Don’t let this happen to you!
Navigating the college application process can be incredibly frustrating. From deciphering complex requirements to completing endless paperwork, the process can quickly become overwhelming. The pressure to present oneself as the perfect candidate adds an additional layer of stress. Multiple deadlines, essay prompts, and gathering recommendation letters can leave you feeling like you're drowning in a sea of requirements. Moreover, the uncertainty of whether your efforts will result in acceptance can further intensify frustration. It's important to remember that you're not alone in this journey.
We can't thank you enough for your knowledge, support, and patience throughout the college application process … You've always been available, honest, supportive, informative, and helpful, providing professional insight and knowledge, and making an overwhelmingly complex process manageable. I can't imagine having gone through this experience without you!
Howard High School Parent
Why Hire A Professional Educational Consultant?
Hiring an educational consultant is a great way to ensure that your child's journey towards the right college is as successful as it can be. An experienced professional can bring invaluable expertise, personalized guidance, and insider knowledge to the table. From navigating the complex admission process to identifying the best-fit institutions, an educational consultant provides a tailored approach that maximizes your child's chances of acceptance. They offer personalized strategies, help the student set appropriate college and career goals, assist with completing applications and essays in a manageable way, and help optimize academic performance. This type of support can help alleviate stress, save time, and ensure well-informed decisions to set your child on a path towards a fulfilling and successful higher education experience.
Why Choose Us?
Beth Casey is a Certified Educational Planner who has worked with students on college readiness and placement for over 12 years. A graduate of Williams College with a Master's in Education (School Counseling) from Loyola University Maryland, Beth is a professional member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association and the National Association for College Admissions Counselors.
The fundamental role of independent educational consultants is to help students explore college opportunities and find the right place for them to succeed academically and socially. IECs don’t get students admitted—they help students demonstrate why they deserve to be admitted at appropriately chosen schools. They help students find colleges they might not have heard of—often out of their region—and help them put their best foot forward.
College List Planning and Application Assistance
Through our guidance, students craft a list that suits their personalities and goals. We offer suggestions on extracurricular activities and how to stand out, as well as high school class choices to focus on to be accepted into their ideal program.
Career, Interest and Learning Style Assessments
We offer the Achieveworks Suite of Assessments - Personality, Multiple Intelligence, Learning Style, and Skills - to help students understand their strengths and areas of challenge so that we can find the right learning environment and course of study for them.
Merit Aid and Financial Aid Guidance
We give direction on how to find schools that fit the students' profiles that are generous with merit aid or are simply more affordable. We also include financial aid timelines and tips as well as suggestions on where to find private scholarships.
Essay Writing Planning and Assistance
Essay boot camp; one on one work with the main application essay and all supplements; access to all schools' essay prompts and scholarship/special program requirements, streamlining the cumbersome essay writing and scholarship application process.
What We Do
It's no secret that the college search and application process takes an emotional toll on a family. Let us ease some of the stress that comes with this process. Give us the reins for a while and we'll help steer your child towards the college life that's best not only for him/her but for the entire family.
With our resources, connections, and years of experience, we'll do all that we can to get you the information you need to make well-informed decisions. We'll guide you step-by-step through the standardized testing, the college visits, the college choices, and the application and financial aid application processes. We will share the finer points of helping your child apply for college, and provide you and your child an open forum for discussion about precisely what you each expect from your child's college experience.
But we'll need your help too. No one knows a student like their parents do, and we'll need your insight and perspective to give us the clearest image of your child. Strengths, weaknesses, goals, dreams, passions, and habits are all very revealing bits of information when trying to piece together a picture of someone, and sometimes it's difficult for a student to give us straight answers about themselves while they are still discovering who they are. This is one of the many reasons why your input is so important. By working together, we can improve the odds that your child ends up at the school that is the best fit academically, socially and financially.
Where is the Potential College Advising Class of 2024 heading?
Contact Information
Phone: 443-995-0691
Email: beth@potentialcollegeadvising.com
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