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Top tips for SAT Math

December 4th, 2011

SAT Math is in some ways is easier to prepare for than Critical Reading because the questions are rather predictable. The challenge is practicing and getting good at the range of math and math reasoning tested. Here are 17 smart tips to get your math prep going in the right direction.

- Know all the formulas, favorite triangles, and common fractions to decimals to percents. Know your multiplication and division tables (and of course addition and subtraction) cold! Recognize easy divisibility rules for integers 2-11. Even though you have a calculator, having this knowledge will enable you to “see” the answers more readily and more quickly jump to the best way to solve a problem.

- Do lots of drills and review your answers right away so you learn from them. Great resources for smart explanations of the CollegeBoard book of practice test questions: ShowMeSAT.com, Khanacademy.org/sat and Tutor Ted’s SAT Solutions Manual.

- Start your prep early enough to give yourself time to work your way through Barron’s SAT Math Workbook, a terrific resource with step by step lessons in every chapter of math that is covered on this test. Each chapter and subchapter has its own battery of drills followed by clear explanations. Take the time to do all that you are the least bit shaky on.

- When you do sample or real SAT math problems (from previous tests in the CollegeBoard book or when reviewing your PSAT or SAT Question and Answer Service results), note those questions that take you a long time. Even if you got the correct answer, review smart explanations to see if you missed a quicker way of getting there. Making progress in SAT Math is less a matter of easily defined techniques and strategies than patiently building smarter routes to the answers.

- Don’t over-rely on your calculator. Calculator whizzes are reluctant to put them aside, but most math problems on the SAT can be done quicker and more directly without them. Do use the calculator for quick figures, and shortcuts if you know them. For example, some geometry problems can be solved by applying trigonometric values, bypassing the Pythagorean Theorum or adding up and subtracting angles. If you’ve got those skills, use them!

- If one type of question regularly stumps you, take advantage of the ten tests in the CollegeBoard’s book and search out those types of questions in several math sections at a time. Finding the same type of question in several sections shows you that it wasn’t a fluke, so you had better learn it! And doing one after another really reinforces the lesson for that particular problem type.

- Draw! If a geometric figure or numbers on a line are described in words, immediately sketch them out, labelling points.

- It’s ok to trust their drawing. Unless it is noted that the figure is not drawn to scale, you can often guesstimate well based on the figure if time is too short to do the math. If it is stated that the figure is not drawn to scale, redraw it based on the data presented. Don’t be influenced by a picture that even the test makers tell you not to trust!

- In word problems, write out the data in math language, translating, for example, “30% of 140″ to “30/100 x 140.” Once you have some portion of an equation written, play with it until you see if it can go anywhere. Then just go there and see if that gives you more you can work with. Always get started and solve something; the route to the answer usually appears as you are on the way!

- If you have no idea how to solve, or it seems too time-consuming or difficult, try plugging the answer choices, especially if they are easy numbers. If you seem to have too many variables in the equations, make up your own numbers for them! Use easy small numbers, but be careful about using 1 and generally avoid 0. 100 is often a handy number if working with percents. For equations dealing with time, 60 be easy to work with.

- Read the grid-in instructions and make sure you understand how to input your answers there. Remember: no mixed numbers; they’ll read as improper fractions, instead.

- Don’t let any problem suck up your time! Remember: All questions count the same, so rack up more easy points.

- Read carefully. Don’t mistake “must” for “may.”

- Questions generally go from easy to medium to hard. If you are stuck on an early question, leave it and come back; you probably are just not “seeing” the answer, but if you come back in a bit, you may see it in a different light and have it pop for you.

- If you find a question at the end of the section (that is, a hard question) amazingly easy, be suspicious and either set it aside or review it from another angle.

- Finally, there is no substitute for doing full timed practice tests. Do the whole thing – all 9 sections – and at least four of them within the two months before your SAT. Most importantly, go over your answers and redo those questions your got wrong – also doing those questions you didn’t understand or get to when you were timed.

- Plan how to use your time strategically, picking up the most points within your level. For students scoring lower than 530, slowing down to get more easy answers right and purposely skipping a set number of questions per section will raise their overall score. And for math whizzes, don’t neglect math in order to spend time on Critical Reading or Writing, if you can do both. Colleges sure love students who can bring in a perfect score in any section, and will often overlook less spectacular scores in the other sections, especially if Math or Critical Reading is 800.

