Jennifer Simons

Jennifer Simons began her extensive recruitment and college counseling career as an admissions counselor at Barnard College, where she was responsible for students from the Midwest and served as Barnard’s liaison to The Jewish Theological Seminary, the Manhattan School of Music, and The Julliard School. She left Barnard to pursue her master’s in higher education administration from Harvard University, where she co-founded the Graduate School of Education’s first class gift campaign. After graduate school, Jennifer was hired as an associate director of admissions and director of transfer admissions at Connecticut College, and it was here that she recruited in Northern California and abroad in Japan, Hong Kong, Singapore and Turkey. A family move brought her to New York City, where she served for two years as a college counselor at the Ramaz School and worked directly with students applying to college. An opportunity to be the director of international recruitment at Tufts University brought her back to New England for her job and back to Asia for recruitment. Jennifer was at Tufts for ten years, recruiting primarily in Europe and Asia, including China, India, and Korea, and leading the Tufts alumni admissions program. Her most recent admissions position was director of admissions recruitment at Northeastern University, where she managed a team of four senior associate directors and developed a comprehensive recruitment strategy for the office. Jen is a graduate of Wellesley College.