Finding the Best Fit with Enhanced Prep

Here at Enhanced Prep, we always strive to provide world-class tutoring services. We hold to this promise from the start by only hiring tutors with a minimum of 5 years’ experience in their respective fields. This ensures that our students will only receive the most skilled, professional help when they come to us. This is of the utmost importance when seeking guidance for the college selection process, as choosing the right institution is a decision that will resonate for the rest of a student’s life. Enhanced Prep's tutors can provide the support and guidance students need to make this important decision. In fact, an impressive 95% of our students get into their dream schools with our help.

Personalized Guidance On College Selection

When any of our tutors begin working with their students, they always prioritize getting to know each one personally. This allows us to focus on the whole student, giving a deeper understanding of their individual strengths and weaknesses. By knowing more about our students, our tutors can determine what strategies will work best for them to maximize their chances of getting into their dream schools.

Support with College Applications

Applying to many colleges can be a long and complicated process and one that is difficult and confusing for many students to complete on their own. Whether these applications require supporting documents, writing samples, or any other supplementary materials, our professional tutors at Enhanced Prep are always well-versed in the process and how best to help students through it.

Essay Coaching

Our tutors know that every student will have individual strengths and weaknesses. We understand that writing essays for college admissions can be a stressful and labor-intensive task, and thus can use this understanding of our students as individuals to help them achieve their highest potential here. Whether our students are struggling with what to write about, how to improve their syntax or verbiage, or any other aspect of their college essays, we’re here to help!

SAT/ACT Prep

The ACT and SAT are common college admission exams that institutions use to determine whether students are at a high enough level of comprehension in key areas to gain admission and, in some cases, be eligible for scholarship opportunities. The content areas of the ACT include mathematics, reading, writing, and science, whereas the SAT only assesses reading, writing and language, and mathematics. In any case, the scope of the information assessed on these exams can be difficult for students to master and review leading up to their test dates. This is exactly what our tutors at Enhanced Prep are here for. We work with every student to create a unique game plan that shows them what content they need to focus on the most and what test-taking strategies will work best for them. With our help, every student can achieve their goals and get into the school of their dreams!

Help Navigating the Admissions Process

Throughout the college admissions process, there are many different deadlines that students are expected to meet. These can include deadlines for the applications themselves, scholarships, housing, and so much more. To ensure that none of these are missed, nor any important information that can help students improve the strength of their applications, it is important to have a professional on their side. Having helped tens of thousands of students through this process at many different institutions, our tutors are intimately familiar with what is expected of them and how best to tackle it all.

The Role of Parents In The College Selection Process

Parents of students play a key role in the application process for college, as they can help push them to reach for their full potential and to understand what they want and need in a university. That’s why we always pride ourselves on maintaining constant and consistent communication between the student, tutor, and parents during the college selection process here at Enhanced Prep. By doing this, we ensure that everyone invested in a student’s success understands what the student needs to be successful, ensuring that the best choice is made for their future.

Providing Support and Encouragement

All of Enhanced Prep’s tutors understand that the college selection and application process can be very trying for students, and that they may become discouraged when faced with any unexpected roadblocks along the way. When this happens, we become more than just mentors; we become the student’s personal cheer squad! We work tirelessly to provide solutions to any problems that our students face and to ensure that they stay on their feet and reach their highest potential with our help.

Encouraging Student Independence

Going away to college and living away from parents, friends, and family can be a scary prospect for many students. As such, mental preparation for this change may be necessary for a student to feel comfortable with moving forward. Our tutors at Enhanced Prep can help to mentor each student in this area by providing them with moral support, valuable information, and by clarifying any concerns that they have about the application process itself. Enhanced Prep tutors share in the excitement and fun that await them at college.

Identifying Personal Priorities for College Selection

Each tutor at Enhanced Prep listens to their students’ input to understand what they want to get out of their college experience, including their goals after graduation. Armed with this information, we can help each student explore different universities and the pros and cons of attending them relative to their individual goals and needs. Our primary objective is always to help students achieve their goals, so give us a try today and let us help you reach yours too!

Academic Factors

For career-driven students, the quality of a university’s academic programs is often of the utmost importance. Our tutors can help compile information on targeted rankings of different universities that their students are looking into to simplify the decision and help them find the right fit with ease.

Majors and Programs

The first thing that any student needs to look for when researching different colleges is which ones offer the major or program that they wish to study in. It is important that students determine not only which universities offer their desired majors, but those that are accredited and are ranked highly for these programs. Our tutors can help students to research this and create a ranked list of where they should apply.

Faculty Quality

Beyond just finding universities with majors that they want, students should find those with experienced faculty that provide the highest quality of education possible in these areas. This will often be reflected through student reviews, college rankings, and accreditations of the institutions in question. All of these factors can be researched and provided to students here at Enhanced Prep. Our tutors know where to find information such as this where students may not think to look.

