Maximize the Profile of a Successful Applicant
Plus, the impact of COVID-19, and how it may affect the admissions process.
Colleges evaluate a student's records starting from 9th grade. A former Columbia admissions reader will share insights into how colleges really evaluate applications and what admissions officers don't discuss publicly.
“Every autumn before college applications are due, I hear one thing above all else from parents and students: ‘I wish I had known about that sooner…’”
“That” is the essential information that college admissions officers don’t tell students and parents due to confidentiality obligations or simply out of fear of offending prospective applicants.
Waiting until 11th grade to start is often too late. Parents of students in Grades 7-11 will learn how to guide their children and start building the components of a successful application.
After over two decades of advising students, Adam Nguyen, a graduate of Harvard and Columbia and the founder of Ivy Link, an admissions strategy and tutoring company, has developed a well-tested method to help countless students gain admissions to their top choice colleges and programs. Using years of data, Adam will share insights on attributes of past successful students, costly mistakes during the admissions process, and key factors that make or break a student's admissions chances. Topics include:
Are colleges looking for “well-rounded” students?
Which is weighed more: grades or test scores?
Are certain extracurricular activities more important than others?
How do colleges evaluate summer activities?
What are effective recommendation letters and how to obtain them?
What do colleges want to see in the essays?
Does the interview matter?
How many times should my child take the SAT or ACT? What is a good score?
Should my child take the Subject Tests and AP Exams?
What is primary versus secondary legacy, and does it matter?
Does applying Early Decision or Early Action increase the odds of admissions?
What can my child do now? When is it too late?
A significant portion of the interactive workshop will be devoted to answering parents’ questions.
Attendees are encouraged to submit their questions before the workshop.
Presented By:
Adam Nguyen, the founder of Ivy Link, has over two decades of experience helping students at all levels in admissions, test preparation and academic coaching. He has served as an academic advisor at Harvard and a reader of applications and interviewer in Columbia’s Office of Undergraduate Admissions. He is a member of the U.S. National Association for College Admission Counseling and holds a Bachelor of Arts in Economics and Political Science from Columbia and a Juris Doctor from Harvard Law School. Adam is a frequent speaker and commentator on admissions, standardized testing and other education issues, appearing on Bloomberg TV and at Columbia University, Citigroup, JPMorgan Chase & Co., and the Parents League of New York.
