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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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Sam Rosensohn
Sam Rosensohn is the founder of College Planning
Partnerships, a college prep company that is known for its extraordinary results
and the care and attention it gives to each and every student.
Sam is a nationally recognized public school teacher. The U.S. Congress, the
Connecticut State Legislature, and statewide teacher organizations have
recognized Sam for excellence in the field of education.
Harvard University asked Sam this summer to participate in a research project
entitled, The College Access Collaborative. After completing a nationwide
search, Yale University's School of Management chose College Planning
Partnerships as a company for its graduate students to partner with.
Sam writes a widely-read newspaper column that is entitled, College 101.
The veteran public schoolteacher is a recipient of the James Madison Fellowship,
issued by the U.S. Congress to one teacher annually in the state of Connecticut.
The Connecticut State Dept. of Education asked Sam to help establish the
standards for the statewide interdisciplinary CAPT test issued to tenth graders.
The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History chose Sam to participate in
their Summer Seminar at Brown University. He was selected as a fellow for the
Amistad American Fellowship, done in conjunction with Yale University.
He is a recipient of the Connecticut Education Association's Presidential Award
for Human and Civil Rights for directing a student effort that freed over 25
slaves in the Sudan. Governor Rowland and the Connecticut Senate recognized Sam
for organizing a student movement that led to the creation of 16 bills to stem
student violence.
President Bill Clinton and U.S. Senator Christopher Dodd recognized Sam and his
students for influencing the Connecticut State Legislature on the Sheff vs.
O'Neill case. He is a recipient of the Connecticut Celebration of Excellence
Award.
Sam has written educational material for the New York Times Learning Network,
Prentice Hall, Peregrine Publishers, and the Hartford Courant. He has a Bachelor
of Arts Degree from Boston University. He was a newspaper reporter for The New
York Post for 10 years, taught for five years at John Winthrop Jr. High in Deep
River, served as the executive editor for five Shoreline Newspapers, and was the
academic director for an educational program started by Paul Newman.
When not tutoring or working on the next innovation to help students improve
their SAT or ACT scores, Sam is often on his road bike or by the water with his
wife of 21 years, Ann Louise Rosensohn.
Gary Burgard
 Gary Burgard has been an educator for nearly fifty years. After graduating from
Yale in 1959, he taught high school English, worked as an assistant high school
principal, became Principal of Wethersfield High School, and finished his school
career as Assistant Superintendent of New London Schools. More recently he has
worked as a Special Education tutor at Waterford High School and as an SAT and
LSAT tutor. He joined College Planning Partnerships in 2004.
Gary and his wife Cathy, also a teacher but more recently a librarian, went
through the parent side of college placement with their two sons Matthew
(Georgetown) and Timothy (Bucknell). Grandson Lucas and granddaughter Zoe now
occupy center stage.
Gary, who was accepted at Harvard University but chose to go to Yale because of
a better financial package, has an extraordinary intellect and knowledge base in
all areas known to the SAT, the ACT and beyond. When there's a question -
whether it's about math or grammar or science - Gary is the guy we go to. He has
been instrumental in helping us to continually find more productive ways to
reach our students and evaluate the productivity of our programs.
Kathryn Ryan
 Kathryn graduated form Georgetown University with a
bachelor's degree in math from Georgetown University and went on to earn a
masters degree in education at Harvard University. After teaching high school
math for ten years in Massachusetts and at the acclaimed Horace Mann School in
The Bronx, she settled in Ivoryton, Conn., with her husband John where they are
currently raising their three young children. Kathryn brings intelligence,
humor, insight, warmth and understanding to each and every tutorial. When not
tutoring students for the SAT or the ACT, Kathryn enjoys running and swimming,
and in the summer can often be found with her family sailing on the Connecticut
River. She is tireless and gives her students everything she's got - and that's
a lot.
Virginia “Gini” Nicholls
Gini Nicholls is a veritable dynamo. This veteran public
school teacher knows how to make a tutorial fun, instructive and brim with
energy. She helps students to find new ways to solve the math problems and to
complete more work at a faster pace than they thought possible. A Connecticut
College graduate, Gini earned a Masters of Education from Vanderbilt University
and a Sixth Year, Educational Leadership Degree from Southern Connecticut State
University. Since 2000, she has taught World History, UConn Economics and Civics
at Shelton High School. So why does she teach math for us? She teaches math
because it's a love of hers that she happens to be magical at.
Suzanne de Jongh
Suzanne de Jongh tutors the verbal portions of the SAT and the ACT. The
former New Jersey high school teacher, who now lives in Ivoryton with her
husband and two children, brings exceptional insight to the writing portion of
the exam. She worked as an on-line reader and scorer for the College Board. A
former newspaper reporter, Suzanne brings a love of language and an exceptional
ability to inform to each tutorial. She cares deeply about her students and is
quick to show them how to remedy the problems they encounter. She earned her BA
from Keene State College in Journalism, and her teaching certificate from
Southern Connecticut State University. When not tutoring, she is busy with her
children, ages 7 and 9, who are already receiving a modified version of SAT
preparation! Suzanne also teaches Sunday School, volunteers in various
organizations, and loves to run for exercise.
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Zac Rosensohn
Zac is a junior year at Wesleyan University. A
football player, an English major, a lover of music, Zac continues to help us to
find faster and more efficient ways to bring the lessons home to students.
Nearly all of our tutors are old enough to be our students' parents so it's
essential that we gain a young person's perspective on how we instruct. This
summer Zac was instrumental in creating a PowerPoint Presentation for the math
that allows us to cover more ground in math in each class. Prior to this
innovation there was not enough time to diagram every problem on the board. Zac
was also instrumental in helping create The Essay Clinic, a self-standing online
essay program. His sense of design and pace is impeccable. While little is
carved in stone, Zac is planning to join us full-time after he graduates from
Wesleyan. We hope he does because it seems to be a superior fit: he has always
been interested in teaching and business.
Mike Kapernaros
 Mike
is a junior at Macalester College. He took math classes at Wesleyan University
when he was in elementary school. He was ranked 15th in the nation in math in
the tenth grade. Despite having more math in his little pinky that most people
have in their entire beings, Mike is a down-to-earth football player at
Macalester, who also happens to be a champion scrabble player and a crazy
goofball when he decides it's time for huge laughter. He has worked with us - as
Zac Rosensohn has - to help us provide the easiest and most straightforward
forms of instruction for high school students. He has come up with alternative
ways to solve problems that many students immediately grasp. He has helped us to
develop curriculum, spot quizzes, and math assessments to determine if students
learned enough Algebra I, Geometry or Algebra II in school to do well on the
SAT. Mike was originally a student here (he taught us a lot) and has worked with
us for over three years. When Mike speaks, we listen.
Ann Louise
Rosensohn
 Ann Louise, wife of founder Sam Rosensohn, is the chief
financial officer. No business decision is made without it going by Ann Louise.
She does the books, pays the bills and works to keep our fees and tuitions as
low as possible. We have not increased our fees or tuition in four years. As a
working mom, she understands how hard it is to keep up with rising prices in a
down economy. While Ann Louise is the glue and the special ingredient that keeps
our enterprise smart, welcoming, cost efficient, she is a fine arts painter by
profession. A graduate of the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan, Ann Louise
shows her work locally. Nearly all of the art on the walls in our office has
been done by Ann Louise. She is the mother of Zac, who also works in the
business, and Trevor Rosensohn, a sophomore at Valley Regional HS in Deep River,
Conn.
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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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