the single most important question that
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hi I’m JD wise Alec I’m the founder of AZ
college planning com I want you to know
what the single most important question
is that you must ask every college that
question is how do I qualify for your
biggest scholarship what do I got to do
to earn your biggest scholarship what do College Consulting Scottsdale AZ
I need to do to get this so
qualification indicates your ability for
admission so if you qualify for the
scholarship most likely you’ll be
admitted into the college or that
university so when you’re asking that
question some colleges will be vague
some colleges will give specific
parameters, College Consulting Scottsdale AZ some colleges will have
additional scholarship forms to fill out
granted most colleges don’t have
additional scholarship forms you just
submit the application submit your trip
your transcripts and submit your test
scores and that will potentially qualify
you for those scholarships and stuff
granted there are some schools that have
a second or a separate scholarship
application form we need to ask and find
out if they require that or not some
colleges do not give out merit-based
scholarships at all no matter how
incredible the student is so these are
important questions to ask says the best College Consulting Scottsdale AZ so it
increase your chances to increase your
chances of admission and scholarships be
in the top ten percent of students that
are admitted get it be in the top 10% of
GPAs of students that are admitted at
that particular college be in the top
10% of SE t and a CT scores the higher
your grades and the higher your test
scores are the more options you’re going
to have now but JD what about me I’ve
got I’m a C student what about that well
even see students can be in the top 10%
by identifying the colleges where you’re
going to stand out and be in that top
tier there’s there’s colleges at every
level when you know College Consulting Scottsdale AZ okay it’s just a little bit of
research that we’ve got to do to find
those colleges of course the higher your G P A and the higher your test scores are
the more options you’re going to have so
do the best you can in school get the
best grades you can and that why is it
important to be in the top 10% or in one
in one or more category and those College Consulting Scottsdale AZ
categories can include grades GPA test
scores talent talent and ability so that
be musical athletic artistic and
leadership okay the reason why it’s
important to be in those categories is
because of college rankings and every
College of values college rankings
incredibly and there’s a bunch of
different publications that are
available with that so here’s an example
of one of those US News and rule and
World Report best colleges okay colleges
will do everything and anything they can
to manipulate and control their numbers
so they can increase their rankings and
if we know if we know that now what what
can we do as students to present
ourselves to these colleges so colleges
will do everything and anything they can
to control and manipulate and increase
their rankings in one or more category
colleges want their rankings to go up
because that relates to more
applications and more applications
relates to more money so the essence of
why colleges want to be ranked more is
this that colleges will make more money
and you have to understand that colleges
are a business and they’re going to do
things for business purposes and part of
that is trying to get the highest rank
they can within one or more category so
the number one state school is Cal
Berkeley in 2011 fifty two thousand nine
hundred and twenty students applied to
Berkeley in 2015 that number jumped to
70 8811 students who applied to Berkeley
now during that time frame from 2011 to
2015
the question is did Berkeley increase
the number of freshman seats and the
answer is no they’re still holding at
about 4,000 freshman seats so let’s
let’s do a little bit of math on this so
the application fee for 2014 was seventy
dollars so seventy dollars x 70 3711
applications if we do the math on that
that’s five and a half million dollars
that was generated in application fees
that’s huge that’s a lot of revenue that
was generated there so colleges do want
to increase their rankings because that
will attract more attention and with
more attention will come more
applications and more application fees
colleges want more and more students to
apply and they’ll do almost anything to
get students to apply and they’ll even
do things that are immoral and even
illegal things and falsify information
and that so because college is ranked
because college rankings impacts
applications and enrollment college will
do anything they can to increase those
numbers and they’ll seek out students
who will increase their rankings in one
or more category so there are things
that we can control and there are things
that we can’t control within the
application rankings category so the
things that we can control we want to do
the best that we can with those things
so now that you know the question and
the question is what’s your big ass
scholarship and how do we qualify for it
now you know what the question is and
you know the why why is that important
to know that so that we can get the most
scholarship dollars and why rankings are
important to colleges now we need to
know what the what is how and what do we
do to present ourselves to market
ourselves to the College Consulting Scottsdale AZ
colleges and we want to properly market
and promote ourselves to colleges so
that colleges will say yes we need you
to come to our school because you you’re
the type of student that will increase
our rankings in one or more category I
know those category can be all over the
place it could be as simple as we’re
looking for more male students or more
female students or it could be also as
simple as we’re looking for more
students from the state of Arizona and
our college is in Arkansas or in Ohio or
wherever because when a college
identifies an out-of-state student they
can come back to this publication here
and they can say we have geographic
