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• Whitney made a daunting search through the many college options manageable for our family. The process has changed so much that we desperately needed her guidance. She researched and found a number of great possibilities and Bianca was accepted at all five of her top choices. In addition, she received significant financial assistance and was even flown in to visit two of the choices. Bianca will be a student athlete at Guilford College in North Carolina this fall and will be able to pursue her interests in history, social justice, and foreign study opportunities. We could not have done it alone. Thanks Whitney!!!

Judith Paiz

• Thank you once again for all of the time and effort that you put into helping Patrick with his college search. By getting to know Pat personally and taking the time to really find out about his quirks and dreams, to quizzing him about his scholastic ambitions, you managed to turn this tremendously complicated process into a guaranteed success.

• From the day of his first interview with you, you made yourself available to him, answered his questions, encouraged him, reminded him of deadlines, helped him with his applications, edited his college essay and offered him your council and experience.

• As with his older brother, Robert, you have been present and knowledgeable, supportive and effective, and managed to remain incredibly good humored all the while - I don't know what we would have done without you... Thank you so much!

Sylvie Ward, mother of Patrick (Beloit) and Robert (Grinnell)

• I have been admitted to DU, my first choice school, with a $6000 a year scholarship! I am 100% hyped and my parents are ecstatic! Thank you for all your help and guidance!!!

Matt Holmes

• Fabulous news: today, I received the envelope from Knox College confirming that I had been admitted (early action)! Also, they granted me the Writer's Scholarship and the Founder's Scholarship. I want to thank you for all of your help. None of this would have come to pass without your help, and I am extremely grateful. Thank you so very much.

Chris Overton

• Please accept our most sincere gratitude for the guidance and support you provided to Alyssa – just accepted to Notre Dame! (and Joselyn four years ago - now at Notre Dame). Your expertise is exceptional and the compassion you've shown has meant a great deal to all of us.

Rosemary and Ray Moya

• The first time we worked with Whitney was with our first born daughter. We were new to the college search game. She masterfully took our daughter, and us, through the process providing guidance that was suited to our daughter after she took the time to understand her personality, interests, objectives and talents. We started with a list of a dozen schools, many of which I had never heard of before. I noticed that other kids working with Whitney at the time got lists also. Their lists included different schools than my daughter's, but included schools that suited them and their needs. It was clear from our experience that Whitney knows the schools, and before she advises, she knows the student. She is in a perfect position to make a match. Working with Whitney's guidance ultimately helped us focus on a shorter list of schools and make fewer trips to visit schools.

• Whitney has now worked with two of our kids during their college search. Our son and our daughter are very different people with very different interests and talents. Once again, Whitney's guidance was suited to my son, and not a single school duplicated the ones that his sister looked at three years earlier.

• Whitney is a listener, who develops an insightful understanding of the student and the family as a precursor to any suggestions. She can be very firm in communicating a recommendation when necessary if parent/child dynamics start to interfere with sound decision making on the very big decision that selecting a college is.

• My daughter is now finishing her junior year. I cannot imagine that any school could have been a better fit for her than the one she selected from the first list of options Whitney identified, and that I had never heard of before. She has grown, matured and thrived in every way a parent could hope for during the college years. Our family is thankful that Whitney has been part of our kids’ college search, and we are anxious to work with her again when our youngest is ready for college.

Todd and Cathy Hauge, parents of Jennifer (Austin College) and John (Cal Poly-San Luis Obispo)

• We would recommend Whitney's services most highly based on the results that we've had with our two children. The proof is in the pudding! Both of our children were accepted at their top choices. For our son, Georgetown has been a great match.

John and Martina Callaghan, parents of Katherine (Stanford) and Jackson (Georgetown U.)

• Whitney is extremely helpful in the application process. She is enthusiastic about finding the right college for you and helping you get there. She works to make sure you spend the next four-years in the best place possible.

Katherine Callaghan, (accepted Early Action to Georgetown and Harvard), Stanford U.

• My son and I wanted college options in addition to the state university system, but we were daunted by the necessity of narrowing the field. Working with Whitney made that task possible. With her ability to communicate with my son and her extensive knowledge of colleges and universities, my son was able to find a good match.

Susan Steffy, mother of Jessie, Lawrence University

• Whitney provided outstanding expertise, enthusiastic and accessible support, all-encompassing direction, and cheerleading finesse for my son (and me)! Her professional guidance has been invaluable. She's superb!

Ruth Langella, mother of Alex, U. of Denver

• When our daughter announced she wanted to go to a college in Los Angeles we started to worry...then Whitney came up with Pitzer College, which satisfied us all!

Shelby Miller and Karin Wickstrom-Miller, parents of Kinsey, Pitzer College and Rachel, senior

• Every part of my graduate school applications had been filled out, but I hadn't taken the Graduate Record Exam. I was worried. Standardized tests are a nightmare for me. But Whitney took me through practice tests. She taught me how to think like a test maker instead of a test taker. One month after meeting her I felt confident that I would do well and I did.

David Murchison, U. of Arizona

• Our daughter had a very specific vision of what her ideal college should be, but needed knowledgeable direction to find it. Whitney helped her find perfect matches, which not only accepted her but offered substantial scholarships. With Whitney's guidance, she found her niche in the academic world and avoided the stress and rejection she might otherwise have experienced.

Annie Campbell, mother of Amelia

• I had the wrong idea in terms of how my essay needed to be written, and Whitney showed me the much simpler way to do it right.

Amelia Campbell, Wheaton College

• Whitney Laughlin provided our sons with an important level of support in the college process. She was always available and helpful during the critical period of preparing college applications.

Emily and Ray Van Cleve, parents of Jeremy, Oberlin, and Eli, Carnegie Mellon

• Whitney simplified what we feared would be a very complicated process. Our daughter was going to have lots of choices and we needed help in determining the factors that should ultimately guide Vickie's decisions. Whitney put us at ease - we knew our daughter was in good hands from the first meeting.

John and Suedeen Kelly, Parents of Vicki and Katie, senior

• Whitney wanted to understand me as a person. She felt her job was to guide me to the right choice without pushing. She was very knowledgeable about everything from SAT prep to the atmosphere on college campuses to writing the essay.

Vickie Kelly, Georgetown University (transferred to Northwestern)

• Whitney really knows the colleges inside and out and has a keen sense of what is right for each individual kid. She made an adventure out of what was initially and overwhelming project for us.

Jill Markus, mother of David

• Whitney listened to me ramble a lot which helped me to define what I was really looking for in a college education.

David Markus, Cornell University

• The college application process can be very stressful and confusing. Having Whitney there to guide us, answer our questions and review the application and essay, made a significant difference. Even though we were thousands of miles apart, communication was never a problem. I can not thank Whitney enough for all her assistance.

Bob Chancer, father of Zak, U.C. Santa Barbara, and Maggie, junior

• Whitney enabled me to narrow down the field of colleges that were right for me. She helped me to raise my ACT and SAT scores with various helpful strategies. Whitney made the whole college application process easier, and helped me choose the university that I now love.

Dru Libby, University of Arizona

• Whitney, your guidance really helped to restore my son's self-confidence and to redefine his educational goals.

Fiquet Duckworth, mother of Shane, College of Santa Fe

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