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Your Private College Counselor Recommends These 6 Tips for Test Prep
Clearly, parents want the best for their children. Unfortunately, many hope for “quick fixes” and short term solutions to catapult their student into test taking stardom. As the college admission season quickly closes in on our high school juniors, many parents still wait to the last minute to plan for Read More…
Ask Your College Counselor: Changes from Betsy DeVos
While many Americans vocalize optimism for the advancement of voucher programs and Charter Schools under the potential Secretary of Education, Betsy DeVos, or express fear of her lack of educational experience and diminished advocacy of public schools, the ultimate authority of public education will continue to reside with local control Read More…
Get Essay Help for UC’s Personal Insight Question (PIQ)
Personal Insight Questions Many of my recent college admissions seniors have shuddered at the new University of California (UC) Application Personal Insight Questions. “Really, another change?” Granted, over the past three years, public high school students have been riddled with change: Common Core, the major reconstruction of the new 2016 Read More…
Get ACT/SAT Test and Essay Help Early With Your Personal College Counselor
“I’m so sorry, but it’s too late. She simply doesn’t have the numbers.” The vacant stares and suppressed tears are almost as devastating for me as a college counselor and educator as the genuine despair of the family that arrives on my doorstep during their teen’s senior year. Sadly, by Read More…
College-Bound Consulting Helps You Get Into Engineering School
Engineering is just harder; there is no other way to categorize its seemingly insurmountable college acceptance expectations. However high the general admissions standards are for a given university, expect that these have become a monumental “Goliath” for the prospective engineering candidate. Let’s consider California Polytechnic University at San Luis Obispo Read More…
Get College Essay Help: Introductory Paragraphs
Prior to the adoption of Common Core, the No Child Left Behind approach to education reigned for over a decade, “relying too heavily on standardized tests” according to many critics. One of the policy’s greatest deficits was the abandonment of writing curricula throughout the nation’s districts, charter schools, and other Read More…
Your Private College Counselor Gives You More Personal Attention
The False Promises Out of panic and pressure that their children will be “left behind” during the college admissions process, families often fall victim to the mega-test prep firm’s large class instructional package “deals.” These are not private college counselors, also known as independent college counselors. Universities and private companies Read More…
Let Our Independent College Counselors Help You Earn Scholarships
Many high school seniors, parents, and teachers struggle to submit scholarship applications on time while hustling through the flurry of standardized testing, college applications, housing decisions and the nightmare of unsubsidized loans that is FASFA. The storm of anxiety and stress quickly gathers strength and leads to monumental burnout long Read More…
Your Private College Counselor Gives You Better Critical Reading Skills
How many of us loath the stress and pressure of an ever-changing college entrance exam? An exam is necessary for admission into the U.S.’s most prestigious universities, and but may not indicate one’s success in college or life. That’s why you need a private college counselor! Regardless of our antipathy Read More…