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Invoke the power of words in your college essay

November 12th, 2011

Joyce Reed of College Goals advises students to use the power of words.

Joyce Reed, a former Associate Dean at Brown University, is a college counselor who advises students to think carefully about what makes their college essay true and worth reading. “Above all,” she writes, “the essay must be and sound ‘authentic’ – written by you, not by parents, teachers or counselors – fresh, honest, interesting, and memorable.”

She urges students to take a look at a video, produced by a Scottish PR agency, called “The Power of Words.” The agency which produced the spot goes by the name “purple feather,” the name itself a testament to the power of imagery-evoking words to communicate a feeling. In the short video, a beggar’s simple sign is revised by a passerby to dramatic effect. It still says essentially the same thing – the man is blind and asks for help – but the new sign is vastly more effective. As Joyce notes, “The revised sign speaks to the heart and grabs the reader – it speaks of longing, loss, beauty, appreciation, and sharing…”

That simple sign goes from straight-forward fact and plea to something that makes the passersby think instead of themselves, of their relation to the world, of their own good fortune. Instead of reacting to a stranger, they react to a sentiment that they can relate to with all their hearts, and as result, they relate to the man, too, imagining themselves in his shoes and feeling compassion and empathy.

Joyce urges her students to “remember how powerful a visual image can be – when you remember images from books that have been adapted to film, you usually recall scenes that were well dramatized in the movie and ‘see’ the characters/costumes/scenery accordingly.” When you write your essay, be alert to engaging your reader in your story. Don’t just tell what you thought or felt, what you did. Rather, bring your reader into your world. Seek ways to show the conditions that nurtured your feelings or the atmosphere that relflected your actions. Think of your essay, even, as a film, with all the necessary elements: light, music, dialogue, atmosphere, point. Then unleash the power of a simple message to bring it home – that’s your ‘purple feather’!

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College admissions advice from the movies

October 29th, 2011

Students: Take a little break from SAT prep or college app essays!

High school students caught up in the stress of SAT prep or college application essay writing would do well to take a break and reflect. Watching a comedy about college admissions just might provide enough refreshment to reinspire – and maybe even suggest a few pointers. A great movie for that is “Orange County,” a 2002 film about a California teen, Shaun Brumder (Colin Hanks), who yearns to escape his dysfunctional family and go to Stanford to pursue his dream of becoming a writer. Along the way, Shaun learns a lot about life – and college admissions.

Find something that you are especially interested in. Shaun described himself as a typical “surfer dude” who experienced an epiphany one day when he found a novel on the beach and realized he wanted to become a writer. Once he knew his interest, he pursued it single-mindedly, giving up surfing and beach parties, focussing all his energies on writing. Such dogged pursuit of a single goal is not necessary to get into college, but some idea of what you are interested in could be a big boost. That interest may not necessarily lead to a career or even your major, but it gives you a starting point, a focus, and in terms of your college applications, it makes you stand out from all the other surfer dudes.

Learn big words and use them well. Shaun’s spacey English teacher handed him back his writing assignment, complimenting him, “Shaun! I read your story. You used a lot of big words. Great! Good for you! It was a little long, so I didn’t read the whole thing, but who cares ’cause I gave you an A!” While your English teacher hopefully is a little more mindful of content, there is no doubt that big words impress. Impress your teachers, get high grades, and achieve high SAT scores as a result, too, where your big vocabulary will yield points in Critical Reading and on the essay. By the time you get to the college application essay, big words will be natural to you and will enhance your application accordingly.

Make sure your guidance counselor has sent your transcripts.

Shaun’s guidance counselor (Lily Tomlin): Well, looks here Iike your GPA is 2.4 and your SATs combined are 1500.
Shaun: No, no that’s low. That’s not my transcript!

Guidance counselors don’t often make these kinds of mistakes, but they usually have a lot of transcripts for a lot of students to organize and send. It is always wise to check and make sure all your documents are in and transcripts have been sent. If you have any concerns, email the colleges you’ve applied to and check that your files have been received.

