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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by frequent guest and co-host Kristi Davin to discuss what students can do once they've been accepted into college.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by returning guest Dr. Andy Snyder to discuss their top tips for improving study skills.
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In today's episode Jason talks with Kristi Davin, Executive Director of Chyten and parent, about the recent college applications cheating scandal and who really deserves accommodations on standardized tests.
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In today's episode Jason talks with college counselor Andy Snyder about what 9th and 10th graders can focus on to start thinking about college applications.
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In today's episode Jason talks with Kristi Davin, Executive Director of Chyten and parent, about the value of College beyond just the classes and degree.
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In today's episode Jason talks with college counselor Andy Snyder about what steps high school seniors can take if they missed college application deadlines. Is it too late?
In today's episode Jason talks with Kristi Davin, Executive Director of Chyten, about how planning for the type of career you want now can help you get there.
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In today's episode Jason sits down with college counselor Andy Snyder to discuss how juniors in high school should be preparing for their college applications.
In today's episode Jason talks with Kristi Davin, Executive Director of Chyten and parent, about the consequences of a senior slide and how to avoid falling into one.
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In today's episode, Jason and college counselor Leigh Ann Schwartz, M.Ed. talk about AP and SAT Subject Tests. They take a closer look at how important those scores truly are when it comes to college applications.
In today's episode, Jason sits down with college counselor Marvin Vilma to discuss the different ways in which high school juniors can prepare for their college applications.
In today's episode, Jason is once again joined by college counselor Leigh Ann Schwartz, M.Ed. They give you everything you need to know about financial aid and more specifically FAFSA.
In today's episode, Jason talks to college counselor Marvin about how applying to college means much more than just your numbers.
In today's episode, Jason talks to tutor Cindy Frueh about her experiences teaching english as a second language to young students.
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In today's episode Jason talks to tutor Stephanie Clegg and her background in Science. Stephanie shares her journey through the medical and science worlds, and some of her tutoring experiences.
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Jason sits down with college counselor Leigh Ann Schwartz, M.Ed. to discuss Early Decision/Action. They dive into some of the myths surrounding early applications, and the advantages and disadvantages of applying early.
Jason and college counselor Leigh Ann Schwartz, M.Ed. discuss the right amount of colleges to apply to, and why it's important to hit the right number.
Jason talks about the challenges in the transitions from elementary to middle school and from middle to high school, and how to best face those challenges.
Articles:
https://www.chyten.com/transition-elementary-school-middle-school.html
https://www.chyten.com/transition-middle-school-high-school.html
Frequent co-host Kristi Davin joins Jason to discuss the various costs of college, the truth about 'free tuition', and scholarships.
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Frequent co-host Kristi Davin provides a first-person parent perspective on helping your children and students build a college list along with the traps to avoid.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by frequent guest and co-host Kristi Davin to discuss the recent controversies engulfing the College Board and the SAT.
For more information, check out our blog post: https://www.chyten.com/current-controversy-around-sat-scores.html
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by frequent guest and co-host Kristi Davin to discuss some tips floating around the internet about how to get into college despite earning a lower GPA than useful for getting into college.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by frequent guest and co-host Kristi Davin to discuss a recent article on Forbes.com about 17 college majors whose graduates are surprisingly underemployed. Some are actually surprising, while others, not so much.
The article on Forbes can be found here: https://www3.forbes.com/leadership/17-college-majors-that-report-higher-underemployment/
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Host Jason Breitkopf and Chyten CEO Neil Khaund, the inspiration for the Hacking Your Own SAT Program series, discuss the essay section. How has the essay section changed since the 2016 re-write of the SAT? What are students supposed to do on the essay, and why is it so challenging? What is the biggest mistake students make on the essay? Neil and Jason answer these questions and more.
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Host Jason Breitkopf and Chyten CEO Neil Khaund, the inspiration for the Hacking Your Own SAT Program series, discuss the writing section. How is the Writing section similar to and different from the Reading section? How important is grammar instruction? Neil and Jason answer these questions and more.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by frequent guest and co-host Kristi Davin to attempt to answer one of the most common questions we've been asked. We discuss where test scores place in the college application process and how to make test scores an asset to your application.
For our episode on the Naviance Scattergram, you can listen here: https://anchor.fm/endeavor/episodes/College-Prep-Tools-Naviance--the-Scattergram-e1i7j3
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Host Jason Breitkopf and Chyten CEO Neil Khaund, the inspiration for the Hacking Your Own SAT Program series, discuss the reading section. What makes the reading section challenging? What is more important, the passage or the questions? Neil and Jason ponder those questions and more.
