Inquiry-based College Coaching is designed for you to take full ownership of your life by building a repertoire of skills that you can use forever.

Every exercise we engage in together is designed to introduce tools, skills, and mindsets for understanding who you are, where you want to be, and how to get there. While we will be utilizing them to guide you to college (or wherever your postsecondary dreams take you), they can be called upon throughout your life.

Family Meeting

The college application process can be emotional and challenging as parents begin to “let go” and allow you to make your own life decisions. To smooth this process, I facilitate a family meeting in January, where I will ask you and your parents to share experiences, hopes, fears in an open and honest way - making sure that everyone feels ‘heard, seen and respected’. Getting everything out in the open is a critical step to ensure that you have the freedom and trust to make decisions that are best for you.

Appreciative Inquiry

In order to learn more about you, your goals, and interests, we start with a conversation using ‘appreciative inquiry’ techniques. During this hour, I will ask you a series of strategic questions about your past, present, and future self - lifting up the ‘positives’ in your life so we can think about how to build on them. Questions are designed to both help me understand you better, and some are designed to help you understand yourself better. We will also engage in a modified Johari Window exercise where you and your family / friends weigh in on adjectives that best describe you and discuss your core values.

Your responses guide my suggestions for ‘best fit’ universities, spark ideas for your letters of recommendation, and will offer up potential themes for your personal and supplemental essay writing.

Narrowing & Prioritizing

Using the Corsava process, you will sort through your college preferences and priorities online. From here, I will create a list of schools for you to explore and after researching them (using the 5-5-5 rapid method), you will place your top choices into three groups based on acceptance rates (competitiveness). At this meeting, we also set up the organizational systems you will need to make comparisons, manage pluses & deltas, understand net prices, monitor the application process, and track your progress.