Aside from passing the college boards, it’s also important to get into a college that’s “you.” You want a college that’ll motivate you to study and to succeed. The February newsletter briefly covered some tips on how to get into the college that best suits your personal, emotional, and academic needs. Passing the ACT or SAT exam is hard enough, imagine how hard it’ll get when you get into college and realize you hate the place, right?
The Campus
You step on campus. You look around. You smell the air. Then you ask yourself, does this “feel” right? Do you like that tree by the building? Or does it disturb your inner vibrations? May sound a bit crazy, but you know what I’m talking about?
The Scene
Is this college a study school, or a party school? And what kind of school do you wanna get into,aAn institute that focuses on academic performance or on frat parties? The article suggest you spend a weekend or a night on campus to see exactly how things go down.
The Faculty
Okay, this is a no brainer. You want to get into a school whose faculty is there for you. Imagine yourself needing to consult with your professor for your term paper and find that she or he is nowhere to be found. Bummer right? In any case, a college with unreachable staff and faculty is not worth going to.
The Casualty Rate
Wait, it’s not as scary as it sounds…well, not really. See how many students return after their freshman year. This gives you an idea as to how other students view the school your trying to get into.
These are the four points that are emphasized. Remember that a college is the stepping stone to your future career. You’re going to be there for at least four years, you should enjoy it.
WilsonDailyPrep helps you prepare to pass the college entrance exams. After you’ve passed the collegeboard exams, it’s up to you to get into the school that fits you.
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Time recently ran an article about how teens and parents are handling the need for SAT prep during a recession. For many years now parents have been willing to shell up more cash than they’d like to admit, just to have their child in private tutoring lessons for the SAT test. As a result, many people believed that the SAT exam was “easier” for wealthy kids because of the resources available to them. It seems that like most other industries, the recession has forced the SAT prep $4 billion industry to stop gouging prices and offer more reasonable prices. Could a recession bring the SAT test down to a more level playing field? We will have to wait and see on that one but we do know that SAT prep these days is centered around online programs with qualified tutors on-call to answer questions.
Is there an advantage or disadvantage to online tutoring? Some say that the reduction in face-to-face time will cause kids to feel less pressure to study and decreasing the amount of actual SAT prep. However, Laura Wilson, founder of WilsonDailyPrep, was able to capitalize on such a turn around. After years of teaching, Wilson concluded that even six minutes a day of SAT prep every day can be more effective than students spend a couple hours cramming for weekly tutoring sessions.
Although WilsonDailyPrep offers private and class tutoring, recently Wilson has launched her online tutoring session. WilsonDailyPrep’s online tutoring program sends six questions every day to each kid over email. Students are also encouraged to keep a stack of vocabulary words in the bathroom for short study sessions at any time. Parents are notified when a kid has not completed specific tasks online or is falling behind in his practie scores. WilsonDailyPrep even guarentees a 200 point increase on the student’s SAT score after just a few months of studying.
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Westchester Magazine interviewed Laura Wilson about her very successful tutoring service known as WilsonDailyPrep. When asked for one of her best tricks, Laura mentioned the bathroom vocabulary. Laura Wilson makes unannounced house visits to check that students are keeping a pile of vocabulary words in their bathroom for 5-minute study sessions. She reports that approximately 80% of her students have followed through on this trick.
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SAT tips and ACT tips that you are learning from this blog and beyond are now posted as videos. Laura Wilson will explain in her own words each tip and why it is so important to follow.
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Laura Wilson, founder of WilsonDailyPrep, describes her unique formula for scoring well on the SAT and ACT exams. WilsonDailyPrep focuses on teaching their students to study every day. Six questions, six minutes a day is their model for success. They even guarantee a 200 point increase for the SAT test! As a tutor for the past 20 years, Laura really knows what drives kids to study and stay on track for the SAT test. WilsonDailyPrep offers private tutoring, group lessons and a cutting edge online tutoring service that really works! If you would like to learn more about Laura’s unique style of studying for the SAT and ACT test, read about the interview printed in Westchester Magazine.
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