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Is College Worth It? Let Our Private Admissions Counselors Tell You
Facts: Education Level In an era in which facts are advertised as obsolete, students and parents may be tempted to dismiss the merits of a college education. Nonetheless, when analyzing the relationship between higher education and real world wages and earnings, the hard evidence- the numbers- have withstood the test Read More…
Waitlisted? Your Private College Counselor Knows What to Do Next
The College Waitlist “Waitlisted.” You’ve already waited for months! You’ve chewed your every nail down to the nub, endured restless nights and promised the “Great Spirit in the Sky” you’ll do better, be better, if you only get into that one school. Finally, the March college acceptance letters roll Read More…
Your Independent College Counselor Helps You With What Schools Look For
What do colleges expect? Our college admissions counselors say “What are schools looking for?” is one of their most commonly-asked questions. How do I get into my dream school? What about my safety school? What if I don’t have what it takes to get into college? College acceptance rates and Read More…
Make Holiday Learning Festive With Your Personal College Counselor
Holidays or “Holidaze?” Many of the families I serve wrack their brains, “What can I do with my kids over holidays like Veterans Day, Thanksgiving break, Winter break, President’s’ Day, Ski Week (especially if they don’t ski), Spring break and the whopper of them all, Summer Break?” The list of Read More…
For-Profit School or No? Your Private College Counselor Guides You
For-Profit and the Rest For-profit or nonprofit, public or private, community college or four year college? So many choices confuse the college planning process for our youth and working adult students. Regardless of which option students choose, they all have to pay; tuition, housing, food, medical, transportation, facility fees, and Read More…
Your Private College Counselor Can Help When Tests Are Biased
How do I ace a test, the SAT, or any standardized test? How can they expect me to know everything? What if I don’t have the skills or the advantages? They, whether a teacher, professor, ETS (Educational Testing Service), or the College Board, absolutely do not expect you to know Read More…
Can A Private College Counselor Tell Me Whether College Is Right For Me?
The contentious debate about college attendance has long circled its wagons around who is cut out for higher education and who isn’t. Realistically, not everyone is a billionaire “Pointdexter” who’s designed to reinvent the wheel or wield his millions in order to single-handedly man the human race’s first mission Read More…
Our College Bound Consulting Helps Reduce Your Test Anxiety
Developing Bad Habits As students gain academic experience, they cannot help but develop coping mechanisms or “bad habits,” which they wholly believe will enable their survival under the competitive pressure of college admissions. These behavioral patterns often serve them well…until they don’t. For better or worse, we mimic the behavior of Read More…
Your Private Counselor Shows You Online Courses to Prep for College
Online Education’s Perks Is online education an effective learning tool or a duplicitous marketing scam for sub par college courses? Dodging an overwhelming number of conflicting studies, interpretations and opinions, many parents and students feel that it’s nearly impossible to be “on the ball” and make heads or tails of Read More…