Foundation

Goals:

• Understanding that successful college admissions uses a holistic evaluation that emphasizes student character, empathy, and desire to make an impact on the world
• By implementing a Mensch Mindset, you can build a foundation for future success in admissions and beyond.

Students will know how to:

• how building up themselves is the most important factor in finding a good college match
• how colleges view their information and use that to evaluate a story
• how to act with compassion in every moment

Students will be skilled at:

• time management & time-boxing
• how to build a daily schedule that sticks & leaves room for growth
• how to turn passions into daily habits
• how to time-box to turn goals into timelines & habits
• digital organization & professional correspondence
• how to create an always leveling up attitude
• mindset & framework for understanding the college admissions process built on personal passions and skills

Focus

Goals:

• Understand what passions and interests across inside and outside of school, and which areas of these interests are unique to them
• Lay out a plan of action to level up strengths and overcome weaknesses in academic, career, and personal planning
  
  

Students will know how to:

• use goal setting & time management to level up skills & knowledge
• cultivate a mentality that constantly evaluates and is able to adapt to changing circumstances (whether personal or external)
• have a clear long term focus for the college application process and a list of steps how to get there

Students will be skilled at:

• develop a list of passions and goals that evolves and grows as the student progresses through the preparation process
• How to make and manage a schedule effectively and efficiently, by planned prioritization, assisted by practical technologies and oversight
• How to create a professional résumé and how to plan for your future résumé

Do

Goals:

• Understand how to turn goals, interests, passions into achievable initiatives
• Cultivate a design-thinking mentality that allows for a constantly cycle of empathy, prototype, and rebuilding
  

Students will know how to:

• create tangible goals backed by a task and time driven plan of action for any initiative
• use design-thinking to their advantage when engaging in any type of creation based work
• have ample evidence of their passions and interests to write about on the college application

Students will be skilled at:

• how to manage & maintain a long-term, ongoing initiative related to their specific passion or interest
• utilizing an adaptable mentality that can change the plan (without messing up the goal) when circumstances changes

Apply

Objectives:

• Understand your admissions story and how to best tell it in your application
• Understand why the story you tell should be the same across ALL apps [with a few exceptions]
• Complete your entire application & submit!

Students will know how to:

• Outline their story to the college app
• Tailor their story to a specific school
• Refine their story

Students will be skilled at:

• Writing
• Interviews
• Confidence in themselves!

Find

Goals:

• Understand how academic passions can translate into career opportunities
• Learn how to build a foundation for intellectual growth that continues in college & beyond
  
  

Students will know how to:

• develop a school list that matches passions/goals/experience & desired life impact
• build an academic argument with well evidenced sources related to their area of interest
• create space for counterarguments they may disagree with but are important to be considered

Students will be skilled at:

• how to develop a real academic thesis supported by real evidence & space for counterarguments
• how to choose between unbiased and biased sources of knowledge and information
• how to conduct themselves & defend themselves in academic & professional settings [when they get into arguments or people disagree]