This package is for the high school junior who wants to spend the requisite time necessary toward full preparation for the college search.
This extensive program offers hands-on guidance with the following aspects of the college search and application process:
- individualized strategy for organization and timeline for application process utilizing personalized Google site for information sharing and task tracking
- review of current academic plan including course selection for senior year
- test preparation resources and practice ACT, administered and scored under timed conditions, if requested
- assessment of potential college majors and career fields
- creation of student resume to be utilized for all applications for admission and scholarship
- critique of application essay with special evaluative attention paid to topic, voice, content, structure, and grammar, as well as the ability to most effectively use one essay for multiple applications
- summer opportunity exploration and application
- utilization of the student profile to build a best fit list of prospective colleges and universities at which to apply for admission
- assistance in planning campus visits
- discussion and printed materials about Early Decision/Early Action, seeking top-notch letters of recommendation from high school faculty, and other topics pertinent to each individual student’s situation
- review of each application before submission
- preparation for admission and/or scholarship interviews
- institutional and outside source scholarship search
- instruction on submitting FAFSA and communicating with campus financial aid offices
- up
to five in person meetings (in addition to initial consultation), scheduled by
consultant at optimum/strategic occasions during college search process
- availability via email, personalized Google site, GoogleTalk, Skype, and phone/text
This plan is available between August 1 and July 1
of the student's junior year of high school.