“I’m looking forward to studying for the GRE, Haha!!!” Gabriella wrote I first worked with Gabriella when she was an SAT student in my Old Saybrook class. She was terrified of big tests. She had created a story that she was terrible at tests based on hearing that she underperformed on the Connecticut mastery tests […]
Read MoreThe college investment is an enormous one financially, emotionally, and energetically. In terms of energy, parents understandably want to choose their spots when it comes to getting their children ready for college. And, they don’t like the battle required to get their student-children ready for the SATs. Many parents – not wanting to cause a challenge […]
Read More“We aren’t really sure how to evaluate grades anymore.” So said a college admissions official to me off the record. I’ve heard this before – always off the record – as college admissions struggle to decipher what a 3.7 GPA is at schools where the top ten percent of the students have over a 4.0 […]
Read MoreAnxiety has become an epidemic. The reasons are myriad and my take will go against the prevailing wisdom. Simply put, it is not because of external factors. The world has not become harder. But rather, we have become softer. Softer does not mean worse. I think our generation of parents is more compassionate than […]
Read MoreIs your child about to enter junior year? Hard to believe but college is right around the corner. Talking to kids about college is a combination of stressful and confusing and about the last thing most high school kids want to discuss. While raising SAT (and ACT) scores has been the main reason our class […]
Read MoreSmall town Connecticut athletes do not get many Division I scholarships. That proves to be a big problem for parents who have short changed academic training for sports training. The outliers tend to give false hope. Luke Schoonmaker, an Old Saybrook native who attended Hamden Hall, will go to Michigan on a football scholarship. Luke – […]
Read MoreAs I have written elsewhere, I have no interest in debating the merits of using the SAT or ACT for admission but I do have a significant interest in helping our students gain admission to colleges of their choice. Parents are deluged by an overwhelming amount of information during the college process. Some of […]
Read MoreI am an idealist by nature but a pragmatist in the way that I go about ensuring the ideals of my clients become reality. For that reason, my response to criticism of the SATs or anything else that doesn’t suit idealists has always been “it is what it is” and then I explain that “if […]
Read MoreCollege counseling has become an increasing part of our work at The Learning Consultants. We have several excellent counselors based along the Shoreline of CT and into Fairfield County. And a bigger part of my specific work has been career counseling in the context of college counseling. Since my own career change is part of […]
Read MoreOur Shoreline, CT students are – like many teens but perhaps more so due to the small town nature of our communities – quite sheltered. We live in an idyllic community. Very safe, secure, and beautiful. I say this as an outsider – having lived elsewhere for the first 32 years of my life and […]
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