Ben Roberts comes to your campus and walks your students through how college works: the types of schools, what they really cost, and how to build a list around fit. Your counselors add nothing to their caseload.
Your counselors care, and their caseloads are enormous. College planning is usually the first thing to slip when the week fills up with schedules, testing, and crises.
Students for every school counselor across the United States.
What the American School Counselor Association says the job requires.
The share of a high school counselor's time that goes to college counseling.
Ben Roberts has spent his career in higher education helping students, many of them first-generation and international, find colleges where they can finish. He co-wrote The Unbranded Student and now brings its method straight to high school students.
Students hear what admissions offices rarely say out loud: how college types differ, what school really costs, and why fit predicts graduation better than fame. Ben keeps the room engaged and leaves plenty of time for the questions students are afraid to ask.
Tell Ben about your campus, your students, and your calendar. He will recommend the grade level and format that fits, and send a simple proposal.
One class period, in an auditorium or a classroom. Students learn how college types differ, what school really costs, and how to build a list around fit.
Students walk out knowing the questions to ask and where to start, so their next conversation with a counselor or a parent goes further.
Why the search should begin with a student's strengths and interests, and why picking a school first gets the order backward.
The types of colleges, what each does well, and how schools recruit, admit, and price their freshman class.
Why the sticker price is rarely the real price, why only about 45 percent finish in four years, and how fit changes those odds.
Ben tailors each session to your grade level and your students, whether that is one classroom or a full auditorium.
Every student who transfers, stops out, or borrows for a sixth year was once a senior who picked a school with too little information. One class period now can change that path.
Pricing depends on the number of students and campuses. Most single-campus visits fit within a campus or college-readiness budget. Ben will send a proposal after your call.
It works for any high school grade. Sophomores and juniors benefit most because they still have time to act on what they learn.
One class period, usually 45 to 60 minutes. Ben can present to a single class or to a full grade level in an auditorium.
It supports them. Students arrive at counseling meetings with a clearer sense of what they want, which makes those meetings more productive.
A room and a screen. Ben brings everything else.
Yes. Ben is based in Fort Worth and travels to campuses across the region.
Share a few details and Ben will reach out personally to set up a 20-minute call, then send a proposal with dates and pricing.
Prefer email? Write to ben@unbrandedstudent.com.