VRaines Consulting
Valerie Raines, President- Strategies for College Success
- Serving Families and Organizations
- Across Ohio, the U.S. and Beyond
Why Retain VRaines Consulting?
- Your student needs help understanding what colleges, which tests, how to apply, who should recommend, and what essay(s) topics are best.
- Your student faces the college selection and admissions process knowing that the situation requires more and support or that his/her aspirations are not typical.
- Your family faces special or stressful circumstances that make your search unusual or sensitive and you want to ensure that opportunities are not missed.
- Your school is growing and seeks an independent contractor to augment your staffing. Your school leadership has a wish list for your college counseling office that requires outside expertise or project management.
- Your school or organization has programs that serve high school youth. For the program to reach its goals, you need to augment student preparation for higher education.
- Your student needs coaching to help with college degree completion and strategies to reach the intended graduation day successfully.
Client College Acceptances
- Allegheny College – Pennsylvania
- American University – Washington, DC
- Baldwin Wallace University – Ohio
- Boston College – Massachusetts
- Boston University – Massachusetts
- Bowling Green State University – Ohio
- Bradley University – Illinois
- Butler University – Indiana
- California Institute of Technology – California
- Case Western Reserve University – Ohio
- Cleveland Institute of Art – Ohio
- College of Wooster – Ohio
- Cornell University – New York
- Denison University – Ohio
- DePaul University – Illinois
- Dickinson College – Pennsylvania
- Dillard University – Louisiana
- Drexel University – Pennsylvania
- Earlham College – Indiana
- Elon University _ North Carolina
- Emerson College – Massachusetts
- Fisk University – Tennessee
- Fordham University – New York
- Franklin & Marshall College – Pennsylvania
- Furman University – South Carolina
- George Washington University – Washington, DC
- Gettysburg College – Pennsylvania
- Goucher College – Maryland
- Guilford College – North Carolina
- Hampton University – Virginia
- Harvard University – Massachusetts
- Hiram College – Ohio
- Howard University – Washington, DC
- Indiana University – Indiana
- International University of Applied Sciences – Germany
- Iowa State University – Iowa
- Ithaca College – New York
- James Madison University – Virginia
- John Carroll University – Ohio
- Johnson & Wales University – Rhode Island
- Kent State University – Ohio
- Kenyon College – Ohio
- Lehigh University – Pennsylvania
- Lewis & Clark College – Oregon
- Loyola University – Maryland
- Marquette University – Wisconsin
- Miami University – Ohio
- Michigan State University – Michigan
- Morehouse College – Georgia
- Mount Holyoke College – Massachusetts
- New York University – New York
- Northeastern University – Massachusetts
- North Carolina A&T State University – North Carolina
- North Carolina State University – North Carolina
- Oberlin College – Ohio
- Occidental College – California
- Ohio State University – Ohio
- Ohio University – Ohio
- Ohio Wesleyan University – Ohio
- Otterbein University – Ohio
- Pennsylvania State University – Pennsylvania
- Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute – New York
- Rhodes College – Tennessee
- Rice University – Texas
- Rochester Institute of Technology – New York
- Rollins College – Florida
- Savannah College of Art and Design – Georgia
- School of the Art Institute of Chicago – Illinois
- Smith College – Massachusetts
- Spelman College – Georgia
- Stony Brook University – New York
- Syracuse University – New York
- Tulane University – Louisiana
- Tuskegee University – Alabama
- University of Cincinnati – Ohio
- University of Colorado – Colorado
- University of Dayton – Ohio
- University of Delaware – Delaware
- University of Denver – Colorado
- University of Florida – Florida
- University of Georgia – Georgia
- University of Illinois – Illinois
- University of Kentucky – Kentucky
- University of Maine – Maine
- University of Maryland – Maryland
- University of Miami – Flordia
- University of Michigan – Michigan
- University of Richmond – Virginia
- University of Rochester – New York
- University of Tennessee – Tennessee
- University of Vermont – Vermont
- Virginia Commonwealth University – Virginia
- Virginia Tech – Virginia
- Washington University – Missouri
- Western Michigan University – Michigan
- Wittenberg University – Ohio
- Xavier University – Ohio
- Yale University – Connecticut