ISEE Test Prep | Fact Sheet on the ISEE

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For many students in New York City, the experience with standardized testing starts well before the SAT exam in late high school. Students who attend independent middle schools and high schools take the ISEE (Independent School Entrance Exam) as part of the application process. Since independent school applications are generally due in the fall for the next academic year, summer is the perfect time to study for this test. Here are all the key data that you need to know to make sure that your child’s ISEE testing experience goes smoothly.

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Does Your Child Need a Tutor This Summer?

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The summer can be a wonderful time for students, but going back to school after three months of vacation can be miserable!  When your child goes from attending class five days a week to spending months away from school, summer learning loss starts to set in, which can make the transition back to school difficult.  The summer learning loss a student can suffer in math is especially pernicious; not only may your child have to play catch-up for the first weeks of school, but your child may fall so far behind that he or she cannot keep up with the pace of the teacher and classmates as the semester progresses. 

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College Process Checklist:Junior and Senior Year

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Once you finish tenth grade, the focus of your next two years of high school is college admissions. As the capstone of your academic career, your college years will fun, exciting, and full of new opportunities to enrich yourself academically. Consequently, you should begin preparing for this time of change by the time you begin your junior year of high school. There are many components to the college essay and a complete application; the more you plan ahead, the less stressful the entire process will be!

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College Essay Tips

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By the time you get around to writing your college essay, you have probably written at least a hundred other essays already---position papers and research projects in history, literary analyses in English---essays that were much longer and that took hours of researching or poring over the pages of a novel or the lines of a poem. They were challenging, all right.  But compared to writing a college essay, they may seem like a piece of cake.

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Could Your Child Benefit From a Tutor?

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Private tutoring in NYC has become increasingly popular. Anyone from a kindergartener struggling with math to a high school senior stuck on a Common App essay can find a suitable NYC tutor who will know exactly how to help. As a parent, you will ultimately decide whether or not to hire a  tutor to work with your child, so here are some reasons why you may want to consider tutoring.

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NYC Students: Tips for Selecting a College

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Every NYC high school student knows how stressful junior and senior year can be.  For the better part of both years, there is a relentless stream of responsibilities. NYC students must bolster their grades, making sure that the transcript sent out with each college application is ready to impress.  Even beyond this final push toward a stellar GPA, the work keeps piling up.  There are essays to write, SAT II subject tests (short standardized tests with a targeted focus) to study for, and the dreaded SAT (Scholastic Aptitude Test) or ACT (American College Testing Assessment), one of which is necessary for virtually every college application.  

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