Why Hire an IEC

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***IF WE HAVEN'T CONNECTED TO DISCUSS SUMMER PLANS, PLEASE GET WITH ME A.S.A.P.!***Student Essay Drafts:Remember, the best way to start your essay is to pick a prompt and then just write everything down that comes to mind about that topic.  Don't worry about formatting or making sure that it's organized; those changes can be made in later drafts. In the initial stages, the most important thing you can do is find the right central idea for your essay.  Once that's established, the rest is easy!From the blog: With school out for summer (for most students anyway) and newly-minted seniors basking in the glow of their well-earned status at the top of their school’s food chain (for lack of a better term), many parents often begin to ask themselves if they’re on the right track in the college search process.  (After all, the Common Application becomes available for this year’s seniors on August 1 – and that’s less than two months away – yikes!) To complicate matters, some new seniors have already spent their junior years researching various colleges and going on campus visits to help begin their selection and application process, while others haven’t even picked up a college brochure to thumb through it (despite a growing stack of them on the kitchen table).  As parents begin to confer amongst one another at open houses, summer camps, and other summer activities and the college talk begins to increase in its intensity, the talks in recent years often turn to which families are using educational consultants to help in the process and which ones aren’t.  Parents who have never considered using an educational consultant before (or have never heard the term uttered in the first place!) sometimes begin to question whether or not they need to hire one too.  Read More