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Host Jason Breitkopf and Chyten CEO Neil Khaund, the inspiration for the Hacking Your Own SAT Program series, discuss the math section. What math is on the math section? What do you need to know? Jason and Neil even work on a math problem!
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by frequent guest and co-host Kristi Davin to discuss what value there is in taking the optional essay on either the SAT or the ACT.
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Host Jason Breitkopf and Chyten CEO Neil Khaund, the inspiration for the Hacking Your Own SAT Program series, discuss how homework. How much homework is too much? Is there such a thing as too little homework? How should it be organized? Jason and Neil figure it out.
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Recorded live at the Test Prep, Admissions, and Private Tutoring Professionals Conference in Boston on Friday, July 27, 2018. Host Jason Breitkopf moderated a panel on Understanding the Test Optional Movement in college admissions with guests Scott Clyburn founder/owner of North Avenue Education in Portland, Oregon and Scott Webster, College Entrance Director of Clayborne Education in Charlottesville, Virginia. Audience members asked questions throughout the discussion, however, it may be difficult to hear all of the questions, but the panel tried to repeat the question in their answers.
For additional background information, you can read this article on the test optional movement on the Chyten blog: https://www.chyten.com/test-optional-really-mean.html .
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Host Jason Breitkopf and Chyten CEO Neil Khaund, the inspiration for the Hacking Your Own SAT Program series, discuss building a curriculum for your own SAT program, focusing on the two main schools of thought. Should your program focus on drilling practice problems and test sections or should it focus on strategy instruction?
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Co-host of the Hacking Your Own SAT Program series Neil Khaund interviews college counselor and scholarship maven Harpreet Singh about his experience as a first generation college student. Pardon the audio quality.
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Host Jason Breitkopf and Chyten CEO Neil Khaund, the inspiration for the Hacking Your Own SAT Program series, discuss the options for classroom spaces for SAT programs and practice tests. They also touch on whether technology is useful or necessary for a successful SAT program.
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Frequent co-host and guest Kristi Davin sits down for a conversation with fellow parent of teenaged sons and Chyten test prep program advisor Vicki Jones. Vicki is a former public school teacher and currently advises parents on which test prep or academic tutoring programs are best for their students. Kristi and Vicki discuss their experiences with students pursuing non-traditional college paths.
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Host Jason Breitkopf and Chyten CEO Neil Khaund, who inspired this Hacking Your Own SAT Program series, discuss the best tools to use as a pre-program assessment in your pwn SAT program. Parent questions are answered and PSAT myths are busted.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by college counselor and former college & independent high school admissions officer Marvin Vilma for the fifth episode in our series on independent high school admissions. In this episode, we discuss the interview, both from the student's and the parents' perspectives.
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Host Jason Breitkopf and Endeavor visionary Neil Khaund discuss how a school or non-profit can build a schedule and syllabus for their hacked SAT program. Timing and setting appropriate test date goals are important keys to success.
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Frequent co-host Kristi Davin provides a first-person parent perspective on college visits.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by frequent guest and co-host Kristi Davin in a follow up to the SAT Math vs ACT Math episode. In this episode we discuss the differences between the English language sections on the SAT and the ACT, with the goal of helping students decide which test is best for them.
For more information, please read the accompanying blog post at https://www.chyten.com/differences-sat-act-reading-writing-essay-sections.html .
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Host Jason Breitkopf and frequent guest Kristi Davin discuss different options for high school students who have been rejected by their top choice colleges.
For more information on community colleges, check out our previous episode, The Community College Advantage: https://anchor.fm/endeavor/episodes/The-Community-College-Advantage-e1k3vl
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Host Jason Breitkopf and Endeavor visionary Neil Khaund introduce a new summer series called Hacking the SAT in which we show you how to build your own SAT prep program at your school, at a non-profit, or at home. In this episode, Jason provides tips on pre-program practice tests and goal setting.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined once again by educator and communications expert Kristi Davin, this time to discuss social media and the positives and negatives for students and their college application process.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by college counselor and former college & independent high school admissions officer Marvin Vilma for the fourth episode in our series on independent high school admissions. In this episode, we discuss the school visit.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by frequent guest and college admissions expert, Dr. Wanda Montañez to discuss community college, and why they can be a useful option for some students.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined once again by college counselor, former college admissions officer, and all-around college application experience expert, Dr. Wanda Montañez to discuss financial aid award letters, including how to read them and what the details mean.
