Comprehensive college counseling resources custom made for your school community

Every international school and international school community is unique. So is every individual student. Let us help your school develop a counseling office structure and a body of college admissions knowledge, especially for US colleges and universities, that will best help your counselors work with each student and each family.

Dodge Consultants, LLC offers live and virtual consultations to school administrators and faculty. Sample topics include:

Especially for counselors and administrators

·       Create the most effective counseling office

·       Employ and develop expert counselors in-house

·       Understand the current admissions landscape in the US

·       Grow your counselors’ strengths in the advocacy process

·       Strengthen trust with parents and students in counseling for college

·       Manage expectations of the application and admissions process

·       Implications of the 2023 US Supreme Court decision on international applicants

·       ChatGPT and integrity in the admissions process

·       Financing US higher education

Interactive activities and resources

·       The US admissions process: Application to admission

·       Empowering each student in the college application process

·       Recommendation writing workshop

·       Writing your School Profile

·       US admissions case studies workshops

·       Soft skills workshop

·       Student essay workshop

·       Advising the recruitable student athlete

·       Promoting the mentally healthy college applicant

·       Am I an international student or not?

For Schools and Administrators

·       Live audit of your counseling office

o   Effective student-to-counselor ratios

o   Comprehensive calendar of events for students and parents over the high school years

o   Increasing counselor networking and advocacy effectiveness

·       Recommendation writing workshops for teachers

·       US admissions case studies workshops for parents and students

·       “Soft skills for a hard world” workshop for parents and students

·       "Raising a Third Culture Kid” workshop for parents and students

·       Board/Founders’/Admin training on aligning messaging to families

·       Board/Founders’/Admin training on expectation management and marketing