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Beat the Odds: Getting into Selective Colleges

  • May 15, 2016
  • 6:00 PM - 7:00 PM
  • Webinar


  

Speaker:  Over the past two years alone, Susan Goodkin's students have been accepted to colleges including Harvard (3 early admits); Stanford (4 admits, 2 early); Yale (2); Princeton; MIT; Brown; U.Penn (5 early admits); Dartmouth (2); Cornell (3); Duke (3), U. Chicago; Johns Hopkins; Berkeley (13); UCLA (10); Washington University (4); U. Michigan (2); UVA; Tulane; Vanderbilt; Vassar; Swarthmore; Tufts; Wesleyan (2); Northwestern; Claremont-McKenna; Rice; and USC (3). Susan is a graduate of Harvard University, Harvard Law School, and Oxford University, where she was a Rhodes Scholar.   

This webinar will address today's critical college planning issues, including:

 

  • What kind of extracurriculars impress selective colleges.
  • How students can build a great resume without spending a fortune.

  • IB, AP, honors, oh my -- what classes students should take. 

  •  PSAT, SAT, ACT, and SAT subject tests -- which matter, and how much?

  • The dreaded college application essay -- what colleges look for, and the topics students shouldn't write about!
  • How the "why here" essay can make or break an application.

  • Mistakes students must avoid when listing activities on college applications.  

  •  Which teachers should be asked to write recommendations, and what they should -- and shouldn't -- say.   

  • How students should prepare for college interviews. 

  •  Common concerns you should stop worrying about!

The live webinar will be presented twice.  

Please register for just one session.


Thursday, May 12th Webinar


1-2 Central Time


Sunday, May 15th Webinar


 6-7 Central Time


Click here for complete details.






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