Description of Services : Specific areas of expertise include:
-Guidance for students in discovering best-fit options at places where they will thrive, and be valued for what they bring to a college's community
-Support to help minimize the stress for students already heavily taxed with demanding academic and extracurricular schedules
-Expertise with best-practices for building and researching the college list
-Comprehensive understanding and guidance for the essential components of the college admissions process
-Helping students recognize options where they will compete on a level playing field academically
-Educate students on a college's basis for admission selection and the distinctions of creating subsequent compelling applications
-Experience with the subtleties of admissions at colleges and universities nationally that are most selective in their admission decisions
-Experience with colleges and their features and admission requirements in the Mountain West, Northwest, and California
-Guidance with best practices for college admission and scholarship essay content and editing
-Direction to resources for sound SAT/ACT testing strategies and a test-optional plan
-Guidance to resources in determining how colleges view a family's finances; estimators, FAFSA, CSS Profile and insight into college scholarship and aid packaging strategies
-Experience with faith-based colleges nationally
-Experience with the admission process at Canadian and United Kingdom universities for a degree abroad
-Direction with career inventory tools, finding good-fit college majors and learning styles assessment and analysis
-Support and guidance for At-Promise First-Generation students and special populations, e.g., Foster Children, Homeless Youth and DACA
Description of Experience : My foundation for this service is 30+ years in university admission, scholarship, and financial aid counseling, high school counseling, and independent consulting, including 19 years as director of admission at three universities. I am now privileged to merge my expertise with Counseling-4-College Founder John Happs. Together our decades of combined college counseling know-how serves students in the Front Range of Colorado.
I have been married 38 years and my wife Karen and I have walked through the entire college admission process with our two adult sons. They both discovered their best-fit colleges and have gone on to thrive in their families and careers.