Ms. Susy Ruiz was raised in Costa Mesa, CA. She’s passionate about supporting first-generation, traditional, and transfer students and families to help create a culture of achievement – where college becomes a realistic, tangible goal. Ms. Ruiz has 10+ years of college admissions, higher education, scholarship, and educational background expertise. She worked in the Los Angeles area for five years, providing mentoring, tutoring, residential advising, and student personnel advisor services to high school students.

Ms.Ruiz is a member of the National Association for College Admissions Counseling (NACAC), Western Association for College Admissions Counseling (WACAC) and Independent Educational Consultants Admissions (IECA). She’s traveled to 55 colleges across the United States. During her undergraduate studies, she spent every summer working in academic boot camps for first-generation and low-income students at the TRiO University of Southern California (USC). Ms. Ruiz graduated from USC with a Bachelor of Arts in Anthropology and earned her MSW at Arizona State University. Ms. Susy has a passion for mental health within the college application process and has begun research for an in-process book on the subject.

Ms. Susy Ruiz moved to Las Vegas in 2013 to support students and families who have been told that college is an impossible dream. As the first person in her family to attend a prestigious university and graduate with a post-secondary degree, she understands students’ obstacles and tribulations. Ms. Ruiz serves on the Global Community High School leadership team and Department Chair for Student Services at Global CCSD.

Thank you for supporting Ms. Ruiz’s small college consulting company. She looks forward to being part of your student and family’s higher education journey.