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高年级院长
保利预科’s 高年级院长 strive to support and guide students in charting a path through high school, focusing on academic advising and post-graduation plans.
By working intimately with families from Grades 9-12—keeping in mind aspirational goals as well as personal identities and preferences—deans help students find their passions and prepare to pursue fulfilling lives at 聚 and beyond.
Through one-on-one meetings and community programming, the deans seek to empower students and help them develop skills to succeed, always keeping 聚’s core tenets at the center: mind, body, 和性格.
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The 上学校 deans provide clear and comprehensive college counseling for families, enabling them to make the most informed decisions for their child’s next educational destination. The dean team commits to being at the forefront of ever-evolving industry practices and to making the college application experience—from choosing to applying to matriculating—a welcoming, 透明的, 成功的一个.
聚 Profile 2023-2024 大学入学考试大学规划
Our 上学校 student-dean relationship starts in 9年级 and culminates with advising on colleges and next steps post-聚.
‘College advising’ to describe their work is a bit of a misnomer, however. The deans consider a student’s life path more broadly than that, threading long-term planning—defining values, setting goals, and cultivating interests and talents—throughout a student’s four years in 上学校.
Reducing College Application Stress
Applying to colleges can be stressful. 聚’s 上学校 deans ease students’ anxiety about the college process. Every day they seek to help students and families 减少 stress by staying ahead of it. They start well before it is time to choose a next home after high school. During your child’s 上学校 years, 聚’s deans think about:
- 激情: what each student loves to do
- 目标: what each student wants to accomplish
- 改进: what are areas and opportunities for growth
- 事务: how each student contributes to making us a better school community
- 保利之外: how a student will lead a purposeful life
This important time allows our deans to build an organic relationship, 做后者, higher-stakes moments far more comfortable to navigate.
The 上学校 deans collaborate, using their complementary skill sets to benefit every student. 院长 are seasoned educators, experienced college counselors, and admissions professionals who have worked at selective colleges nationwide. Mainly, however, deans care deeply about each student’s individual experience at 聚. They care about your student’s future and how 聚 can help shape it.
院长的工作, 首先也是最重要的, is to believe in our students and help them believe in themselves.
The Dean Model and Timeline
From 9年级 to graduation, see a year-by-year overview of the student-dean experience.
队列讨论 9年级 focus on the guiding theme of 如何成为一名学生.
- Focus on one’s studies and being the best student one can be.
- Explore one’s interests, both intellectual and extracurricular.
- Get acquainted with one’s dean, who will guide your student for the next three years.
- Set short- and long-term goals for one’s 上学校 experience.
队列讨论 10年级 focus on the guiding theme of how to be a community member.
- Continue deep and purposeful work in the classroom.
- Think about where your student may seek advanced study in coming years.
- Further one’s extracurricular pursuits.
- Choose a general standardized test (SAT or ACT) and make a prep plan for testing next year.
- Visit a couple of college campuses, and start to imagine a life path after 聚.
队列讨论 11年级 focus on the guiding theme of 构建你的故事.
- Shape curriculum to reflect one’s passions and strengths.
- Choose advanced-level coursework appropriate for your student—additional electives and advanced classes.
- Sit for one’s chosen general standardized test (ACT or SAT).
- Visit campuses; research programs and institutions of interest.
- Start building a list of prospective colleges.
- Design an individual post-聚 path that makes sense for your student.
- Begin crafting the college application.
队列讨论 12年级 focus on the guiding theme of 为成年做准备.
- Enrich one’s academic schedule with electives, 提前的工作, and broad exposure to a range of subjects.
- Reach meaningful, accomplished, fulfilling endpoints in all disciplines.
- Submit one’s College List Agreement for final approval by the deans, ensuring a well-designed application strategy.
- Complete and submit college applications.
- Evaluate one’s options; make thoughtful choices for the next year.
- Design and present one’s Senior 顶石 research project.