Get to know your guidance counselor and be on good terms with him or her. Presumably, Shaun’s brain-dead guidance counselor bears no resemblance to yours, but even good guidance counselors may have trouble keeping the hundreds of students they advise separate in their minds. Take the time get to know your counselor by making an appointment to meet if you don’t otherwise have any opportunity to do so. Bring questions you have for him or her and make a point of discussing things that are important to you.

Apply to good safety schools where you will also be happy to attend.

Shaun: I’m Shaun Brumder, class president.
Guidance counselor: And you didn’t get into Stanford? Too bad. Tough break. Where else did you apply?
Shaun: Nowhere! You said I was a shoo-in.
Guidance counselor: Not even a safety school?

It’s hard to imagine someone not applying to a safety school, but many students don’t seriously consider their safety schools. Either they have too few of them or the schools they choose aren’t really safeties. It’s much easier to choose ten “reach” schools. Be sure that you have at least two or three true safeties and choose schools that you would be happy to go to if one of them ended up as your only choice.

Write to professors you are really interested in. The movie opens with Shaun composing his fan letter to a fictional Stanford English professor and author of his favorite book. If you know something about a specific department or professor at the college you dream of attending, go ahead and send an email. You can find department and faculty email contact info on the college website, so write if you have something to say or ask. Do not do so to impress, however; faculty are busy and admissions reps can see through that ploy! But if you have legitimate interest – and even better, accomplishments – in the field, do write. You may learn more about the college that way and possibly develop contacts if you enroll. It’s ok, too, to reference that interest when writing your application, especially where they ask you why you are specifically interested in the college.

Life doesn’t end if you don’t get into your dream school. Shaun and his girlfriend, Ashley (Schuyler Fisk), have a fight about his desire to leave home – and her – to go to Stanford:

Ashley: You think by coming here you’ll meet people that are smarter, and saner, and better. You know, if you went to Stanford that would be the end of us. It doesn’t seem to me Iike that’s ever crossed your mind.
Shaun: Oh, Ashley, come on
Ashley: Shaun, I’m sorry you didn’t get in. But if you think that going here is the only way you can be the person you want to be …then I just feel sorry for you.

Indeed, the secret is that actually doesn’t matter in the end whether you go to your dream school or somewhere else – you can achieve your dream wherever you go to college. Most important is the attitude you bring with you and your commitment to achieving it. Students in America have so many amazing study options that there are innumerable routes to success. And despite the star-power attached to famous name colleges, none of them magically provide success to the unworthy, either.

Buying the school a new admissions office can help your admissions chances, however…

Ashley: Shaun, where are you going?
Shaun: To my dad’s. I’m going to go in there and say to my dad that he abandoned our family, and he can start making it up to me, by making a massive donation to Stanford.

… Especially in Hollywood! Enjoy the break, students!

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SAT or ACT?

October 23rd, 2011

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Stuck between the SAT and the ACT?

Until recently, the SAT was taken by students applying to colleges on the East and West Coasts, the ACT by everyone else. Now, most colleges accept either test and students are often overwhelmed by choice. Which test suits whom? Is there any advantage to taking one test over the other? Or should students just hedge their bets and take both?

The same but different

The tests are about the same length, about 4 hours long. They both test reading, math, grammar and usage, and require an essay of about the same length (25 minutes for the SAT, 30 minutes for the ACT). Most students score comparably on either. Both tests are offered around 7 times a year and offer the option to submit only the best date’s scores to colleges. For students who have better scores in one section on one date and another section on a different date, the Common App allows students to list all and colleges generally create their own “superscore” from the best composite of either ACT or SAT results.

There are some important differences between the tests, however. The SAT Critical Reading section includes Sentence Completion questions which reward students who have strong vocabulary knowledge. The ACT doesn’t have that kind of question, but has a Science Reasoning section in addition to the math, reading and writing they have in common. The SAT has a reputation for “tricky” questions and scares some students with its error penalty provision: every four errors in any of the three sections results in one raw point off. The ACT has no penalty for errors.

For students who are applying to colleges that require SAT Subject Tests + SAT or ACT test alone, the ACT would be a natural choice if they do not have good scores to submit in two or three otherwise required SAT Subject Tests. Also, for students applying for special accomodations, if one test service grants the accomodation and the other one doesn’t, the choice is clear.

