International Students – Please listen to Susanne’s Podcasts!

Colleges are actively looking for International Students

For example, The University of California Los Angeles– UCLA suggests that international students make up about 15.8% of the student body. 13% of the U Penn freshman class are international students from 56 countries.

Ultimate US College Package:  Please call 310-717-4803 for pricing

Included in the US College Package:

• Guidance
• Coaching on each step of the college application process
  • Advice on teacher and counselor recommendations, and on whom to ask for additional recommendations
  • Recommendations on when to take SATs, ACTs, and Subject Tests
  • Suggestions on colleges that offer merit-based aid
  • Assistance composing emails to college admission staff
  • Support navigating Collegeboard.org and ACT.org, and assistance choosing which test scores to send
• Counseling on which offer of admission to accept

• Individualized application strategy tailored to each school
  • Professional guidance on the essay-writing process: brainstorming topics, outlining, and final review
  • Assistance transposing all high school courses and grades onto applications
  • Assistance organizing and entering all honors, awards, and extracurricular activities onto applications
  • Presentation of the student in a way that makes them stand out among the many other applicants
  • Assistance selecting a first and second choice major
  • Interview tips and guidance

• Develop a balanced list of Colleges
  • Assistance developing a balanced list of schools that includes realistic reaches, targets, and at least two safe schools.
  • Updated statistics/information on all colleges, including student profiles and the mean for standardized test scores and GPA
  • Discussion about the benefits of applying early action, early decision, single choice early action, restricted early action, and rolling admission, and advice on when it is appropriate to use these early methods

• Customized timeline of Deadlines and Due Dates for:
  • Applications
  • Teacher Recommendations
  • School Reports
  • Standardized Testing
  • Mid-Year Reports
  • Final Reports
  • Submitting Standardized Test Scores

Test Prep Options:

• These services will be billed separately by the provider and paid directly by the client:
  • Princeton Review’s self-paced study package
  • Private, full-service SAT/ ACT tutoring live online with The Princeton Review or Compass
    
  • SAT Boot Camp in Los Angeles: 4 weeks, 5 days per week
  • Private TOEFL tutoring live online with The Princeton Review