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Grade 9 and 10 Counseling
Details: Combination of Group and 1-1 sessions.
🖥️ SESSION 1: Discovery and Assessments
🖥️ SESSION 2: Plan Extracurricular Activities and explore activities outside of school.
🖥️ SESSION 3: Plan Volunteering Activities
🖥️ SESSION 4: Summer Activities Planning
Dates and Details
Group Sessions on alternate Tuesday at 8 PM EST
APRIL 5, 19 at 8 PM EST
MAY 3, 17 at 8 PM EST
Weekly Check-In at 7 pm EST Thursday
1 one-one session per month
Grade 11 Comprehensive Counseling (Junior)
- An overview of the college application process.
- Strength finder of the student.
- Organizational assistance and/or creation of a personalized timeline for applications.
- Academic record review
- Course selection advice
- SAT/ACT/AP recommendations for test prep and scheduling
- Recommendations on extracurricular activities
- Provide summer program options
- In-depth interview on college preferences of both student and parents
- Refinement of choices of school type and major using interest surveys
- College visit advice (including virtual)
- Recommendation Request aka “Brag Sheets” for school counselors' letters
- Preparation of a balanced college list of a maximum of 15 colleges.
- Interactive CounselorMore Software Program for family research and college process management
- Common App Essay brainstorming sessions
- Supplement Essay review and advice
- Scholarships advise and apply.
- Editing of Activity List and Resume
- Application Review
- Interview Prep and Recommendations
- Recommendations on college choice once decisions are received
Grade 12 Counseling (Senior)
- Guidance with respect to deferral, waitlists, additional information requests, and appeals
- Assistance with making a final college decision based on admissions, aid packages, and student preference.
- Contest financial aid.
INSTRUCTOR
Jothsna Kethar, Academic Coach and College Planner
Coach Jo is an Independent Educational Consultant and College Counselor. She is a certified Tony Robbins Life Coach. She trained to identify children's goals, be their supportive friend and trusted adviser. She has also Trained under Peg Dawson, EdD., a renowned psychologist. She uses this understanding to coach children to discover their strengths to overcome their hurdles and roadblocks on their path to success. She is a certified Meditation Instructor as well and strives to empower parents in their child's educational journey. She completed her College Counseling course at UC Berkeley. Building a customized college list is her specialty.
Her students have landed in Ivy league colleges such as Cornell, also landing in affordable colleges, winning merit aid/scholarship to the tune of $140,000.
TESTIMONIALS
Shr
Won $140,000 in merit aid
"Coach Jo helped me find my passion and convey them in college application. She helped me extensively with building a college list. I'm happy to say that with Coach Jo's guidance I was able to get merit or scholarship from almost all colleges that I applied to."
Student
Accepted at Cornell University
"Coach Jo and I worked extensively on the college application. Her College Essay Writing Program helped me brainstorm my common app essay that best expressed my personality, and her magic formula for supplemental essays made the process much less stressful"
Sre
Accepted at Georgia Tech, UGA, Mercer, University of Alabama, Pre-Med Track
"Coach Jo helped me with all aspects of college planning. We spent numerous hours crafting various aspects of the process. Her guidance helped me land merit aid with most colleges we applied to."
Ani
Accepted at Mercer, University of Florida, Hult, Scholarship Winner
"I worked extensively with Coach Jo on various colleges, we spent quite some hours brainstorming topics for various supplemental essays. Due to her guidance I was able to get merit or scholarship from colleges. I also got accepted in almost all colleges that I applied to"
Meg
Accepted at Penn State, University of Delaware
“Coach Jo helped me build my confidence and try new things. Initially, I was interested in pursuing fashion, Coach Jo urged me to take a summer course on Fashion Designing to see if I was really interested, it was the best plan. I decided to pursue business as a major and have got accepted to many colleges that I applied to."
San
Accepted at Penn State, Umass Amherst, University of Pittsburg, Fordham, Drexel.
“Coach Jo helped me build my profile for Senior Year College application. She helped me with various components of Common App and writing my extracurricular activities. Thanks to her expert guidance I got into many colleges."
