Donna P.
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Helping students get into their dream schools for 20+ years
Studied at University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
Worked at Ivy Path
Available today at 7:30 PM UTC
I still have some (limited) availability for this year's college application season -- please plan ahead if you'd like to work with me. Looking forward to meeting you!
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Donna's Coaching Offerings
Custom hourly · $150/hr
Get help with Editing, Recommendations, and .
Donna’s College Qualifications
Coaches professionally
100+ people coached for College
Throughout my fifteen years with SBC Consulting, ten years as Chief Editor with IvyPath College Consulting, and four years with MBA Prep School, I’ve helped countless applicants gain admission to their dream schools. With a primary focus on undergraduate admissions, I help clients present themselves as uniquely individual and authentic in their fit for each specific school and as passionate and contributing future alumni. Nothing is more important than a client’s story that reveals not only life experience but also the specific challenges that shaped unique qualities of character, personality, talents, goals, and desire to impact both the local and wider community throughout life. My method of finding the best story is through a series of questions that include a client’s most inspiring people, favorite moments, defining moments, and greatest challenges, fears and successes. When we have those answers, we have the beginnings of a story.
Donna can help with:
Editing
Recommendations
Interviews
Waitlist Strategy
School Selection
Secondary Review
Application Strategy
Essays
Resume
General Exploration
About Donna
I began my career in administration and public relations at a Fortune 500 corporation with a focus on speechwriting. From there, I worked as a consultant for an outplacement firm offering services that included resume writing, bios, and interview preparation and provided presentations at various corporations and universities. Later, I worked independently providing online essay-writing programs for high school juniors and seniors. Over the last 30 years, as senior editor and chief editor, I have worked with two MBA consulting companies and one college consulting company and now focus on high school juniors and seniors preparing for college.
Why do I coach?
I coach because my talent and passion is helping my clients make the best possible presentation whether they are giving speeches, applying to colleges, graduate programs, writing essays and statements, or preparing for career interviews. I enjoy building quick rapport, identifying potential, and working toward successful outcomes. For me, it's about experiencing the same joy I have known when my own children were accepted to their dream schools and new and wider worlds opened to them. The benefit of working with a coach is undeniable and pays for itself over and over again in time saved and insights gained. It's difficult to be objective about ourselves and knowledgeable about every aspect of a challenge. Whether you work with me or someone else, you will benefit greatly from working with a coach.
Work Experience
Senior Editor
Stacy Blackman Consulting
December 2010 - Present

Owner / Coach
Donna Pelletier Consulting
April 2003 - Present
Senior/Managing Coach
Ivy Path
December 2010 - March 2023
Senior Editor
MBA Prep School
May 2015 - March 2019
Education
University of Massachusetts at Dartmouth
B.A., English
1960 - 1964
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