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Sam Rosensohn
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While I continue daily to help students to improve their SAT and ACT scores, I also write a widely-read
newspaper column, College 101, which reports on the ever-changing college land-scape.
Take a look at my columns and don't hesitate to give me a call if I can be of
help, 860-664-9857 |
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Harvard University
requested College Planning Partnerships participate in its College Access
Collaborative, which is attempting to assess why students from below
median-incomes are dramatically underrepresented at selective private
colleges.
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School of Management conducted a nationwide search and selected College Planning
Partnerships to work with one of its graduate students.
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| Mary MacLean Smith Scholarship |
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The Mary MacLean Smith Scholarship is open to students who've
demonstrated enormous compassion to others and who do not have the
financial means to attend an SAT or an ACT prep class. To apply for a
scholarship please have your school counselor give us a call at
860-664-9857 or email us at
sam@satprepct.com
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The College Essay |
The College Essay Clinic will help you to tell your own story - the one that's
important to you, the one that separates you from every other candidate applying
to college. We will help you to write the essay that only you can write. If you
haven't put your finger on the story you want to tell just yet, we'll help you
to identify it. All of the essay work is done one-on-one with Sam Rosensohn,
author of the newspaper column College 101.
Students are welcome to bring in an essay that they've started or completed, or
we can start from scratch. At the moment there is a growing trend that has
seniors writing highly stylized essays that are short on genuine autobiography.
Students are laboring for hours over what they perceive to be catchy sentences
that convey little information about themselves. This is not to say that a good
essay shouldn't dazzle from the opening; it is to say that honest autobiography
trumps style every single time. For students who've yet to start an essay, we
aim to identify a topic, create an outline and write a rough draft in 90
minutes.
Take a look at two essays that our students recently
wrote.
I remember the bright lights. That's the earliest memory I can
faithfully recollect, the first point in my timeline. I remember the warmth of
the moment, the faint glimmer of neon on the streets below the apartment. Only
beginning with this moment can I explore the full extent of my memories, the
events of childhood that shaped my life while I lived with my grandparents in a
city in China that my ancestors had resided in for ten generations.
I have other bits and pieces of patchy recollections. Together, they make up the
hours and days of my childhood. It is a time that I remember fondly today,
although I'm sure the gaps in my memories have often been clouded by half
truths, pieced together from random photographs and my own impressions. These
memories are my constant reminder of what has become my own basic philosophy on
life.
I remember a trip I made to the park, riding an old, but still brightly colored
merry-go-round, vibrant with hues of red, blue, and yellow. I see my
grandfather, helping set the large wheel into motion as the colors swirled
gracefully. While I was in China, my parents studied diligently in Lawrence,
Kansas. I know this because after coming to America, I grew up around
high-performance liquid chromatography, mass spectroscopy, and reaction
mechanisms; I remember minute details from the amount of time I spent in the
cramped quarters of the lab. On that merry-go-round and even just five years
ago, I never saw the toll placed on both sides of my family.
I remember mealtimes with my cousin in the siheyuan, the courtyard, by the house
we used to live in Huaiyin. Today, I can imagine the glow of the sun and the
scent of the greasy, fried delicacies of the vendors just an alley away. I hear
the bustle of the cars, but mainly pedestrians and bicycles going to work in the
city. But most of all, I feel the care of my grandmother and my aunt, feeding
both my cousin and me while we watched the birds fly through the hazy sky.
Today, the setting is different - a rural New England town, surrounded by the
vivid colors of falling leaves. My childhood has never stayed far behind. I now
know about the sacrifices that my parents made on my behalf. They never heard my
first words, saw my first steps, nor did they share the first bits of my
childhood. But in the end, all the sacrifices were worth the effort, something I
note with more insight every year: I can now see a chain of goodwill, one that
has made me see the benevolence in people.
In coming to America, I have one memory that sticks out among the rest. Flying
into a city, one whose name has become lost to me, I once again saw the bright
lights. They were the lights of a new country and a new life. I didn't know why
this memory always stood out at the time, but today, I do. I've lived two lives
- the first began with the lights and an apartment, the second with the lights
and an airplane. Today, I bridge the gap between the two, and I see that I am
fortunate to have two lives and people who care in each of them.
This was written by a student applying to a business program
The current financial recession irks me. At the heart of the crisis that has
gripped my community, the nation and the world is dishonesty, avarice and
uncertainty. It is more than upsetting to recognize that unsavory business
practices have hurt so many people across the globe. Not only does it undermine
the basis on which business should be conducted, but it also goes against my own
ethical code.
I have built a successful company from scratch without the assistance of mom,
dad, or uncle based on fair and honest business practices. I take great pride in
the report cards I've received from the people with whom I do business. Over the
last four years, I have received a perfect "feedback score" from all of my eBay
customers. By perfect, I mean that every item I have sold arrived on time,
shipping charges were deemed fair, the items were properly portrayed, and
buyer-seller communication was excellent. I don't claim that these practices are
ingenious or innovative, but in my field of work the abundance of chicanery is
unsettling.
It was four years ago that I re-acquainted myself with my old elementary school
love, baseball cards. I spent an inordinate amount of time researching and
buying everything pertaining to baseball cards. Some would consider instant
messaging fellow card traders in Japan at 3 a.m. (our time) about sell-values a
cause for concern. I didn't; my alarm was set for 2:55 a.m. and by 3:15 a.m. the
transaction was completed and I was back to sleep.
It wasn't too long before buyers and sellers in both the Japanese and American
markets started to rely on my company. My office was my bedroom, my research
center was the family laptop, and my distributor was the United States Postal
Service. While most of my friends were writing on each other's Facebook Wall, I
was on beckett.com researching the price of a 1955 Topps Sandy Koufax card. I
was already aware of my obsessive personality, so I did not see any problem in
the fact that I could list the value of any card from the 1940s. Picasso had his
blue period and his rose period, I was in my baseball cards period.
The baseball card world is home to a plethora of fascinating opportunities and
colorful people (to say the least), but it is unfortunately overrun by crooks
and cheats. Whether it's lying about the value and rarity of a card or
misleading a prospective buyer about its condition, ubiquitous thieves are at
both card shows and online auctions. Seeing middle school students lose as much
as $500 to these online con artists made me realize that I wanted to be the
Martin Arrowsmith of the baseball card world. I did not turn a $1,500 investment
into $10,000 by simply employing savvy business principles. Ethical business
conduct played the primary role that led to a 567% growth in my business. Buyers
have flocked to me because they know I am an honest broker. I have formed
valuable friendships at card shows and online. Colleagues know they can count on
me and they are willing to return the favor when needed.
The year my company began to flourish was my junior year. It was the same year
that I finally started to tap into my true potential as a student. Was it a mere
coincidence? I had found a passion that reinforced the value of honesty; a
passion that motivated and focused me, and it translated to all aspects of my
life.
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Powerpoint Presentations |
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We're the first SAT test prep company in the
nation to use PowerPoint presentations in a prep class. Click here to try one of
our slides to see how it helps to visualize and understand the problem. By
employing this method we can cover 20 percent more math problems than when we
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Let Us Show You How
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$11 billion in merit-based scholarships is available from colleges. College
Planning Partnerships' students have garnered as much $100,000 in merit based
money because of their high SAT & ACT scores.
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Test Your SAT Vocabulary
15 Words Spell the Difference
Between 650-800
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We have the key to the College Board's word bank and we'd like to share it with
you. College Planning Partnerships has reviewed over 50 SATs dating back to 1994
and discovered that the College Board employs the same opaque words over and
over. Take one of our SAT vocabulary tests now to measure the strength of your
vocabulary.
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