Jesse Borges

Jesse R. Borges has been advising on professional advancement and graduate school admissions for nearly 30 years, in the process, helping more than 3,000 applicants of widely varying backgrounds, from every geographic region of the world to secure admission to more than a thousand graduate programs in the United States and abroad.

Dr. Borges advises applicants to virtually every field of graduate education, from law, to health (including medical school, dental school, optometry, speech language pathology, public health, and veterinary programs), to business, to the sciences, to the social sciences, to the humanities. His primary specialties include:

• Law School
• Medical School
• Business School
• Public Policy & International Affairs Schools
• Social Science Programs

Jesse advises candidates to Law School, Medical School, and all other Graduate Programs in his role as Senior Graduate Admissions Consultant at Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions. If you’re an applicant who’s interested in graduate admissions consulting services or an old client who would like to say hello, go ahead and contact Jesse.

Given the depth and breadth of his experience, Jesse has been called upon to handle the most challenging and high-profile admissions consulting cases. As a result of his many successes, Borges was the first Kaplan Admissions Consultant ever to earn the company’s National Consultant of the Year Award, and was more recently named Graduate Admissions Consultant of the Year.

On the administrative side, in his role as Senior Consultant and Trainer for Kaplan Test Prep and Admissions since 1998 (one year after he joined the company), Dr. Borges has screened, trained and led professional development sessions more than one hundred consultants — Law, MBA, Medical School, and general Graduate School Admissions — in Kaplan’s Consulting group. He also helped lead the launch of the Kaplan Medical School Admissions Consulting Program in the early 2000’s, has written extensively on graduate school admissions and has presented more than 200 hundred public seminars, workshops and professional advancement sessions at colleges, universities, Wall Street firms, as well as online, benefiting thousands of graduate school applicants globally.

Jesse, who has a Master’s degree and Ph.D. from Princeton University, was himself accepted with full fellowship offers to every leading program to which he applied, including Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia, and the University of Michigan. He also has a decade of teaching experience, having served as a faculty member at institutions such as Haverford College and Barnard College of Columbia University, and he has presented his research at a variety of universities, including Yale, Wesleyan, the University of Pennsylvania, and Harvard. In addition, his past experiences include service as Senior Consultant to Columbia Business School and the Chicago Graduate School of Business, as well as membership in the National Press Club.

The following are just a few of the prestigious honors and awards that Dr. Borges has earned:

• The National Science Foundation Graduate Fellowship
• National Graduate Admissions Consultant of the Year – Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions
• Graduate School Admissions Consultant of the year – Kaplan Test Prep & Admissions
• The Ford Foundation Dissertation Fellowship (declined to accept another award / granted Honorable Mention)
• The Ford Foundation Pre-Doctoral Fellowship (Honorable Mention)
• Best Practices in Mentoring
• Princeton University Graduate Fellowship
• Harvard University Conference Travel Grants (three in all, funded by the Ford Foundation)
• Proctor & Gamble Research Grant
• Hanna Fund Research Grant