Estrela Consulting Blog

Estrela Consulting Director of College Planning, Amber Gilsdorf, was recently featured on an episode of "The College Talk Show" discussing College Affordability and Financial Aid. Check it out below!

*UPDATED August 2025! Are you looking for additional money for college? While many colleges offer automatic consideration for scholarships based on your application for admission, many also have scholarships with additional application requirements and/or deadlines that vary from the published application plans. As if the college search and application process isn't complicated enough, the ease ...

Estrela Consulting Founder, Kristina Dooley, was recently featured on an episode of "The College Talk Show" discussing the role of parents in the college search process. Check it out below!

If you ask most people what schools are part of the Ivy League, they'll likely include at least 1 that is incorrect...and that one is usually Stanford. The "why" behind Stanford (or MIT, U Chicago, Duke, etc. for that matter) not being included is actually pretty simple: the "Ivy League" is an athletic league. In 1933, sportswriter Stanley Woodward used the term “ivy colleges” to describe these ...

We are incredibly proud of our Class of 2025 Estrela students and feel fortunate to have played a role in their college search processes. Our students this year have received offers of admission to 150 different colleges and universities in 35 U.S. states, the District of Columbia, and Scotland. Talk about finding FIT! In addition, this group of students has been awarded more than $12 MILLION in ...