Do you have a Rising Junior or Senior in High School?

I have a brilliant friend, Kristin Hiemstra. She is a super women, coach, leader, TedX speaker and fabulous college counselor. She worked for sixteen years in college counseling in the Chapel Hill school system. She went on to do more adult and organization coaching, but has found herself drawn back into college counseling.

Not all schools have the resources necessary to provide kids with the kind of help they need to figure out what they are interested in, what might be the best path to get there and what is realistic for them given their strengths.

Parents are not always the best judges about their own kids. Oh the horror stories I have heard. The parents who insist their little darling is Ivy League material, so they encouraged that child to apply only to the Ivies, not to get into a single one.

Or the parent, fearing costs, discourages a well qualified candidate to dial back their choices because they don’t know how to manage to money side of higher education.

I knew one family whose child was miserable in math, only apply to a business program at big university where he was qualified for a different program, but not business. He was rejected and ended up at a much lower standing school because it was the only business program that would take him with such poor math scores. If only he had known he could have gotten into a general studies program and taken business courses to see if he even liked them. The end of the story is he dropped out of the business program because it was not where his interest or strengths were. If only his parents had a third party work with the kid to figure this out before wasting two year’s tuition with nothing to show for it.

My friend Kristin is that person to talk with. Her college counseling business is called the Art Of potential and that is exactly what she teases out of high school kids to help them on their journey.

You can find Kristin on Linkdin or I am happy to put you in touch with her. She can work remotely so you don’t need to be close to Chapel Hill. She’s the real deal.