Grissom can help find right college
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With 32 years in the education field, including 12 as the high school’s senior counselor, Grissom feels there is a need in this area for the types of services she will provide.
“I know first hand that high school counselors are overloaded with too many responsibilities and often can’t give individual, one-on-one time to students looking for a school that fits their special educational wants and needs,” Grissom said.
As an educational consultant, she said she will be able to devote the time needed not only help a student find the appropriate school to fit his or her needs, but will also take him or her step by step through the admissions process and assist with financial aid and scholarship searches and applications.
“I’ll be an experienced guide through the entire process. I’ll tell clients what they need to do and when they need to do it. I’ll help them though to the end,” she said.
Opening for business May 1, Grissom said she is targeting high school juniors and their parents as clients. It is during the junior year, she said, when students and parents need to begin thinking seriously about post-secondary schooling and to begin preparing for it, in the form of taking college entrance tests such as the ACT and making visits to potential college choices.
When contacted by parents interested in her services, she said she will first schedule a session with both parents and student to discuss the student’s educational needs and how she can best help him or her.
The following sessions would be spent with just the student and would first include giving the student an aptitude-personality evaluation to further help all involved gauge the student’s wants and needs. After narrowing down educational choices, the next sessions would be spent guiding the student through the application process.
Grissom stressed, however, that her job as a consultant is just that – to consult. She will only be a guide who will answer questions, review applications, edit essays and the like. She will not, she said, complete applications or write essays for students.
Since retiring at the end of last school year she said she has received numerous requests from parents in search of such college guidance and expects to keep busy in her new job, drawing clients not only from Warren County but from surrounding counties as well.
“Many people find the admission process intimidating and don’t know where to start. As a consultant, I will be able to put my college admission expertise to work for those who want to go the extra mile,” she said.
To learn more about the educational consulting services offered by Grissom, call her at 473-2397.