Hanna Stotland Is Not Like Other College Consultants
October 8, 2025
Hanna Stotland isn’t your typical college admissions consultant. From branding herself a “Disaster Girl” to embracing the toughest cases, clients with disciplinary records, Title IX findings, or mental health challenges. Hanna has built a niche in the margins. In this profile, The Harvard Crimson traces Stotland’s transformation: her personal journey through academic struggle, her move into crisis-driven consulting, and the controversies that follow when education, accountability, and reinvention collide.
More than five decades ago, just 37 words banned sex-based discrimination in American schools — and transformed higher education in the process.
Hanna discusses the role of substance abuse in campus sexual misconduct cases and why newly surfaced text messages in the Cornell case underscore the need to wait for all the facts before drawing conclusions.
Independent education consultant Hanna Stotland discussed sexual assault cases at universities and how to prevent them.
The Cornell rape investigation is sparking discussions on what needs to be done to prevent sexual assault on college campuses. Hanna Stotland, an independent admissions consultant who previously advised one of the men named in Jane Doe's lawsuit, joins CBS News.
The Lead With Jake Tapper - Hanna Stotland
Hanna Stotland featured on Michael Smerconish Podcast
The Untold Story Podcast with Martha MacCallum Interview with Hanna Stotland
The shocking details in a woman’s lawsuit against Cornell University, a fraternity, her sorority, and (most infamously) seven of her fellow students have ricocheted through the nation. By now you have likely heard the broad strokes of the case: “Jane Doe” says she went to Chi Phi fraternity one night, quite intoxicated, and two men had simultaneous sex with her (consent for the encounter is disputed). Later, one of them posted on Snapchat that there was “free pussy” in the house. What exactly happened after that is harder to parse, but now, Doe has brought a lawsuit against multiple entities alleging that she was gang-raped and that the crime was not taken seriously by the people that should have handled it. Read the article here >
College admissions expert Hanna Stotland, JD joins Chris Bell to talk about second chances in college admissions.
Hanna Stotland, JD has been an independent educational consultant specializing in crisis management for two decades. In this conversation with Hilary Lefitz from The College Advisor, she discusses how to avoid the pitfalls of drug and alcohol abuse as student and other dangers of campus life.
