Admission to an American college is based on a complex formula of factors, often difficult for families to understand. Once your child hits ‘send’ on his or her college application, their future is out of your hands.  The preparation, studying, decisions, stress, and effort of the last four years leading up to that moment will be behind you.

As parents, we are always asking ourselves if we have done enough for our children. Could we have encouraged them more effectively, could/should we have pushed a little harder? We all want the best possible future for our children. “I wanted my child to be accepted into the best college possible, and I knew we needed help,” says Jia Jiang, a mother of a recent college graduate from University California, Santa Barbara. “There were so many choices to make and so much information to understand,” Jia said. “I wanted someone that could help our daughter and consider our financial limitations.”

Jia looked for a more private type of college counselor rather than the services of a bigger company to get a personalized experience. “My daughter’s counselor took the time to get to know her learning style and our family’s values, and only then did I think it was worth the money.”

Independent college counselors are available around the clock and spend hours with college applicants brainstorming and perfecting college admissions essays. Draft after draft; and that’s just the essays.  College counselors teach students and their families about the American college curriculum, what it means to declare a major and so much more. Counselors help to decode how colleges think and the importance of the soft admissions factors. They help the student to assess his or her strengths and goals and to identify, apply, and gain admission to a college that will further those goals.

How college counselors guide students through the admissions process:

• Create testing schedules
• Identify and recommend extracurricular activities
• Research appropriate colleges and develop a list of colleges
• Select teachers for letters of recommendation
• Prepare for college interviews
• Keep student on task to complete all components of the college application
• Brainstorm and provide feedback on personal statements and essays

Some international college counselors go further and provide additional services:

• English Language Proficiency
• SAT Prep for English as Second Language Students
• Student Visa and Immigration Assistance
• Living Plan Assistance
• Peer-to-Peer Connections
• Orientation & Social Support

Santa Barbara, CA

A Better Path with U.S. School Accept

Year after year, after helping hundreds of students through the American college process, U.S. School Accept has found a better way to help international students to reach their dream of earning their Bachelor’s Degree at a top tier college. The answer is the 2+2 Bachelor’s Program where students start at a community college and finish at a top university like the University California, Santa Barbara, which counts six Nobel Prize winners for landmark research in chemistry, physics, and economics among its renowned faculty.

U.S. School Accept can help you navigate the college application process and determine a major and a career path through career and academic counseling. These decisions guide the identification of the best-fit university for you. You enter the 2+2 Program at California’s top community college in one of the safest and most beautiful small cities in the world – Santa Barbara. This crucial step, helps you acclimate to college life in America, saves money on tuition, and side-steps the TOEFL and SAT/ACT requirement when entering a university as a freshman. Their consultants walk you through the entire process, from community college to university to bachelor’s degree.

U.S. School Accept is a collective of former directors of admissions, international evaluators, immigration advisors and international counselors from Yale, Stanford, UCLA and UC Berkeley. They assist in all aspects of the university process:

• Create testing schedules
• Identify and recommend extracurricular activities
• Research appropriate colleges and develop a list of colleges
• Select teachers for letters of recommendation
• Prepare for college interviews
• Keep your student on task to complete all components of the college application
• Brainstorm and provide feedback on personal statements and essays
• English Language Proficiency
• SAT Prep for English as Second Language Students
• Student Visa and Immigration Assistance
• Living Plan Assistance
• Peer-to-Peer Connections
• Orientation & Social Support

We manage the entire process, including regular check-ins, establishing deadlines and tracking student progress from application to Bachelor’s degree.

For more information, visit U.S. School Accept’s website.