For international students who have needs arguably different from the needs of domestic students, Guru Test Prep offers a highly thorough college admissions and consulting service. This service operates on the philosophy of recommending undergraduate institutions amenable to not only the academic and social background of the student, but also the natural desire of a student to enter a university that values fruitful intellectual discourse indispensable to vocational training. Faced with a bewildering array of pathways for deciding where to apply or where to matriculate, international applicants to universities face considerable pressure. Given this obvious reality, expert guidance becomes a necessity in every possible way.
Intimate collaboration between our college advisors and international students defines our research and consulting service. While guiding the applicant, we take great pains in emphasizing how the college search of the international applicant differs from the college search of the domestic applicant. Oft-quoted rankings of national American universities, for instance, sometimes lose considerable meaning among foreign audiences. A fortunate few might find themselves happily situated in Ivy League institutions famous around the world. By way of contrast, other international students prepare themselves for universities that, while excellent in teaching, do not necessarily carry the universal passport to success that often accompanies the pizzazz of an Ivy League diploma. In understanding the vast spectrum of academic and extracurricular credentials of our international students, Guru Test Prep consultants urge students to have a profoundly multifaceted outlook in the college search.
While guiding the body of our international student applicants, Guru Test Prep consultants view our role as intrinsically extensive because we never view any part of the international applicant process as less essential than any other part. The challenge of applying to institutions without tuition assistance programs for foreign students arguably restricts options for at least some international applicants, but we at Guru Test Prep never waver in helping students and student families to find innovative financing strategies that may partly if not wholly negate this inevitable obstacle. Other issues also never escape our consultants. Rather than simplistically determine if the majors of colleges of interest match the interests of the student, we also endeavor to take into account the changing state of majors favored by the job market as well as the commonsense idea that student interests may evolve.
Over the last decade, international students equipped with a Guru Test Prep philosophy that privileges careful research, unwavering determination, and a thoughtful discernment have entered reputably established American institutions of higher learning. The cultivation of this Guru Test Prep philosophy shines through every step of our assistance. With the help of—among other things—embryonic drafts of college application essays thoroughly commented on by reviewers and our workshops on the compelling presentation of an application, our international students arrive at a fuller appreciation of how an ideal applicant manages the college discernment process. When fully confident in the ability to firmly root themselves academically while reflecting on passions outside the classroom infinitely more resonant than the sum of standardized test scores, our international students realize that American universities need not represent inaccessible dreams.
pam.chea@gurutestprep.com