Why Choose a College Advisor

 

Strong familiarity with competitive colleges and universities. 

 

Provides professional college admissions advice for students and parents

Allows for ease of navigation through the college admissions process through personal and compassionate counseling.

Experience working with hundreds of college-bound students and parents

 

What sets Collegiate Focus apart from other consultants?

Through constant contact revolving around our personal service, it becomes easy to develop a familiarity and trust with students and parents to understand the college admissions process.

Colleges other than Ivy League schools are discussed and recommended to find the most appropriate college to suit students’ individual needs.

Unlike other admission consultants, no hourly fee is charged.

Personal local and long-distance counseling available.

Collegiate Focus, LLC can simplify the search for college scholarship opportunities.

Consulting includes pre-college advisement to assure academic and personal success, discussing difficult topics for incoming freshmen, and alleviating anxiety.

 

Consider the Alternatives

Guidance Counselors

Hundreds of students are sometimes assigned to one or two high school guidance counselors who cannot provide the depth of counseling necessary to focus on college admissions.

Guidance professionals may recommend a list of “tried but true” colleges to even their brightest or unique applicants due to counseling limitations.  An independent consultant will thoroughly investigate students’ interests and recommend the best-fit college.

Many guidance counselors end their day when school ends. Collegiate Focus, on the other hand, offers evening and weekend consultations to fit with students and parents schedules.

 

Parents

Parents are overwhelmed with the college admissions process and may not know where to begin.  They want to offer help to their child, but know if they say too much it may turn their child away.

Parents rely a lot on rankings and reputation rather than focusing on the right college for their child’s academic and personal needs.

Collegiate Focus acts as a third party to provide honest, professional, and unemotional advice to students and parents.

 

Friends/Themselves

Friends recommend colleges based on those they are interested in, thus overlooking schools that may be perfect for someone else.

Many times students hold-off their college admission search until late in their senior year.  This may result in the student missing application and scholarship deadlines, or not going to college at all.