College Consulting for Applying to Yale, Started by Three Yale Siblings

A few years ago, Miye and Emmi—sisters and students at Yale—sat their brother Josh down to give him “The Talk”: how to apply to college. That year, Josh was admitted to Yale and joined them in New Haven. Now, as three siblings who applied and went to Yale, we’re ready to give “The Talk” to you, too.

We work with high school juniors and seniors who are interested in applying early to Yale. Admissions officers will emphasize that there is no formula for applying to Yale, leaving applicants with what can offer: experience. We’ll share the advice we gave one another, shaped by going through the application process ourselves and by years of conversations with our peers at Yale—what we wish we had known, what we learned along the way, and what Yale has actually been like since getting there. From deciding whether Yale is worth applying early to, to thinking through what has really mattered in an application, to understanding how Yale compares with its reputation, we’ll share a perspective you’re unlikely to find elsewhere.

What also makes our approach different is that it began with two sisters advising their brother—and was refined over years of thinking carefully about what was worth passing on. We weren’t just trying to help our brother get into Yale; we wanted to help him think more deeply about his story and his place in the world, while also developing practical strategies for finding opportunities, building relationships, and pursuing what mattered to him—lifelong skills that would serve him long after the application process was over. We want you to thrive beyond college, not simply get into one.

A little more about us...

Emmi Sugino

Miye Sugino

Miye graduated from Yale in 2026 with a B.A. in American Studies and Certificate in Ethnography. Before Yale, she received national recognition for her writing and art as a YoungArts Finalist, U.S. Presidential Scholar in the Arts, and one of the Japanese American National Museum’s 30 Under 30 Changemakers. Yale gave her the freedom to explore widely—and bring together her interests in writing, art, and academic inquiry. Her work was recognized at Yale through awards and fellowships like the Mellon Mays Undergraduate Fellowship, Wallace Prize, and J. Edward Meeker Prize.

Outside class, Miye served in leadership roles for the Yale Undergraduate Prison Project, Yale Visual Arts Collective, Japanese American Student Union, the Yale Literary Magazine, and campus ministry; she also worked as a research assistant for several professors and as a teaching fellow in the Japanese Department. She is grateful for the opportunity to share her experiences with prospective students and help them think about what kind of story they want to tell with their life.

Josh Sugino

Josh applied to Yale as an Electrical Engineering and Computer Science major but pivoted to Applied Math and Cognitive Science after developing an interest in computational psychology. Before Yale, he was president of his high school's FIRST robotics club, leading them to be recognized as one of the most sustainable robotics pipelines in the world. Attending Yale has given him unique, unexpected opportunities, from studying interactions between people living with dementia and robots in the Yale Social Robotics Lab to skydiving in New Zealand with his a capella group.

As a sophomore, Josh looks forward to receiving Yale's enriching education in full: its diverse communities of driven, caring students and its quality professors who make the frontiers of knowledge and creation accessible. He is grateful for the opportunity to offer support for prospective students as they consider who they are and who they want to surround themselves with.

Emmi discovered her love for writing in high school. She developed her writing through programs like the Adroit Journal Summer Mentorship Program and the Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop, and was recognized as a Scholastic Art & Writing Awards national gold medalist. Emmi also worked at Loyola Law School Project for the Innocent, where she dedicated her writing to speak on behalf of the wrongfully convicted. Emmi got into Yale early as a Humanities major. Now a sophomore at Yale, Emmi has been enjoying the freedom to explore her interest in clinical psychology while using the skills she developed in high school: writing well and understanding people. Emmi works at the Yale OCD Research Program, where she has found both intellectual rigor and strong mentors. Outside of research, Emmi volunteers at the Yale New Haven Psychiatric Hospital and is involved with campus ministry.

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