Empowering Students Through Expert College Counseling by Malissa Takacs, Tina Forbush, and Their Team
Guiding students and families along successful college journeys. Developing stregths. Unlocking potential.
About Us


Malissa & Tina
Malissa Takacs and Tina Forbush have been friends and college counseling colleagues since 2016. Together, they combine their areas of skills and expertise to bring students, families, and schools the highest level of support and guidance.
Malissa and Tina both hold membership in the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA).
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What People Say About Us?
★★★★★ Rated 5 out of 5
“I am so grateful for your assistance. I have felt my confidence and ability to complete tasks increase because of your skill of cutting through all the noise. Looking back, I am amazed at how just having you on my team has helped me to overcome so much!”
Graduate School Applicant2021
“I wanted to thank you for all the help and support this last year. I don’t know if I would have gotten into Georgetown if you hadn’t helped me.”
Student | G.122021
“We’re just starting a new challenge, but your energy and experience will make this journey very smooth and easy.”
Mother | G.11 Student2021
“Going into my first-ever college counselling meeting with you, I was incredibly overwhelmed with the course selection process and how I would manage my time and my schedule. We only talked for a few minutes, but in that meeting you made me feel at ease and helped to explain all my different options in a way that actually made sense. I left your office feeling really confident, and like you could help me with anything.”
Student | G.122020
“It’s staff like you who are to be thanked for noticing our children and their good qualities, and for encouraging and trusting them in their impressionable years. This is what makes our children’s school years so special and fulfilling, and it certainly helps them develop their characters and personalities. We very much appreciate your being such a kind and thoughtful counselor, mentor and role model.”
Parent | G.12 2020
“Malissa is one of the most deeply competent people with whom I have ever had the pleasure of working. She takes on tasks and does them so capably and self-reliantly that it’s easy to forget just how much she has on her plate. It is impossible to imagine our team without Malissa; she does her job so well and gives everything she has to our students and their families.”
Former Supervisor2020
“I wanted to thank you for all that you have done for me. I know that the college process has ‘just started’ for juniors but you have helped me a lot. Every meeting we have I walk away feeling more and more confident. I know that I can come to you for anything and that I will always be greeted with a smile.”
Student | G.112020
“It was always comforting to know that I had someone watching over my back. Whether it was about the application process, or just life in general, I knew I had another friend that I could trust. Thank you for the last four years.”
Student | G.122020
“Malissa is simply the best. I do not know how we would have managed through the college admissions process without her.”
Parent | G.122020
John DoeCEO
Tina is an absolute all-star in our industry and an invaluable asset to any organization.
Former ColleagueSingapore American School
Thank you so much for all of your hard work and effort that you put into editing our essays and guiding us through this extremely complex process. I love that you care so much about each of us as individual students
Former StudentGrade 12
Your tireless dedication and expert knowledge of the application process have been truly invaluable, and I am incredibly grateful to have had you as my counselor.
Former StudentGrade 12
How can I even thank you enough? You have been the best college counselor I could ever ask for. I will be forever grateful for all of your support and guidance . Thank you for being so encouraging, fixing my grammar mistakes, and always answering my countless questions. I know I wouldn’t have been able to get to where I am without you.
Former StudentGrade 12
We really want to thank you for all the help. You gave our son a lot of useful advice, managed his expectations realistically, gave good feedback for his essays and helped to manage his timeline. Most of all, he finds the time with you engaging and felt encouraged after communicating with you. Thank you for going on this ride with him and making it so special and meaningful in this chapter of his high school University application process.
MotherGrade 12 Student
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