Parents, let's help your kid get real direction for their future.
Prepared Students helps teens and college students build the clarity and decision-making skills they need to choose their future wisely.
Why Prepared Students exists
You deserve more than vague advice.
If you want to help your student figure out where they're headed, you've landed in the right place.
Hi, I'm Richard Harris. I spent years as a high school counselor, sitting with students in the middle of uncertainty. Later, I led college recruiting teams at two multi-billion-dollar companies, where I was directly responsible for hiring college students into internships and their first full-time roles.
Prepared Students brings those two sides together: helping young people understand how they're naturally wired, giving them the information they need, and helping them build skills the world truly values. The goal isn't to hand your student a perfect plan. It's to help them learn how to make thoughtful decisions they can keep using as life changes.
An opportunity for selected students
Give your student a clearer picture of how they're naturally wired.
For a limited number of students, I'm offering the Highlands Ability Battery, their complete results, and a personal feedback session at no cost.
Learn About the Highlands Assessment$450+ value, offered at no cost
- 1The Highlands Ability Battery
The gold-standard assessment that reveals how your student naturally thinks, learns, and solves problems.
- 2Their complete ability report
Meaningful insights into natural strengths, learning patterns, and environments where they can thrive.
- 3A personal feedback session
I'll meet with your family online to help your student understand their results and begin connecting those insights to real possibilities.
A practical guide for parents
Before your student chooses a path, help them understand how they're wired.
Wired for What? helps parents understand how the Highlands Ability Battery reveals the natural abilities their student brings to important decisions about college, majors, and careers. Instead of asking your student to guess what might fit, this guide gives your family a clearer place to begin.
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Discover how your student is naturally wiredSee what 19 work samples reveal about their abilities, learning patterns, and the environments where they thrive.
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Connect those abilities to real possibilitiesExplore how natural strengths can point toward promising majors, career fields, and types of work.
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Make the next decision with greater confidenceReplace uncertainty with useful insight your student can build on as they consider what comes next.