Education unlocks your child’s potential

McMillan 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.

School Planning

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.

College Planning

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.

Graduate Program Planning

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 W.I.S.E. Method

Our signature W.I.S.E. 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 W.I.S.E. 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.

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Wise Insights

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What Being a Fish Means to Me: You Are Not Alone

After attending our annual NACAC and EMA conferences in Seattle last fall, we returned to Boston refreshed and renewed after reconnecting with colleagues and touring Reed, Lewis & Clark, and the University of Washington. We also found inspiration for our 2022 blog theme in Pike Place Fish Market’s FISH philosophy of teamwork: Be There, Play, Make Their Day, and Choose Your Attitude. In the coming months, my colleagues and I will take turns providing our own takes on “What Being a Fish Means to Me”.Read more

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Three Superstar Student-Centered Admission Experts Join McMillan Education!

We are delighted to welcome three highly experienced college and school planning admission experts to our already amazing team of educational counselors. Heather Deardorff, Tony Lambert, and Deren Finks bring decades of experience working in and directing school and college admission offices in a wide range of educational settings across the country.Read more

Success Stories

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Greg - School Applicant

An individual evaluation revealed “clear strengths in verbal and auditory learning and marked difficulties in attention and concentration, meeting criteria for an ADD diagnosis.” Read More