College Application and ACT/SAT Test Preparation Program

The Linda Christas College Application and ACT/SAT Test Preparation Program is designed for students who are currently in their junior year of high school or beyond.

The Program provides a college-specific, logistically accurate "path-to-walk-on" as students prepare their applications for consideration by their first choice colleges.

Many talented students are unaware that when completing an elite college's application, the order and explanation of high school activities, the elements of recommendation letters, the content of student essays, and many other considerations play important roles in precipitating attendance-enabling responses from these schools.

Also, contrary to common perception, the ACT and SAT standard college entrance examinations have increased rather than decreased in importance relative to elite college admissions decisions.

The reason for this is that, with 3200 colleges and universities in the United States, elite colleges continue to compete vigorously with one another on many levels, including recruiting the most competent students available, that is, students who are most likely to use their college educations in ways that will enhance the overall reputations for excellence of the admitting schools.

In light of these goals, top colleges use such elements as ACT/SAT scores; high school senior class academic rank; leadership role(s) a student assumed; the number of academic societies, student government roles, speech and debate and other activities in which the student participated or excelled; the overall reputation of the student's high school for delivering first rate academic programs, and many other criteria to determine the relative desirability of a prospective student, and the level of investment the college will make to recruit that individual.

Elite colleges have found over time that the criteria listed above are fairly accurate predictors of the degree to which students will enhance the day-to-day on-campus academic environment, as well as provide opportunities for future payoffs to the colleges relative to the societal prominence of their graduates.

Elite colleges measure their success in providing students with quality on-campus experiences by measuring results in areas such as: Graduates eventual per capita listings in Who's Who in America; per capita success of graduates in becoming executives with Standard and Poor's listed companies; per capita future financial support from graduates (endowment); per capita acceptance of their graduates into top ten graduate and professional schools; and, per capita graduation rates of their students from top ten graduate and professional schools. (Internally, elite colleges make certain that the student to teacher ratio in classrooms remains small; that professors, not graduate students, conduct classes for undergraduates; that professors maintain high levels of academic scholarship throughout their careers; and, that each classroom instructor maintains a loco parentis attitude toward all of his/her undergraduate students.)

Because acceptable academic undergraduate performance is of such critical importance from all these perspectives, elite colleges do all they can to ensure that students admitted will be fully capable of functioning in an academic environment operating at high levels of competence.

Elite colleges in the United States generally admit few students with remedial academic needs. Currently, as many as 30% of many colleges' and universities' student bodies require remedial English and other high school level courses upon admission. This remedial practice degrades the college experience in that the delivery of a consistently high level academic product becomes difficult. (Reference: Gone for Good by Professor Stuart Rojstaczer, Duke University).

Stated differently, the more academically capable the students admitted to a campus are, the better able graduates will be to lead society in the areas outlined in a specific college's or university's mission statement and/or charter.

In summary, The Linda Christas College Application and ACT/SAT Test Preparation Program provides:

College-specific application "paths to walk on" in order to enable students to package their high school achievements in such a way so as to precipitate enabling offers from elite colleges and universities;
One-on-one standard entrance examination (ACT/SAT) preparation experiences delivered by state credentialed instructors.

The maximum time frame for this Program is two years from the date of enrollment.

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