College Consulting
for the Multiculturally
Minded.
Based in Valencia, Spain but serving students across the globe.
Hyll Education offers bespoke counseling to current and aspiring college and university students with the aim of ensuring a meaningful, enjoyable, and fulfilling college experience. Our consultants help students navigate the many challenges inherent to choosing, transitioning to, and flourishing in the university environment.
Mission
and Vision
Although Hyll originally stood for Hybrid Language Learning, over time its meaning has evolved, coming to mean Hybrid Living and Learning. We originally developed the word Hyll while teaching languages at Harvard, realizing that our teaching philosophy, while it also involved some traditional instruction, was driven primarily by authentic sociocultural engagement. We believe that language learning, much like the consulting relationship, is a “hybrid” learning experience in which knowledge is co- created by teacher and learner (or consultant and client) through active, engaged dialogue.
As we spent more and more time with this notion of hybridity, we realized it infused all areas of our personal and professional lives. Our multicultural family, for instance, nurtures strong relationships to the United States, Spain, and Italy and regularly speaks English, Spanish, and Italian. Hybridity is who we are, and when we decided to bring our considerable experience in mentoring students to college consulting, we immediately knew that it would be called Hyll. A homophone of “hill,” it also acknowledges its conception in Rome, a city characterized by its hills.
Our students,
our best value!
Massimo
Tomas
Sara
Of the 15 schools to which Sara sent applications, only one did not accept her, but by then, she had already sent her enrollment deposit to the University of Edinburgh, where she is now studying a degree in creative writing.
We offer our best
for both students and
school to reach their
needs.
We offer our best for both students and school to reach their needs.
Services
for Students
University Admissions Counseling
Services
for Schools
Counselor
Training
Office Hours
for Students
Webinars and Presentations
Experience and knowledge in
an academic environment.
Team
Former academic dean and scholar of Italian Studies with a special interest in documentary cinema and the history of Italian cinema. He worked for five years as the academic dean of one of Harvard’s largest undergraduate residential communities and has also served as Associate Dean of Students at Loyola University Chicago’s Center in Rome, Italy.
He has extensive experience in academic advising, assisting students with their writing—both for courses and graduate school applications—and guiding them towards the successful completion of their degrees. He holds a BA from Vassar College, an MA from Middlebury College Language Schools, and an AM and PhD from Harvard University.
As a Teaching Assistant at Harvard he taught Italian language for five years. He also worked as a lecturer in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures where he taught courses in Italian cinema.
Former Preceptor of Spanish Language at Harvard University, where she taught Spanish for over 10 years. She is the recipient of 18 awards for teaching excellence from the Harvard University Derek Bok Center for Teaching & Learning.
Celeste holds a PhD in Linguistics from Universidad Complutense de Madrid. She also holds a licenciatura in English philology and a Master’s Degree in English Linguistics and International Communication.
She has done extensive research in the category of Second Language Acquisition, with a particular focus on the use of technology to enrich language and culture learning outside the classroom. Celeste focuses primarily on our Spanish-speaking clients.
Anthony Terenzio is an international education professional with a diverse background in university administration, cross-cultural exchange, and business. In addition to his work as a mentor at Hyll, he was formerly an Assistant Resident Director at the John Felice Rome Center of Loyola University Chicago (one of Rome’s oldest and most prominent study abroad institutions) and currently serves as the Assistant Director of Study Abroad at the University of Illinois Chicago.
In his work with high school students, Anthony leverages experience in advertising to help students tell their stories in unique and compelling ways. Thanks to Anthony’s ample study abroad and mentoring experience, his students have gone on to win tens of thousands of dollars in scholarship funding and study in every continent except Antarctica. He regularly speaks at professional and academic conferences in the international education field on topics dealing with diverse participation in study abroad programming and student advising.
Contact us
info@hyll.education
