General Education Advice

For high school students in Connecticut and across the country, the SAT remains one of the most influential components of the college admissions process. At The Learning Consultants, we have spent more than two decades helping students raise their scores, expand their college options, and enter the admissions cycle with confidence rather than anxiety. Connecticut […]

Winter SAT Mastery Seminar The Shoreline’s Premier SAT Preparation Experience 🎓 About the Instructor Daryl Capuano has devoted over two decades to helping Connecticut students reach their full potential. A graduate Georgetown and Penn Law, Daryl combines the analytical precision of a lawyer with the motivational insight of an educator. Since founding The Learning Consultants, he has personally […]

https://www.ctinsider.com/projects/news/education/connecticut-colleges-ranked-return-on-investment/ College experts like Daryl Capuano, who runs the educational consultancy The Learning Consultants, have been hearing families’ growing concerns about economic insecurity as the cost of living and the unemployment rate among college grads have risen. It makes sense, Capuano said, that more families want to consider the long-term payoff of a degree during the college decision process […]

As we have been deeply involved in college counseling over the last several years, we have also been immersed in helping students transfer colleges. The number of freshmen—and even some sophomores—seeking to transfer or at least explore the possibility has grown dramatically. Several major factors are driving this trend. The Post-Pandemic effects. Many Shoreline families […]

Why Students Listen to Me: The Advantage of Not Being the Parent “I am not the parent… so my advice is brilliant,” I say this jokingly, but there is more truth to it than most parents realize. “He’ll listen to you,” Cindy said recently as we laughed about how her son would follow my guidance […]

What if, for a moment, we stepped back and considered just how remarkable the American college experience truly is? For most of human history, the transition to adulthood looked very different. Boys became men by entering the military, working full time on farms, taking on manual labor, or—if fortunate—joining the family business. Girls became women […]

Human Connection in the Age of AI: What I’m Seeing Among Connecticut Shoreline Students For someone my age, I genuinely embrace technology. I’ve always been an optimist, and while I fully recognize the dangers of AI, I’m also eager to use its possibilities to help others. What feels ironic is that one of my first […]

Male Underachievement in Education: A Growing Challenge for Connecticut Shoreline Families A decade ago, I wrote Motivate Your Son after observing a clear pattern among the families we served at The Learning Consultants. While we worked with equal numbers of boys and girls, motivation—not study skills, not test-taking—was overwhelmingly a boy issue. In the book, […]

Start the College Process Early: Guidance for Connecticut Shoreline Families In more than twenty years of working with families throughout the Connecticut Shoreline, I cannot recall a single parent who regretted starting the college process early. I can, however, think of hundreds who regretted starting too late. Starting early does not mean touring colleges with […]

For many years, The Learning Consultants has helped students throughout the Connecticut Shoreline not only improve academically but also strengthen their emotional well-being. When I first described our mission, I wrote that our goal was to help children reach their potential. I intentionally left out the word academic. From the beginning, our work has focused […]