A well written article from: https://www.ivyloungetestprep.com/blog/does-class-of-2023-need-to-take-sat-act My Best Advice on the ACT or SAT for the class of 2023 For the class of 2023 and beyond, expect that you WILL have to take either the SAT or ACT for your college admissions. Yes, as always, you will need to see which schools you wish to […]
Read More“David left feeling so much better!” Kristen, David’s mother, exclaimed. “And now I feel so much better too.” David had been listless. He was going through the motions at school. He was naturally bright and thought “pandemic school was a joke.” So he had not really worked all that hard since March 2020. As the […]
Read MoreAt the Learning Consultants, our approach to writing reminds me of the old Chinese proverb, “Give a man a fish, and you feed him for a day. Teach a man to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” Similarly, “Correct a student’s essay, and you help them get a better grade. Teach a student how […]
Read MoreWe have been helping the emotional development of young adults since our inception in the early 2000s. Jean Card, our lead Student Mastery coach, has created an Academic Therapy framework that has helped our students in flourish both academically and emotionally. My work – while ostensibly on all the concrete areas of college counseling, […]
Read MoreTip #3 Be authentic! This might sound cliched, but it’s useful advice for students writing their college essays. It’s much easier to write about yourself when you’re not trying to be someone else. I’ve been especially reminded of this wisdom over the past few months as I work with twins from Essex, CT on their […]
Read MoreTip #2 “I don’t know what to write about!” This is the number one source of frustration for students starting their college essays. A typical scenario occurred last week with one of my students from Madison, CT. She struggled to choose between two different essays. One, she really liked, but feared it wasn’t “traditional” enough. […]
Read More“This is it…” so said Shelley, a mom in Essex, Connecticut as we started college counseling for her daughter. I had worked with all three of Shelley’s older children through the years of attending Valley Regional High School through their different colleges and even into career counseling for the oldest. Shelley knew what older […]
Read More“We are in panic mode…” so said yet another parent of a senior. Her daughter from Madison’s Daniel Hand High School is a strong student, a good kid etc. but she like most was frozen in place due to the pandemic and did not start the college process until senior year began. The pandemic creates […]
Read More“Travis has done nothing.” Kathryn a mother from East Lyme, Connecticut noted about her son’s college search. She then relayed what I’ve heard so many times through the years – particularly about boys – that he tunes out discussions about college. She had heard about our college counseling from other parents at East Lyme High […]
Read MoreI am a lawyer by training. I left full time practice in 2000 to pursue my calling as an educator-counselor and started The Learning Consultants in an effort to help parents with their college counseling, test prep, and tutoring needs. I was suddenly an entrepreneur and was faced with doing my now more complicated taxes. […]
Read More