Parents: What Gift Are You Giving Your Child with the Art of College Seminar?

A secret weapon.

This year, 13 million students will graduate from high school. Of those who go to college, 52% will drop out.

Often, it is the high achievers who suffer the most unexpected setbacks when competition is fierce and standards are high. Poor grades result from being unprepared to integrate classroom expectations with social pressures. Not anticipating the hidden traps of college culture sabotages what could have been fine and successful careers.

Even students who eventually graduate may suffer debilitating stresses along the way, eroding self-confidence and affecting their ability to face future challenges.

Tragically, some consequences are even more serious than failing grades. In the last 30 years, suicide rates have doubled in female students and tripled in male students.

If you could give your child a single tool that can prepare him for the hidden opportunities, or shield her from the unpredictable challenges of college, would you? If you had the ability to gift your child with secrets that could serve as both power and protection through college challenges, would you take advantage of it?

College places a huge and unsettling distance between parents and children at a crucial transition in a student’s growth. However much you would like to advise, and however much they would benefit from your advice, you simply cannot be right there.  

How can you ensure that essential skills to thrive in college are sent off as one of your child’s most precious possessions? Laptops, iPods, favorite clothes and comforting bedding may be the obvious luggage to go, but have they taken along essential secrets to college success, vigilance, wisdom and attentiveness?

The Art of College Seminar is designed to serve as a link between the vision you see for your child, and the vision your child sees for himself.

What would you do if you were, shockingly, confronted by your first F?

How would you deal with an overwhelming workload, a professor whose expectations you cannot understand, an unforeseen accusation of plagiarism, an annoying roommate, denial of membership into a coveted social group, or even a painful personal rejection?

How would you approach the terrifying quandary of being on the wrong track altogether halfway through college? Few students travel a straight path, but it is those who feel psychologically prepared, and personally ahead of the game who weather the storms and ride the waves.

The Art of College seminar reveals strategies for success, illuminates the most effective learning techniques, and eliminates tendencies that derail innumerable college careers.

You will:

• explore how your brain really works in relation to the many, varied subjects and the vast amount of information that will confront you through the years.;
  

• get hints on what professors really expect from you, how professors’ lecturing styles differ, and what you should expect from your classes, and yourself;
  

• learn the importance of mastering not only the practicalities of college, but also your unique learning style;
  

• gain insight into how you can optimize your college years and reassess why you are going to college, how it will affect your life, and how you can re-imagine your future.

The Art of College will help you ‘find your bliss;’ discover your strengths and successfully navigate your chosen path to become a happy, productive and successful individual.