The College Trail Welcomes New Southern California Coordinator for its Tutoring Program

The College Trail has brought on Brad Sterling, an experienced educator, to support and manage its tutors as the tutoring program continues to grow in Southern California.

The College Trail has provided tutoring to junior high and high school students in Orange County for 12 years. This tutoring program has expanded to San Diego County to meet growing demand for The College Trail’s highly specialized and results-driven tutors.

Sterling brings a new level of professionalism and organization to this learning environment. He has a degree in Liberal Studies with an emphasis in Mathematics from Point Loma Nazarene University in San Diego and has spent years teaching mathematics and science.

With Sterling's background in education and shared passion for helping our students, we look forward to Brad’s ideas and focusing his energy towards broadening our market and developing best-in-class services.

Sterling will oversee an exciting and busy fall semester for The College Trail’s tutors and students.

For more information about The College Trail’s tutors and tutoring program, please contact us today or call us at (877) 270-4501.

The College Trail and Ivy West: New Partners in Standardized Test Preparation

The College Trail has partnered with Ivy West, an organization with 20 years of experience preparing students for standardized tests, to offer students throughout California in-home standardized test preparation that matches The College Trail’s teaching philosophy and dedication to its students.

For the past two decades, Ivy West has been the premier provider of one-on-one test preparation for the SAT, PSAT, SAT Subject Tests, ACT, and high school admissions tests. Their professional and certified tutors provide students with proven test-taking strategies that build confidence and maximize scores. Ivy West offers a range of programs that are designed to target the test preparation needs of individual students with instruction pacing and strategies that are tailored to students’ strengths, weaknesses, and testing habits. Tutors are matched to the personality and learning style of each student to help enhance the student’s learning experience.

The College Trail adheres to this same kind of teaching philosophy and takes into account each of its students’ needs and builds a customized plan to attain results-driven goals in the fields of standardized test preparation, in-home tutoring, and college admission counseling.

For more information about The College Trail’s services, please contact The College Trail today or call us (877) 270-4501.

Colleges Concerned About Freshman Enrollment

Summer melt is a normal part of the college admission process but, in uncertain economic times, this attrition of freshman students has become a cause for concern on some college campuses.

In an effort to meet enrollment numbers for this upcoming school year, colleges across the country have started increasing the number of admitted freshman and shoring up their waiting lists, according to an article in the Washington Post.

The Chronicle of Higher Education conducted a survey of 142 colleges and universities and found that private colleges have hedged their bets against the recession by admitting 8.7 percent more students for this school year. Public colleges have admitted 3.1 percent more students while the average freshman class has grown by about 2 percent.

College admission offices have also started more outreach programs for this year’s incoming freshman class so that they can encourage admitted students with weekly newsletters and personal phone calls.

"It's critical we hit the target of how many kids are coming to (Virginia) Tech in fall," said Mark Owczarski, a spokesman for Virginia Tech. With cutbacks in funding, "we'll need that tuition money," he said.

As the college admission process starts for another hopeful high school senior class this year, remember to take advantage of these new outreach programs many colleges have started. Since many colleges are investing more time than ever on admissions, they may have some additional programs or events available for a high school senior to attend that can help build his/her potential college list.

For more information on guiding your student through the college admissions process, contact The College Trail.