diversity we’ve got kids from here we’ve
got kids from there we’ve got kids from
Arizona we’ve got kids from all over and
that will help that College increase
their rankings in that diversity
category okay so we want to identify
colleges where we’re going to stand out
among the other candidates and there’s
definitely some things that we can do to
control that so at AZ college planning
and AZ college planning and our staff
here’s what we’re going to do is we’re
going to help you your students and help
you create a list of colleges and we’re
going to help your student identify a
list of careers will show your student
how to investigate these careers so they
will so that when they do step foot on
the college campus they’re more
solidified this is the direction that I
want to go into because if you look at
the average college student and don’t be
average the average college student
changes are major two or three times
because they haven’t done any of this
research they haven’t looked at careers
or any of that other stuff they go in
and take a class because oh that class
sounds fun that class sounds exciting
they take that class and realize that’s
not exactly what I thought it was going
to be so will help your student research
and investigate careers so they’re more
solidified with the direction that they
want to go into College Consulting Scottsdale AZ
and stick with that major for four years
and graduate on time will help your
student generate a list of majors and
help your student identify those careers
will handcraft a list of colleges where
your student will stand out to
effectively reduce the net cost of
college we’re going to we’re going to
meet with your students and meet with
them one-on-one and help help them
create an individual game plan so that
they stand out amongst the rest of the
applicant pool so not only are they
admitted but they get some scholarship
dollars as well will help your student
develop his or her passion will help
prove and provide counsel and some
classroom discussion as well will help
build resumes will help with
applications will even help them with
their essays no we’re not going to write
the essays but will tell you exactly
what to write how to write it and how to
really craft that essay so that you
stand out amongst the rest of the
applicant pool we’re also going to meet
with parents and review data so that you
can maximize need-based aid and there
are certain things that we can do to
control and qualify for the most
need-based aid and we can talk about
that in the personal consultations that
will help will also help with the
financial aid forms making sure that
those are properly filled out correctly
and on time those are two very important
things that we need to look at so here’s
a couple examples my first example here
is Jonathan and Jonathan’s going to
George fox university which is up in the
Portland area when Jonathan his family
came in he said we helped him apply to
those call to a handful of colleges and
he was admitted to George Fox and he
said that’s my number one school that’s
the school that I want to go and go to
and Jonathan and his parents and I had a
discussion and his parents said we will
help pay for college we’re going to pay
this much for you to go to college and
then anything above that
that’s on you Jonathan you’re going to
have to earn that in scholarships grants
loans or whatever else well after having
this discussion with Jonathan and his
parents we found out that there was a
five-thousand-dollar gap between what
his parents were going to give and what
Jonathan earned there was still a gap on
the top there and Jonathan says I really
want to go to that school what do i do I
said let’s call them on the phone and
here’s what I want you to say I I am
short five thousand dollars I really
want to go to your school and you know
what he did that and magically $5,000
additional five thousand dollars of
scholarships appeared ok here’s another
story of Tanner and Tanner went to the
military one of the military academies
when Tanner came into the office he says
JD I only want to apply to the Air Force
Academy because that’s the only school
that I want to go to and I said let’s
apply to all of the military academies
and every ROTC program and have a backup
game plan he agreed he came into the
office and he says JD I’ve been doing
some research on the Air Force Academy
and i found out that the Air Force
Academy has a minimum a CT score of 25
I’ve got a 26 what do you think I said
they’re going to take your application
they’re going to throw it in the trash
you need to be more than the minimums
and I encouraged him to retake the tests
again and I have an outstanding
excellent s80 and a CT prep program
check out the website for that he went
through the program and bumped up his
score I can’t remember exactly what he
ended up with a 29 and that long story
short is he attended the military
academy it was the United States
Merchant Marine Academy in Kings Point
New York he just graduated from there
this last year and is now moving on with
his good stuff and the last story I want to
talk to you about is this one and this
is at Louisiana Tech and Jeffrey’s going
to Louisiana Tech and he’s getting a
full ride scholarship there and when I
talk about full ride and this is a
question you want to ask every college
is what’s your biggest scholarship and
how do I qualify for it and some
colleges will say oh yeah we’ve got a
full ride but that’s only going to cover
tuition when I talk about full ride when
I talk about full ride what I mean is
that mom and dad pay for an airline
ticket and pizza money everything else
is covered by the college and that’s
exactly what Jeffrey is getting at
Louisiana Tech he’s getting a full ride
at that school ok so give us a call you
can call us on our 800 number you can
call it you can go to our website AZ
college playing com we’ve got all my
contact information there I’d love to
talk with you and your student and
really help your student get into some
great colleges get some outstanding
excellent scholarships and graduate from
college on time without any student loan debt that’s exactly where we want our kids to start