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Steve Edwards
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Founded in 2002, by Steve Edwards and Tim Van Hooser, our goal at INTOTHEBEST, Inc. is to help other students benefit from the counseling and resources we had that helped us get into and thrive at Princeton. We hope the site will help you improve your applications and make the process easier as well.

Stephen W. Edwards, Born and raised outside Philadelphia, Steve Edwards was blessed to learn from some great teachers both at West Chester East High School and Princeton University. At Princeton, he concentrated in colonial American history and focused his thesis on the lasting impact of Jonathan Edwards's "Treatise Concerning Religious Affections" in influencing history's view of the 1739-1746 Great Awakening.

After graduating from Princeton, he has served as a short-term missionary with Campus Crusade for Christ in Maracaibo, Venezuela. There, he taught English clubs and Bible studies to university students on several campuses and helped to create effective literature to explain the group's events to inquiring students.

Over the past year, he has completed several Web design projects with INTOTHEBEST and has begun a career at Bridgewater Associates, a money management firm in Westport, Conn. At Bridgewater, he researches the financial markets and delivers solutions to client requests for market information and portfolio analysis.

Timothy P. Van Hooser, In addition to his work as CEO of INTOTHEBEST, Tim is the Executive Director of the Foundation for the Encouragement & Preservation of Family Values, 3DimensionalWealth.com, where he works with Roey Diefendorf to help families with a net worth of $20 million or more articulate and write down their family values.

Tim earned his B.S. in Chemical Engineering and a certificate in Materials Science at Princeton University, where he also served as President of the American Institute of Chemical Engineers.

Kevin Gormley, a graduate of Princeton University and the University of Virginia, has won scholarships and graduate fellowships worth over $100,000. He has counseled parents on financial planning for college and has spoken to groups of high school students about college preparation and applying for scholarships. Currently, Kevin is pursuing a Ph.D. in systems engineering (with a focus on decision making and finance) at the University of Virginia. He recently completed a computer simulation project to evaluate different strategies for "529" college savings plans.

In order to serve you better, we are expanding our ranks of counselors to include alumni from schools other than Princeton. We will try to find alumni from the schools you are considering to give you the inside scoop on their school to help you make better decisions. Although we are not affiliated with Princeton or any other academic institution, we receive helpful advice from current or former members of the admissions offices of Princeton and Columbia.

The following is a list of 22 schools and 33 INTOTHEBEST counselors:

California Institute of Technology (1)
Columbia University graduate school (2)
Columbia Law School (1)
Cornell University (2)
Johnson Graduate School of Management (1)
Harvard Law School (1)
Harvard University (1)
Princeton (11)
Princeton Theological Seminary (1)
New York University (1)
Northwestern University (1)
Oberlin College (2)
University of Chicago Graduate School of Business (1)
University of Michigan (2)
University of Notre Dame (1)
University of Pennsylvania Law School (1)
University of Virginia graduate school (1)
Vanderbilt University (1)
Wellesley College (1)
West Point (1)
Wharton (1)
Yale (1)

Together, let's make it happen.