Which test is better?

The best way to answer that question is to take a full, timed practice test in each, under similar test conditions. That’s two 4.5 hour time investments, however – an exhausting proposition to many students. An easier way is to take a practice test in either one and if your results seem inconsistent with your overall academic achievement, then consider the other brand. Generally, students who have weak vocabularies (especially those who do not do much reading, or enjoy reading much) BUT are strong in math and science would do better to choose the ACT. Students who are uncomfortable with the SAT’s abstract essay topics might be more comfortable with the ACT’s student-friendly essay prompts, and the fact that on the ACT, the essay comes at the end of the test. The SAT essay is the first section, which some students find that exhausting. Since the essay is the least important section of both tests, students whose attention seriously flags over the course of such a long exam might score higher if they get to work on multiple choice questions first.

Choose one!

But in any case, choose one test! Top college coach Michele Hernandez advises students to pick one and prepare well. Note, too, that college admissions officers may look askance at too many test scores on an application, wondering why this student hasn’t found other things to do with his or her time. At a recent panel on college admissions strategies in New York, Ms. Hernandez stated her preference for the SAT because students can use the error “penalty” strategically to leverage partial knowledge and raise their score. Some test prep tutors prefer the SAT for that reason, too. Students tend to take whatever test is popular at their school, but the key consideration should only be this: On which test can I score higher?

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Story to College teaches students to tell their application essay story

October 11th, 2011

Students learn to tell their stories before they write them.

“Everybody has his own story and if you tell your own story in your own voice, you will connect and get into a college that is a great fit for you,” counsels Carol Barash of Story to College. “You have to get past the scripts that everyone has; speak from your own experience as a human being.”

As a member of the admissions committee of Douglass College at Rutgers University, Carol saw how important the essay is to the college application. Admissions, she noted, is not just an investment on the part of the student and his family. By admitting that student, the college, too, invests in him financially – since tuition pays but a fraction of the actual cost of education – and trusts that he’ll become an valuable member of its community. But grades and test scores don’t tell enough to predict that and as many colleges eliminate evaluative interviews, they don’t have much to go on. The essay is often the only means to get to know the applicant as a person.

So it pays to craft a wonderful essay. Story to College, a new program grounded in Carol’s years of teaching and coaching experience, guides students to create powerful, personal essays in an interactive, social setting. The program, in its second year now, has been a great success at high schools in New York and New Jersey, including Macaulay Honors College, Beacon School, The Bronx High School of Science, LaGuardia High School, Morristown-Beard School and others.

Students meet first in a large group for a 3-hour interactive session called “Base Camp.” Led by master teachers, they are encouraged to tell their stories outloud to each other, relating writing, first and foremost, to storytelling. Speaking outloud – hearing themselves and being hear by others – is a radically refreshing start to what is ordinarily a stultifying task for students. Carol attests that “they all learn how to coach each other, to support each other and when they help someone else, that’s when they learn, themselves.” This base enables them to work collaboratively as group, then break into smaller seminars where groups of 12-15 students work intensively with 2-3 instructors. Students may continue with private tutoring to complete their essays, but all students leave the session with complete Common Application essay drafts and a written plan for completing their essays.

Turning college application essay writing into an opportunity for students to express themselves, and learn from one another in the process, brings life to students’ essays and give admissions officers a much more interesting and nuanced picture of the applicants. It’s a great start to making the best matches between students and colleges.

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Do you need to take SAT Subject Tests?

September 30th, 2011

Foreign language skils translate into SAT Subject Test success.

SAT Subject Tests (previously called SAT IIs or Achievement Tests) are one-hour tests from the CollegeBoard, offered in a range of academic subjects. Most colleges require students to take the SAT or ACT but do not require the SAT Subject Tests. Among the more competitive colleges, however, applicants are encouraged or required to take two, preferably one each from the humanities and math/science offerings. For some of the most competitive colleges, three SAT Subject Tests are required.

Some colleges offer students the option of taking the SAT plus two SAT Subject Tests – or the ACT alone. For students who plan to take the ACT, it saves time, money and the stress of taking two more exams! But check the colleges’ requirements carefully so that you don’t fail to take a test that you might have needed for one or more colleges on your list.

