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    The Sky is the Limit
    The Sky is the Limit
    The Sky is the Limit
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    The Sky is the Limit

    By Nicole Lee

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    This comprehensive student manual was designed to cover all the vital areas that my students have both struggled and excelled in. Hence I discuss --(1) Preparing for college from Grade 9 with the right activities. (2) Helpful college application facts (3) How to use the most effective studying techniques. (4) What is a good portfolio. (5) Successful admission essays that best express one's strengths and goals. (6) Dealing with academic stress & test anxiety.
    Having been a teacher and student mentor as well as college application essay adviser, I have met and assisted so many different archetypes of students. Academics aside, almost all of them have shared life challenges that are unique and that also exhibit a few commonalities. The mentioned students are now a part of some very competitive programs such as UBC Medicine, McGill Business, Berkeley Engineering, Wharton Business and Harvard Psychology. In the end, I hope each one of you will discover the tools to live your student life successfully and meaningfully.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherNicole Lee
    Release dateOct 25, 2018
    ISBN9780463852255
    The Sky is the Limit
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    Nicole Lee

    I live in a small Tx city, I spend my days hanging with my family while I study for my teaching certificate. Writing is my first love contact me at authornicolelee@gmail.com anytime

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      The Sky is the Limit - Nicole Lee

      The Sky’s The Limit

      By Nicole Lee

      Copyright 2018-2019 Nicole Lee

      Smashwords Edition

      Smashwords Edition Licence Notes

      Copyright 2018-2019 by Nicole Lee.

      Thank you kindly for buying this book. This book is licensed and made very affordable for your personal enjoyment only. This book may not be copied, re-sold or given away to other people. If you would like to share this book with another person, please purchase an additional and affordable (sorry to repeat this word) copy for each recipient. If you’re reading this book and did not purchase it, or if it was not purchased for your use only, then please return to your favorite ebook retailer and purchase your own copy. Brief excerpts are allowed only in the case of reviews and certain other non-commercial uses permitted by copyright law. Thank you for respecting the research and writing of this author.

      All Rights Reserved. World Rights

      Table of Contents

      Testimonies

      Your Student Evolution

      Chapter 1 Success and Who You Are

      Chapter 2 Discover or Affirm Your Dream

      Chapter 3 Vital Admission Facts You Need to Know

      Chapter 4 Admissions Tests

      Chapter 5 To Live Happily and Meaningfully

      Chapter 6 How to Prepare for College

      Chapter 7 Steps to Take Nearing College Enrollment

      Chapter 8 Admission Essays & Recommendation Letters

      Chapter 9 A Good Student Resume/Portfolio

      Chapter 10 Vital Study Habits

      Chapter 11 Coping Methods

      Chapter 12 Solving Daily Problems

      Finally

      Addendum

      Acknowledgements

      About the Author

      Connect With Me Online

      Testimonies

      I've since heard back and received acceptances from all my graduate school applications, including Harvard and Yale! They are all my dream universities and the programs that I really want to pursue for my graduate study. . .When I was frustrated as a high school student, your support and patience helped and encouraged me the whole time. I have met many people through my studies in North America, but it's you who has really guided me! Thank you deeply! -- J.Z. (Harvard University & Yale Master Program Acceptance)

      I can't believe that the first day you taught me was like years ago. Time really flies... I really love your teaching, it's so useful, to the point and you always know what I need...What should I say?! You are fantastic! If it wasn't for you, I could have been struggling for my LPI test. If it wasn't for you, I could have had a much tougher time learning this alien language. I am so glad you are teaching more and more students because there will be more students benefiting from you! All the best. --Tiffany W (UBC Engineering)(Now working with NVIDIA, California)

      Since our Skype sessions, I was admitted to Harvard and Princeton and chose to pursue my studies at Princeton. -- Wang R. (Harvard & Princeton, Post-Professional Master Program)

      Thank you for helping J.L. He has been accepted to all the universities we applied to. He also received scholarships from six universities including UBC and University of Toronto. He will continue his studies at UBC Engineering next year. Please stay in touch. We are so happy! -- L.L (Scholarships from UBC, U.T and Waterloo, Engineering)

      I am happy to share this news with you. We did it!! I have received acceptances from MIT Master of Engineering and Stanford Master of Science both for Structural Engineering. I thank you very much for all your help all along!!! Without you, my ideals couldn't have been elucidated so clearly and therefore I wouldn’t have been able to convince any readers at all. I thank you, thank you and thank you. I am so glad that I have met you and been able to learn from you so much, especially when I was in Vancouver. I miss those days when I could sit on your couch and watch my sister go through her lessons. Wow -- Time really flies. -- CYW (Stanford University, Engineering)

      Thank you for having taught me for over a year now. Since then, my SAT score has improved by more than 400 points. All my friends in your class at school like you very much! Whenever I ask you a question, you immediately explain the answer to me in the most straightforward way. In addition to grammar, I love the way you teach writing. Through the process of discussing and editing essays together, I have gained knowledge in diverse fields, such as literature and philosophy. I appreciate that you delve into every student's strengths and identity. Besides English, you've helped me so much with my application essay and my portfolio. I like how you help make each student's application distinguishable from all others. Thanks to your encouragement and teaching methods, I have been admitted to the Architecture School of Cornell University. You don't give up on anyone and you have confidence in every student. Your faith in us pushes us to do the best in achieving our goals. You are the best teacher that I have ever encountered and your teaching will affect me for a life time.--Jessie (Cornell)