For a series of example letters, the College Board has provided a link here: https://secure-media.collegeboard.org/CollegePlanning/media/pdf/sample-financial-aid-award-letters.pdf
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Host Jason Breitkopf shares a conversation between college counselors Ariella Reidenberg and Harpreet Singh on their experiences using summer to build their personal narrative in preparation for the college application process.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by fellow Endeavor host Kristi Davin to discuss a useful tool in the college prep and admissions process: the scattergram.
Follow this link to the example scattergram used by Jason & Kristi in the episode: http://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/auburnpub.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/f/bb/fbba2f32-e3f5-5e20-a630-7ed6dfbcf27f/563bac99b044a.image.png
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by college counselor, former college admissions officer, and former independent high school admissions officer Marvin Vilma for the third in our series on independent high school admissions.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by college counselor, former college admissions officer, and general college admissions expert, Dr. Wanda Montañez to discuss the Common App.
Explore the Common App at http://www.commonapp.org
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BONUS EPISODE! Frequent co-host Kristi Davin provides a first-person parent perspective on the paying for college experience.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by frequent co-host Kristi Davin to discuss ideas and options for dealing with disappointing test scores.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by college counselor and former admissions officer Marvin Vilma for the second in a series about the high school admissions process. In this episode, Jason and Marvin discuss high school admittance tests: the SSAT, the ISEE, and the HSPT.
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Host Jason Breitkopf and returning guest Kristi Davin discuss how to plan out when to take various standardized tests such as the SAT & ACT, SAT Subject Tests, and AP tests.
Jason and Kristi referenced an article that Jason wrote about junior year stress, which can be found on the Chyten blog here: https://www.chyten.com/junior-year-stress.html
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by college counselor, former admissions officer, & independent (private) high school expert Marvin Vilma for the first in a series of episodes on the independent (& parochial) school admissions process.
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Host Jason Breitkopf welcomes a new guest onto the pod, Noël Um, to discuss strategies for selecting courses in college. Noël is an experienced tutor who recently finished her master's degree at Columbia University.
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Host Jason Breitkopf and college counseling & college admissions expert Dr. Wanda Montañez discuss navigating college fairs. Whether you attend as a student, parent, educator, or counselor, college fairs can be overwhelming, but making a plan in advance can make all the difference.
For more information, here is the article which inspired this conversation: https://medium.com/@endeavoryourstory/getting-the-most-out-of-college-fairs-5bb55fe8001a .
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by college counselor and former college admissions officer Alison Burr to discuss planning and making the most of college visits.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by college counselor and former college admissions officer Dr. Wanda Montañez to break down a sample SAT score report which can be downloaded from the College Board website. Follow along with your own score report, if you have one.
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Jason Breitkopf and Kristi Davin discuss the differences between the Math sections on the SAT and the ACT, and what goes into deciding which test to take.
For more information, here is the original article that inspired this discussion: https://www.chyten.com/differences-sat-act-math.html
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Host Jason Breitkopf and returning guest Dr. Wanda Montañez discuss what makes for a good college recommendation letter. Wanda advises college counselors, teachers, and other adults on how to write unique and helpful letters while also giving student tips on what to look for in a recommender.
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Host Jason Breitkopf and guest Dr. Wanda Montañez discuss tips for improving the college application essay.
Here is a list of the 2017-18 Common App essay prompts/questions: https://www.chyten.com/blog/common-app-essays-for-2017-2018.html
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by guest Marvin Vilma, a college counselor and former admissions officer, to discuss suggestions for finding a best fit college.
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Host Jason Breitkopf is joined by separately by two guests in this episode, college professor Dr. Annalise Gypsy Murphy and high school librarian Melissa Jackson, to debate the benefits and hazards of using Wikipedia for research and what each guest believes is the best method for conducting basic research.
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Host Jason Breitkopf and returning guest Dr. Wanda Montañez discuss summer internships for high school students, including what an internship is, how they differ from the stereotypical summer job, and their benefits and hazards.
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Host Jason Breitkopf and college counselor and student mentor Harpreet Singh discuss college scholarships, from the search process through the application process and beyond.
Here is Harpreet's article on scholarships: https://www.chyten.com/heres-use-scholarships-help-pay-college.html
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Host Jason Breitkopf and Kristi Davin deconstruct the trope that there are certain college majors, like an English major, for which a student has no hope of getting a job upon graduating college. Spoiler alert: it's not true!
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Host Jason Breitkopf and college counselor and student mentor Ariella Reidenberg discuss the supplemental writing samples and other submissions common to college applications.
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