SAT Subject Tests are offered in many subjects, including foreign languages (some with listening tests, offered only in November), history, literature, math, biology, physics, and more, all listed on the CollegeBoard’s very informative website. The best candidates for these tests are scoring high in their honors or AP course of the same subject. Ask your teacher if your course prepares you for the corresponding test. If so, and you are doing well, take a full timed practice test and see how you do.

The CollegeBoard publishes a book containing one real test in every subject that is offered, taking the guesswork out of the decision. Many students who plan to take the Math test are unsure whether Math I or Math II is the best fit, sometimes choosing based on peer pressure. Better to take the practice test – it only takes an hour – and decide on that basis. If you do not score near or above 600 without prep, you probably are not a strong candidate for this exam. There is no point in submitting low SAT Subject Test scores, and if you can’t produce the high scores expected by colleges that require these tests, that’s a signal to widen your college search parameters!

SAT Subject Tests are different from the SAT and the ACT. For one thing, they are much shorter and you can take up to three tests on one test date. You cannot also schedule an SAT exam on that date, so plan ahead. If you take advanced biology in 10th grade, you’ll do best on the bio test if you take it that same spring; don’t wait until you are a junior, first thinking about testing a year too late! If you are a strong speaker of Chinese, French, German, Japanese, Korean or Spanish, take the language test with listening as early as sophomore year so you can focus on other tests in junior and senior years.

The SAT Subject Tests are different in tone from the SAT and ACT. Much is made about strategy and test-taking techniques for those tests. If you’ve done your homework for them, you’ve absorbed enough strategy. For the SAT Subject Tests you really need to know your subject well, specifically the facts that the CollegeBoard thinks are important! Use the review books and few published real tests from the CollegeBoard to guide your review. If you are very strong in the subject, use Barron’s guides to the tests, which tend to be harder and more detailed than Kaplan or The Princeton Review, for example. Note that if you buy the individual subject test books published by CollegeBoard, one of the merely two real tests included in each book is the same one that is published in their big book of SAT Subject Tests.

Students may take the same test more than once and most colleges will just count the higher score. In fact, most colleges allow students to apply “Score Choice” to their test score submissions, choosing which tests they want the colleges to see, and which scores will be hidden. So, usually it doesn’t hurt to try a test which you are unsure of. Since you are not required to sign up for more than one test per date but may take up to three once you are there, it’s a great idea to take a second or third test as a practice test for next time, or just to see how you do in a subject in which your strengths are not so clear.

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What does it take to get into an Ivy League college?

September 28th, 2011

SAT prep for Ivy League admissions The Ivies have always held the allure of elite educational institutions that seem to magically open doors for their graduates. And they’ve always been hard to get into – only the best students or those with connections, it seems. Nowadays, the criteria for admission are broader, but with so many extraordinary applicants at home and abroad, the competition is more intense than ever. According to top college coach Michele Hernandez, nearly a quarter million students applied to Ivy League colleges last year, with fewer than 10% admitted (and less than 7% at Harvard)! While there is no surefire way to get that fat envelope from Columbia or Princeton on April 15th, successful applicants each are special in some way. Here are some of the top predictors of Ivy League admissions:

- Be the son or daughter of a VIP, world leader or other person of power and influence. Be famous already in your own right, like Emma Watson of the Harry Potter movies – and now Brown. Ivy League colleges benefit from the reflected glory and connections that celebrity and power confer.

- Buy the college a new admissions building – or student center, athletic facility, library, etc. But beware: the richest, most ivy-covered Ivies, like Harvard and Yale, have plenty of rich donors. Don’t think you can play this game unless your daddy truly is one of the big boys.

- Be a top athlete, especially in a sport in which the college competes. Last year, 7% of Cornell’s admits were recruited athletes, according to the Cornell Review. According to another report in The Daily Beast, “male athletes are four times more likely to be admitted to any Ivy League school than a non-athletic male. For female athletes, the advantages are even greater.

