Stephanie Harkey, Certified College Planning Specialist (CCPS)
Stephanie Harkey, CCPS, is a nationally recognized college admissions expert with over 45 years of combined high school, independent counseling and financial planning experience. College Planning Professionals was created to help families obtain money to pay for college.
To date, she has helped 9,422 students realize their dream of attending college and receive over 29 million dollars in financial aid.
My Story
I was much like you, hopeless in finding solutions to help students get admitted and pay for college because my training to become a counselor did not prepare me to help families with college admissions and financial aid issues.
So I would spend countless hours consoling students and parents after their financial aid award letters arrived in April. I observed first-hand parents discover they could not afford to send their child to their top-choice college. Saddened and frustrated by these experiences, I took it upon myself to learn more about the financial aid system and get additional training about how this process worked.
I became the financial aid expert on my high school campus. Soon hundreds of families were coming to me for advice. They were saving thousands in college costs with the strategies I provided. More importantly, their students were going to college because it was affordable!!
Over the years, I developed specialized knowledge and a strategic approach to help my students get into top colleges around the country. I had to share my process with as many families as I could – thus, College Planning Professionals was born.