5 Tips to Acing Those College Essays One of the most stressful parts of my college application process was writing the essay for the common app in addition to each supplemental essay for the different schools. After some trial and error, along with the occasional breakdown with tears followed by ice cream, I realized that there were a few ways ...
For starters, the Abbey Roads College Prep program has been an amazing experience for me and I encourage any fellow hard-working student to seize this opportunity if they have the chance. When I first heard of this program I realized I had never really focused on the ACT. After I discovered exactly how important these standardized ...
So Tuesday was my (and the rest of the new kids’) first official SAT prep class of this session, where we met our prep teacher, SAT extraordinaire, Patrick Choi. Patrick has been working with the Princeton Review to tutor high schoolers for the last fifteen years, and genuinely loves his job, which made his class almost fun (considering it ...
So this last Sunday was the first day of the third session of the Abbey Road college prep program. Initially, I was quite nervous, as I had arrived only twenty minutes before all of the participants were supposed to arrive and there was no parking near the Emerson College campus. My family and I managed to arrive at Emerson with time to spare, ...
Journal Entry #2 Night 2: I feared I had begun a rather strange sleep pattern waking up for the second night in a row at 2:30 am on the dot. Day 2: I woke up, got ready, ate breakfast, and went to my first SAT prep class with Patrick. I could already tell I was going to love him! He was very helpful, witty and kind. We went over tips and ...
Journal: First Entry night 1: Interesting start. I didn't want my mom to leave at all. She's my comfort blanket and I didn't want to let her go!! But once she did I began to settle in, unpack and meet the girls in my suite. Then as I was trying to log in to the wifi my mom called, I thought "already?!?!". Turns out she had given me all of her ...
[caption id="attachment_14369" align="alignnone" width="491"] Credit: US News[/caption] The last few days went by in a blur. We took our last SAT (yeah), worked on college interview skills (so helpful) and finished our campus tours. We all know how important SAT is for getting into the college of our choice. We visited Boston College ...
The weekend came just in time! We were all exhausted from staying up late, doing our homework and talking to each other. I needed some downtime and finally got a good night's sleep. The weekend weather was beautiful so my friends and I continued to get to know Boston. We walked around and did some shopping at a nearby mall; Emerson's location ...
I was exhausted after my first full week of classes in college prep program with the Abbey Road Programs, but we had so much fun getting to know one another. One of the highlights of the week was going to the Harvard Observatory to watch the super moon on a sophisticated telescope. I'm always open to new ideas, so I thought this would be a ...
After a morning of class, students went kayaking on the Charles River Monday afternoon. This was the first time in a kayak for some, but they were all naturals! We stopped for ice cream near the MIT campus on the way back. [caption id="attachment_4608" align="aligncenter" width="300"] Students put on life vests prior to ...