Summer Application Academy

Workshop #1: July 8, 2008 to July 12, 2008

Workshop #2: July 22, 2008 to July 27, 2008

The Ivy Coach Application Academy is an intensive online five-day summer workshop for students entering their senior year of high school in the fall of 2008. Through group conference calls, one-on-one phone calls, webcam, and emails, students will have a completed Common Application before they start school in the fall. Some high school guidance counselors actually require their seniors to submit a completed application in September.

Highlights

Providing an appropriate list of colleges based on The Ivy Coach’s review of the student’s courses, grades, SAT / ACT’s and extracurricular involvements, as well as factors that the student is searching for in a college.

Crafting and enhancing the student’s activity sheet including honors / awards, extracurricular involvements, summer and work experience.

Learning the Do’s and Don’ts in writing a college essay.

Writing an essay about an activity or work experience that has been especially significant.

Brainstorming topics and crafting a powerful personal statement.

Completing all questions on the Common Application.

Obtaining more effective letters of recommendation from the student’s guidance counselor and from teachers who know the student the best.

Creating a strategic plan for future standardized testing including specific exams and dates.

Learning interview skills, becoming familiar with the questions to expect, learning how to answer specific questions, and knowing what questions to ask the interviewer.

Understanding how to demonstrate interest.

* Parents are invited and encouraged to attend any and all workshop sessions. *

So that we can make this workshop more efficient, the following information should be sent to us ahead of time: transcript, school profile, standardized testing results, description of activities (including years of involvement, hours per week, weeks per year, position held and honors, if any, earned) and a preliminary list of schools that are being considered.