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PROGRAMS for EDUCATION & Associates
Boston, MA ~ Pasadena, CA ~ NYC, NY
(978) 820-1295 ~ help@smartcollegeplanning.org
Programs
for Education (PFE) is a comprehensive college-planning firm that has teamed up with carefully selected advisors in the United States to provide substantive academic and admissions counseling to bright college-bound high school students throughout North America. Since 1992, PFE & Associates has applied its collective skills to help thousands of families meet their college academic and financial goals without taking on long-term debt.
PFE takes a holistic, family-oriented approach to the college selection process for students aspiring to gain admission to more competitive colleges in North America. Every family is invited to a free 75-minute get-acquainted meeting in one of their offices or via a convenient conference call. Once engaged, they will provide the guidance and support desired. Services include high school academic preparation, four (4) insightful self-assessments, college selection, essay coaching (not writing), recommendation and interview strategies as well as a review of all college applications prior to submission.
The college planning timeline in each student’s personal “College and Career Planning handbook” guides students and parents through a pragmatic twenty-step program. When followed, the student is empowered to select a college or university that is realistic and meets the academic, cultural, social, and financial parameters of the family.
Eric Goodhart, RMT and PFE Director, majored and minored in business and psychology, respectively at The George Washington University. He has participated in the College Board admissions and financial aid workshops for college admissions and financial aid administrators. This association with those professionals can help you and your advisor get an early assessment as to how both admissions and the financial aid offices may evaluate the applicant as well as the parents. This includes an eye-opening insight into both the admission and financial aid methodologies practiced by the most competitive private and public colleges.
Eric is also a Certified Reiki Master Teacher. Trained by John Harvey Gray, RMT (a Dartmouth graduate) over seven years beginning in 2000. Gray was one of the 22 RMTs that were trained in 1977 in this natural healing modality going back to Northeast India over 2000 years ago. John was instrumental in bringing Reiki to North America. Working with teenagers and adults alike and teaching them how to achieve and maintain optimal health is Eric’s passion. Reiki healing sessions have been used to help students, as well as parents with stress, anxiety and/or ADD. Be sure to ask how this is done.
Mr. Goodhart is presently writing a book based upon the life experiences of many of his students since college graduation over the last 26 years. “Be True to Yourself” “The Original is Always More Valuable than a Fake™. Through interviews of his former teenage clients, he is finding out how much the in-depth self-assessments they did in high school have led them into their current careers. Are they happy? Do those careers draw on those life-long natural strengths and innate characteristics that they learned they had years ago? If not, why not? What, if anything, would they have done differently?