General Education Advice

Summer SAT Connecticut Program   In person:    121 Main Street, Old Saybrook    or virtual   At all times, we have individual prep.  Many students take our class first and then follow with individual prep.   The class will start on July 12.   Many students start late and most all students miss a […]

Do you know who knows more about college admissions than pretty much anyone? College coaches. Why?  Because part of their job involves ensuring that their recruits gain admission. What’s their advice to their recruits? Take the SAT as early and as often as possible to ensure the benefits of super scoring, score choice, and early […]

Did your child’s April SAT results come back? Were they as high as they could be? If so, enjoy the Spring! If not, sign up for June.  Prepare for the June test and then enjoy the Summer! If you do not, it will be a long wait – and endless nagging in August – to […]

We have received many nice notes from students and parents regarding the results of the April in-school SATs. For most, this good news is tempered by our advice: TAKE THE JUNE SAT Very few students maximize their scores the first time around.  Indeed, we tell many of our students to take advantage of super-scoring and […]

The world is uncertain. The pace of change is the real revolution. In the Industrial Age, change took place over 50–75 years. Now, industries can emerge, flourish, and disappear in a matter of five years—or less. And beyond the economic realities, there is something even more concerning: The psychological toll on young adults. Rates of […]

Since I work with students from schools ranging from New Haven to Middletown to Stonington, I have a reasonable comparative understanding of the strength of Connecticut schools in the Middlesex, New Haven, and New London County areas. If your child attends one of the stronger schools in the area – Guilford, Daniel Hand in Madison, […]

In providing college counseling to The Learning Consultants’ clients, perhaps the silliest thing I occasionally hear from parents, who are likely trying to calm themselves and their children down about the college process, is “it doesn’t matter where you go to college.” I realize that some parents are saying this to defuse the competitive nature […]

“It is different now.”  Ray, a father of a junior from Lyme Old Lyme High School, noted when his wife suggested that maybe they were making too big a deal about the college process.  Ron is an executive in a multinational company. Ray’s wife noted that he rose to his position despite having attended a […]

“I knew college was expensive, but I didn’t know it was this expensive.” Sarah, a highly paid executive at Pfizer noted. “We would have saved more.  Now I know that Elisa needs to crush her SATs to get the money for the school she wants.” Sarah had listened to a lecture from a financial planner […]

“It doesn’t matter where you go to college” is one of the most delusional comments that adults will say. I can break this down in multiple ways: where you go generates the population of people that you will meet at a vital time of life; the location where you will be developing relationships and comfort […]