Estrela Consulting Blog

Your student’s time is precious and limited…and so is yours. As with many service industries, the field of educational consulting was developed to meet the needs of families seeking expert advice and guidance through one of the most important pieces of an adolescent’s life: the college search.

After 4 years offering ACT and SAT test preparation services in our Hudson, OH location, we are excited to announce a change that will allow us to support ALL Estrela students across the U.S. and worldwide.

Estrela Founder Kristina Dooley was recently selected as the recipient of the Distinguished Instructor Award for 2018 from the University of California Irvine Division of Continuing Education. Kristina has been an instructor in the UCI Certificate Program in Independent Educational Consulting since 2014 teaching one of the program's required courses, College Consulting Resources, to students from ...

They're here! They're here! If you're like us you've been patiently waiting for the 2019-20 Common App Essay Prompts to be announced. Spoiler Alert: the folks at the Common App have actually decided to keep the same prompts that were used during the 2018-19 application cycle.

Estrela Consulting College Planning Team member, Amy Rice, has recently been named President of the College Now Greater Cleveland Emerging Leaders Association (ELA). Amy succeeds Estrela Founder, Kristina Dooley, who served as the inaugural President of the ELA. According to College Now, the ELA is "a group of young professionals who are passionate about College Now’s work and are looking to ...