The Mourning Meeting: Season 2, Episode 12

Finding the Right Emotional Fit for College

Many families begin to think about college before high school even begins. What major do you want to study? Should you take the SAT or ACT? What extracurricular activities will show your leadership skills to make you more desirable to a specific school? All of these things are important when considering the right academic fit for a student. But how do you measure the right emotional fit at a college or university? How do you make sure that a grieving student will be prepared for the transition to college? How do you know if a particular school will have enough supports in place to meet the needs of a grieving student? 

 With an education career spanning over 25 years, Brett Levine has worked with thousands of students going through the college search, application, and selection process. He has worked as a school counselor and administrator in two wonderful New Jersey districts, being one of the state’s first counselors to integrate Naviance into the schools back when it was known as TCCI. (The College Counselor on the Internet). He has also worked on the other “side of the desk” as a college admissions officer and academic advisor at Adelphi University and New York University respectively.

Mr. Levine works full time as a School Counselor in a wonderful New Jersey School District and lives in Union County, New Jersey with his wife Rachel (a social worker) and their two sons, Ryder and Jackson. Mr. Levine can be reached at brett@sensiblecollegecounseling.com.

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