- Be a smart guy at a college that has a preponderance of women, or a smart woman at a college that has a majority of men. Show true interest, accomplishment and aptitude in a subject area that is usually less popular with your gender, e.g. engineering for girls or women’s studies for guys. By the same reasoning, it is to your advantage to be from an unusual or obscure spot on the globe and to be of unusual ethnicity for that college. Admissions officers like applicants who are different and who add to obvious marks of diversity. It’s not easy to measure differences in scholarly approaches, but everyone can see the little flags in the admissions brochure, marking where that college’s students come from around the globe.

- Be a member of a historically underserved population, an ethnic or racial minority. Even better, be a member of the first generation in your family to go to college.

- Alternately, be a legacy! At U Penn, the college opens an Early Decision admissions office exclusively for the children of their alumni. When that office closes before the regular admissions season, legacy admissions are done.

- Excel in the hardest courses offered at your high school, preferably lots of APs.

- Excel in your SATs. While high test scores and grades alone won’t be enough to get you into the most popular Ivies, they are generally the starting point for most applicants who don’t have a more obvious “hook.” A “hook” is a special quality outside of traditional academic achievement, such as the other qualities listed here.

- Apply Early Decision. Early Decision applicants enjoy an acceptance rate 2-3 times higher than regular applicants, according to Michele Hernandez.

- Be special, unique, even quirky. Find your passion and excel. If you like photography, start a club, then a studio, maybe a business venture or – even better – one with philanthropic goals. Thirty years ago, colleges sought well-rounded students. Now, colleges seek a well-rounded class, filled with unique, focussed individuals, according to New York college counselor Kat Cohen.

- Be a double or triple threat, combining several of the qualities on this list. That just might earn you a trip to Cambridge, where you can buy your crimson Harvard t-shirt as an admitted student, rather than as a tourist!

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Great resource for New York State teachers and students

August 25th, 2011

Here’s are a couple great links for lots of resources, starting with info for those seeking information on teacher certification in New York State, but also a lot more education related links: New York Teacher and Online Teaching Degrees

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Great tips for SAT prep and college admissions with a New York focus

August 23rd, 2011

I recently expanded my SAT and College Admissions prep advice columns to a terrific Web resource, Examiner.com, where I am wear two hats: New York Examiner for College Admissions and New York Examiner for Test Prep.

Check out expanded versions of posts from this blog as well as many more articles with great tips and timely information for high school students to prepare for the SAT, ACT and college admissions. You can find an index of all Test Prep articles here, and College Admissions articles here.

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Cracking the College Admissions Code

August 18th, 2011

College prep and admissions deciphered for parents and teens in New York City, September 17, 2011.

The Brown Club in New York is proud to present a terrific panel of experts in the college admissions process who will take these issues apart and help make sense of the tasks for students and their parents. As time permits, panelists will also respond to individual questions from the audience.

Participants include:

- Michele Hernandez, one of the very top independent college counselors, a former admissions officer at Dartmouth College, best-selling author of “A is for Admission” and “Acing the College Application.” She appears regularly on TV and writes for major publications on college admissions.

- Mike Muska, Dean of College Relations at Poly Prep in NY and former Assistant Director of Admission at Brown, as well as co-author of “Getting In!”

- Lynn O’Shaughnessy, higher-ed journalist, speaker, consultant and author of the best-selling “The College Solution.” Lynn also writes about college issues for Time, The New York Times, BusinessWeek and other national publications.

- Larry Dannenberg, owner of College Solutions and an independent college coach with unique expertise in applying financial strategies to college planning and choices.

- Karen Berlin Ishii, ’78, SAT and ACT test prep expert in New York who has taught for The Princeton Review and Boston Academic Tutors.

The panel will be moderated by Magee Hickey, ’77, TV news reporter and producer of many years’ experience, now an anchor at WPIX News in New York.

Our panel’s goal is to give you concrete suggestions – as well as thought-provoking ideas – that will help your teens achieve smart, timely college prep and make all-round wise college choices. This is a terrific opportunity to get answers to your questions from a range of respected names in college prep and admissions.

This event is open to alumni, family, and friends. Parents are encouraged to bring their children and attend as a family. Click here to purchase tickets.

Breakfast buffet will be served.
Saturday, September 17, 2011 10:00 AM – 12:30 PM

The Cornell Club
Ivy Room
6 East 44th Street
NY, NY 10017

For additional information, please contact Karen Berlin Ishii at karen@karenberlinishii.com.
Panel members subject to change.

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