College Planning PhD, Inc.

Student Support Services

The approach we use to most effectively help Students make decisions about the future is to provide them with a State of the Art Student Assessment Tool & Conduct a Private Student Interview.
 

Student Assessment takes place by providing the Student with full access to an interactive, online research and evaluation tool.  The tool helps the Student to identify key interest areas, potential majors, and career options that may be a good fit and links these to a comprehensive database of national colleges and universities.  We evaluated several other online research and assessment tools and found the one we offer to be extremely accurate, informative, and useful.  It is backed by extensive research, was developed and is licensed to us by the organization that administers the ACT. 

We conduct a Private Student Interview which is our opportunity to focus on the Student.  This is a mentoring/counseling/coaching session in which the Interviewer will determine where the Student is in his or her thinking about colleges, majors, and careers. During the interview, the Student is encouraged to become engaged in the decision-making process, and is provided with information and resources that will help the Student make these important decisions.


We believe very strongly that it is not in a Student’s best interests, nor ethically appropriate, to provide Students or Parents with a list of schools to which a Student “should” apply, and this will not be done. We will encourage Students to investigate majors and careers that they determine may be of interest and that may utilize current abilities and skills. However, we believe that limiting a Student’s self-perception of his or her potential by rigidly defining a future career area for the Student is not helpful, and this will not be done.