Sage Total College Process

During this 5-week curriculum, all aspects and intricacies of the college process will be thoroughly explored, reviewed and simplified. The initial workshop is designed to prepare and teach parents and students about the college admissions process. Throughout the remaining workshops, students will learn about choosing the most appropriate college, writing college admissions essays, filling out the college application, and how to best prepare for the college interview.

Everything About College Admissions and Financial Aid
No doubt, navigating through the college process is one of the more challenging tasks families will have to confront in their life times. Part of what makes the college search so daunting and stressful is due largely to the fact that access to pertinent information about this process just doesn’t exist or is very difficult to uncover. These workshops are specifically designed to teach families about the essential components of this process and will make them better prepared to conduct a more effective college search. Key points covered in this session include:

• College prep - “What courses should I take in High School”
• Planning calendar to college arrival
• Admissions - What you should know, applications, essays, interviews, dates and deadlines
• Financial Aid - What you should know, forms, grants, scholarship, need-based aid, work-study, and loans

Sage Life Systems
This on line e-Life system helps the student to:

• Devise a strong goal identification model.
• Establish methodical action steps to achieve those goals.
• Build a long-term process for maintaining this goal path.

This is a real life workshop, not classroom theory—the student will actually be defining and achieving personal life goals in real time, building independence, confidence, personal power and personal style in the process.

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The Knockout College Interview
Note: Interview with student should be done at or near first student meeting with Sage Group.

The Sage Group interview process, mirrors that of the college model and students should expect this discussion to last approximately 1-1 ½ hours. Upon completion of the interview, The Sage Group facilitator will schedule a debrief session with the student to review their strengths and weaknesses. Ultimately, the goal of the facilitator will be to help the student improve in areas of strengths and minimize any areas of weakness.

Overall Objectives:

• To gain a clear self-identity, and understand the value of the identity in context with the college interview.
• Understand how the college admissions officers are viewing and interpreting the information shared in the interview.
• Understand the reality that the college interview process is a 50:50 proposition; the college is interviewing the student as much as the student is interviewing the college.
• Understand the unspoken rules of the college interview; (this workshop is not about memorizing answers)

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Which Colleges are for me?
The reality is, there are many good choices for today’s students, as far as colleges and universities are concerned. The challenge is pinpointing and determining which one is the best or most appropriate for you. Addressing this challenge requires an extensive amount of understanding, exposure, experience and knowledge with regards to the higher education industry. The Sage Group ensures that the prospective student understands what options are available to them, while keeping in mind:

• Funding/Aid objectives of the family.
• The personality and learning nature of the prospective student.
• The student’s academic performance, personal and athletic interests.
• Geographic preferences/desired environment (big/small/urban, etc)
• Previous learning environment(s) in which the student has succeeded, struggled or failed.
• The academic major the student is considering.
• The extent to which the student needs individualized support.

The Sage Group facilitator seeks to augment the knowledge of high school based college advisors and college admissions counselors, not to replace them.

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Writing a College Essay That Stands Out
The Sage Group Facilitator will assess the student’s writing style and skill. They will incorporate student’s past written work as well as work written together in the workshop. The goal of this session is to:

• Write a memorable college essay, by improving the accuracy and interest level, in which it tells the student’s story.
• Gain student/family understanding of the role essays play in college admissions.

An accurate essay is a powerful essay, a joy to read. An accurate essay is not clichéd. Approximately 98% of college essays are not memorable. The Sage Group will help the student deliver a strong, well-written and unique essay that stands out from the rest.

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Scholarship Search
Scholarship Searching is a tedious process. Let us assist you by helping to identify potential scholarships that fit your background, including:

• Need based awards
• Merit based awards
• Talent or Athletic based awards
• Awards based on gender, ethnicity, race, hobby, ability and interests, etc

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SAT Math Tutoring
While the SAT is not the most important admissions factor, it is useful in letting a college know how you test and what you know in comparison to other students nationally. Let us assist you by helping identify knowledge, techniques and insight that will improve your test taking confidence. Sage Group tutoring is for the math section of the SAT.

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AskStephen
Did you know?

• The SAT is not the only standardized test accepted at college and many students find the alternative easier.
• Many colleges no longer require the SAT as criteria for college admissions.

These are just some of the many college admission facts that most people don’t know about.

We’re pleased to introduce “AskStephen”, the preeminent online college admissions and financial aid resource that you may offer as a benefit to your employees. “AskStephen” is brought to you by The Sage Group, LLC, specialists in educational consulting.

In conjunction with your employee’s e-mail, this online service provides quick answers to concerns about the college process. In addition, The Sage Group, LLC offers insight into how to best navigate the college admission’s process and beyond. Whether your employee is a parent, grandparent, uncle or aunt and is thinking of going back to college, The Sage Group’s educational specialists will provide answers to college-related questions, such as:

• Admissions – colleges, applications, essays, interviewing, scholarships, transferring, etc.
• Funding and financial aid – need-based, merit- based, athletic-based, skills- based, grants, loans, work-study, scholarships, etc.

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