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Our flagship workshop. This is the best place to start! It is 3 hours jam-packed with a wealth of information to lay out a plan for all that is to come. Participants often say absorbing all this information is like "drinking from a fire hose" but are excited about all they learn! Great for students in grades 8-11.

An absolute must for juniors or soon-to-be juniors! The junior year is critically important because it is the last full academic year a college will see before the application is processed. This single workshop will clarify its critical elements so that juniors and parents alike can enjoy the journey with confidence! This class will cover:

• Determining the best testing schedule for the PSAT, SAT, ACT, and Subject tests and how many times to take them
• Understanding the best test prep resources and determining the best fit for the student
• Choosing the colleges to visit (how many, which ones, when, etc.),
• Finding out their scholarship and financial aid opportunities,
• How to know in advance how much a college would expect your family to pay to enroll your child
• Identifying weak spots in a student's "resume" and taking steps to strengthen them
• How to use that summer between Junior and Senior year to do things that will stand out to colleges
• I am getting organized and having a clear parent/student communication plan throughout it all.

An absolute must for seniors or soon-to-be seniors! We cover the specific timeline of applying to college and for scholarships, including:

• Choosing the colleges (how many, which ones, etc.),
• finding out their scholarship and financial aid opportunities,
• completing the application,
• basic rules of writing the admission essay and scholarship essays
• sending the SAT/ACT scores
• getting letters of recommendation
• picking the correct deadlines for you (early action, early decision, regular decision)
• getting organized and having a clear plan of parent/student communication throughout it all

A well-crafted personal statement or application essay can improve a student's admission and scholarship opportunities. However, a specific tone, introspection, "voice," and insight set an essay apart.

We will cover:

• How to pick the best topic for your essay
• How to open with a compelling and engaging introduction
• How to use the right tone, when to use humor (and when not to)
• How to wrap it up in a way that pulls the whole essay together

It's a must for seniors or rising seniors, but younger students can get started!

Over 900 colleges accept a centralized application called the Common App. Students can start completing it as early as 9th grade and save and update it throughout high school. While some application parts are self-explanatory, many sections could be more intuitive. Having a trained eye and experienced voice guiding you through the process is best. Your chances of admission can be improved when you have errors, omissions, or poorly completed sections. Let us help you have a polished and perfect application!

Communicating articulately and confidently can make or break an admission or scholarship interview. Practical interviewing skills will also impact future job or internship opportunities. This class will equip students to think on their feet, know what they want to say, and help them say it in the right way.

This comprehensive workshop covers the strategies and facts of how financial aid and scholarships work and how the process varies at different types of colleges. What you don't need to know can become expensive, so equipping yourself with knowledge in advance is critical.

There is a lot of misinformation, scams, and gimmicks surrounding college funding. It can be dicey and costly to trust the wrong sources.

This class is based on the facts of how college funding works, combining merit scholarships and need-based aid. We will discuss how to maximize both, understand how different colleges extend aid differently, how to use dual enrollment and AP courses in high school to create options for shortening college by a year or two, and even the options for a more affordable education in Europe.