We 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“Dina told me that she hated [college]…” Lynn noted as she relayed the thoughts of her friend who had referred The Learning Consultants for college counseling to her. Lynn’s son attended Old Saybrook High School in Old Saybrook, Connecticut with Dina’s son who was a couple years older and quite different than Lynn’s son. I […]
Read More“I wish we started last year….” another parent said as she left our Old Saybrook office after a college counseling session. Year after year, I have heard some parents lament that they should have started college counseling earlier. But this year – obviously due to Covid – this is the most common comment I hear […]
Read MoreTo paraphrase Thomas Friedman, author of The World Is Flat, who paraphrased Bill Gates: Twenty years ago, from a purely career-financial perspective, if you had the choice of being a “B” student from Brooklyn or an “A” student from Bombay, you would choose the former because America’s economic domination was so thorough that opportunities were […]
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