      I just wanted to let you know that I know where I'll be going...I'm going to Harvard University in Boston, USA!!! Can you believe it? All those days that we were in front of the computer grinding our brains for words...I just wanted to say thank you for all your help. I don't deserve to take all the credit for this, because I have received so much help and encouragement from others along the way. And you are one of them. Again ,thanks and hope to hear from you!! -- Maria K (Harvard University)

      You are the one teacher I've known for the longest time! 5 years? I really have a big THANKS that I owe you. I truly appreciate your help in making me an A student (from being an F student). It has been a great pleasure to learn from you and even discuss PS2 with you! You are the superest-duperest awesomest teacher, the one with the cherry on the top! -- Jacky W (Cornell University)

      Your Student Evolution

      Welcome to your student evolution. I have been asked many times to privately teach or mentor (or both) students of all ages. A large number of students and parents first met me through the school I was teaching at. When I first began this work, little did I realize that some parents wanted me to help address issues that normally a counselor would. A fair number of these students were either video game fanatics or were not participating in class (and quite often at home as well). This entails being involved with a student’s academic performance as well as a student’s approach to his or her school life. The first part involves tutoring hours which has swallowed a lot of my time especially with the International Baccalaureate students as I always had to read and teach a minimum of 5 books and also discuss such areas as Theory of Knowledge. The second part involved actively listening to a student explain their frustration and sometimes triumphs in school.

      When I was planning this book, I was trying to structure the content and order of the chapters. As I have always seen a student as a multi-faceted person, I knew from the start that I wanted to address the various areas that needed some insight and that if dealt with properly, can help a teenager feel good about themselves. What is obvious is that students are often overwhelmed with work and tests that mysteriously seem to fall on the same day! They also deal with extra curriculum activities which can make the day a long one. Then there are the challenges in terms of being in a clique or wanting to be in one. When I think back to school in my time, I am in wonder that certain things never change. However, when you add to the mix, the omnipresence of Social Media, the social pressure has increased in ways that I suspect my students don’t even realize. Hence my mentoring has covered many areas including portfolio and relationship advice.

      Talking about school performance and college preparation are obviously a key part of what I do. But I’ve also had students burst into tears or speak in hushed tones about everything from their love life to their overbearing parents. And I have had students who ask me if they could get away with writing application essays with a little bit of fabrication (eg. Could their perfectly healthy mother suddenly be dying of cancer or meet with a serious car accident? (I remember these some of these students fondly and with slight horror.)

      I often fear for the sanity and sanctity of every teenager having to deal with what they really do deal with. I hence decided to include information garnered from my adult coaching experience and my counselling education. So, you will also read about how a young person can find inner peace and how one can go about affirming one’s calling in life. This is because I strongly feel it’s important to know why one is doing something before one figures out how one is going to do it. And so, you will find some rather (educational) psychology-based chapters put together with serious academic information I have gathered that will explain both GPAs and incredibly effective study habits. The application essays and personal anecdotes will help you see the range of archetypes that have all completed high school successfully and who have somehow done it their own way.

      The reason why I even bothered to put all this down on paper is that my students have told me much of what they have learned has also helped them develop intellectually and emotionally. This warms my heart and it reminds me that emotionally, physically and mentally healthy students make for flourishing young human beings who will in their own time undoubtedly make their mark in the world.

      Enjoy.

      Chapter 1

      Success and Who You Are

      There are numerous students that come across my mind when I think of what success means.

      There is one who since he was Grade 9 had a curiosity that made him borrow a wide cross section of books from the library covering inventors, economics and literary subjects. Mikey satisfied his own curious nature by spending hours online reading most especially about scientific accomplishments which then motived him to enter various science competitions from grade 10 onwards. At the same time, he would come over to my place and discuss Life of Pi and the meaning of life which got me more engaged conversationally than I have been with many classmates at school in his age range.

      I still recall an essay he once wrote about all the things he saw from his imaginary bird’s eye view. It was rather philosophical and poignant but not quite glancing off the edge of cornball. This mindset continued when he began his studies at Cornell. I know this as we kept in touch and Mikey would email me and share how he had become peer tutor to several students as well as friends to a few his professors! When it came to writing a reference letter for his master’s application to Stanford and MIT (which he finally received acceptances from), one professor wrote about Mikey’s discipline and devotion to discovery that made me smile. Nothing had changed. His verve for learning and unearthing new ideas was as fresh as when I had met him in Grade 9.

      I also think of a happy go lucky student, Tina, who was really your true outdoorsy Canadian girl who lived to play field hockey and frisbee, as well as camp and portage during the summer holidays. I loved her aura as Tina was always upbeat due to some sports activity she had just come from as well the handful of very strong friendships she had at a private girl’s school. This wasn’t always the case as she had her own apprehensions leaving another group of friends when she left public elementary school. This student was not a bookworm at all nor was she very disciplined.

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