Our mission to help your children reach their potential. To me, this has always meant human potential. But certainly our focus in delivering educational services to Connecticut families is primarily academics. The tangible end goal – although by no means the real end goal – is college. During our SAT-ACT classes in Old Saybrook and […]
Read MoreWe will be starting our spring test prep class soon in Old Saybrook and Madison. Previously, The Learning Consultants held SAT full classes and then added ACT crash courses through the year. During the fall, we held an SAT-ACT Mastery Seminar at The Williams School in New London and then decided that we would do […]
Read MoreMany Connecticut students will be taking the SAT for the first time in March. This has been the case for the decade and a half that The Learning Consultants has been teaching test prep. But it is THE NEW SAT and so parents are losing their minds. i have taught long enough that I was […]
Read MoreAs we built College Counseling Connecticut, we noticed that many of our college counseling discussions quickly turned to financial discussions. In addition to the common questions related to financial aid, merit aid, and overall college expenses, the questions started to focus on “whether X college was worth it?” Since career counseling has always been a […]
Read MoreWhat madness am I suggesting? Let me start with the obvious: most Connecticut schools are stronger than most schools in most states. Those in the top 10% of schools such a Guilford High School, Daniel Hand High, Lyme-Old Lyme High School, East Lyme High School, Old Saybrook High School, Valley Regional High School (Essex-Deep River) […]
Read MoreMost Connecticut students will be taking the SAT in March. While it is the NEW SAT for all crazed parents, it is just the SAT for juniors as most never saw the old SAT. For those interested in the differences, I provided some comments in last Sunday’s Hartford Courant. The real question confronting many students […]
Read MoreOver the 15 years of providing educational services to parents of Connecticut high school students, I have gathered enough evidence to concur with most psychological studies that indicate resilience is the most or at least one of the most needed qualities for children to develop. Here’s the interesting part: children would develop resilience if it were […]
Read MoreI had the pleasure of being interviewed by Theresa Anzaldua. She is a journalist for Seasons magazine and a writer of the highly praised book We Had A Job To Do, a book about World War II veterans. I mentioned that one of my mini-lectures that I give to students in our Old Saybrook and Madison SAT classes […]
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 MoreMost Connecticut High Schools have provided their PSAT results back to their students (Daniel Hand in Madison had a PSAT delay but I understand that the delay won’t be long.) Parents understandably want to know what’s next after the PSAT results come back. For students in public schools in Connecticut, most every high school will […]
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