“Consultants keep it light, find the fun, share the adventure, and enjoy the learning that takes place throughout each student’s journey.”
An educational consultant keeps your search purposeful, helps you to manage the stress points, and offers you the gift of time not only in marshaling your steps but in guiding the efforts of your student. Consultants take the mystery out of student testing and the legwork out of creating a well-matched school list. Sessions for students on offering one’s best during interviews generate both confidence and control. As opinions form, consultants become sounding boards. They oversee the application process, keeping topics on point and offering cohesion to the ways in which written presentations support the personal ones. In communicating with admissions officers, parents benefit from support on framing productive questions and generating written parent statements that accompany student applications.
While finding the best match of school is the goal, each family’s journey is unique. The search takes focus, energy, research, organization, and sensitivity. Some parents are intuitively invested in each stage. Others benefit from a clear road map. Some families know a great deal about admissions requirements. Others are starting from scratch. Parents may be able to visualize an ideal future program, or they may know only that their student’s current school situation is less than perfect. So, too, every family’s perspective, history, and dynamic are different. Some students are open and comfortable in their communication with parents; other adolescents do best with a third party adult as their coach. Likewise, individual parents can be in disagreement about the right path to take. Regardless of where you are on each of these continuums, a consultant keeps your process knowledgeable, energized, and tailored to your student.
Notably, a consultant also becomes a third party contact for admissions offices. Consultants make the effort to tour campuses and become well-informed about programs. The result is that schools are confident in consultants’ abilities to direct appropriate candidates to their programs. As students begin to interview, consultants communicate insight into families and students that may not emerge in the limited time allotted to campus visits. As students become applicants and schools deliberate about candidate qualifications, consultants embark on a second stage of communication with admissions officers to reiterate strengths, characteristics, and talents and to advocate strongly for the match.
No aspect of choosing to work with a consultant is more important than its personal touch. Consultants are invested in success for you and your student, and their work on your behalf is tailored to your particular style, needs, and goals. Your access to them for meetings and communication is unlimited. Sessions are maneuvered around school schedules, practices, locations, and family routines. They know programs, appreciate adolescents, and anticipate the needs of everyone: parents, students, and schools. By delineating the process of admissions and infusing it with positive energy, families feel confident and reassured at every step. Consultants keep it light, find the fun, share the adventure, and enjoy the learning that takes place throughout each student’s journey.