I have seen enormous scholarship success for Connecticut students with top SAT and ACT test scores, particularly in the last 5 years. Colleges – particularly private ones – are desperate to maintain their student populations. They also need to look “not desperate”! To do so, they need to attract a student body that looks impressive. […]
Read MoreLook at the calendar. It is March tomorrow! If you are the parent of a high school junior, you may have been in equal denial about the following: your child will apply to college in the next 7 months. That’s right. Most early action and early decision applications will be due Nov. 1. All Connecticut […]
Read MoreHaving spent the last 16 years immersed in helping Connecticut high school students, I have a lived a work mission of getting children prepared for leaving high school and heading to college. The mission is carried out through SAT-ACT prep, tutoring, college and educational counseling but those areas are the strategies and tactics to carry […]
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 MoreI recently sent a note to my son at college. He was complaining about how strict dorm life was compared to how I described my experiences at the same college. I was in college in Washington, DC, one of the last places in the country that had a drinking age of 18. I was actually […]
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 MoreIn our SAT-ACT Mastery Seminar, held in Old Saybrook and Madison, I routinely speak to dozens of 17 year olds. When I discuss college for the first time, I see anxiety. When I meet with parents and their children for college counseling, I often “feel” the anxiety of parents. My college counseling work has led […]
Read MoreI was recently interviewed by The Hartford Courant. I met the author about a decade ago as she has been an education journalist in Connecticut for years. She asked about “our magic”. Why is that The Learning Consultants has such a cult fan base? Whenever I speak with parents about your company, they seem to get […]
Read MoreCallie was a junior at Daniel Hand High School in Madison and was taking an SAT course at our Madison, CT office. She is one of those good kids who does all her work and earnestly tries her best. Her grades were good. Her PSAT scores were not. The very first thing she said to […]
Read MorePSAT scores are back for most every school in Shoreline, CT. I have heard that Daniel Hand High School in Madison may have a delay in providing its PSAT scores but otherwise students from Guilford, Old Saybrook, Old Lyme, East Lyme and other Southeastern, CT high schools have sent me their PSAT results. As always, […]
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