I help ambitious students unlock top-tier admissions and maximize merit aid through psychology-informed strategy and holistic planning. Her students call her Dr. Markii, and the nickname stuck. Pauline Markowicz is the Founder & CEO of Dream Education Consulting, a PhD psychologist, and a UCLA-certified college counselor who has guided thousands of students into the schools they didn't think they could reach. She grew up between France, Spain, and the US, attended ten schools across multiple countries, failed pre-calculus twice, and went undiagnosed with ADHD for years. She knows what it feels like when the system isn't built for you, and she built her practice to change that for the next generation. Pauline's approach combines admissions strategy, behavioral psychology, and merit aid optimization, but what sets her apart is how personally invested she gets. Her relationships with students don't end at acceptance letters. She helps them choose courses, land internships, find new scholarships in college, apply to law school and med school, prepare for their first job interviews, and negotiate their first paychecks. At her wedding, an entire table was filled with former students she had helped get into their dream schools, for free, because that's the kind of bond this work creates. She doesn't see college counseling as a transaction. She sees it as the beginning of a relationship with young people whose potential she refuses to let go to waste. Through her "Dream Big, Plan Smart, Beat the Odds" philosophy, Pauline pushes students harder than anyone else will and supports them more deeply than anyone else does.