“I am writing my college essay in English class.” So said another student we were working with for college counseling. Most English teachers do not know the difference between a well written essay for English class and an effective college admissions essay. (With the notable exception of Jennifer Burke, the amazing English teacher at Lyme-Old […]
Read MoreLuke is a 6th year senior at UCONN. He has switched colleges twice and majors three times. His situation is not that much of an outlier. Every day, our college counseling calls include college transfer calls and quite often those calls relate to college major/career interests. 15 years ago, The Learning Consultants built its career counseling […]
Read MoreI do not automatically suggest college as the only post high school alternative. I was recently meeting with a family from Essex, Connecticut and extolling the virtues of exploring the trades (plumbing in particular) and the military for their son who had straight Ds in high school. So to be clear, I am not someone […]
Read MoreThe anxiety epidemic is real. I have been working with students in the Shoreline region of Connecticut for twenty years. Our clients live in the leafy suburbs of Guilford, Madison, Old Saybrook, Essex, Old Lyme, East Lyme and other nearby towns. I know this overall changing student population of high school students in Southeastern, CT […]
Read MoreSign up now. We have been immersed in college counseling over the last two years. Yes… we advise some student that spending energy on the SAT won’t matter. But usually, these are students who are not applying to particularly competitive colleges or know for certain that they are well within the admissions range of colleges […]
Read MoreI wrote Motivate Your Son in 2012. Based on my Student Mastery (student training) and college counseling work, I noticed that girls were outperforming boys in school and far more invested in the college process than boys. Research proved my anecdotal evidence correct. My normally upbeat way of being did not prevent me from sounding […]
Read MoreI have some sense of optimism regarding the return of normalcy or at least post-pandemic normalcy. Given my work related to both teaching and counseling students in Connecticut, I have noticed in the last few years a profound need for more educational counseling. The epidemics of anxiety and depression and various subcategories of each have […]
Read MoreHope brings its friends optimism, happiness, and excitement. Having worked with teens/young adults in Shoreline, CT for 20 years, I wish that I could bring back the amount of hope that I saw when I first started. Hope derives from the thought that something better lies ahead. Back in the not too distant past… most […]
Read MoreThe stakes for choosing a college major have never been higher. I do not like the view that 18 year olds should already be immersed in career planning. But there are many other things about the world that I don’t like either. We have to deal with “what is”. And, the New World of Work, […]
Read MoreYears ago, I had a fellowship to work at The Brookings Institute, long considered America’s top think tank. At the end of the fellowship, I told my wonderful Brookings Scholar (as they were called) that I thought the mission of think tanks was great “generate ground breaking ideas through sophisticated research”, I wanted to be […]
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