Next Step Educational Consultants

04/27/2020

If you are thinking about how to use your time during a gap year, Minerva’s visiting Scholars Program is taking shape.

For more information on our Visiting Scholars Year: https://www.minerva.kgi.edu/visiting-scholars/

08/15/2019

05/30/2019

“Rather than choosing a school based primarily on a flawed scoring system [US News & World Report Rankings, for example], students should ask whether they will be engaged at the college in ways that will allow them to form strong relationships with professors and mentors, apply their learning via internships and long-term projects, and find a sense of community,” the report notes.

Finding the “right fit” college can be a stressful and confusing process for students and families. Students often do not know how to find the “right fit” or what that even means. To mitigate this …

03/22/2019

Helping our students find the schools that best match their individual talents, academic and social preferences, and future ambitions. Done with integrity, transparency and hard work.

02/12/2019

University of California Admission Decisions will be released soon!

Click below for a list of campus-specific release dates...

01/16/2019

No change to the common app essay prompts next year.

The Common Application has announced that the 2019-2020 essay prompts will remain the same as the 2018-2019 essay pro

11/30/2018

At NextStep, we aim to be part of your child's "village."

At 11, my daughter is on the cusp of entering that period where relationships with people other than her dad and me will take center stage.

11/28/2018

Letting teens make their own decisions (within certain limits) will serve them best in the long run.

10/15/2018

HARTFORD, Conn. – Yale and Quinnipiac universities in Connecticut have joined a growing list of schools that have begun allowing applicants to...

10/12/2018

This report ends with two calls to action. "One is for students to look past rankings to find programs that are the "right fit" for them — maybe because of academics, financial aid, location or extracurricular opportunities. The other is the need for even more research that looks at other commonly-held assumptions about college, including the belief that attending a "top-tier" school is mostly about the "network effect" of gaining access to elites."

At NextStep, we eschew the rankings and instead help students find colleges that "fit" and meet the criteria we help them develop for themselves.

It’s that time of year again, when many high school seniors — and their parents — are stressed out about college applications. They pour over college brochures and websites, talk to friends and spend sleepless nights eyeing rankings in an exhaustive exercise to choose the best school. But what...

07/20/2018

"Congratulations! You've received PRIORITY consideration at (insert college name)."

Nope. It's marketing.