Guidance begins with listening.
A small, personal practice, built on knowing the student and telling families the truth.
Founder and Principal, LectureBound
Meet Tali Levy
I started LectureBound because I love this work, and after ten years I still feel that on a Monday morning. For all of those years I never had a website. Families found me the old-fashioned way, one parent telling another, and that is still how most of them find me. This site is new. It simply felt like time to make it a little easier for the right families to reach me.
Here is what I believe. This process is stressful and it changes constantly, and no teenager should go through it feeling like they are not enough. My job is to know your student, tell you the truth, and carry the heavy parts so your family doesn’t have to carry them alone. I am not chasing the most impressive school. I am after the right one, for the specific kid in front of me. If this sounds like what you have been looking for, I would love to talk.
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Credentials, and what they are for.
- Founder and Principal of LectureBound, advising students and families since 2016
- Professional member of IECA, the Independent Educational Consultants Association, and a member of WACAC
- UC Berkeley, BS in Psychology, Highest Honors, Magna Cum Laude, and Phi Beta Kappa
- Independent Educational Consultant Certificate from UC Irvine
- Fully independent. No institutional affiliations and no commissions, so the advice is only ever about the student
- Current by habit: visiting campuses year round, and attending IECA, WACAC, and UC conferences and briefings
Tali is a turn-around artist - we joined her late (in the middle of junior year), and we are not familiar with the US college system. Tali guided us through the maze of colleges and developed a proper strategy for our daughter’s ultimate career goal.
- Families nationwide
- About 15 students per grade
- 100+ campuses visited since 2016