Four on-demand seminars are live
I’m pleased to tell you that I’ve completed the first batch of on-demand seminars. They cover standardized tests, academics, extracurriculars, and choosing colleges to apply to. You can enroll in all of them here.
I see a real gap in the market now for affordable information on these topics that is available at the right time. Students and families need to start making smart decisions about classes and extracurriculars in freshman year of high school, so they need to understand the secret hoops that colleges expect kids to jump through. The best workback plans for standardized tests and choosing which colleges to apply to start in sophomore year.
What’s on the market now are package deals that cost thousands and lock a family in for years. That’s too big a commitment for a few hours of advice. The advice isn’t obvious, but it’s simple, once someone explains it to you clearly.
Most college counselors focus on senior year. The decisions kids make then matter less for admission than the ones they make as freshmen and sophomores.
Here’s my goal. I want to explain clearly to the parents of eighth to tenth graders what they and their kids need to do to get on the admission-optimizing track. I don’t want it to take hours or entail a multiyear commitment. It doesn’t need to cost thousands of dollars. You can sit down with a pen and notebook and work through my online seminars whenever you have a free minute. You’ll have access for a year after buying, so there’s no rush. Each of them takes an hour, tops. Not because they’re lightweight, but rather because there’s no fluff in them.
When you’re done, you’ll know how to guide your kid. And you’ll know that you can ignore 80 percent of what the other parents are panic-gossiping about.
You can help me by answering a question. What do you want the next online seminar(s) to be about? Some options are:
Demonstrating interest (i.e. sweet-talking a college)
Early action and early decision
Essays
Financial aid
Letters of recommendation
You can comment below or email me at laura@clarkecollegeinsight.com. I welcome your views on anything else, too!
