The difference your student and family will receive when working with Lagemann College Consulting is summarized in one word: personalized.
Personalized Effort:
Suzanne gives her clients a personalized experience. She takes the time and gets to know each and every student she works with. She attends their theatrical performances, sporting competitions and when they are not local, she asks if they can send her footage so she can watch from afar.
Why is this important? Because leading up to the application process, Suzanne can then give the student help that is personal and specific to that individual. A different college admissions counselor who does not take the time to get to know the student would be able to provide the same personalized approach.
For example, when assisting students with their supplemental essays, Suzanne can pull from the student’s personal experience more easily because she knows the student well. Supplemental essays are specific prompts that need to be answered in a very direct, personal manner in order to be successful. She combines this technique with a few other secret strategies to optimize her students chance for admission.
2. Pesonalized Advising and Counseling:
She listens to her students and hears what are the student’s interests, worries and concerns. Whether the student is in 8th grade or a sophomore in college, Suzanne has experience from almost 30 years of working with teens and college students both in and out of the classroom in higher education to help counsel them through whatever issue they are dealing with. She lifts up her students emotionally while helping to keep them grounded at the same time. These are tools anyone can use throughout life.
Why is this important? Teens and college age students need to be heard. They trust Suzanne and she wants them to feel that she is an advocate for them and a mentor and counselor through college and beyond. Suzanne stays in touch with her students after they matriculate for many reasons as life does not stop after they are accepted and commit to a school. She combines her teaching and counseling skills to provide assistance well into their college years.
For example, recently, Suzanne was on a call with one of her students who attends a large private university in the northeast and he just decided to start the pre-med track. Suzanne suggested a few ideas for what he could do outside the classroom to enhance his clinical experience both for his own knowledge and experience and for his medical school applications. She always gives the student a small follow up to-do so they stay on track and reports back to her.
And she adds in some fun and humor to every conversation!