Arthur Dashan is the founder of Dash Prep and is a master test prep tutor. He graduated Magna cum laude from the University of Rochester with a degree in Economics, which he attended on a full scholarship.
After graduating he began working with several major test prep companies, where he became increasingly dissatisfied with the one-size-fits-all methods commonly used throughout the industry. Determined to provide students with a more personalized and effective approach, he launched his own tutoring practice and developed the individualized strategies that would eventually become the foundation of Dash Prep.
With more than a decade of combined professional tutoring and college counseling experience, Arthur has personally mentored hundreds of students and helped them achieve outstanding results on the SAT, ACT, SSAT, ISEE, and SHSAT. Working alongside the exceptional team he built at Dash Prep, he has helped students earn admission to some of the nation's most selective institutions, including Harvard, Princeton, UPenn, Columbia, Cornell, Brown, Duke, Georgetown, UCLA, USC, Vanderbilt, NYU, and the United States Military Academy at West Point.
Natalia Dashan is the lead essay strategist and college consultant at Dash Prep. She graduated from Yale University with a degree in Psychology, which she attended on a full scholarship, and has since written for national publications and worked across several media companies.
With over seven years of college counseling, Natalia has guided students through every stage of the admissions process, from building an initial school list to submitting the final applications.
She works with students to identify best-fit schools based on academic profile, personal priorities, and long-term goals, while helping them understand what different institutions are genuinely looking for in a candidate. Her students have earned admission to some of the nation's most selective universities, including Harvard, Vanderbilt, Brown, UPenn, and Stanford. Natalia finds joy in helping each essay “click” into place as both a strategic component and as a genuine act of the student’s self-expression. She developed an approach built around three factors: unique voice, narrative clarity, and fit. She helps each student excavate the story only they can tell, then shapes it into prose that sounds unmistakably their own (something that matters more than ever as colleges grow sophisticated at identifying AI-generated writing).
