Dan joined the Germantown Academy college counseling team in 2020 with 30 years of experience working in college admissions. He has extensive experience working on the East and West Coasts at small liberal arts colleges and a medium-sized research university. He has been a senior admissions officer at Elizabethtown College, Lafayette College, the University of Puget Sound (where he served as director), and the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as an admission director and athletic liaison. He joined the William Penn Charter School in 2004 as the Director of College Counseling and served in that position and as a member of the senior leadership team for 16 years.

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Dan has served as a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth College Colloquium and the Pennsylvania Association for College Admission Counseling (PACAC) Summer Institute and Executive Committee. In 2023, he was invited to join the faculty for the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Professional Counseling Certificate Program. Dan has been featured in books, newspapers and magazine articles discussing the college application process. He currently sits on the Counselor Advisory Boards for Baylor University (TX) and Providence College (RI). Dan and his wife have three children; two of whom have successfully navigated the college search process and the youngest is a member of the Class of 2025