College Exploration Service
College Exploration Service – Choosing a college will be one of the most important choices you make with your child, not only financially, but one that will have a lasting impact on who they become as an adult. Our college exploration service provides an individualized process to guide students in determining appropriate colleges that would be a fit for them, and to coach students through the remaining high school years to best present themselves in college applications. We broaden the scope of the college list, leading students to consider, and often choose, colleges that they may have never thought of for themselves, but that would provide an excellent academic and personal growth experience.

Our process educates the student about who they are – their strengths, interests, personality traits, the specifics of careers that appear to be a match – and how this all comes together to find a fit for the college selection. Students become educated consumers about themselves, and therefore, about how to determine what careers would be a match for them and those that would not. Many students today choose a potential career interest based on what others have told them or because of people they know in certain careers, or by what the media has portrayed about that career. They often don’t really know what skills, personality traits, and abilities are needed, or even how much education or if certification is required to succeed in a chosen career. Many scholarship programs are narrowing their offers to four years. Additionally, many colleges have grown over the past couple of years in terms of freshman enrollment, making it harder to switch schools or programs of concentration and to get all of the classes needed in four years. If students can be taught more about themselves and what would satisfy them regarding a career choice, much of the guesswork and assumptions can be eliminated early on.