During the Readiness stage, which begins junior year of high school or earlier, we help identify ways to cultivate yourself as a whole person to complement your academic credentials. This includes choosing the extracurricular activities, community service work, and high school courses that both meet your interests and help you grow in ways that will make you a stronger candidate for the college planning and application stage. Moreover, in the college Readiness stage, we discuss what it means to be a college student and we brainstorm ways that would set you apart from your peers. Real-world success stems from a combination of academic, social, and personal strengths, so the readiness stage becomes one of the most important times to elevate yourself.

The second stage, Planning, usually begins the summer before senior year of high school and involves identifying colleges of interest, applying to them, and making a decision about where to attend when the time comes. During this process, we work together to select colleges that would be a good fit. To help you determine the kind of academic and social environments in which you would thrive, we evaluate colleges based on the parameters important to you, such as location, curricula, reputation, and more. Then, with your list in hand, we help with the application process for each institution. During this stage, you will experience a wide range of emotions, and we will be there for you through it all. We will do our best to manage expectations and help you work through the complicated feelings or uncertainties that might arise. 

As professors, we know what the next step looks like once you make the jump to college, and we can help by bringing that perspective to support you as you take that step. We offer counseling on first-year course selection and other pre-advising matters, and strategies to maximize every opportunity at college, including how to take advantage of institutional resources or how to communicate effectively with the professors in the programs that interest you most.