Finding best-fit colleges in North America and Europe

Finding Balance

Harvard, Oxford, Johns Hopkins, Bowdoin, Berkeley. These are some highly selective colleges (HSCs) parents and students hear and talk about. But only about 3% of US high school grads can enroll in HSCs each year.

Anxiously chasing those few seats our kids struggle for straight-As, acing APs, and making varsity team captain or robotics club president at the expense of exploring their true values and interests. Much less helping the community or sleeping enough.

With lives so out of balance, no wonder college admissions is so stressful. My mission is to guide students and families toward a healthier, lower-stress focus on what’s important: supporting the adult your child is about to become with them leading the way.

The high school years lay the groundwork not just intellectually but also for what kind of person your child will be. Even as they cope with a chaotic world plus huge developmental, physical and emotional changes, they must also find their role in work, family and community and how they want to impact the greater world.

Though I support one or two applications to ivy-covered dream schools, I’ll also find 8 – 10 excellent best-fit schools in the US, Canada, and Europe with realistic acceptance rates, generous need- and merit-based scholarships or even affordable tuition before scholarships.

Campuses with engaging professors where your kids won’t just survive but thrive. Where they’ll gain an education that sets them up to jump into employment or graduate education, excited and happy. Not burned out and in debt.