Unleashing Your Inner Academic Superstar: 7 Ways for Students to Achieve Greatness at School

Unleashing Your Inner Academic Superstar: 7 Ways for Students to Achieve Greatness at School

Every student has the potential for greatness, but unlocking that potential requires dedication, effort, and a strategic approach to learning. Whether you’re aiming for top grades, leadership roles, or personal growth, there are proven strategies that can help you achieve greatness at school. In this blog article, we’ll explore seven actionable ways for students to unleash their inner academic superstar and excel in their educational journey.

Learn seven ways for students to achieve greatness at school!

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How to Prepare for the New Digital SAT

How to Prepare for the New Digital SAT

Preparing for the new SAT (Scholastic Assessment Test) requires a strategic approach that combines understanding the format of the test, consistent practice, and improving your test-taking skills. The College Board, which administers the SAT, announced changes to the test format, aiming for a more digital, adaptive test that can be completed in a shorter time frame. Here are some strategies and steps you can take to prepare effectively for the new SAT:

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How to Prepare for Advance Placement (AP) Tests

How to Prepare for Advance Placement (AP) Tests

Advanced Placement (AP) testing is coming up soon and it’s an opportunity to highlight strong test scores to admissions officers and earn college credit. The exams cover a wide range of subjects from English to calculus, and more. These tests are important as they let admissions officers see your mastery of a subject. It’s important to prepare well for these tests.

Learn the top eight strategies for preparing for the AP tests.

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The Secret to Earning Acceptances to Great Colleges!

The Secret to Earning Acceptances to Great Colleges!

We’ve been in the college planning and admissions business for about 25 years now, and we are so passionate about helping students with their educational goals and helping them earn acceptances to great colleges, year after year. And with all of our experience of working with students of different backgrounds, cultures, races, religions, perspectives, ideologies, etc, you start noticing patterns and trends of success.

What is it about those students who are successful year after year, are able to get things done, get results, and have great outcomes, including college admissions results? What is it about these students’ character, mindset, and abilities that allow them to move their lives forward and get the results they desire?

It comes down to a lot of different attributes, but in many respects, we can boil down the success mindset to two simple words. That’s it. We can distill 25 years of wisdom and experience into two simple words that distinguish successful students from the lesser-performing students.

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Why Working With a College Planning Expert is So Important!

Why Working With a College Planning Expert is So Important!

College admissions is getting more competitive than ever. The admission statistics to earn acceptance into universities keeps getting lower each year, with earning acceptance to many of the great universities now into the single digit percentages. A well thought-out game plan and strategy is paramount.

But counselors at high schools are overworked, understaffed, and resources are spread thin. The average student-to-counselor ratio is: 464 to 1. And for California schools, the average student-to-counselor ratio is even worse at: 622 to 1.

While less for private schools, counselors simply do not have the time, resources, and energy to devote personalized and customized attention to each student.

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The Ultimate “Back-to-School” Blueprint!

The Ultimate “Back-to-School” Blueprint!

Don’t go into the next school year without a game plan!

This blog is focused on giving students a successful “back-to-school” strategy so that students will be able to follow a path that is aligned with what college admission officers look for in a successful college admissions applicant. Figure out what you need to do in order to make your application stand out to college admissions staff, and how to have a successful and enjoyable year at school.

Also, learn all about our exciting college admissions program that can help you get into the school of your dreams!

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How Getting Involved Helps You Get Into College

How Getting Involved Helps You Get Into College

Ready to set yourself apart in the pile of competing college applications? It might not come down to your test scores or how well you did in the classroom. Your admissions success might involve what you did outside of the classroom all together.

The college admissions process is more competitive than ever before. Most admissions decisions are being made both on your academic record, but also what you might bring to the campus as a student.

Show them who you are by getting involved outside the classroom.

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5 Steps to The College Acceptance Letter

5 Steps to The College Acceptance Letter

Can we talk about your child’s future?

In our decades of helping students get into their dream colleges, we know that where you attend college can have a huge impact on your ultimate success.

We’ve even had students come back 10 years later and tell us how impactful their dream college was on their life.

But if you want that edge for you and/or your child? Well, we’ve got an amazing new resource for you.

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Which Should You Take: The SAT® vs ACT®

Which Should You Take: The SAT® vs ACT®

Imagine for a minute that it’s your senior year and you’ve just gotten the acceptance letter to your dream university. All that hard work you’ve put in over the last couple of years finally paid off!

How do you make that a reality?

While admissions officers look for a variety of factors to choose whether or not to accept you into their programs, one of the most important are your SAT or ACT test scores.

It’s true that some colleges have moved away from test score importance, especially since COVID, but many of the top universities still use them as a guiding principle in their admissions rubrics.

A question we hear from a lot of our one-on-one students: which test is right for them?

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3 Ways You Can Pay for College

3 Ways You Can Pay for College

Student debt is perhaps one of the hottest topics within the current presidential administration. You may even have friends and older siblings who have borrowed a lot of money in order to pay for their top choice colleges but aren’t entirely sure how they’re going to pay it all back. Don’t fall into the same trap!

Paying for college can feel overwhelming, especially since you spend so much of your high school career just focused on how to get into the college you want.

You can still go to your dream college and make it affordable. It just takes some advanced planning like it does to get into that program.

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