Tag: junior year

Junior Year and the Importance of Staying Focused

Posted by: admin on March 5th, 2019

 Welcome to junior year, the most important year of the high school transcript.   This will be the most recent full year of grades submitted with your college applications. This is the year that highlights your mastery and expertise.   The juggling act has begun as you manage AP classes, debate team, sports, and such, all while […]

How to Make the Most of Freshman Year

Posted by: admin on March 5th, 2019

 You’re a freshman now, and freshman year is about breaking ground. While you’re adjusting and exploring new opportunities, your academic life is being recorded on your official transcript that one day will be sent to colleges. As a result, strategic planning should increasingly become a significant part of your daily routine. Managing your time becomes […]

Destination: College Decision

Posted by: admin on March 5th, 2019

Hey, seniors. Managing the good news/bad news activity this month may bring on another form of March madness, but hang in there because you  will  arrive at the journey’s end and identify the right college for  you  . Yes, March is a busy month for settling with a variety of results: admit, wait list, denials, […]

Global Studies Program: From NYC to London

Posted by: admin on March 5th, 2019

 Isabel is on the New York – to – London circuit, courtesy of her enrollment in New York University’s Global Studies program, so thus far her college experience has not been a typical one. Technically, she is spending her freshman year in London, and she will join the NYU New York City campus as a […]

Collegiate Life at University of Virginia

Posted by: admin on March 5th, 2019

Perhaps you remember Samantha (Sam) Clavelli, whom we interviewed two years ago as she was experiencing her entry into life at the University of Virginia. Sam now is completing her junior year, and we thought it would be interesting to revisit her to see how her collegiate life has developed and how she now views […]

Juggling AP Courses

Posted by: admin on March 5th, 2019

Taking AP courses is de rigueur for most college-bound students these days: the number of AP tests given by the College Board doubled in the last ten years, after doubling in the ten years before that as well. So read on if you’re one of those students staring down multiple APs and wondering how you’re […]

How to Pick a Professor

Posted by: admin on March 5th, 2019

We’ve all known both sides of the classroom experience – the great teacher who made every class exciting and who opened our eyes to a subject matter we never thought would appeal, and the not-so-great teacher who was so dull and boring that we ended up not only hating the class but hating the subject […]

Give a Student a Cookie: The College Board Reuses Another SAT

Posted by: admin on March 5th, 2019

I had a great tutoring moment last week. During my final tutoring session with one of my students before the August SAT, he was telling me what he’s been doing in his final push to be ready. He’s been a dream student and has done everything I’ve asked of him: taken practice tests often and […]

How Do I Choose My College Major?

Posted by: admin on March 5th, 2019

Some students worry about whether their decision about their undergraduate major will have future consequences and affect opportunities for graduate school or job and career. Put more specifically (for those looking ahead to grad school), the question is whether a particular major will make you more – or less – competitive when applying to graduate […]

GRE & GMAT: Math Topics to Refresh

Posted by: admin on March 5th, 2019

Many students applying to graduate school will scarcely have taken a college course in math. In large part, that is a very small impediment to success on the GRE or GMAT. The math covered in many common undergrad surveys – calculus-based economics, accounting, physics, for example – are not covered at all on the test. […]