Jean Louis
President/Founder
Louis Educational Consulting
Our consulting firm helps find the 'right fit' school for the college-bound student. We guide the whole family through this process.
Suzann Cowing
College Consultant
Advanced College Counseling
Recovering attorney, UC Berkeley scholarship reader, expert college matchmaker, essay specialist, and college application strategy savant.
Eva Garza-Nyer, Ph.D., CEP
Educational Consultant
Texas College Advisor
Dr. Garza-Nyer works individually with families as they navigate the college search, selection & application process.
Carolee Gravina
Independent College Advisor, Founder
College Bound Guidance
De-stressing the college search and application adventure since 2008, I provide professional, friendly support for you and your student.
Commentary: Don’t focus on college rankings lists, which are misleading and easily manipulated by colleges
When the college admissions scandal news broke, we called one another in extreme concern, lamenting the crazy circus that our beloved profession has become as a result of a hyper-competitive college admissions landscape coupled with inappropriate parenting madness.
College Rankings: Get A Second Opinion
When many students and families approach their college search, they default to commercial rankings as reliable indicators of quality and match. There are better ways, so get a second opinion.
Texas’ Top 10% College Admissions Rule Doesn’t Do Much, Study Shows
When Texas rolled out its Top 10% Rule in 1997, supporters said it would promote diversity on the state's college campuses and expand access to students at high schools that don't typically send students to the state's top institutions. Two decades later, it appears the program has done none of...
SIU launches office to help first-generation college students
CARBONDALE — As the first person in her family to attend college, Andrea Hammond didn’t know how to get her college career started. Supportive, loving family members weren’t sure how
McNair Scholars undergraduate research program supports minorities, first-generation students
Kody Elsayed grew up with a personal experience of the cost of opioid addiction and has used that to inspire his journey to graduate school.
Workshop shows ASU staff how to nurture first-generation college students
Everyone who works at ASU is critical to the success of students — especially students who are the first in their family to go to college. On Tuesday, hundreds of staff and faculty attended the first-ever ASU First-Gen Zone workshop on how to support this growing group of students.
What would happen if college admission was based solely on SAT scores?
It's not what you would expect, as a recent report by the Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce (CEW) found.
Is the SAT’s new ‘adversity score’ a privilege check or blow to faith in college admissions?
College officials and consultants say information already available and used, but some may see new metric as handy tool for assessing student adversity.
Dream School vs. Best Fit
Somehow this notion of attending your dream school became synonymous with the perfect place to receive a degree. This idea of getting into a college or university of notoriety would, by default, propel students into stardom, ultimate success, or even riches. How utterly absurd.
