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Community & Mentorship

Stepping into the world as a new independent educational consultant, whether you identify as a college planner, or college coach, can be overwhelming.


With CounselMore's exceptional customer service and its vibrant community of mentors, volunteers, and peer practitioners, you're never alone on this journey.

Join our supportive network, designed to guide you through the uncertainties of starting out, offering personalized assistance, shared knowledge, and practical advice from experienced professionals across the spectrum. CounselMore connects you with a diverse group of individuals who have navigated the complexities of guiding students through the college admission process. Here, you'll find a welcoming community ready to support you with insights and strategies tailored to the unique challenges faced by college planners, coaches, and consultants. This collaborative environment ensures that as a new practitioner, you have the backing, resources, and encouragement to confidently build your practice and make a meaningful impact in the lives of the students you advise.


College Planning Apprentice Resources


Don’t spend years developing a comprehensive plan

for your service offerings.


We’ve done that for you!

Everything you need to start your educational consulting practice.


Service Guides


Intake, profile collection, advance assignment plans to auto-reveal per student timeline. Calculate and save admissions strategies for future benefits. Spend years perfecting your own comprehensive services package or purchase CounselMore's integrated client-facing college readiness package of assignments, broadcast messages and per-grade planning.


Set client expectations for success - easily!

College List Building


Delight you families with amazing college lists, in no time.


The most up-to-date college information resource available.

Much much more than any other college database search tool. Collect and save your own information about each school and each student too.


Candidate shaping tools provide insights to admissions probability before you begin college shopping.


Illustrate the Story


Visuals and graphics will set you apart. These one-click reports will establish your level of professionalism, beyond question.


From college summary reports through financial fit: high impact, data-driven depictions bring dry, challenging information to life.


Craft your deliverables and manage expectations with confidence.

New Educational Consultants

Many new private college planners come from the public space. Transitioning from serving students at their high school to serving students, through their private practice. Its a balancing act but with peer-colleagues it's easier.

New Educational Consultants - FAQ

  • How much does the Apprentice plan cost?

    $35 / month


    Every new Educational Consultant, College Planner, Admissions Coach needs time to learn, make choices and build their consulting practice. The first year is filled with decision making. Here's one choice that's easy!


    The starting plan is a comfortable, flexible plan.  Set up your students, begin collecting college data, make college lists, start small and grow. 


    At only $35* a month for 5 Active Students, you can construct your brand while you steady your foundation for growth.


    Just more great tools that CounselMore provides to our newest colleagues.


    When you are ready to move to your 6th student you will simply add that one additional Active Student. Remove that student at any time.  


    * $35 for a limited time - this price includes a promotional discount


  • What is the Peer-Group Study Hall ?

    On Fridays, CounselMore offers a one-hour completely peer-lead conversation. This is a safe place to ask questions and exchange ideas on how others are using the CounselMore app.


    A wise Educational Consultant, who had a former career in software development for Microsoft, said 

    "A trait of an excellent software is one that can be used in ways it was never intended..."


    There is plenty in the CounselMore platform functionality that answers directly to the day-to-day tasks of administering educational services. 


    However, collaboration always brings forward new ideas on ways to tweak a function to better match your unique needs.


    Check it out!

  • How can I enroll in the Mentorship Circle?

    To book a space in the Mentorship Circle, click here, to be taken to the Community Events page.


    There you will find the reservation link for the Mentorship Circle meeting. 


    There aren't email reminders sent regarding this meeting. Reservations must be made each month for each meeting. Reservations can be made in advance.


    These meetings are 1 hour long and happen monthly. The meeting coordinator is a CounselMore Member-Evangelist dedicated to making the entrance into our profession a welcoming experience.


    Each month a member of our commnity (even you) will give a brief presentation on a topic. The topics are a wide spectrum of educational consulting issues.


    If you are interested in presenting, please email your interest to support@counselmore.com and we will connect you with the moderator.

  • Why the CounselMore way?

    Before CounselMore was a software, it was a research project. For two years our researchers, interviewed, surveyed and sat at the elbow of our colleagues while they performed educational services.


    Educational Consultants offer many different types of services under many different kinds of niches. However, all educational planning services contain a common thread; the comprehensive college readiness package.


    Never before, have the the steps to achieve college readiness been codified. By identifying the most common threads offered across hundreds of practitioners, CounselMore began to reverse engineer the daily routines of student plans and systemitized those practices into a premiere technology solution.


    Our research has become the ultimate resource for those exploring or practicing educational consulting or college planning. Everything we learn, we share with our members.


    Check out the blog

  • I'm not a full time consultant, can this software help me?

    CounselMore is for more than just professional educational practitioners - we welcome everyone who finds value in admissions data, education trands and student secondary education exit plans. Especially parents.


    If you are a parent who is moonlighting as an educational consultant for the purpose of your child's college application process - we welcome you!


    Our research discovery revealed that most educational consultants join the profession because of their introduction to it through their child's college application process.


    It's a job you learn by doing and sharing information. CounselMore is your operational hub!


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"This one-of-a-kind platform is filled with features that will adapt to your unique needs, no matter the type of student profile you serve."

-Claudia Vainrub, EduPlan

Support


Part of our Counsel With Confidence mission is to support and educate our college counseling colleagues.


​Meet our not-judgy tech mentors and surprise yourself with how tech savvy can become.


Reinventing your career or revitalizing an educational program, CounselMore is specifically designed to support your success. It's literally woven into the software.


College planning comes in all shapes and sizing, CounselMore tailors to your most comfortable fit.

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