Before School Starts: What Your Child Should Prioritise This Year
27th August · 7 UAE
Join Kevin, a Columbia University graduate and Senior Admissions Strategy Consultant, for a candid look at what actually separates a strong college profile from an average one. He will share how students can turn an academic interest into meaningful depth, prioritize the right activities at the right time, and shape a clearer, more authentic application story. Kevin will also explain what strategic candidacy building looks like in practice, and how the right guidance early on helps students approach their junior and senior years with more structure and purpose.
If your child is aiming for top US universities, this is worth understanding early.
If your child is aiming for top US universities, this is worth understanding early.
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Discover how the right priorities this year can shape a far more competitive application.
Join this exclusive session to learn how students can identify the right priorities by grade level, build a focused and authentic profile, and approach top US admissions with more purpose.
You will learn:
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How to identify the right academic and extracurricular priorities for your child's grade level
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What makes an application feel focused, authentic, and strategically built — not just busy
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Extra-curriculars timeline for different grade levels
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What ambitious students should start doing early to prepare for top US admissions
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About Elizabeth
Kevin is a Columbia University graduate with years of college admission consulting experience, having guided students into schools like Harvard, Stanford, Brown, Johns Hopkins, NYU, UCLA, UC Berkeley, Northwestern, USC, and Georgetown.He specializes in pre-med advising, competitive summer programs (YYGS, Stanford CNI-X, RISD Pre-College, LaunchX), and applications across STEM, Business, Political Science, and the humanities — with a focus on authentic narrative development and strategic candidacy building. A certified Google "Generative AI for Educators" expert, Kevin also mentors students through Oakland Promise, where he evaluates scholarship applications.
About Alex
Arria is a Brown University graduate with a B.A. in International Relations and Education Studies and extensive experience in university counselling. She has guided students to top institutions, including Stanford, Cornell, Brown, UC Berkeley, McGill, the University of Waterloo, and the University of Toronto. She has also overseen the IB Creativity, Activity, Service (CAS) program, where student projects received international recognition. Notably, three of her students were awarded the prestigious International Leader of Tomorrow (ILOT) fully funded scholarship at the University of British Columbia.
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Indigo Research mentors high school students to produce exceptional, publishable research. With a curriculum designed by Harvard and Oxford graduates, students work with top university faculty or PhD fellows, building intellectual depth and boosting their academic profile.
Our students achieve real outcomes – journal publications, competition wins, and admissions to the world’s leading universities. Indigo students have a 33% Ivy League acceptance rate – over three times the global average – and a 22% acceptance rate to Oxford and Cambridge.
