Maximize Your Teen's Success from Middle School thru Early Career!
- Career Exploration.
- Expert College Admissions Advising.
- Tutoring: Writing, Research, English, Literature, & History.
Improve Your Teen's Secondary and Post- High School Opportun
At Ace Your Future, we provide top-notch educational and career services that help teens and young adults to reach their full potential.
Welcome to Ace Your Future Educational Consulting!
Empower Your Teen or College Student!
Whether your family seeks:
- college admissions advice,
- career exploration help, or
- tutoring in ELA and History,
we will provide
personalized, expert guidance
that helps your teen or college student to
- maximize their potential and
- achieve their goals.
Improve Your Teen's or Young Adult's Options through:
Career Counseling
Ace Your Future is happy to provide career assessment and guidance services to:
- teens exploring multiple paths,
- teens and college students searching for their first job or internship,
- teens and college students unexpectedly pivoting between academic / career fields,
- teens and college students considering careers that require attending graduate school, and
- recent college graduates who could use some help, encouragement, and clearer direction.
Whether you have an ideal career in mind already, or you are searching for potential jobs, we can direct you towards the best career assessments available, prepare you for informational interviews and job shadowing, and coach you on essential interpersonal communications skills.
College Admissions Counseling
Whether you are searching for a welcoming and accepting community amongst:
- Southern Flagships,
- Honors Colleges at public research powerhouses,
- Highly Selective undergraduate programs (Ivy+),
- Specialized undergraduate programs,
- small Liberal Arts Colleges,
- ideologically diverse student bodies,
- Christian and or Catholic colleges,
- or even colleges close to home,
Ace Your Future's lead college admissions consultant loves to help teens to gain admission to multiple colleges that will:
a. honor your personal values, personality, character traits, interests, experiences, voice, finances, and even your politics and or religious beliefs, and
b. promote your academic, social, and career growth.
Throughout the process, Ace Your Future helps teens and their families with all aspects of college admissions. We can teach your teen how to:
1. authentically explore potential
interests,
majors, and
careers,
2. select high school and college courses,
3. build their relationship with the super important school counselor and teachers,
4. gain leadership experience outside of classes,
5. manage family obligations, a job, competitive sports, volunteer activities, and or student clubs,
6. prepare for advanced ELA and History courses,
7. determine whether to take the SAT, ACT, and or CLT, and gain study method recommendations,
8. research in depth the truth about various colleges and their offerings,
9. assess admissions odds to colleges of interest,
10. refine / target / prioritize the list of college applications,
11. determine which teachers to ask for recommendation letters,
12. brainstorm the
Common App personal statement,
college-specific supplemental essays, and or
UC PIQs,
13. reflect on potential Glimpse application videos,
14. highlight achievements through activity descriptions,
15. improve the
Common App personal statement,
college-specific supplemental essays, and or
UC PIQs,
15. prepare for
admissions,
informational,
internship, and or
job
interviews,
16. practice adult life skills to ease the transition to college and career.
Customized Academic Mentoring / Tutoring
Whether you need help learning how to:
- write or improve thesis statements,
- develop background context in essays,
- brainstorm an expository, persuasive, argumentative, or analytical essay or speech outline,
- find evidence or proof in a book or research journals,
- analyze and or connect evidence in body paragraphs,
- draft a conclusion paragraph,
- structure and organize a (fictitious or personal) narrative essay,
- work through the A to Z steps of a literature review or original research paper (even in science),
- craft or critique a poem, short story, or novel via literary analysis, and or
- improve and polish an essay draft,
- prepare a poem, short story, research paper, or research article for submission,
- create an effective study guide while reading a textbook or novel, or
- prepare for an essay exam,
Ace Your Future's in-house literature lover, professional historian, editor, certified teacher, and highly experienced tutor would love to guide you in all things reading, writing, and thinking for yourself!
Courses that our lead consultant has tutored in the past include:
- Middle School,
- HS Regents,
- Honors,
- AP / IB / Cambridge, and
- College:
- English Language Arts
- Literature
- Composition
- Social Studies,
- World / Global / Modern History,
- Classical and Medieval (European) History,
- Modern European History,
- Western Civilization,
- U.S. / American History / APUSH,
- Regional History (multiple continents).
Ace Your Future's Past Clients' Testimonials:
"Andrea helped my daughter to build a university application that played to her strengths, as well as differentiated her from other students. Throughout this process, my daughter's confidence and writing skills improved ten-fold. Andrea has a way of tapping into the natural talent of her students and helping them to find their authentic voices."
-Parent in Connecticut
"Andrea helped me to perfect each of my university application essays. I also improved my writing skills during this process. Andrea is highly knowledgeable about college admissions, history, and writing. Her guidance helped me to gain acceptance to top choices. I recommend working with Andrea to edit your application essays into unique pieces of writing that will impress admissions committees."
-College Transfer Student from Maryland
"Andrea helped my daughter with writing essays for summer research programs. She was very knowledgeable and experienced in the entire essay writing process, from brainstorming to reviewing., My daughter has been admitted to multiple competitive programs, so we are very thankful for Andrea's excellent help. I highly recommend Andrea as a writing tutor and college admissions counselor!"
-Parent in California
"Andrea's magic is getting to know her college admissions counselor clients and to have their voice come out in the essay, rather than generic responses. She was able to get the true character of my daughter to come through."
-Parent in Connecticut
"Andrea offers something besides vast knowledge, background, and expertise in college admissions. That is trust, clarity, and keeping our family real and grounded. I've experienced first-hand that Andrea really cares about her college application students. That's invaluable! Priceless! She wants our son to be happy while excelling."
-Parent in Connecticut
"Andrea gave my son advice on both academic and extracurricular activities based on his interests and strengths. All items in the university application action plan are great, but non of them are obvious."
-Parent in Connecticut