About TÜR

TÜR connects families, schools, and professional partners through placement, admissions counseling, and international recruitment.

Anya Turovskiy began as a tutor and writing teacher. As families came to trust her with homework and essays, they started asking bigger questions: which schools to consider, what to look for on a visit, how to apply.

Many of those families were international, and many of their children went on to American boarding schools. Anya stayed close to them after they enrolled, helping students settle in and keeping parents informed from thousands of miles away.

Along the way, she noticed a pattern. Families kept arriving with the same handful of famous school names, while excellent schools they had never heard of were struggling to reach students like theirs. In 2017, Anya founded TÜR to connect the two: first through individual placements, then through school fairs and recruitment tours in Central Asia and beyond.

Today, TÜR works with families in the United States and abroad, collaborates with fellow consultants, and helps schools and universities strengthen their international recruitment and student support. Anya leads every engagement herself and brings in trusted colleagues when a project calls for them.

Anya Turovskiy, Founder and Principal

For more than 25 years, Anya has worked with students and families. She has taught writing, developed taxonomies for standardized tests, designed personal statement workshops, trained fellow consultants, and helped families discover schools they might otherwise have overlooked. She and her daughter Nina are making a graphic novel about the personal statement together, with Anya’s words and Nina’s drawings. PERSONAL: What Do I Even Write About? is coming in April 2027.

Anya holds a B.A. in Russian Language and Literature from Brandeis University and an M.Ed. in Curriculum and Instruction from the University of Virginia. She is completing two graduate certificates: International Higher Education at Boston College (expected December 2026) and Learning Design and Leadership at the University of Illinois Urbana-Champaign.

She lives in Bolton, Massachusetts, with her five children, four dogs, and a rescue cat who arrived by mistake. The family brought him home thinking he was their own runaway. He wasn’t, but he stayed. Anya still homeschools two of her children.

For more about Anya’s educational philosophy, writing, and other projects, visit aturovskiy.com.