Meet Your Counselor
First-year applicants can browse the list below to find their counselor based on where their high school is geographically located.
Transfer Applicants can identify their admission counselor based on the “Transfer Admissions” designation in their profile.
Graduate Applicants can identify their admission counselor based on the program they are interested in/applying to.
Undergraduate
Priscilla Alicea
Assistant Vice President
for Undergraduate Admissions
Email: palicea@georgian.edu
Phone: 732-631-3139
Territories: NJ (Cape May, Cumberland, Salem, Warren), AK, DE, FL, GA, HI, PA, PR, VI
Hometown: Pawtucket, RI
Favorite Things About Georgian Court: “The close-knit community.”
Favorite Book: Becoming by Michelle Obama.
Fun Fact: “I can speak two languages in one sentence.”
Favorite Quote: “A woman is like a teabag- only in hot water do you realize how strong she is.” – Nancy Reagan
Carlos Cano
Director of Admission
Communications & Marketing
Email: ccano@georgian.edu
Phone: 732-889-7025
Territories: NJ (Hunterdon, Middlesex), New York City
Hometown: Jersey City, NJ
Favorite Things About Georgian Court: “The GCU community. The equal distance between NYC and Philly. Just a stroll from the Jersey Shore too!”
Favorite Book: The Greatest Salesman in the World by OG Mandino
Fun Fact: “I am a HUGE soccer fan…Barcelona is my favorite European club team and I am a New York Red Bulls season ticket holder!”
Favorite Quote: “Knowing is not enough, we must apply. Willing is not enough, we must do.” –Bruce Lee
Daniel Gallen
Assistant Director for
Transfer Admissions
Email: dgallen@georgian.edu
Phone: 732-365-4641
Territories: Transfer Admissions & First-Year Admissions for CA, IA, KS, MO, NV, OR, WA
Hometown: Brick, NJ
Favorite Things About Georgian Court: “The personalized and individual support given to each student.”
Favorite Book: The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger.
Fun Fact: “I love to cook!”
Favorite Quote: “Some are destined to succeed, others are determined to.” – Henry Van Dyke
David Hamilton ’18, M.ED ‘20
Admission Counselor
Email: dhamilton@georgian.edu
Phone: 732-987-2733
Territories: NJ (Burlington, Camden, Ocean, Somerset), AL, KY, LA, MS, NC, SC, & International Applicants
Hometown: Toms River, NJ
Favorite Things About Georgian Court: “The bonds you are able to form with not only fellow students but with professors and mentors as well”
Favorite Book: The Harry Potter Series
Fun Fact: “Many members of my family including myself attended and graduated from Georgian Court.”
Favorite Quote: “We spend our whole lives worrying about the future, planning for the future, trying to predict the future, as if figuring it out will cushion the blow. But the future is always changing. The future is the home of our deepest fears and wildest hopes. But one thing is certain when it finally reveals itself. The future is never the way we imagined it.” -Meredith Grey, Season 5 Episode 23.
Thomas Lang, MA '15
Admission Counselor
Email: tlang@georgian.edu
Phone: 732-334-7957
Territories: NJ (Hudson, Bergen, Union), IL, IN, MI, MN, OH, WI, WV
Hometown: Toms River, NJ
Favorite Things About Georgian Court: “Being able to work with amazing people in a place that I love.”
Favorite Book: The Old Man and The Sea by Ernest Hemingway.
Fun Fact: “I am the first person in my family to receive a master’s degree right here at Georgian Court University.”
Favorite Quote: “You miss 100% of the shots you don’t take.” – Wayne Gretzky
Tracy McCarthy
Assistant Director of
Undergraduate Admissions
Email: tmccarthy@georgian.edu
Phone: 732-334-3796
Territories: NJ (Atlantic, Gloucester, Monmouth, Morris), AR, ND, NM, OK, SD, TN, TX, VA, & Transfer Admissions
Hometown: East Brunswick, NJ
Favorite Things About Georgian Court: “I love the people I work with!”
Favorite Book: The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks.
Fun Fact: “I met Queen Latifah!”
Favorite Quote: “Where there is no struggle, there is no strength.” – Oprah Winfrey
Grant Tokarski
Admission Counselor
Email: gtokarski@georgian.edu
Phone: 732-329-7399
Territories: NJ (Essex, Mercer, Passaic, Sussex), AZ, CO, CT, ID, ME, MA, NH, MT, RI, UT, VT, WY
Hometown: Brick, NJ
Favorite Things About Georgian Court: “The GCU community”
Favorite Book: Percy Jackson and the Olympians by Rick Riordan
Fun Fact: “I competed at the 2020 Big East Cross-Country Championship as a walk-on and I love to ski!”
Favorite Quote: “Hard work beats talent when talent fails to work hard.” – Kevin Durant
Graduate
Maria Colon ’05, MA ’12
Senior Assistant Director of
Graduate Admissions
Email: mcolon@georgian.edu
Phone: 732-631-8281
Working with Prospective Graduate Students For: All programs within the School of Business & Digital Media, Integrative Health, Master of Social Work (MSW), Theology
Hometown: Brooklyn, NY
Favorite Things About Georgian Court: “Mercy Core values are a part of our everyday life!”
Favorite Book: The Oddessy by Homer
Fun Fact: HUGE Turner Classic Movies fan
Favorite Quote: “Success is not final; failure is not fatal: It is the courage to continue that counts.” – Winston Churchill
Maureen Kotusky ’99, MA '18
Assistant Director of
Graduate Admissions
Email: mkotusky@georgian.edu
Phone: 732-646-6694
Working with Prospective Graduate Students for: All Psychology related programs, Criminal Justice, Direct Entry Masters of Nursing (DE-MSN)
Hometown: Old Bridge, NJ
Favorite Things About Georgian Court: The faculty.
Favorite Book: Madame Bovary by Gustave Flaubert
Fun Fact: I was a shot putter in high school
Favorite Quote: “It is never too late to be what you might have been” – George Eliot
Kaitlyn Mulrane ‘18
Assistant Director of
Graduate Admissions
Email: kmulrane@georgian.edu
Phone: 732-838-9394
Works with Prospective Graduate Students for: All programs within the School of Education
Hometown: Ocean Gate, NJ
Favorite Things About Georgian Court: The history of the campus
Favorite Book: The 7 ½ Deaths of Evalyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
Fun Fact: I lived in Scotland for a year where I got my Masters, and loved every day of it!
Favorite Quote: “You must always have faith in people. And, most importantly, you must always have faith in yourself.” – Elle Woods
