What you'll learn
- It prepares high school students to become college ready and learn tools and techniques to be successful in getting in to their choice colleges.
Requirements
- None
Description
High school counseling teams in most public high schools are stretched - and private college counselors are expensive. High School to College is an in-depth course on college readiness to develop knowledge and skills in high school students in four areas:
1. Branding and Career Planning. Students identify interests and strengths, and map them to potential careers. Students explore macroeconomic indicators to research in-demand occupations and industries that are upward-trending, exploring college as a route to rewarding careers.
2. Postsecondary Institution Analysis: Students evaluate the best institution type (Career School, 2-year or 4-year College) which meets their career goals.
3. Outcome-based College Selection. For selective colleges, students consider factors in college admission decisions and graduation outcomes to quantitatively evaluate their chances - and develop strategies - to get into choice colleges.4. College Admission Tips and Tricks - Students learn about different ways to maximize their chances of gaining admission to their favorite colleges.
Who this course is for:
- High school students, families of high school students and first generation college families.
Course content
- Preview01:35
- Preview04:32
- Preview10:04
- 03:55Elite Colleges & Universities
- 06:27Selectivity and Yield
- 04:41Credit Hour Math
Instructor
![Rajkamal Rao](data:image/svg+xml,%3Csvg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" viewBox="0 0 64 64"%3E%3C/svg%3E){kind=avatar}
- 4.4 Instructor Rating
- 20 Reviews
- 104 Students
- 2 Courses
Rajkamal Rao heads a firm to counsel students aspiring to study in the US maximize their return on investment. The firm has helped hundreds of student clients win admission to top universities in the US, including such reputed institutions as the University of Pennsylvania, Dartmouth, Cornell, Carnegie Mellon, Duke, University of Illinois-Urbana, Texas A & M, USC, North Carolina State University, and Virginia Tech.
He is an active public speaker conducting awareness seminars on higher education and student camps. He has written a book on college selection and his blog has attracted nearly 60,000 hits from users worldwide.
Rajkamal writes a weekly column, "World View", for the Hindu's online portal for MBA students, one of the largest such sites in the world. He is also a columnist for
the Hindu BusinessLine, India's second largest financial newspaper. In 2013, he won the consulting firm McKinsey's global essay competition: "How can “innovation capitalism” drive India’s technological and economic development?"
A former management consultant, Rajkamal has executive-level client management experience at the world’s largest organizations. He holds an MBA from Carnegie Mellon University, an MS in Engineering from Villanova University and a BS in Engineering from Bangalore University.