Among the reasons our SAT class has been so successful is our ability to shift the motivation of our students. Emotional state is a significant predictor for how much effort the student puts into an activity. Shifting our students to a positive emotional state where they are excited – or at least interested – in […]
Read MoreEven in the affluent Connecticut suburbs, paying for college has become the biggest financial college that most parents face. When I am get-togethers with my Old Saybrook neighbors, college tuition seems to be an omnipresent topic. This wasn’t always the case. A couple decades ago, most parents from the upper middle class suburbs of Shoreline […]
Read MoreMy oldest graduated Old Saybrook High School last year; my next is a sophomore; and my youngest is a middle-schooler. Thoughts of my children leaving the nest has created a depth of poignancy that I’ve never experienced before. One of the reasons my wife and I relocated from Washington, DC to Shoreline, Connecticut was our […]
Read MoreI lived in Washington, DC, Philadelphia and New Jersey before Connecticut so most of my life long friends come from those parts. My wife is from the Boston suburbs so we similarly have another base of comparison with our Connecticut friends. The college conversation with those live in suburbs of major cities is different than […]
Read MoreWe live in an idyllic community. Having lived in or outside New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, DC, I have some perspective on the greatness of growing up in the Connecticut suburbs. The problems of many kids growing up on the Shoreline in towns like Guilford, Madison, Old Saybrook, Essex, Old Lyme, and East Lyme are […]
Read MoreLooking back at my life and those of my friends, the choice of one’s spouse is easily the most significant life choice (mutual choice, of course!). The choice to have children and the number of children, within that decision, is next. Career choice is likely third. College choice is likely fourth, even ahead of where […]
Read MoreMy son is home from his first semester of college. It gave me a chance to reflect as a Dad, not simply as an educational consultant. What mattered in his off to college journey in terms of both his happiness/well being and his success/college admission? And, of course, what didn’t matter? The main thing that […]
Read MoreWhen 2017 arrives, your child is applying to college “this year” For Connecticut high school juniors, the joys of the holidays will soon be replaced by college madness. During our SAT-ACT Mastery Seminar, I tell our students that start in January something that makes them look up in shock: you will be applying to college by […]
Read More“Just go where you will be happy. The name of the college doesn’t matter.” The parents who say this to their children are almost always well-meaning and almost always incorrect. (I say “almost always” in anticipation of the exceptions.) I think our generation of parents was so well trained to be the anti-Dead Poet’s Society […]
Read MoreOver the last couple of years as The Learning Consultants has focused more intensely on college counseling for our Connecticut clients, we have increasingly been asked: “is college worth the money?” Let me start with a paradox. College is horribly over-priced – for most and worth every penny – for most. I always add “for […]
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