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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Supported Fish Pose: What Being a Fish Means to Me

I’ve always been a fish. My earliest claim to fame was a feature spot on the local news when I was 6 months old; the swimming baby! I wasn’t just splashing around in teeny tiny swimmies on the water’s surface, I was swimming underwater. I’m certain now that I was not the only aquatic baby to be spotlighted by the piece, but to hear my parents and grandparents tell this story throughout my childhood, one would have assumed, as did I, that I was THE Underwater Baby. Read more

News

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What You Need to Know: Special Needs 2022 Trends and 2023 Predictions

As the admissions landscapes have continued to shift dramatically in these uncertain times, we are writing as is our custom to summarize the trends and events in school, college, and special needs planning of last year and forecast the changes and updates in the admissions world in the year to come. We hope you will find some value in this summary of last year's trends in the fields of school and college planning and our future predictions for 2023's rapidly shifting admission landscape.Read more

Success Stories

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Jamie Paul Success Stories

At McMillan Education we like to show the success stories of our students through the lens of their counselors who develop their deep connection with them. Here you will find Jamie Paul write about... Read More