It’s summer and the class of 2019, particularly those seeking admissions to highly competitive colleges and universities, are finalizing their lists. Many will spend the summer visiting those top twenty schools they’ve identified as right for each of them, hoping to narrow the choices down to nine or ten schools to which they will apply –…
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Advantage Learning Goes to College (Tutoring, that is!)
MONTCO STUDENTS Trouble starting your paper? Stuck on Statistics? Online classes got you down? Two Penn PhD’s to the rescue! We don’t do the work for you, but we help fill in what you missed. · Math thru Calculus & Statistics · Italian & English as a 2nd Language · Western Civ, American Govt & History · Research &…
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PBS reports Colleges Using Big Data info such as Facebook Friends & Pics to Shape Admission Decisions
According to the PBS News Hour, for several years, colleges and universities have been encouraging prospective students to connect with faculty and current students at colleges such as Ithaca and Sarah Lawrence and analyzing the results. They use the data to predict the likelihood of which kinds of students were most likely to enroll and…
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Speed reading
When I began my tutoring ten years ago I noticed that many of the students I work with struggled with their college prep, honors and AP reading reading requirements. Many confessed they never read outside of school, a troublesome admission since unless they read outside of school 2 hours a week, many will have trouble getting scores…
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Learning styles
Researchers such as Howard Gardner have suggested what some parents have long suspected: There are very different learning styles and students learn in different ways. The spatial/visual learner learns from what is seen, especially diagrams and pictures. The linguistic learner remembers what is read or spoken. They usually perform well in traditional academic settings that…
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