Your Teen’s High School: The College Admissions Context
Adults
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Learning
Your teen’s high school matters more than you might think.
Colleges don’t evaluate every student using the same checklist. Admissions officers consider what was available to each student at their high school—including courses, activities, academic resources, and other opportunities.
In this exclusive webinar with Collegewise, you’ll learn how colleges put your teen’s grades, course choices, activities, and test scores into the context of their high school—and how the choices they make along the way can shape their college applications. Whether your student is in 8th grade or 12th grade, we’ll provide a clear, practical look at what colleges see when they look at a student’s high school and how your teen can make the most of the opportunities available to them.
During this event, you’ll learn:
• How admissions officers consider a student’s school environment, academic offerings, and available opportunities when evaluating an application
• How course choices, rigor, grading systems, and GPA calculations can impact a college application, and how students can make thoughtful choices within the options available to them
• How access to activities, testing resources, academic support, and other opportunities can influence a student’s experience
• How students can distinguish themselves within their high school context and build an application that reflects how they’ve used the opportunities available to them
Join Collegewise to learn how your teen can make the most of where they are, what their school offers, and the opportunities ahead.
Colleges don’t evaluate every student using the same checklist. Admissions officers consider what was available to each student at their high school—including courses, activities, academic resources, and other opportunities.
In this exclusive webinar with Collegewise, you’ll learn how colleges put your teen’s grades, course choices, activities, and test scores into the context of their high school—and how the choices they make along the way can shape their college applications. Whether your student is in 8th grade or 12th grade, we’ll provide a clear, practical look at what colleges see when they look at a student’s high school and how your teen can make the most of the opportunities available to them.
During this event, you’ll learn:
• How admissions officers consider a student’s school environment, academic offerings, and available opportunities when evaluating an application
• How course choices, rigor, grading systems, and GPA calculations can impact a college application, and how students can make thoughtful choices within the options available to them
• How access to activities, testing resources, academic support, and other opportunities can influence a student’s experience
• How students can distinguish themselves within their high school context and build an application that reflects how they’ve used the opportunities available to them
Join Collegewise to learn how your teen can make the most of where they are, what their school offers, and the opportunities ahead.
Meet Our Instructor
Justyn Hardy
Since graduating from Royal Holloway University of London, Justyn has spent his professional career helping high school students explore their interests, develop competitive academic profiles, and achieve their educational goals. He began his college admissions career with an independent college planning firm where he served as both an admissions counselor and a college essay manager, having also developed the curriculum for the latter. Half of Justyn’s student caseload is consistently made up of international students from Hong Kong, Shanghai, Pakistan, London, and Edinburgh, and he particularly enjoys working with families who need reassurance–and students who are mid-to-high performers.
Justyn’s students have attended a variety of colleges, from Ivy League schools, to small liberal arts colleges, to flagship public universities. Justyn prides himself on helping students find not just a college, but also a home and program where they can truly flourish and discover themselves through higher education. An accomplished writer who has published fiction and poetry in various journals, Justyn loves connecting with his students over their unique hobbies and interests and helping them craft those experiences into powerful, authentic college essays.
When he's not helping students reach their educational goals, Justyn enjoys playing board games with his family, upholding his title as a self-proclaimed cheese connoisseur, and reportedly (though we are unsure exactly how) surfing in spite of the fact he currently resides in Nebraska.
Justyn’s students have attended a variety of colleges, from Ivy League schools, to small liberal arts colleges, to flagship public universities. Justyn prides himself on helping students find not just a college, but also a home and program where they can truly flourish and discover themselves through higher education. An accomplished writer who has published fiction and poetry in various journals, Justyn loves connecting with his students over their unique hobbies and interests and helping them craft those experiences into powerful, authentic college essays.
When he's not helping students reach their educational goals, Justyn enjoys playing board games with his family, upholding his title as a self-proclaimed cheese connoisseur, and reportedly (though we are unsure exactly how) surfing in spite of the fact he currently resides in Nebraska.