Skip to main content

Eliot Sloan

College Counselor - Appointed 2022

Graduate Degrees

  • M.A., Bread Loaf School of English, Middlebury College
  • M.F.A. in Creative Writing, The University of Arizona

Undergraduate Degree

  • B.A., Vassar College

Best VCS Moment

  • During my very first week at VCS, when everyone sang “Happy Birthday” to me at the morning meeting. I was amazed! That showed me how very special this community is, and I felt instantly welcomed.

Inspirational Quote

  • “Only connect! That was the whole of her sermon. Only connect the prose and the passion, and both will be exalted, and human love will be seen at its height. Live in fragments no longer.”
    -E.M. Forster

Interest and Hobbies

  • Reading, hiking, cooking, spending time with her family and puppy.

Brief Biography

A writer, editor, and teacher, Eliot has over twelve years of experience as an essay consultant, helping college and graduate school applicants draft and polish personal statements. A native New Yorker, she graduated from Vassar College and then worked as an editor at Zagat Survey and at Harper’s Magazine before heading off to the deserts of the American Southwest, where she earned her MFA in creative writing at the University of Arizona and spent summers completing a master’s degree in English at Middlebury. She then went on to teach English at several independent secondary schools before moving to Vermont, where she taught writing at St. Michael’s College for almost a decade and worked as an independent college counseling consultant until finding VCS!

Scholarship. Community. Global Responsibility.

Students emerge from their time at Vermont Commons School intrinsically motivated to seek out their role for improving the world, with the skills and competencies to do so.