Meet our Admissions Counselors

Andrew Flagel

Dean of Admissions

Andrew Flagel became Dean of Admissions at George Mason University on July 10, 2001, where he also teaches in the Department of Communication. Dean Flagel has presented over 350 seminars on the college admissions process to students across the country, has been a featured speaker at the Presidential Youth Inaugural Conference as well as the Washington Journalism Conference, has been a featured guest on C-Span's Washington Journal, and his quotes have appeared in recent educational stories in Newsweek, US News and World Report, and the Washington Post.

Dean Flagel was previously the Director of Admissions and Recruitment at the Flint campus of the University of Michigan. He also served as the Director of Admissions and College Counseling for the Congressional Youth Leadership Council and as an Assistant Director of Admissions at The George Washington University. Dean Flagel has an undergraduate degree in Philosophy and Psychology and a Master of Arts in Education and Human Development from GW, and is currently completing his Ph.D. in Education from Michigan State University.

More importantly, Flagel is an avid Mason Basketball fan, and father to Joshua (Mason class of 2022!). He worked his way through graduate school as a DJ on college radio and at clubs in the D.C. area, and played the drums in a slew of fairly uncool bands (and just missed his calling as a rock star due to a profound lack of talent). He considered a number of other careers, but soon discovered that most required leaving college behind, and so began his career finding excuses to stay on campus.

Boring stuff: Dean Flagel serves on the Seal of Approval Committee for the National Association for College Admissions Counseling and spent three years as their national membership chairman. He also serves on the Educational Advisory Boards for the National Young Leaders Conference, the Honors Boot Camp, and on the Executive Council of the Maryland and D.C. ACT Advisory Committee. He was a member of the Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology Blue Ribbon Admissions Panel, Chairman of the Enrollment Management Committee for the Michigan Association of Collegiate Registrars and Admissions Officers, and an executive board member and Chairman of the Joint Relations Committee for the Michigan Association for College Admissions Counseling. He's also president of the Parent Advisory Committee at Joshua's pre-school, but admits that he was the only one who volunteered for the position.