How your teen can beef up their resume!

There are more colleges than there are shopping malls, Apple stores, and national parks, combined. With over 4000 colleges and universities, I can promise you that your teen WILL get into college. The average acceptance rate at colleges across the country is over 60%. 

Becoming appropriately involved in activities will help you in your admissions journey.  Every college-bound teen should be active in something at school and/or possibly outside of school. 

For example if a student belongs to a few clubs, organizations, athletics or  performing arts, and shows real commitment to those few, this will help boost the application.  

Not sure what this looks like? 

Choose 1-2 main activities that take up 3-10 hours per week in their high season. For example, service organization on campus, MUN, Robotics, school musical, a sport, Math or Writing Tutors, student government.

Then, if you combine that with 2-4 clubs that you enjoy but likely don’t take more than 5 hours per month, such as Book Club, Art Club, Diversity Club, Compost Club, etc. and/or something outside of school like: Church, Youth & Government, Girl or Boy Scouts or something similar  -- You are good to go!! 

Click below to listen to my podcast about beefing up the resume if: 

• Your teen has at least ONE college on their list that admits fewer than 50% of their applicant pool,  which is considered  a ‘selective’ college.
• Or if your teen has at least ONE college on their list admitting under 35%, which are considered ‘highly selective’ colleges. 
• OR any colleges admitting fewer than 10% of applicants, considered ‘most selective’ or ‘dream’ colleges

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