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Susan Isler has been a huge and important part of our son’s college search.  She is knowledgeable, thoughtful, honest,  and calm in the face of the intense college process.  But most of all – she got to know our son.   She is all about knowing the student and helping navigate the process to find the right fit.

Diane Singer

Mrs. Isler far exceeded my expectations in providing support during our son's college search and application process. Her true gift is in pushing her students to write their own quality essays, guiding them to dig deep and show their true selves on paper. This is not an easy process and entails many more drafts than I would have expected, but the results are high quality and genuine. Susan's comments and questions to our son on his writing were insightful, probing, and encouraging. She is able to draw out real and fully formed thoughts and connections between experiences and lessons learned resulting in exceptional essays. While the real work is accomplished through a partnership between Susan and the student, I also found her to be an enormous resource to the parents as well. I appreciated her straight talk and was impressed that she was right on with practically everything she told us from beginning to end (even when they were things I did not want to hear).  She gets the best out of her students and is a supportive guiding hand for the whole family.

Hannah Jennings

Our son was accepted into his first choice, highly selective university, and working with Susan was an integral component in his choosing the school and knowing how to create an outstanding application. The college search and application process can be overwhelming, but it never seemed so for us because we had Susan as a resource.  We began working with her at the start of my son's sophomore year. She was an invaluable guide through creating a college list, navigating visits and interviews, and offering feedback on application components and essays.  An English teacher, I initially thought we may not need Susan's consulting for the essays, but she was invaluable with her focused insights to all of the prompts and steady guidance in the revision process, and it was a relief to have outside expert eyes on all of the writing required for admissions.  We always felt confident that we were in great hands with Susan Isler, and our family believes she is worth her weight in gold. We could not recommend her more highly.

Tracy Coleman

Susan Isler’s expertise and guidance though the college search, visit, application and analysis was invaluable to my daughter, my husband and me. Through research, very strategic listening and direct input Susan helped our daughter explore her wants and helped her discover her true needs. We ended up in a totally different place than where we started. Susan’s process identified so many schools we never would have found on our own and helped my daughter feel very comfortable and confident in her choices. My daughter was accepted to her firstchoice school early decision. The piece of mind we all have about our daughter’s decision is priceless! Cannot recommend Susan strongly enough!

Heidi Deane

Susan provided all of the tools we needed to educate ourselves on the process and began to work with our daughter early in her high school years.  Susan worked carefully with our daughter to identify educational goals as well as cultural and campus priorities so that she could refine her own thinking about schools that were likely to be a good match in the long run.  She set clear schedules which allowed our daughter to understand how to prepare to meet important deadlines for submission of materials but provided support throughout the period. Susan’s ability to demystify the process allowed us (as parents) to remain supportive cheerleaders rather than nagging nuisances and in the end, our goals were all met respectively! 

Mary K Gray

Susan’s widely recognised competence in all phases of higher education counseling has stood the test of time with diverse student applications, colleges public and private nationwide, aspirational parents from all backgrounds and the appraisals of peers. Not only does she enjoy the professional respect and ease of access to admission offices but also Susan has the well established skill of identifying the best college fit for each individual. In role, she is a guide, motivator and sounding board all rolled into one. Word of mouth is the only enduring measure of success in the college counseling profession and Susan’s universal stature of excellence is testimony to her career of making it happen in a first class manner for all the constituencies in the complex college placement equation.

Karl van Horn

London, England