Navigating College Admissions
Calmly. Confidently. Kindly.
Our mission is to help families calmly, confidently, and kindly navigate the college admissions process.
The process may seem overwhelming—but it doesn’t have to be.
With Grateful College Counseling, we help you:
Find a great fit college
Navigate the application process with lower stress
Preserve your relationship with your child
Learn how to practice and leverage kindness
Keep up with latest news in the admissions world
Kindness is a pillar of our practice
According to data from the NACAC (National Association for College Admission Counseling), the most important factor in admissions after grades and course rigor is character.
One of the key attributes of character is kindness—a trait viewed as essential among admissions professionals. Not only is kindness an important life skill on its own, it is becoming an “it factor” in the admissions world.
It is so important that Harvard University Graduate School of Education created the Making Caring Common Project, part of a broad movement toward prioritizing kindness and character in the admissions process.
”I’ve Always Seen Kindness as an Essential Ingredient.”
Why I started Grateful College Counseling:
My experience with my children has helped drive me to educational consulting. My daughter attended a regional "magnet" public high school with good counseling resources. We even had access to a confidential spreadsheet showing the specific GPAs, test scores, and admissions data from each student from the past few years of classes. In contrast, my son went to a large public high school where the counselors (through no fault of their own) had a caseload of around 500 students each. Many friends of ours have students in similar situations, where one-on-one attention is hard to come by. The under-matching of colleges with these students is enormous, and I want to do what I can to help alleviate the situation.
