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Jeffrey Ludovici, M.A., is a national-level higher education consultant who specializes in what happens when bright students work below their potential or even fail in college. He began working with students and families in 1997, and in 2005 founded a full-time program in which he works directly with students to help them succeed in college. Since then he has had students across the U.S. and even internationally, and has helped many students graduate from colleges like George Washington, the University of Vermont, Marist, Texas Tech, Florida International, MIT, the University of Virginia, and many others. With the U.S. now 19th of 30 developed nations in producing college graduates, and only 34% of students on average finishing a bachelor’s degree in four-years, helping students to be successful or to overcome college failure has never been more important.
Jeff uses an integrated model that synthesizes elements and methods such as transfer advising, college planning, academic coaching, and other areas to offer a full-service program to his students. If a student has done poorly or has failed in their classes, Jeff helps them to make improvements in grades by teaching them how to succeed in the higher education classroom. For students who realize that their school is not conducive to their success, Jeff helps them to search for prospective transfer colleges then helps them to apply while working on their current courses to maximize their GPA. If a student decides to use a two-year college to earn credits while they search for a four-year school, Jeff can also act as their interim academic advisor to ensure that they are fulfilling many common general education requirements and pre-requisite courses that can be applied to graduation later.
Many students attend college with some kind of a disability, and Jeff has a professional-level knowledge of these issues and how they can affect a student’s school efforts. Attentional issues, anxiety, depression, and learning problems can be present in many students who attend college. Jeff holds a B.S. in psychology and an M.A. in clinical psychology, and is the former Director of a large program that helped young adults in Pennsylvania. He understands the many issues that students can face, and especially how they can affect their classroom performance. While he does not treat these conditions, he can help students with requesting academic accommodations and provides organizational, study, time management, and other strategies to help students succeed. Jeff’s formal training also helps him to understand more global academic issues like problem solving, learning, memory, motivation, and many other factors that can come in to play for doing well in college. Perhaps Jeff’s greatest qualification is that he also has direct experience applying effective learning methods and principles himself, having graduated magna cum laude as an undergraduate and earning a perfect 4.0 in a very rigorous graduate program. So Jeff knows both professionally and personally what it takes to be a successful in the college arena.
Jeff is also the author of Improving Academic Underperformance In College® (2015) as well as the 2017 case studies book True Stories Of College Failure To Success that is based on what real-life students and parents have experienced with college. Jeff has also developed a college problems identification tool that is based on his direct work with real-life students and the common problems they have faced. This tool, the Applied Learning Skills InventoryTM, is available in the learning section of his College Strategy Blog. Jeff is also the author of more than three dozen articles, as well as several guides, two of which are available in the learning section.
For the specific services that Jeff offers, please visit the program page for more information. To contact him, please visit the contact page. While Jeff is based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, he has helped clients across the U.S.
In the last year, Jeff has personally worked with students at the following colleges in terms of direct help, planning, application, or transition:
University of Vermont | Notre Dame University | Skidmore College |
Florida International University | University of Georgia | University of Arizona |
Northwestern University | Virginia Tech | DePaul University |
Auburn University | Tauro College | University of Washington |
University Of California | Washington College (St. Louis) | New College of Florida |
University of Pittsburgh | Massachusetts Institute of Technology | Wittenberg College |
University of Colorado | Rochester Institute of Technology | Kenyon College |
University of Alabama | Alderson Broaddus University | LaRoche College |
Penn State University | Duquesne University | Fordham University |
Loyola College | Columbia University | University of North Carolina |
UNC Greensboro | Valdosta University | Grove City College |
University Of Oregon | Idaho State College | Antioch College of Los Angeles |
Texas Tech University | Texas A&M University | University of Houston |
Sienna College | St. Thomas College | Duchess C.C. of New York |
Loyola Marymount | Columbia Chicago College | University Of Virginia |
University of Maryland | New York University | University of Kentucky |
Marymount New York | St. Andrews, Scotland | Farleigh Dickinson College |
Sacred Heart College | Edinboro University of PA | Holyoke C.C., Massachusetts |
Lehigh College | St. Vincent’s College | Dickinson College |
Seton Hill College | George Washington University (D.C.) | Carnegie-Mellon University |
Bryn Mawr College | Chatham University | Allegheny College |
Adelphi University | Hofstra University | Franklin & Marshall College |
University of Denver | Colorado College | St. John’s College |
Drew University | Monmouth University | University of Illinois |