Summer Activities for STEM Majors
Elton Lin
Summer is a crucial time for students, who can use this time outside of school hours to get insight into their field of interest and build proof of demonstrated interest for their major.
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Helpful tips about college admissions, test preparation and just being a better student, leader and person from ILUMIN Education.
Webinar Transcript: How To Build a College List
Elton Lin
Good evening, everyone! We have a very exciting topic today for a lot of our rising seniors (current juniors) – and maybe some younger students to start thinking about – the college list process: what schools they should be looking at when they're thinking about the admissions process.
Read More6 Tips for Asking Teachers for Letters of Recommendation
Elton Lin
Students do a lot of self-advocating in their college applications, but colleges also value hearing what others have to say about an applicant. This is where teacher recommendation letters come into play.
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: Should I Apply Early?
Elton Lin
Thanks for joining us tonight on another part of our webinar series. We’re talking about early decision early action today – as a lot of our juniors (soon to be rising seniors) are about to be planning their college lists, and thinking about which schools they might want to do an early application for.
Read More5 Questions for Katie Anderson
Elton Lin
We asked our newest Educational Consultant Katie Anderson five questions to help you get to know her better.
Read MoreIntroducing Ilumin Education's New Educational Consultant: Katie Anderson
Elton Lin
We are excited to welcome Katie Anderson to the ILUMIN consulting team!
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: Last-Minute Summer Programs
Elton Lin
Glad everyone could make it today. We're talking about summer plans, because so many of our students are taking a look at summer plans: taking a look at what options are still out there, since there are so many different types of programs! Some are going to be great for some students, some maybe not. We want to take a moment to present to everyone today what is out there – with about one more month to think about [it] before we really need to start shifting gears towards the summer!
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: Timeline for 12th Grade College Admissions
Elton Lin
Good evening, everyone. Really glad that all of you can make it today. We have a really exciting topic for a lot of our juniors right now – to get ready for the admissions process, and start to think about the timeline: what they should be thinking about, researching schools, essays… We'll go through everything today! College tours – I think that's also something on people's minds: thinking about that for spring break, potentially. We'll talk about all of that today.
Read MoreWebinar Transcript: How Important is GPA? A Discussion About College Admissions Factors
Elton Lin
Hi everyone – really glad that all of you could make it today. And I'm glad we're continuing this weekly [webinar series]; we did one last week with Danny. Today we have Dayna joining us – and next week it'll be Kelly. We're doing three in a row for this little chunk of time.
Read MoreFive Things To Consider When Researching College Majors
Eric Day
How are your student's college search and list of schools going? We've shared our tips on how to build your college list and start researching schools (complete with questions students can ask themselves to help refine their lists), but it's also important to hone in and research the specifics—specifics like college majors.
Researching majors and choosing the one(s) for you can be a difficult task, especially for students with diverse interests. Here are five of our tips to help your student as they consider their options:
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