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); } // ---- Katie's bio, credentials, specializations ---- function KatieBio() { return (
About Katie

Experience

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Katie has spent her career on both sides of college admissions, and that shapes everything about how she works.

A Boston College graduate with degrees in Human Development and Psychology, Katie went on to earn a Master's in Higher Education Administration before beginning her career in the BC Admissions Office. She then spent six years in the MIT Admissions Office as a senior member of the selection committee. Having grown up in the Netherlands and attended an international school there, she came to that work already familiar with how differently education can look from one country to the next. Between MIT and Boston College, she has evaluated more than twenty-six thousand applications from students in every part of the world. Few counselors have seen the inside of a highly selective admissions process at that depth and scale.

After MIT, Katie served as Director of College and School Counseling at a Boston-area independent school before joining IvyWise as a Premier-level counselor, the top designation at the firm. She has worked one-on-one with students and families through every phase of the college process and has led training and professional development for professionals newer to the work.

What she brings to each student is the ability to read an application the way a committee does — she knows what feels authentic and what doesn't. The harder half of the work is translating that into something a high school student can actually use, and that is what she has spent the last decade doing.

Specializations

 ); } // ---- Brand line, attributed ---- function KatieQuote() { return (

Every student has a story worth telling —
our job is to help them find it.

Katie Burns

 ); } // ---- Why CuraMagis (bridge into the brand) ---- function WhyCuraMagis() { return (
Why CuraMagis

Cura is care. Magis is more.

CuraMagis is built around how Katie counsels: a small number of families at a time, a flat rate set before we begin, and the freedom to spend as long as a student needs without anyone counting hours.

Most of this process gets discussed in numbers: grades, scores, acceptance rates. Those matter, and they are the easy part to talk about. What actually decides an application is harder to quantify — what a student cares about, how they think, what they have made of the opportunities in front of them, and how that comes through on the page. That takes longer to build, and it takes intentionality: choices made deliberately over several years so that a student arrives at senior fall with a story to tell rather than gaps to explain. We start there.

The name says what we hold to. Great guidance means caring more deeply and reaching for more — not just caring about where a student lands, but caring more about who they become on the journey there.

); } // ---- How Katie works: 3 pillars ---- function ApproachKatie() { const pillars = [ ["Know the student", "Everything starts with knowing the student — what's stressing them out and what genuinely excites them. When we follow what they care about, the right story unfolds."], ["Build their confidence", "What matters most to us is who a student becomes over these years, the self-knowledge and confidence they build. That growth is the real work, and it outlasts any decision letter."], ["Find their fit", "Many families come overwhelmed by the noise, convinced there's one right path. There isn't. We quiet that noise, guiding you through the process and toward the schools that genuinely fit your student."]]; return (
Our approach

Three things we hold to with every student.

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); } // ---- Closing CTA ---- function CTABandKatie({ onContact }) { return (

Let's find the right path, together.

Tell us about your student, and we will take it from there.

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