About
After years of teaching in the First Year Experience Program at Trinity University, we founded Heights Educational Consulting in 2016. Our idea was to take all of the experience we had working with first-year college students on writing and apply it in the college counseling space. What began as a small side project eventually grew into a thriving practice—offering summer college essay boot camps for rising seniors and expanding into a full-service college admissions consulting business. Today, as experienced college admissions consultants, we help students navigate the application process with clarity, confidence, and strong, authentic writing.
Our Objectives
Admissions Guidance
To ensure that students and families understand the college admissions process, and feel well-supported throughout the process.
Application Excellence
To counsel properly so that every component of the application process is strong and represents the student in the best possible manner.
Balanced College Selection
To recommend a balanced list of colleges from the following perspectives: academic, social, financial, and extracurricular.
Career Exploration
To provide robust insight into a student’s interests, and help them consider potential careers and the educational path needed for that work.
What You Can Expect
Pre-College Advising
We begin by getting to know your student’s individual personality, interests, needs, and goals. We engage in individualized four-year planning and coaching, and meet with your family throughout high school to adjust these plans as your student’s needs evolve.
College Consulting
From freshman year onward, we work with our clients to plan their high school curriculum, tailoring each plan to their interests, college aspirations and career goals. We help students access extracurricular and volunteer opportunities, develop testing plans, and research schools and majors.
Our strategy is continuously refined to align with our students because we work to get know them well. All of that starts with understanding who they are (through personal reflection exercises) and to assess their needs and goals. Ultimately, we work to craft college applications that showcase a balance of academics, activities and personal development, and shine a light on those aspects of a student that might lie behind the statistics or quantitative metrics.
Application Process Assistance
Once the admissions cycle begins, we hands-on assistance working with your student on every step of the application process. We manage all elements of the process and collaborate with your student in completing each component. Our proven difference lies in finding a student’s story and telling it well, and empowering our clients to confidently put their best foot forward as they complete their applications.
College Essay Coaching
We specialize in working with students through each step of the writing process to create authentic personal essays that get to the heart of each student’s story.
Consultants
Jennifer Bartlett
Jennifer Bartlett is an educator and college consultant who is committed to meeting each client’s individual needs. She prides herself on offering every client the highest level of attention and service. Jennifer has her B.A in English Literature from Grinnell College and her M.A. in English Literature from Washington University. After a career as an acquisitions and development editor in New York, Jennifer moved to San Antonio and worked as a high school English teacher before accepting an adjunct position in the First Year Experience program at Trinity University. In her capacity as a college writing instructor, Jennifer works with first year students on foundational critical thinking, reading and writing skills.
As an IECA accredited college counselor, Jennifer focuses on each client’s specific needs. Families look to Jennifer to shepherd students throughout their high school years, and to help them navigate the college admissions process. Jennifer is dedicated to giving all HEC clients nurturing support and dedicated attention while bringing their application materials to life.
While the college application process can be overwhelming, Jennifer believes that every student can and will find their “fit” at the best college or university for them. Jennifer’s professional career as a college counselor is centered on guiding and inspiring students to have a positive, successful college application experience.
She furthers her professional development through visiting colleges and universities, attending professional conferences, and staying informed on the latest trends in college admissions.
Jennifer Rowe
Jenny has been teaching college-level composition for over twenty years at schools including Trinity University, the University of Maryland, College Park, the Johns Hopkins University Center for Talented Youth, and Boston College, where she also earned her M.A. in English Language and Literature and began her extensive work in the tutoring and learning center profession. She currently lives in San Antonio with her husband and two children.