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Derek Terrell
Assistant Director of Admissions
California Insitute of Technology
Class of 2016
Learning is at the heart of what I do because...
I must continue to evolve and learn best practices in order to better serve students and model to them what it is to be a lifelong learner.
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Before HGSE
EDUCATION
B.A., Spanish
Hope College
EXPERIENCE
Senior Education Consultant
Vision Ivy - Seoul, South Korea
Admissions Consultant
The Princeton Review Korea - Seoul, South Korea
Admissions Counselor
Transylvania University - Lexington, KY
VOLUNTEER EXPERIENCE
Youtheca - Seoul, South Korea
After HGSE
EDUCATION
Ed.M., Higher Education
Harvard Graduate School of Education
Cambridge, MA
EXPERIENCE
Assistant Director of Undergraduate Admissions
California Institute of Technology - Pasadena, CA
- Created and actively manage the Caltech Counselor Advisory Board, composed of 11 public, private, and CBO counselors from across the nation.
- Serve as coordinator of 2018 Prefrosh Weekend, Caltech’s three-day admitted student event.
- Served as co-coordinator for the 2017 Women in STEM daylong summer preview which had 450+ people in attendance.