Susan Chan Shifflett is a former Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions at Yale, where she evaluated over 2,500 applications.
Throughout Susan's career, she has focused on education and international relations spanning the public, private, and non-profit sectors. She has been interviewed on outlets such as Good Morning America, ABC, CBS, and CNBC to discuss issues of higher education and admissions.
Susan worked at the U.S. Trade and Development Agency, where she managed a $12+ million budget of trade promotion and education activities. She led the agency's Traditional Energy and Power Team and was the recipient of the Agency's Innovation Award (peer-nominated) for two years in a row.
Prior to USTDA, Susan was a program associate at the Woodrow Wilson Center's China Environment Forum, where she became a thought leader on U.S.-China food security issues. After working at Yale from 2005-2007, Susan worked in Beijing, China and served as a Yale alumni interviewer and helped implement the 1st Yale Book Award Program in China.
She currently resides in the Washington, D.C. metro area with her husband, kids and Golden Retriever. In her spare time, she enjoys playing guitar, following UCLA gymnastics, scouring Yelp for good eats, and doing barre.
Recent Cases: Represented students admitted to Princeton, Columbia, Brown, Duke, JHU and more (2018 to 2020).