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Your Unique Path:
College and Career Coaching
For High School Students

Kristel Kennedy, M.Ed.: Independent Educational Coach - Lancaster PA and Beyond!

Find Your Focus

"I was overwhelmed with the choices that came with graduating high school and entering college, like what major I should choose or what college I wanted to go to… Kristel was able to provide a comprehensive direction for me to follow so that I knew how to decide."

- Senior student - 2024 grad

Work With An Expert

"Kristel was knowledgeable about what each institution had to offer...Kristel truly made what seemed for us a very confusing and daunting decision, with endless choices into a very manageable logical pathway to the most fitting choices for our child. At the end of our time, our child came away with several good college options, all of them thoroughly researched specifically for our child."

- Parents of a 2024 Grad

About Me

Hi! I’m Kristel Kennedy! I have been a high school English teacher for over 20 years. I have motivated, challenged, and pushed all types of students across the finish line for years! Besides that superpower, my niche includes working through life and career goals to find what characteristics of various careers fit their personality, skills, and desires with the goal of having a few ideas of where they might like to head. This helps to narrow down college choices to ones that do well in that field. This also avoids students spending their first two years in college choosing a major and then discovering that they will need a fifth or sixth year to complete all the requirements. With some career pathways in mind, we’ll search out colleges and universities that are also a fit academically, socially, and financially. Let me help your college and career journey to be a smooth path!

• 20 plus years of public school teaching experience 

• Associate member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA)

• 26 hours of continuing education credit

• 2024 graduate of the Training Institute (STI) of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) 

• 20+ college visits around Lancaster County, Pennsylvania - including Baltimore, Philly, DC and more

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Why Choose College Counseling?

Find out if college and career guidance is the next step for you.

With over 4000 institutions of higher learning in this country (and over 12,000 careers), decisions about future paths can be stressful, intimidating, and downright overwhelming. It doesn’t have to be this way! Let me help you find your own unique path, building on college and career decisions that fit - academically, socially, and financially. 

 

For families, the last few years of high school should be a peaceful time of transition. You focus on each other. I can focus on having some of the hard conversations and doing the research necessary to find colleges and careers where your student will thrive. Luckily the game of life has many pathways towards success. Let's find them together!

Parents of a senior who waited until senior year to start their journey

"Our high school senior had many ideas about their college experiences and future career. They were having a difficult time narrowing their focus to a specific career path and college.  The choices seemed endless and we didn’t know how to begin helping them choose.

 

Kristel spent time getting to know our child by asking specific questions that helped them confirm their career path. Through these conversations our child was able to decide exactly the career path that they were interested in pursuing. 

 

Kristel spent time helping our child research the kind of college that would be a good fit for their  needs, preferences, and major.  Kristel gave our  child homework with questions that would help them think about the ideal size, setting, philosophy, academic quality and distance from home that best fit their needs for college.   Kristel was knowledgeable about what each institution had to offer, and specific strengths and weaknesses.

 

At the end of each session Kristel took the time to communicate with us as parents about the topics they discussed, the conclusions our child made and their next session homework.

 

Kristel truly made what seemed for us a very confusing and daunting decision, with endless choices into a very manageable logical pathway to the most fitting choices for our child.

 

At the end of our time with Kristel our child came away with several good college options, all of them thoroughly researched specifically for our child."

Ready To Take The NEXT STEP In Your College Journey?

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