Susan Tatsui-D'Arcy

Activist, Blogger, Business mentor, Consultant, Environmentalist, Idea generator, Parent, Project manager, Writer/Editor

I'm the founder and director of Merit Educational Consultants, LLC, the Director of Merit Academy: Education for Excellence, and the Director of the NEW Merit Academy International. As founder and director of Merit Educational Consultants, LLC, I developed ProjectMERIT where students do individual projects over a 3-4 year time period to understand what it is to initiate something and follow through with it until its completion. I marveled at how it made these students confident and dynamic. To give all kids the opportunity that my girls had, I wrote the book Beat the College Admissions Game: Do a Project! ProjectMERIT is the focal point of my college advisory practice. Over 60% of my clients do projects and they get into top colleges, even when they don't have perfect GPA's or SAT/ACT scores.

...empowering students to create a project that has never been done before.

If every high school student did a project, they could solve the world's environmental, health, abuse, education, energy, and many other problems because they aren't controlled by big business, government, or greed.

College advisory, Education, Environmental Awareness, Parenting

Sharing student-run projects that are changing and shaping our future.

motivating students to succeed, inspiring students to do projects that can change the world, building furniture, developing aquaponics and permaculture.