Faith Howland

In her more than thirty years of educational consulting, founding partner Faith Howland has had the pleasure of working with families from all over the world, doctors, lawyers, educators, princes and potentates, actors and singers, businessmen and women, and those families who need financial aid to consider independent schools. Helping the thousands of children with whom she has worked has been her greatest reward.

Faith, a Milton Academy alumna, majored in Greek and Latin at Wellesley College, followed by Harvard Graduate School in the Classics. No one ever asked, “What did you have in mind, dear?” Following the path of least resistance to teaching in a boarding school, Faith taught Classics at Abbot Academy and became Director of Admission. In 1973, Abbott merged with Phillips Academy to form the coed “Andover.” Preferring not to spend the subsequent decades conjugating “amo, amas, amat,” Faith started her independent educational consulting career.

Along the way in 1976 she was the only female founding member of the Independent Educational Consultants Association (IECA). She was also a founding member and on the faculty of the summer Admission Workshop of the National Association of Independent Schools. A former trustee of Milton Academy, she also served on the boards of Nashoba Brooks School and the Asheville School. In 2005 Faith was the recipient of the prestigious William B. Bretnall Award from the Secondary School Admission Test Board (SSAT) “for exemplary contribution to the field of independent school admission.”

She lives with her maladjusted cats, Albert and Victoria. Her late husband observed that ‘Victoria is not maladjusted. She’s just a slightly unintelligent pussycat!’