Social and Cultural Aspects

Equally or even more important than academic factors for some students is the culture of their prospective universities. Being able to thrive socially and make life-long connections can help to improve a student’s career prospects, and thus it is important for them to have an environment that is conducive to this. Enhanced Prep’s tutors are familiar with different universities and the resources that can show students what they are like, allowing them to make sound decisions.

Campus Life

Campus life in any university includes the demographics of the students that attend them and extracurricular activities and clubs. This information can often be found on the websites of universities and other resources, all of which our tutors are familiar with and able to help students navigate. By selecting a university with the right atmosphere, students can improve their prospects significantly.

Location

The location of a university can also be a very important factor for students to consider. Staying close to home can help students remain integrated in the culture that they are familiar with (if that's what they want), and can keep them close to family and friends at home. Conversely, some students may desire a new experience and will thrive in an unfamiliar setting. Our tutoring team gets to know every student personally and listens to their feedback, and so we can help everyone choose the right location to suit their personal needs.

Researching Colleges and Comparing Options

The process of looking into the qualifications of different universities and comparing this information between them can be time-consuming and stressful for students to complete without any prior experience in doing so. Having helped many students across 22 countries, our tutors are familiar with how to effectively carry out this kind of research, and quickly. We can walk any student through every step of this process to help them make the right decision for their future.

College Rankings and Reviews

There are multiple facets to rankings, including feedback from current and past students, national, regional, and statewide rankings, and any special awards or recognition that they have received. This is a lot of information for students to find, and doing this for every college they are considering can be daunting. However, tutors at Enhanced Prep know how to streamline this research process and consolidate information to make it easier to understand.

The Importance of Timing and Planning

Beyond finding the best-rated universities, students must also formulate a plan for when they will need to submit different important applications and documents for all of the different universities that they’re considering. At every step of this process, our tutors can sit down with students and focus on their most immediate needs to ensure that they never miss any important deadlines. This takes the extra stress out of the student’s hands, letting them focus on more important things in the meantime.

Creating a Balanced College List

Determining what schools to apply for is about more than just finding which institutions look the best and applying to them. Students need to compile lists of schools that are centered around their qualifications, such as GPA, admissions test scores, and funds. Beyond this, students’ lists should be tiered, thus giving them separate smaller options to choose from under different sets of circumstances. This allows the student to be prepared for all situations ahead of time so that they can avoid undue stress later.

Safety, Match, and Reach Schools

All schools in a student’s list can be classified as safety, match, or reach schools. Safety schools are those that students are likely overqualified for, meaning that they have a guarantee of being admitted if they apply. Match schools are those that students are qualified for, giving them a good chance but not a guarantee of being admitted should they apply. Finally, reach schools are those for which students may be underqualified or qualified for, but have limited admissions relative to their demand. These schools will have a lower chance of giving admission to students and thus are usually their dream schools. Implementing these tiers allows students to have fallbacks if other options fail. If a reach school admits them, then they can take this. If not, they can look to their match or safety schools instead to ensure that they can continue their education at a good institution for them. Our tutors can help every student create a tiered list such as this, providing extra structure in their college search.

Avoiding Common Mistakes

When searching for the right college, there are many mistakes that students may stumble into. These can include giving too much priority to reach or safety schools, waiting until deadlines to submit applications, and rushing through writing essays. Whatever the case, our tutors have extensive experience with the process of finding and applying to the right universities and can help students avoid making unnecessary mistakes along their journey. Give us a try for yourself today!

Frequently Asked Questions

How can Enhanced Prep help me find the best college for me?

At Enhanced Prep, we get to know each of our students personally so that we can focus on the whole student. This means that we always keep in mind the larger scope of each student’s ambitions, including their plans for after college. Beyond this, we ensure that students, parents, tutors, and advisors work as a team, thus helping us to guide each student toward making the right college choice for themselves.

How does Enhanced Prep support students during the application process?

Our tutors provide students with everything that they need to apply for college with ease, including resources to find information about their desired institutions and moral support when they become overwhelmed. When facing this process, students at Enhanced Prep can rest assured that they always have an entire team of mentors standing behind them, all of whom are ready to help them when they need it. Whether students are prepping for entrance exams, writing college essays, working on applications themselves, or comparing universities, our tutors know exactly how to help.

What role should parents play in the college selection process?

First and foremost, parents should be available to support their students through the college application process, meaning that they listen to what the student wants to do, and then provide them with extra help when they need it. Another important role of parents in this process is to take their children on tours of their prospective colleges so that they can get a better idea of what each one is like to make a more sound decision. Most importantly though, parents can provide students with moral support that can help keep them motivated to chase their dreams and make them become a reality!