8 independent college counselors offer perspective on why you might or might not choose to work with someone like us!

How my 25 years of experience distinguish me in an unregulated profession.

One more thing: The Value Proposition I aim for transparency and rationality in my pricing.   You can find my current package offerings...

Do prestige and selectivity equal great undergraduate teaching?

College Kickstart is a web-based platform that can help students, families and counselors in the stages of shaping and finalizing a...

"It’s called pre-professional pressure..."

Rick Clark of Georgia Tech is a source of lots of great college admission advice. In this piece for Grown & Flown, he cuts right to the...

College Kickstart has compiled and published the University of California system admit rates for 2024. At the link, you can break down...

You've probably heard about the handful of colleges that have reverted to requiring the SAT or ACT for admission. My friends at Compass...

Among the many changes to the FAFSA is an increase in the amount of income shielded from the formula that determines how much students...

Since ChatGPT created a massive cultural paradigm shift last year, one of the hottest topics and biggest questions in college admission...

If you scroll through my blog archives, you'll see plenty of articles and commentary I've shared about the deeply flawed US News College...

It's hard to explain the annual national conference of NACAC, the National Association for College Admission Counseling. Imagine 7,000...

The friendly folks behind Saratoga Today weekly and the seasonal Simply Saratoga magazine were kind enough to feature me in a profile in...

As the Fall 2023 entry admission cycle wraps up this spring, there has been a lot of attention given to the state of the admission...

There is a genuine mental health crisis among our teens. This article from the LA Times points out some of the source of anxiety in their...

Did you know that, for decades, one of the primary reasons that college brochures and emails find their way into the inboxes and...

I have some exciting news to share! As of July 2023, MSquared Counseling's home base will be in Saratoga Springs, New York. One of the...

College counseling is an art, a science, and a human endeavor. It is influenced by a set of moving targets, networks of relationships,...

A couple of weeks ago, I joined over 6,000 of my admission profession friends and colleagues in my original hometown of Houston for the...