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ABOUT PLAN COLLEGE NOW
Higher Ed Strategies, LLC is a
firm committed to providing the highest quality college
planning services to clients. We are a firm that is actively
engaged in higher education and our professionals have many years of
college guidance, admissions and financial aid experience.
Higher Ed Strategies, LLC, is proud to offer an array
of services to assist students and their families with
navigating the college admissions process. While we cannot
make a guarantee that a student will gain acceptance into a
specific college, we do make the commitment to provide our
clients with comprehensive guidance necessary to improve the
chances of college acceptance based on each student’s unique
set of experiences.
RETAINING OUR SERVICES
We provide college-planning services on a three, six or
9-month retainer basis or at an hourly rate. Because each
student’s needs are different, we ask all of our potential
clients to meet us for a pre-planning conference designed to
assess the level of service required to help the student
achieve his or her college planning goals. This allows for
the design of services that are most cost effective based on
the student’s and his or her family’s needs. In most cases, the level of service
is determined at the end or soon after the pre-planning
conference in collaboration with the client. Please contact
us for additional information on our pricing structure for
retainer and hourly services.
COLLEGE PLANNING CONSULTANTS
Mary E. Yuskis, Ed. D., Vice President of College Planning,
has worked in admissions offices throughout the country for
the past 12 years. Dr. Yuskis
holds both a Master’s and a Doctorate degree in Higher and
Postsecondary
Education from Arizona State University and a Bachelors
degree in Human
Development and Communications from Boston College. Her
tenure spans large,
medium and small colleges and universities. She has worked
in the offices of a
state higher education governing board and wrote her
dissertation about the
preparatory curriculum necessary for academic preparedness
in the first year of
college.
Dr. Yuskis has held the positions of Director of Admissions,
Assistant Vice
Provost for Enrollment Management, Coordinator of Admissions
for Transfer and
Adult Students, and Policy Analyst for the Arizona Board of
Regents.
Philip T. Malinoski, President, has more than 20 years of
financial aid and enrollment management and enrollment
research experience. He has held the positions of Director
of Financial Aid, Director of Student Financial Services and
Enrollment Research. He has also provided consulting
services to private scholarship foundations. He has been
employed by Northeastern University, Yale University and
Saint Joseph College.
Phil holds a M.Ed. in College Student Personnel from
Northeastern University and earned the Certified Financial
Planner (CFP) designation in 1993. He has presented at
numerous professional conferences on a wide range of topics
such as tuition discounting and net revenue, integrating
financial planning and financial aid, conducting financial
aid research to improve market position, and cross training
for the financial aid professional.
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