Estrela Consulting Blog

I’m an Independent Educational Consultant who loves my work guiding students through the process of sorting out the thousands of choices they have for college. I’m also the mom of two teenagers who have, or are going through, this very same process. The first time I went through college visits with my older son, I thought it would be easy to remember the distinguishing features of each school and ...

The Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) released this month its ranking of What Colleges Look for in High School Students, based on an annual survey of nearly 2,000 independent educational consultants. While grades and standardized test scores are near the top of these annual rankings, a number of significant changes and surprises are challenging the assumptions about college ...

It’s May 1st! Do you know what that means? It’s Save the Rhino Day? Frequent Flyer Day? Mother Goose Day? National Chocolate Parfait Day? School Principal’s Day? Ok, ok. All of those are correct but...most importantly in our world…

First off, congratulations! At this point in the year, you’ve hopefully heard back from most of the schools you applied to, and are receiving letters from the financial aid office with the results from your FAFSA. If the cost of college is a factor in your decision, these letters are critical pieces of information that determine where you go to school! Unfortunately, every school follows a ...