Estrela Consulting Blog

You’re just boppin’ along, keeping busy with your classes and extracurriculars, and then it begins - the testing chatter:

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.

Figuring out how to pay for college is an overwhelming reality for college students and their families. It is the least exciting part of the college application process and causes the most anxiety. Attending a university in the US is expensive, and the cost continues to rise steadily each year. While some students receive federal financial aid or merit-based scholarships from their universities, ...

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.