"Your experience, relationships, and understanding of the big picture are of such value to your families."
~Parent, 2015

About Lee Carey

Lee Carey, Ed.M., has worked as an admissions director and secondary school counselor at middle and secondary schools for over thirty years. Beginning her professional career in mid-Atlantic, Connecticut, and Massachusetts boarding schools, she transitioned to the middle school level and has guided North Shore families and students through the process of applying to boarding and day options since 1985.

As a secondary school administrator, Lee served as a director of admissions and financial aid, ran a boarding school dormitory, coached varsity athletes, and counseled annual groups of student advisees. At the middle school level, she served as a director of secondary school counseling, guiding over 1000 students toward placements in over 40 schools across the region.

In 1986, Lee co-founded the annual Junior Schools Conference that brings together secondary school counselors in the sharing of ideas, strategies, and best practices for working with students and parents in the process of applying to schools. She initiated the North Shore Secondary School Fair to facilitate annual contact between regional families and a national array of 100 boarding and day school options. In 2004, Lee was the SSATB Everett E. Gourley Award winner “For Inspiration and Magnanimus Service to Colleagues and Students,” and in 2015, Lee became a member of the Independent Educational Counselors Association (IECA), a national organization recognized for its high standards and membership training.

Annually, Lee renews her knowledge of programs by visiting schools, maintains professional relationships with admissions directors throughout the region, and takes special reward from her personal work with young students and their families. In her school setting, Lee created a secondary school counseling curriculum to help students understand, celebrate, and present their best, stay on track with the application process, and feel rewarded by the journey.

Lee is also the parent of three children who prospered in the communities of independent schools. Each of their schools helped them to discover themselves, their interests, and their passions in settings of exceptional and guiding adults – the very opportunities she wishes for every student.