Caryl Kirstensen
Caryl Kirstensen came to college counseling after a successful career in television as one of "The Mommies" on NBC, and Co-Host of Caryl & Marilyn: Real Friends a talk show on ABC and the hit Showtime Special, My Kid Beat Up Your Honor Student.
After living the college/comedy process with her own children, she went back to school and received her College Counseling Certification at UCLA in 2002. She worked as a college counselor at Campbell Hall High School in Los Angeles, and was instrumental in initiating the school-wide use of the Naviance college planning platform.
Caryl was also the Co-founder of LikeLive, the first-of-its-kind digital interview portal for colleges and universities all over the world, enabling colleges to conduct interviews of students digitally as part of their applications. There she worked with over 200 colleges and universities helping them to write interview questions to help yield the types of students they were looking for.
