Our college transfer consultants turn disappointment into an opportunity for growth, self-discovery, and an exciting fresh start.
A better college experience begins with a deliberate and informed transfer process.
Whether you’re seeking a better fit for your major, aiming for a more selective college, or need a fresh start due to academic or personal challenges, our expert college transfer advisors and W.I.S.E. Method of Educational Planning® guide you through each phase of the transfer planning process.
Our tailored college transfer services leverage an interactive, custom-designed portal to cultivate meaningful connections to transfer options and admission strategies, skillfully guide course and extracurricular planning, produce high-quality applications, complete tasks efficiently and effectively, and promote self-discovery. We replace societal distractions and disinformation with informed knowledge and compassionate guidance to help you find the college experience that best aligns with your goals and well-being.
For more than 70 years, McMillan Education has refined a personalized approach to college transfer planning—one that centers on each student’s goals and strengths. It’s this commitment that has led so many families to trust us with their educational futures.
Our transfer college consultants provide unbiased advice that helps students navigate the complex transfer process. Our experience and unique method framework equip us to help students gain admission to better-fit colleges for greater academic success.
McMillan Education’s long-standing reputation as leading college transfer consultants allows us to provide more strategic, detailed, and tailored guidance that ends with success through the transfer admission process and beyond.
Our signature W.I.S.E. Method® provides you with the tools, guidance, and resources required for successful college transfer planning, helping you reduce the stress of academic transitions.
Our approach revolves around student development; we tailor every strategy to each student’s unique situation and goals, guiding them toward universities that address their current needs and goals and drive long-term growth.
Our transfer planning services aren’t limited to one region—we work with families across the country and even with international universities to ensure optimal placement.
McMillan Education’s expert college transfer guidance helps students find the perfect college for them.
Here’s a sampling of where our college transfer students have pursued their studies:
We don’t just provide college transfer help; we leverage over 70 years of experience and our detailed W.I.S.E. Method®, developed with the guidance of a developmental psychologist and seasoned educator and admissions expert, to ensure your transfer opens new opportunities. From applying to more competitive colleges to better understanding academic requirements and how individual strengths and interests align with college programming, we help students succeed in new academic opportunities.
It was devastating when my daughter discovered she was unhappy at the college she had spent two years working hard to get into. McMillan Education turned her disappointment and anxiety about her future into hope and a practical strategy forward. Now she is happy and successful at the right college for her and we have all learned a lot about what really goes into becoming a successful adult. We wouldn’t be here without McMillan’s caring and knowledgeable guidance.
Parent from SwitzerlandOur W.I.S.E. Method® is a proven framework, developed with the guidance of a developmental psychologist and a seasoned educator and admissions expert. Using an interactive platform called The Owl’s Nest™, we walk you through a thoughtful, organized, and strategic approach outlined in the following four steps:
Our college transfer guidance begins with self-reflection and identity discovery, helping you evaluate your personal values, interests, and emerging preferences. This sets the foundation for finding a college that aligns with your personal and academic preferences.
The investigation phase uses a structured approach to help students identify the key characteristics they’re looking for in college and begin academic tracking. We explore majors, programs, and campuses and create a shortlist of top universities.
Using the Owl's Nest platform, our college transfer consultants help you prepare for the admissions process. During this phase, you’ll build your resume, interface with the appropriate university and admissions officers to procure necessary documents, arrive at a full understanding of admissions and academic requirements of transfer students at your selected institutions, and finalize your list of colleges based on careful, guided research.
The final stage of our help with transferring colleges focuses on completing and submitting high-quality applications that address both the unique challenges transfer applicants face and the specifics of your individual transfer journey. The guidance throughout this structured phase optimizes admissions strategies and ensures that you make the best decision for yourself based on your priorities and goals once admissions notifications are in.
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Find the college that fits your personal and academic goals with McMillan Education’s college transfer admissions consulting. Contact us for a customized action plan.
Students should reach out to a college transfer consultant when they’re ready to start exploring new opportunities at different universities. For the competitive applicant looking to enhance their college placement, it’s ideal to reach out a semester in advance of application deadlines to maximize your strategy and capitalize on any opportunities to enhance your profile. For students struggling in their current college, our transfer consultants can immediately shift into action to guide you to reclaiming a healthy, happy, growth-promoting college experience.
The cost of college transfer admissions consulting varies based on the scope of services provided. For a tailored quote, schedule a free consultation.
Yes. While the majority of our students are transferring from four-year U.S. colleges or three-year international universities, we work with students both transferring from community colleges and those we help find a community college path to build the foundation for a stronger four-year college future path.
We help students understand the general and academic major requirements in their current college and in the colleges they are considering for transfer. This strategy allows us to maximize transferring credits based on their individual priorities and goals.
Regular college counseling focuses on guiding students through all of the requirements for freshman admission, which is based on their high school record, and provides a high level of age-appropriate advising and support. College transfer services require consultants to focus on students’ college academic records and experiences. Students take on a much higher level of individual responsibility and can make mistakes in the process that have real consequences without the right information and guidance. Transfer consultants must have a specialized knowledge of the unique admissions requirements and enrollment strategies to be effective in this work, which is substantively different than traditional college advising. Finally, high school applicants for freshman admissions typically approach the process with hope and optimism for the future, while transfer applicants are in an undesirable situation. The best transfer consultants also bring a strong relational and counseling lens to the process, to both support the student and better understand how to guide the student to a brighter college future.
Yes. Families typically prefer virtual work as it is less disruptive to their already busy lives. With our college transfer advisors located in Boston and around the U.S. and in Europe, we work with students from all over the U.S. and worldwide, who enjoy full access to our robust search resources and organizational tools, as well as to our expert consultants. For some of our families, in-person meetings are also a part of their engagement with us.
No, we work with a wide range of college-aged students, including students who have really struggled and failed academically in college, young adults who have been out of college for a long time, students who have had mental health challenges affect their records, and those whose learning or developmental differences have interfered with their ability to be academically, socially and emotionally successful in college. McMillan’s college transfer team includes specialists who have the specific training to address the unique challenges the young adult is experiencing and put the student on a path to academic recovery that, ultimately, culminates in successful college transfer.
Yes, many of our transfer applicants are interested in transferring to the most elite universities worldwide, including the Ivy League. Our college transfer consultants are uniquely qualified to guide the most ambitious college transfer applicants through a process that requires the strongest candidates and the highest quality applications. As ethical consultants in a field where there are no guarantees and too many who falsely promise results, we are always honest about applicants’ probable admission success as we guide them to their best possible candidacies.
Our W.I.S.E. Method® guides transfer students through every stage of the application process. Using the Owl’s Nest platform and expert guidance from our team, students follow a structured process that helps them undertake meaningful, guided research, enhance their profiles, stay highly organized, complete tasks ahead of deadline, and build the strongest candidacies.
