Dan joins YSC Academy with more than 35 years of college admissions experience. He has extensive experience working on the East and West Coasts at small liberal arts colleges and a large research university. He has been a senior admissions officer at Elizabethtown College, Lafayette College, the University of Puget Sound (where he was Director of Admissions), and the University of Pennsylvania, where he served as an admission dean and athletic liaison for men’s sports. He joined the William Penn Charter School in 2004 as the Director of College Counseling and served in that position and as a member of the senior leadership team for 16 years. In 2020, he joined Germantown Academy and became the school’s first Senior Associate Director of College Counseling.

Evans has served as a faculty member of the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth College Colloquium and the Pennsylvania Association for College Admission Counseling (PACAC) Summer Institute. He also served as a member of the PACAC Executive Committee. In 2023, he was invited to join the faculty for the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) Professional Counseling Certificate Program. He sat on the Counselor Advisory Boards for Baylor University (TX) and Providence College (RI), and has been featured in books, newspapers and magazine articles discussing the college application process. Dan and his wife have three children; all of whom have successfully navigated the college search process.