Expert Panel: The Only Extracurriculars You Need!

This extremely useful workshop will teach you how your extracurricular activities can make or break your college application and change your life. High school students and their families won't want to miss this event!

What we’ll cover:

• How do colleges evaluate applicants and choose who to admit?
• What is the best way to spend your time outside of class in high school?
• How important are sports, clubs, community service, competitions, supplemental education, and independent projects?
• How you can use extracurricular activities to stand out .
• Do you have to do things "just to get into college?"

Our expert panel includes Ivy Tutors Network founder, Lisa Speransky; Spike Lab founder, Lloyd Nimetz, Cornell's former Director of Admissions, John Morganelli; Jared Greene from Inspirit AI; Vikram Veeramachaneni from Inflection Learning; and Nathan Vigil, PhD, who works with students on National History Day projects and other impactful research.

Our Superstar Expert Panel

Lloyd Nimetz is the founder of Spike Lab. He is a serial entrepreneur and startup investor who has been a founder of five for-profits and nonprofits in the US, Taiwan, Argentina, and India. Previously he directed 4.0 Schools’ education startup accelerator and before that was the co-founder of Dev Bootcamp NYC (parent company was acquired by Kaplan Inc in 2014). Lloyd went to Stanford University for his MBA, majored in Economics during his undergraduate studies at Williams College and was a Fulbright Scholar.

John Morganelli developed a college admissions coaching program that helps students get into the most competitive US colleges and has been working as a leader in the private admissions consulting space for over 5 years. Prior to becoming a consultant, John was a Director of Admissions at Cornell University. He has held senior admissions leadership positions at: Cornell University, Lehigh University, and Moravian University. John is also the author of “Growing Ivy: How to Crack the Code on Elite College Admissions” (2021).

Nathan Vigil is an award-winning educator with over 25 years of classroom teaching and private tutoring experience. He earned a BA in History from UC Berkeley and an MA and PhD in History from Emory University. He has won numerous teaching awards, given presentations at Oxford University and to the American Historical Association, published with Cambridge University Press, and received research support from Princeton University and George Washington University. After teaching at Emory and the University of Georgia, he has spent the last 12 years teaching high school history at an elite Atlanta private school. As a published author, he is highly qualified to support students working on college admissions essays and research/writing projects of all kinds.

Jared Greene is the Director of Partnership at Inspirit AI. He is a lifelong educator who is passionate about positioning students for success in their future college and career endeavors. He received his Bachelor’s in English & American Literature and Language at Harvard University. He is interested in the intersection of AI and literature, particularly how artificial intelligence is revolutionizing literary analysis.

Lisa Speransky is the founder of Ivy Tutors Network, a New York City-based education company. Our core belief is that education isn’t one size fits all. That may sound simple, but understanding this concept opens the door to really enjoying learning. For 18 years and countless success stories — from learning to getting into the college of your dreams -- we’ve proven that personalized education can breed a love of learning that leads to confidence and to goal-crushing in all its forms!