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, The Spike Lab founder, Lloyd Nimetz, and Ivy Tutors college essay and college admissions senior coach, Justin Taylor.

Our Expert Panel

Lloyd Nimetz is the founder of The 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.

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!

Justin Taylor has a Masters in dramatic literature from the Sorbonne (Paris) and an MFA in playwriting from Yale. For more than ten years, he has helped hundreds of students boost their admissions prospects as a college application consultant and currently leads our popular College Essay Bootcamp. Yale, Georgetown, Vanderbilt, Boston College, and NYU are some recent admits for happy students. He has taught writing at Yale University, Wesleyan University, the Sorbonne, in high schools and privately throughout New York City with all ages. He is also a professional meditation teacher and loves sharing meditation hacks to cruise through stress on test day (ask him about being the meditation teacher for Facebook). When Justin is not helping people with their educational dreams, he is working on his plays in NYC (he has written more than 20!).