Welcome to Educational Guidance Services
Provided by Ken Krueger, M.Ed., Consultant/Counselor/Tutor

Please bookmark this website as one of your favorite resources for college planning, admissions, testing and financial aid. Ken Krueger’s online information is updated frequently.

Ken often refers to a quote from Henry David Thoreau, the famous author: (“simplify, simplify, simplify….your life”). Thoreau’s message reminds us to unravel and unfold ourselves, to reduce our confusion and anxiety, and to let life become more manageable and meaningful. Throughout the college planning process, it is important to keep one’s goals clearly in focus. See Ken’s ABCs of College Planning.

Ken Krueger has helped young people and their parents “simplify, simplify, simplify” the seemingly tedious processes of standardized test prepping, college planning, and scholarship/financial aid planning processes, for over 35 yrs, and continues to do so today – 7 days a week. As a Duke University alumnus, certified professional educator in both public and private schools, current educational consultant, and standardized test prep tutor, he insightfully and motivationally guides students with his personal, interactive, and instructive style. “Practice, practice, practice” taking standardized tests from actual test maker resources has enabled students to “learn by doing” and get to their next level of test performance success on the HSPT, SSAT, SAT, ACT,SAT Subject Tests, and GRE. Students have improved scores by as much as 400 points on the SAT, and 6-8 composite points on the ACT since Ken started his Educational Guidance Services business in 1998. (See testimonials)

His wealth of experience, wisdom, availability, and flexibility encourage students to gain confidence, reduce test anxiety, learn test taking and timing strategies, and develop positive thinking skills. He reviews all of the necessary verbal, critical reading, vocabulary, math, grammar, and essay skills needed for test success. Homework assignments are given weekly. Ken’s students discover that “test success is a process” and that ultimately rewarding test performance results are achieved. His test prep and consulting services have enabled students to attend colleges and universities worldwide, and his comfortable tutoring environment is styled after the Harkness Table model of his upper level seminar courses at his alma mater, Duke, and east and west coast boarding schools.

Ken is the sole proprietor and does not utilize “trained tutors”. He teaches all classes by himself. Classes meet once or twice weekly (as needed) for 1.5 hours for an average of 10-15 weeks. Monthly tutoring rates equate to $29/hr. Financially needy students qualify for discounts.

More details about Ken’s background can be found in this letter and on his credentials page.

Ken’s first book, Ken Krueger’s College Planning Guide: Where Do I Start? How Do I Get There? is a resource that will be continually updated in e-book format and that will expertly guide you from point A to point Z by providing you a detailed college planning program guide that includes a freshman to senior year timetable, online resources to assist you with the college search, college applications, and financial aid information, the college visit and interview process, the essay, a behind the scenes look at college admissions officers’ decisions, a testing timetable, recruited athlete tips and guidelines, and more.

Update – Ken’s book information has been helping hundreds of students and parents in the U.S., Canada, India, Korea, the Netherlands, Japan, and Europe since January 2010!