Grace Cheng Dodge

Dr. Grace Cheng Dodge is the former Director of Admission at Wellesley College. Prior to joining Wellesley in 2015, she was an Associate Director of Admissions at Harvard, having first joined the Harvard Admissions Office in 2002. From 2009 to 2012, she took a professional leave from Harvard and spent three years here at Taipei American School as a college counselor and Director of College Counseling. She also taught geometry and essay writing during three summers of TAS Summer Academy. Grace returned to the TAS College Counseling office in 2018 before assuming the position of Deputy Head of School in the 2019-20 academic year. She became Interim Head of School in the fall of 2020 and was chosen as the fifteenth Head of School, starting July 2021.

While back in the US, Grace was nominated to be a US State Department/College Board Overseas Schools Program traveler to western Europe. In this capacity, she traveled to various international and American schools abroad, presenting to the lower, middle, and upper school communities of US expatriate children and parents on developing the whole child and mastering the building blocks to being a successful student in an American school system.

Grace has been a presenter at the EARCOS Teachers' Conference on the subject of college application essay writing, and she has also presented at various National Association of College Admission Counseling conferences and national College Board Forums. She was Chair-Elect of the New England College Board Regional Council before relocating to Taiwan.

Grace is a 1997 graduate of Harvard University with a cum laude degree in applied mathematics. She holds an MS in accounting, an MBA, and an EdD from Northeastern University. She is certified as a PreK-12 administrator by the District of Columbia Office of the State Superintendent of Education. Prior to entering the field of education, she was employed by PwC LLP and she remains a licensed CPA in the Commonwealth of Massachusetts.