College Bound Essentials (Grades 8-10)

Next Workshop scheduled for :

Saturday, July 6th, 2024

Saturday, Nov. 16th, 2024

9:00 AM - 12:00 PM EST

The comfort of your own home! Zoom edition

Elizabeth Hartley

Scholarship Gold Consulting

833-831-4482

scholarshipgold@gmail.com

As the name implies, this workshop is an essential session for any college-bound student who wants to get the best admission opportunities and secure the highest scholarships possible.  The workshop is geared to (rising) freshmen and sophomores who want a deep dive into what to do, when, and how best to do it, in order to bring some sanity and confidence to an otherwise stressful process.

Students attending this session will receive a comprehensive 2021 full-color College Bound Essentials Workbook to guide them through all aspects of college preparation. (Normally, the book is sold separately for $25, but it's included in this workshop.)

People who register a week or more before the event will receive their book in time for the class. Later, registrants will receive their book after the event, which is fine since we give you handout notes to follow along.

Where? The comfort of your own home, thanks to Zoom! The Zoom link will be sent a day or two before the event. Please alert us if you need to get it by the day before by emailing us at ScholarshipGold@gmail.com. You will also get the recorded version of the workshop afterward.

What will we learn? This class will give students and parents valuable information on making decisions throughout high school, resulting in maximum admission offers and scholarship money. (Ms. Hartley's children have received extremely affordable educations at Dartmouth, Duke, Yale, Michigan State, and Honors College of Charleston.)

Specifically, the class will:

• Explain the importance of standing out in high school without burning out.
• Teach students how to get full-ride offers to over 200 schools with just one test.
• How to build a transcript that will result in the best admission offers
• How and when Ivy leagues and other top schools are less expensive than a state school
• Teach them how to find their best college fits- public vs private, faith-based vs secular, etc.
• Cover basic interview skills.
• Teach students how to tour and evaluate a college as it relates to the student's interests.
• Identify the best and least expensive ways to increase SAT and ACT scores.
• Encourage them to take "ownership" of this next stage in their lives, to be proactive, organized, and serious about this decision, and to help them strategize a game plan to get their best results!
  

Fee - This 3-hour workshop fee, including the College Bound Essentials book and workshop notes, is only $95. At least one parent is encouraged to sit in with their child. When registering, only enroll the student, not the parent. (But do input the parent's email address.)