San Francisco Bay Area Education Planning and Consulting by Elizabeth A. Stone

San Francisco Bay Area Education Planning and Consulting by Elizabeth A. Stone

San Francisco Bay Area Education Planning and Consulting by Elizabeth A. Stone

  Offices in San Francisco
  and San Mateo, CA
  phone 650.579.6180
  cell 650.759.6577

  info@theeducationplanner.com

EDUCATIONAL GUIDANCE

STUDENT ADVOCACY

COLLEGE PLANNING

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March 2 - 4, 2012
Admission by audition: How talent is used in college admissions
Presentation at the California Association of the Gifted
Palm Springs, CA
For information: www.cagifted.org

Thursday, March 1
Mini College Fair & Summer Fair
San Mateo, CA
Private event for current client families

Monday, April 9
6 pm
College Admissions 101
San Mateo Main Library
Free and open to the public
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April/May 2012

Dear students and families:

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With acceptances at more than 85 college campuses in the US, Canada,and the United Kingdom, and merit awards totally $1.7 million dollars, I'm very proud of the accomplishments of this year's senior class. The entering college class of 2016 included students with a range of interests and abilities. They attended small start-up high schools, magnet academic schools, schools of the arts, Jesuit, public and private schools . Their interests included architecture, dance, theatre, nursing, business, athletics, engineering, pre-med and the social sciences, fine arts, and humanities. Please see the updated college admissions page on this website.

In March, I offered my first college fair exclusively for Education Planner clients. Thirteen colleges and several summer programs, test prep and tutoring services, and employers, met with families for two hours in an intimate and informal setting. The colleges thought the event was so successful that we are already securing a date for a Fall Fair in October.

I have also been working in international education and became a member of the Overseas Educational Consulting Association in 2011. For the past year I have been consulting with Paladin Learning Center in Shanghai to prepare Chinese students for American colleges. We developed a certificate program for 45 high school students attending a summer institute at Berkeley on American Culture and Politics.

This spring I continued my own study of essay writing and was invited to attend the OpEd Institute for women writers. A component of this program is my access to mentors from publications such as the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times who will be editing and providing feedback on my own essays as I prepare them for publication . In September, I will be teaching a course on college essay writing at UC Berkeley Extension, teaching other independent counselors and school counselors to evaluate and edit student essays. Several of this year's senior class contributed their essays to a book i am writing with a colleague about contemporary teen issues.

I was able to fit in a few college visits recently to Trinity College in Dublin, Gettysburg College in PA, and the University of Pennsylvania. In late April, I will serve as moderator for the Consortium of Irish Universities when they meet in Palo Alto to recruit American students. In May I will be visiting Brown University.

As the academic year comes to a close, freshman and sophomores should begin exploring colleges, and juniors will begin working on college applications in June.

As always I welcome your calls and questions and look forward to hearing from you.

Elizabeth Stone

Dr. Stone is the San Francisco College Admissions reporter for www.Examiner.com and uses this journalistic opportunity to gain unique access to high level college admissions officers, professors, and other professionals who work within the college admissions arena. In her column, she helps parents and students across the country understand the complex and often confusing issues in the college admissions. Dr. Stone also is a contributing writer to J Weekly of Northern California, and The Forward. a national newspaper based in New York.

GO HERE for a partial list of the schools which admitted the wonderful group of students I have had the pleasure of assisting.

Offices in San Francisco and San Mateo, CA
phone 650.579.6180 · cell 650.759.6577 · info@theeducationplanner.com

Dr. Stone has spent all of her professional career on college campuses and has the expertise to help you or your child with finding the right school or college. Teaching in large universities herself, Dr. Stone offers insight into the realities of college life from the perspective of one who works within the system. She holds a Certificate in College Admissions Counseling from University of California, Los Angeles and recently recruited students for University of California, Berkeley in New York City. She has published several articles on education in professional journals and is co-author of a forth-coming book, Part of the Group (Dawn Sign Press, www.dawnsign.com), a text for teachers working on improving social understanding for adolescents.

Dr. Stone specializes in working together with parents, students, and school counselors to explore the potential of the student and to assist in all aspects of the school or college admissions process. She can remove the stressful aspects of applying to college by creating time-lines and establishing reachable goals and expectations.

In addition to school and college planning, Dr. Stone is available to work with families on resolving school issues; to offer guidance in the student's readiness to begin school; evaluating private/and or public school programs; to explore gifted and talented education programs; and to consult with parents on other issues that might impact the educational experience of their child.