Jane Shropshire
Jane S. Shropshire, who established Shropshire Educational Consulting, LLC, has been an educational consultant since 1996. Before settling in Kentucky she was affiliated with Independent School Placement Service of St. Louis, Inc.
Prior experience? Jane was an admission officer at Tufts University and Brandeis University, and then served as assistant provost at Brandeis. Subsequently, she was associate dean of admission at Washington University in St. Louis before entering private practice.
She weighed in on thousands of admission decisions. She has visited hundreds of school and college campuses in the U.S. and abroad.
And now? Jane continues to visit campuses for firsthand information and attends professional conferences regularly. This enables her to share timely information with her clients about developments at colleges and boarding schools, and about their admission policies.
Professional associations and publications
Jane is a past president of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA) and remains active as a professional member. She has been a faculty member for IECA’s Summer Training Institute for new and aspiring educational consultants.
A leader in her profession, she has been quoted in publications including USA Today, Yale Daily News, Black Enterprise and St. Louis Post-Dispatch. She was featured in an educational consulting profile in Smart Money magazine and was a guest expert on college admissions for NPR affiliate KWMU’s “St. Louis on the Air” many times.
Jane’s monthly column, Higher Ed. Matters, appears in Business Lexington, carrying on the tradition started with her College Prep column in the St. Louis Business Journal.
She is a Certified Educational Planner and member of the National Association for College Admission Counseling (NACAC) and the Kentucky Association for College Admission Counseling (KYACAC).
Volunteer interests include the Art Museum at the University of Kentucky and the Fayette County Farm Bureau’s Education Foundation. She’s also quite interested in the development of plans for the U.S. Public Service Academy. A former board member and officer of the Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis, Jane remains involved with this organization which provides millions of dollars annually in interest-free loans for higher education.
