An interesting paradigm shift seems to have occurred in my second decade of providing college counseling to students from Connecticut’s affluent suburbs. When I started college counseling in the 2000s, most parents from Madison, Guilford, Essex, Old Saybrook, Old Lyme, East Lyme, Waterford, Stonington and other Shoreline towns, the parents were highly focused on the […]
Read MoreAll names and some identifying details of college counseling students are changed Eric was a student at Daniel Hand High School in Madison. I had worked with him on SAT prep and knew him quite well. When we started college counseling, he expressed his interest in applying to schools in the Pacific Northwest. As noted […]
Read MoreAs always, all names and occasional identifying details are changed when I provide college counseling stories. Emily was a student from Guilford High School in Connecticut. We met for college counseling about a decade back. She wanted to go to California. As part of my normal college counseling discussion, I tell students that I will […]
Read MoreCollege counseling is not one size fits all. While it never was, post-pandemic and post demographic analysis, this fact is more true than ever. Many articles suggesting “10 tips for college admission!” have 5 tips that are probably not relevant for your particular situation. Our college counseling clients are predominately from Fairfield County and Connecticut’s […]
Read MoreThrough running The Learning Consultants for now… 20 years!…. I’ve always had a sense of dismay regarding half the college counselors I’ve met in Connecticut. Most went into the field for the right reasons. Specifically, most wanted to help young people with all important life-changing college decisions. But through the years, I came to […]
Read MoreThere are many pandemic tragedies well beyond the good part of the college process. I’m sure “first world problem” will be the classification of this particular issue. But I feel badly for both students and parents who are missing the best part – perhaps the only good part! – of the college application process: visiting […]
Read MoreIf your twentysomething is struggling with career issues, you likely feel ill-equipped to help. You might be right. Unless your own experiences have schooled you in the way the New World of Work operates, realize that some part of the way you understood careers has radically changed. More significantly, you now are experiencing that the […]
Read MoreDuring the last few years, The Learning Consultants has been immersed in college counseling. The pandemic increased this focus by almost double. Confusion is the main reason. Our Connecticut clients are generally a highly educated bunch. Even they are utterly confused by changing standards regarding admissions possibilities. But the inability to visit colleges is […]
Read MoreAs we have been providing college counseling for our students during the pandemic, we have been increasingly dealing with highly stressed parents who are confronting the normal massive stress associated with the college process and the altered reality related to the pandemic. Several have walked into our offices and exclaimed in paraphrased fashion: it seems […]
Read MoreI have been immersed in college counseling during the last few years but particularly since the pandemic. There is something… in the air… that the pandemic has accelerated greatly but did not start. Uncertainty. Parents do not know what to do. More specifically, they do not know what’s best for their children. When I started […]
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