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College Admissions Interview, Overview, and Essays Pack
Pack of 3
800 Points per lesson
Three college admissions lessons for the price of two!
Lesson Pack Details
This is a 3-lesson pack. You will be issued 2 “coupons” when the first request is confirmed. You will be able to use these coupons for subsequent requests in the pack. Please note that all requests related to this pack must be taken within 30 days of the first lesson date.
Lessons should generally be booked chronologically, meaning that the second lesson should be booked after the first, and so on.
Lessons should generally be booked chronologically, meaning that the second lesson should be booked after the first, and so on.
Description
LESSON 1:
1. Before you sign up for a lesson, please take the two-question New Student Questionnaire. I am probably the best fit for you if you have several years of English or more than three years experience. Also, I'm probably best for you if you are in secondary school, or high school, or an adult.
2. For my first lesson, I would like to get to know you and allow you to get to know me. I would be happy to answer almost any questions you have about me.
3. If there is enough time, I would be especially interested in your post-secondary schooling ideas. Do you know what areas you want to study? What universities are you interested in? If you could create a perfect university, what would it be like? What are the most important characteristics: size, diversity, faith or cultural community, finances, other factors?
4. If we have even more time! I would ask you to describe your dream job. That would probably be more than enough for our first lesson.
5. If there were extra EXTRA time, or if you wanted to continue in the future with me, I would ask for your school activities like clubs, sports, volunteer work and employment. I would ask you to list any awards you had received or tell me about the class you are most proud of and why. I would love for you to explain in detail one or two significant moments in your high school career, either academic or personal, that illustrate perseverance or resilience. This would give us an amazing foundation for our future work together!
6. It would be tough to complete everything above in one lesson, right? We might only have time to talk about a couple things on the list. But over time we can practice speaking about the things above, writing about the things above, and preparing for university applications, whether they are months or years and years away. And I bet we will have fun doing it!
LESSON 2:
1. College Admissions Overview - Discussion
a. Social Media: Does it pass the Grandma Test? Would you be ok with her seeing it? If not, take it down!
b. Based on national survey results, what is most important to College Admissions Committees, in order?
i. Grades in college preparation courses
ii. Strength of curriculum
iii. Grades in other courses
iv. Test scores
v. Essays (They must “hear” the student’s voice!)
vi. Interest in that particular college if requested
vii. Counselor recommendation
viii. Teacher recommendations
ix. Activities
c. SOFT SILLS ARE CRITICAL!
i. Self-advocacy is the most important
ii. Work ethic
iii. Judgment
iv. Resilience
v. Confidence
vi. Attitude
vii. Being able to take criticism
viii. Adaptability
ix. Don’t just tell, SHOW EXAMPLES.
LESSON 3:
1. College admission essays - Discussion
a. Easy way to get started
i. TALK to someone about the most meaningful day of your life.
1. What did you do?
2. What was it like?
3. What did you get out of it?
ii. You just did your first draft!
b. In your essay SHOW them who you are. Do not just TELL them.
c. This is not a speech. It is a conversation.
d. If they ask, “Why us?”
i. This is a different essay for each school!
ii. Do your research!
iii. What skills and attributes will you bring to them?
iv. Where in the school specifically will you bring them?
e. Be careful about the 4 “D”s
i. Death
ii. Drugs
iii. Divorce
iv. Debating
v. You can write about these. It’s just difficult to do it really well while letting them get to know YOU.
f. Use the 4 “C”s
i. Content
ii. Creativity
iii. Clarity
iv. Correctness
g. Don’t just have any English teacher proofread. Get one who knows you well.
h. When the reader looks up, she should be surprised you are not in the room.
i. Write how you speak. Your voice is the most important thing.
ii. If you don’t care about your topic why would they?
Cafetalk's cancellation policy
Cancellation of pack lessons
• 'Unstarted' lesson packs(1) can be cancelled any time. Used Points will be completely refunded. If a 'started' lesson pack(2) is cancelled, you will be refunded 50% of the price of the remaining lessons provided that the lessons are unrequested, unconfirmed or not within 24 hours of their scheduled start times.
(1) A lesson pack for which none of the requests have been confirmed by the tutor.
(2) A lesson pack with at least one confirmed request. (By confirming the date and time for the first lesson in the pack the tutor confirms the pack as a whole and coupons are automatically issued)
(2) A lesson pack with at least one confirmed request. (By confirming the date and time for the first lesson in the pack the tutor confirms the pack as a whole and coupons are automatically issued)
Cancelling individual requests in a pack
• If you wish to cancel a single lesson that belongs to a pack but not the whole pack, you can do so via the request page. In this case, the coupon used to book the lesson will either be refunded or collected, based on the tutors single-lesson cancellation policy. Please note that any 50% partial refunds in the tutors single-lesson cancellation policy do not apply to lesson packs and the tutor may choose to either refund or collect the coupon in those cases.
Before request is confirmed (fixed)
- Cancellation possible at any time without charge.
After request is confirmed (fixed)
- More than 24 hours before lesson start time.→ Cancellation is possible at any time.
- Less than 24 hours before lesson start time.→ The tutor may take a cancellation fee.
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No-Show→ The tutor may take a cancellation fee.
(Please check with the tutor for details.)
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