There are many different organizations around the country that provide some kind of admissions “boot camp” for students getting ready to apply to college. Typically they are offered for a couple of days in the summer before the student enters their senior year. They essentially go through the entire college admissions process and get students ready to submit their college applications. They are designed to help students and parents get ahead of the game so that they are done with the process early on in their senior year, eliminating a stressful fall application season. Here we will outline just a few of the college admissions boot camps around the country. As you will see the fees for these events vary immensely although from what we can tell the content and deliverables are quite similar. If you do decide to take advantage of one of these events we suggest reading what it is that each offers carefully and speak with a representative from each company before you hand over your credit card...Application Boot Camp (ABC)
Overview: Dr. Michele Hernandez and Mimi Doe cofounded Application Boot Camp® LLC after publishing their book, Don’t Worry: You’ll Get In in 2005. Application Boot Camp® LLC is a company devoted to empowering high school students from around the world in the college admissions process. Application Boot Camp® LLC offers a four day program for students entering their senior year of high school. Students have the opportunity to work with Michele and Mimi and leverage their experiences to create applications that rise above the rest.
Intent: Develop an application strategy to increase college acceptance possibilities
Date: August 2012
Length: 4 days
For Who: Rising Seniors
Activities: Work on common application; prepare essay(s); develop application strategy; receive advice on their odds at top colleges; complete an activity sheet; take part in mock interviews and interview training.
Cost: $14,000
College Admissions Bootcamp – Via Smart Track™ Toolkit
Overview: The College Resource Center, LLC was founded in 2009 by Murray Miller and Scott Greenameyer to provide families and organizations with an online platform for the college planning process. Murray and Scott, along with their professional staff, combined their years of experience and the tools they use daily to create the company's proprietary Smart Track™ Toolkit. The College Admissions Bootcamp was created to give students the ability to attend a live version of the Toolkit and to jump start their college planning and college applications. For two days during the summer, the College Admissions Bootcamp helps students overcome the challenges of the college admissions process and gets students on the Smart Track™ to college success.
Intent: Get your student on the right track before they start their senior year, before most of their peers, and before they get overwhelmed.
Date: August 2012
Length: 2 days
For Who: Rising Seniors
Activities: Create an initial college list; work on the Common Application; prepare essay(s) and receive feedback from professional essay editors during the event; develop an application strategy; take part in mock interviews and interview training; engage in SAT/ACT test prep; and not only receive advice from experts in admissions, but also attend workshops presented by experts in financial aid and student-athletics. Attendees will also be addressed by an actual admission officer from a top tier college and will be given a behind the scenes private campus tour while onsite.
Cost: $1,595 (discounts are available for early registrants)
College Admissions Boot Camps 2012
Overview: College Admissions Boot Camps (CABC) are interactive, informative, activity-oriented and intensive four-day workshops for navigating specific elements of the complex, anxiety-ridden and competitive college admissions process. They are programs held jointly with BHA Education Consultants and Pinnacle Educational Center. Sessions are in July and August, in Greenwich, CT and Midtown Manhattan. Participants will receive inside tips, recommendations and expert advice from BHA Education Consultants and former admissions officers and representatives from Ivy League, highly selective and competitive colleges.
Intent: Aiding students in navigating specific elements of the complex, anxiety-ridden and competitive college admissions process
Date: July & August 2012
Length: 4 days
For Who: Rising Seniors
Activities: Receive inside tips, recommendations and expert advice from leading college admissions experts; design an activity sheet that makes you shine; write a "Why the college" essay that will dazzle the admissions committee; learn to impress in interviews; garner the right recommendations; finish applications before senior year starts; gain a competitive edge in the hypercompetitive college admissions environment. General topics to be covered include: standardized test preparation, choosing the right college, what top colleges are looking for, planning campus visits, developing a college admissions calendar, an admissions committee review, sessions for student-athletes and student-artists, financial aid / scholarships, post-admissions process.
Cost: $7,500
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