College Shortcuts' most reliable consultant.

Shreeti

Shreeti is a top consultant who graduated from the College Shortcuts program and is studying at Vanderbilt University. After going through our process and getting into her number one choice, she has trained how to do the process to now help students just like her through our program. She is a dual major in business and pre-med and is passionate about helping the next generation and is well-versed in the admissions process. She has also been involved with Group Mentorship and leading the Business Entreprenuership team.

Dahlia

Dahlia is a top consultant who has worked at KIPP high schools as a college counselor to help students in the entire process for the last few years. In addition, she is a masters student in education and has been involved in hundreds of students acceptances into top universities.

Josiah

Josiah has worked in the higher education industry for years. Working with students at the undergraduate and graduate levels, he is passionate about helping students find the right fit for them. He has experience working with students as they discern their next steps, helping them succeed in their college application process. He understands what it takes to make a student stand out, and he can't wait to work with you and your student.

Dhaya

Dhaya is one of our top consultants who has worked in education for years. A former English teacher, Dhaya enjoys bringing top-notch editing skills and years of experience with high school students to her work. Dhaya's warm, encouraging and interactive approach helps students stay confident in a stressful process.