ABOUT US
Prestige College Planning LLC is based in San Ramon, CA offering personalized guidance and consulting to high school students and parents with college planning and the application process. Prestige College Planning specializes in guiding students for targeted summer academic enrichment and extracurricular activities. Prestige guides students studying in several Bay Area schools including San Ramon, Dublin, Pleasanton, Evergreen/Silvercreek, Cupertino, Fremont, and Boston, MA.
Veena Das
Founder and President
Veena Das is a highly passionate, outcome oriented profesional with the sole desire and goal to help high school students achieve their full potential. She has demonstrated expertise in implementing a strategic holistic plan and a process that will guide students and their parents through the entire college preparation and application process.
Qualifications
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MBA from The University of Alabama in Huntsville and MS in Accounting.
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Worked as a software developer for Verizon and Citigroup for many years.
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Completed courses in College Counseling from UCLA (University of California, Los Angeles)
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Attends conferences and workshops every year (University of California and College Board).
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Member of the Western Association for College Admission Counseling (WACAC).
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Currently guiding high school students in San Ramon, Pleasanton, Dublin, Fremont, Cupertino, Evergreen, Silvercreek, and Boston (MA).
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Personally visited several universities around the country (listed below).
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Done extensive research on the admission requirements and majors at many universities.
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Volunteered as a literacy tutor at the local library (provided one-on-one instruction in both basic literacy and English as a second language to adults).
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Live in the San Francisco Bay Area.
Colleges Visited
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Harvard University (Cambridge, MA)
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Princeton University (Princeton, NJ)
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University of Pennsylvania (Philadelphia, PA)
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Columbia University (New York, NY)
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Stanford University (Stanford, CA)
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Cambridge, MA)
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University of Michigan, Ann Arbor (Ann Arbor, MI)
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New York University (New York, NY)
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Carnegie Mellon (Pittsburgh, PA)
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Georgetown University (Washington, DC)
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University of California, Berkeley (Berkeley, CA)
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University of California, Los Angeles (Los Angeles, CA)
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University of California, San Diego (La Jolla, CA)
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University of California, Davis (Davis, CA)
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University of California, Irvine (Irvine, CA)
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University of California, Santa Barbara (Santa Barbara, CA)
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University of California, Santa Cruz (Santa Cruz, CA)
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University of California, Riverside (Riverside, CA)
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University of California, Merced (Merced, CA)
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University of Southern California (Los Angeles, CA)
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The University of Texas at Austin (Austin, TX)
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University of Maryland (College Park, MD)
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George Washington University (Washington, DC)
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University of Pittsburgh (Pittsburgh, PA)
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Santa Clara University (Santa Clara, CA)
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Saint Mary’s College Of California (Moraga, CA)
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Pepperdine University (Malibu, CA)
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California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo (San Luis Obispo, CA)
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California State University, East Bay (Hayward, CA)
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San Jose State University, San Jose (San Jose, CA)
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The University of Texas at Dallas (Richardson, TX)
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The University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ)
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The University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, AL)
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The University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa (Tuscaloosa, AL)
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The University of South Florida (Tampa, FL)
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University of Florida (Gainesville, FL)