Establishing the value of learning and curiosity is the first step to helping your child succeed, both in education and in life.
Get StartedMcMillan Education is Boston’s foremost independent educational consultancy. For more than sixty years, families have benefited from McMillan Education’s expertise in all levels and types of education and our specialized knowledge of children, adolescents, and young adults. It’s never too early to begin planning your child’s education. We invite you to learn more about our personalized approach to working with your family.
Searching for the right independent day or boarding school where your child will thrive can be a daunting task. We develop meaningful, long-term relationships with families like yours to explore a range of educational settings until together we discover the right school fit for your child.
Your child deserves a successful and personally fulfilling college search experience. With the whirlwind of disinformation and the external pressures circulating around your child, the promise of a de-stressed, well-informed college process that produces results may seem impossible. It’s well within your reach with our seasoned and caring college counselors.
We understand that the decision to pursue a graduate degree is a life-changing choice that should provide the foundation for your future vocational success and personal fulfillment. Learn more about how we can help you reach your goals.
Our signature WISE Method of Educational Planning is the implementation of our best-fit philosophy. In undertaking each of the phases of your school or college search guided by your professional and caring McMillan Education counselor, you will experience the space to reflect on the educational values, programmatic features, and culture that both matter to you and will constitute the environment in which you will thrive. The WISE Method ensures that you do your homework and investigate thoroughly what transpires in real-time on campus and in a classroom. You will discover what it looks and feels like to be a student at each of the schools or colleges you are interested in knowing and those your counselor introduces to you. As you’re skillfully guided to gather information and reflect upon its significance to your future, you experience the process of executing the application tasks with less stress, more sense of purpose, and greater confidence.
My dad was a character. My mom is too, in her own somewhat less outrageous way. Or maybe she’s the more outrageous one? Either way, I learned about character from my parents, just not in the usual way.Read more
We are delighted to introduce our new custom-designed interactive online platform called the OWL's Nest, where our signature WISE Method of educational planning unfolds. Read more
Life does not always happen on a linear path and for many of the students and families I work with, there have been a few curves along the way. Sometimes, it is messy. And that is okay, it’s just life.... Read More
