Design Your Future

Lorraine, you were an extremely important part of our team. You pushed M. to give his best and his applications were significantly better because of it. Thank you for your calming, helpful demeanor and constant support. I have told everyone I speak to how important I feel it is to have you involved in the process. Please save a space for my daughter, who will apply next year.


I am profoundly grateful for Lorraine’s mentorship and expertise. My art school serves over 700 students each week, who need a more sophisticated, advanced level of guidance than we normally provide as they seek to apply to art school. Lorraine openly shared her expertise on a range of topics. It is clear that she deeply desires to see creative youth pursue their individualized paths toward success. She shares a deep understanding of creative career possibilities in a changing world, encyclopedic knowledge of individual colleges with their various application requirements, and understanding of the teenage mind. She approaches every discussion with extraordinary thoughtfulness, subtlety, clarity, and professionalism. Her guidance and mentorship has resulted in accurate, useful information for teens and parents, as well as a stronger, more efficient goal-oriented fine art program… I cannot recommend Lorraine and Portfolio College Counseling highly enough.

I LOVE IT here! I have a great dorm life. I am taking fashion drawing classes my first semester for illustration… I have a general illustration class where I’m producing some great pieces of work each week, so that’s probably my best class! I just love the atmosphere. And I really enjoyed your help — you really did guide me.

Lorraine’s visit to my art classes really helped to inspire and motivate my students. It was a real benefit for them to hear about career options and see the examples she provided. It helped to validate all that I try to teach. Her tips and advice regarding portfolio preparation were insightful and will prove to be valuable, I am convinced. I would welcome her back.

THANK YOU for all your help. I was able to let O. spread her wings and feel that she was doing her own applications, without Mom’s help. It was important to me that she had guidance along the way. You gave her confidence and gave me a sense of security that she was meeting all the criteria necessary while still making the deadlines.

When I started the university application process, I was overwhelmed and confused with all of the different application systems and requirements. Having regular meetings with Lorraine and receiving numerous helpful guide documents allowed me to have a clear idea of which universities I was going to apply to and my plan of action for the upcoming months. I found the feedback I received for my essays and artwork descriptions very concise and useful.

Portfolio College Counseling provided practical and invaluable advice throughout the college process keeping all of us calm and on track. Just knowing Lorraine was there to ask a question or guide me or my daughter made this unnerving exercise so much smoother. We’re so glad we didn’t go it alone!