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Free Admissions Seminars

Finding the Right Colleges for You

How can high school students know exactly what they’re looking for in a college?  How can families identify those schools at which your student will be happiest and most successful?  This seminar will teach you how to be a savvy college shopper.  We’ll share ways to recognize what types of colleges might be good fits, discuss how to evaluate the many factors that need to be considered like size, location and majors, and discuss how to visit colleges. 

Tuesday, May 13

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Holiday Inn - Plainview
215 Sunnyside Blvd. 
Plainview, NY 11803

Wednesday, June 11

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
The Princeton Review - Syosset
6900 Jericho Turnpike LL102
Syosset, NY 11791

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Thursday, June 26

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Elks Lodge
901 Lakeville Rd.
New Hyde Park, NY 11040

Admissions 201: Highly-Selective College Admissions

Grades, test scores, and impressive activities alone won't get a student admitted to schools that reject almost all of their applicants.  So how do students who get accepted to the Ivy Leagues, Stanford, Northwestern and the rest of the nation’s most selective colleges set themselves apart from the rest of the applicant pool?  We'll show you at this seminar.  We’ll also reveal some Collegewise strategies to improve a student’s chances of admission at the most selective schools.  While we don't believe that prestigious colleges are necessarily better colleges, we're out to make college admissions less stressful.  And we want students who are interested in these schools to have straight answers about what it will really take to have a shot at getting in.

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Wednesday, May 7

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Holiday Inn - Plainview
215 Sunnyside Blvd. 
Plainview, NY 11803

Thursday, May 15

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Hampton Inn - Garden City
1 North Ave.
Garden City, NY 11530

Tuesday, May 27

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Elks Lodge
901 Lakeville Rd.
New Hyde Park, NY 11040

Tuesday, June 10

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Holiday Inn - Plainview
215 Sunnyside Blvd. 
Plainview, NY 11803


Tuesday, June 17

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Hampton Inn - Garden City
1 North Ave.
Garden City, NY 11530


Wednesday, June 18

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
The Princeton Review - Syosset
6900 Jericho Turnpike LL102
Syosset, NY 11791


Wednesday, June 25

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Holiday Inn - Plainview
215 Sunnyside Blvd. 
Plainview, NY 11803

   

Seating is limited and reservations are required.

To register for any of our seminar offerings, click here.   You can also register, or get more information, by contacting Shanta' Lindo, our director of college counseling, at (516) 441-2676 or shantal@collegewise.com.

 

Finding the Right Colleges for You

How can high school students know exactly what they’re looking for in a college?  How can families identify those schools at which your student will be happiest and most successful?  This seminar will teach you how to be a savvy college shopper.  We’ll share ways to recognize what types of colleges might be good fits, discuss how to evaluate the many factors that need to be considered like size, location and majors, and discuss how to visit colleges. 

Tuesday, May 13

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Holiday Inn - Plainview
215 Sunnyside Blvd. 
Plainview, NY 11803

Wednesday, June 11

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
The Princeton Review - Syosset
6900 Jericho Turnpike LL102
Syosset, NY 11791

Thursday, June 26

7 p.m. - 8:30 p.m.
Elks Lodge
901 Lakeville Rd.
New Hyde Park, NY 11040

Seating is limited and reservations are required.

To register for any of our seminar offerings, click here.   You can also register, or get more information, by contacting Shanta' Lindo, our director of college counseling, at (516) 441-2676 or shantal@collegewise.com.




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