She has had more than a million dollars in scholarships granted to her name during her student and professional career.
After graduating from a public school in Southern California, Dr. Grigas got acceptance letters from some of the most prestigious US universities. (Columbia, Brown, Duke, University of Pennsylvania, UC Berkeley, Georgetown, UCLA, NYU, and USC.)
She graduated from Columbia University with her BA, then received her Master's and Doctorate degrees from the University of Oxford in England.
She’s the founder of College Admissions Secrets, a leading admissions consultancy based in Los Angeles that helps students gain admission to highly competitive and selective colleges in the United States. She also founded Monster Education, an online tutoring school that serves hundreds of K-8 advanced students.
In her career as an academic and researcher, she has authored three books published by Harvard University Press, Yale University Press, and Routledge, and she has lectured at leading universities such as Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Stanford, NYU, LSE, University of Oxford, UPenn, etc. She serves on the advisory board of the McKinnon Center for Global Affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles.
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