Pinnacle Education Consulting, LLC

For the lucky student who is in a position to choose between competing offers from one or more colleges, some observations and advice:
As I said recently to just such a client, there are essentially two methods that I am aware of with definite merit. The first of these involves assembling a set of facts and [...]

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College-bound high school juniors and seniors routinely field two questions from friends and family members: where do you hope to attend, and what major will you declare? Now that many seniors are close to receiving replies to their school applications, the remaining question needlessly causes anxiety for some, and in many cases for their parents.
As [...]

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Myth: It’s important to launch your college career right after graduation from high school.
Not true!  In fact, a growing body of research in adolescent brain development offers clues as to why so many students get off to a rough start their first year in college, and why colleges see their highest attrition numbers (students who [...]

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For any given student, the “right” college match is largely a matter of a good fit between interests/aspirations, intellectual aptitude and learning style, and the total campus environment, both academic and social.
 There are unquestionably multiple “right fits” for each student, some never to be considered given the large number of U.S. colleges (there are [...]

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Recently one of my student clients shared with me that his ideal college is Humboldt State University, located in Eureka, CA.  Curious as to how a Denver native came to fix on a school in northern California, I asked him how he developed such a far-flung goal.  He didn’t have a firm response, beyond the [...]

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U.S. colleges will be bursting at the seams this fall as members of the largest high school graduating class in U.S. history arrive on campus.  The large size of the incoming class of 2012 is blamed on a “baby boomlet,” as kids of the later baby boom cohort come of age.
Local institutions view the shift [...]

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