Services

Initial Meeting:

You are welcome to come for an initial hour and a half to two-hour consultation. This session includes the student and parent(s).  Before the Initial Meeting, the student and parent(s) will be given questionnaires.

Questionnaires and high school transcript will be reviewed prior to the meeting. 

The meeting serves to clarify goals and expectations for future education, to identify the student’s passions and interests, and to understand the selection criteria of colleges.

Your admissions questions will be answered, standardized testing and preparation discussed, and application tips plus useful handouts will be provided.   

Guidance will be given on how to develop a high school resume. 

Student and parent(s) will have the opportunity to play the Helen Britt College Priority Game to determine what factors in a college are most essential for the student.

Partial College Program:

Information from the initial meeting, questionnaires, transcripts, and college admissions test scores are reviewed before initiating research.

If interested, the student may also take an online personality, interest, and skill assessment designed to help direct future academic and extra-curricular exploration. 

Appropriate college recommendations and descriptions, across a range of selectivity, are provided on a spreadsheet at a follow-up meeting.

Guidance is given on how to independently research and assess colleges and how to have productive college visits.

A follow-up telephone conference assists the student to narrow the college list.

Full College Program:

Partial College Program, plus:

• Editing and revising the student’s resume
• Finalizing the college list with consideration of student’s research and college visits
• Phone and email access for questions and concerns
• Guidance with applications
• Essay meeting to discuss college essay writing tips and to brainstorm topics
• Essay review and editing by two readers.   Assistance with revisions of essays
• Should you apply Early Decision?
• Recommendations for additional standardized testing
• Assistance with deferral, wait lists, and appeals
• Scholarship and financial aid tips, if appropriate
• Exercises to help the student make his/her final decision after acceptances, if necessary
• Guidance in deferring college admissions to participate in travel or other enrichment programs, if requested
• Choosing high school courses, if requested
• Individual concerns such as learning differences and colleges with support programs, if applicable

Full College Program and Athletic Target Marketing and Recruiting:

Athletic marketing and recruiting includes all of the above, as well as assistance with:

• Questions the student needs to ask himself or herself
• Questions to ask the student’s current coach(es)
• Clarification of playing DI, DII, DIII or Club Sports
• Athletic recruiting timeline
• How to initiate athletic recruiting
• Marketing letters
• Coaches' recommendation letters
• Summer camp considerations
• Uses of an athletic performance video
• Athlete interviews
• Developing relationships with college coaches
• Questions to ask college coaches
• Preliminary academic and/or financial aid review
• Official Visits
• Organization and tracking of the recruiting process
• Monitoring college coaches’ responses
• Assistance with decisions based on a coach’s response
• NCAA eligibility and regulations

Launch Program:

Condensed program to “jump start” the student and family who want to work independently. 

Juniors and Seniors only.
   
     1.     Initial Meeting (1 ½ – 2 hours)

• Review of questionnaires and transcripts to clarify goals and expectations.
• Play Helen Britt College Priority Game to determine the college factors essential to student.
• Introduce the high school college application resume and its uses.
• Information provided on how to independently research and assess colleges.

     2.     Student will be sent an appropriate college list tailored to student’s academic and social needs, requirements, and financial considerations  – based on intake information.

     3.     Essay Meeting (1 hour)

• We will discuss guidelines, tips, and brainstorm topics. 
• Student will leave with information needed to write the college application essays.                                                                   

Additional assistance for Launch Program:

Academic Support Programs: 
Identification of colleges that have programs for students with learning differences, in addition to the appropriate academic and social fit.

Athletic Marketing and Recruiting: 
If the student plans to continue with his/her sport in college and needs guidance in identifying good-fit athletic programs, see above for details (Full Program and Athletic Target Marketing and Recruiting).

Hourly Counseling: 

• Research
• Essay Editing
• Telephone Conferences / Facsimile Transmissions / Email Correspondence