Learn how to choose best college for you at Sept. 13 program
Robert Franek, bona fide expert on all matters "college" and author of "Princeton Review's Best 377 Colleges" will conduct a strategy seminar and pep talk for teens applying to colleges and their parents at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 13 at the Vernon Hills High School auditorium, 145 Lakeview Pkwy., Vernon Hills.
Registration is required. Call (847) 362-2330 or visit webres.cooklib.org to register.
Franek will give teens and parents the inside scoop on colleges including Princeton Review's survey findings on what colleges are really looking for in applicants, how local colleges fared in the book's ranking lists, school ratings, and the top “Best Value Colleges” for 2012. Additionally, he will provide savvy advice for successful applications, proven strategies to improve test scores, and ways to boost one's prospects of getting in to and getting aid from a college. He will also share Princeton Review survey findings on what teen applicants and their parents most worry about and how test scores affect admission and financial aid.
Franek oversees The Princeton Review's guidebook publishing program – a line of 150+ titles from best-selling test-prep guides to college, graduate school, career-related and reference books. As the company's chief expert on higher education issues, he directs The Princeton Review annual surveys of college, business school, and law school students upon which the well-known Princeton Review rankings are based. As lead author of the company's annual “Best Colleges” guide, he visits more than 50 colleges a year and has been a lecturer and panelist on college admissions for audiences of educators, parents and students.
Franek has been sourced on college, graduate school, and career topics by a wide range of media from "Time" to "The Chronicle of Higher Education" and from USA Today to the Wall Street Journal. He has appeared on NBC "Today", ABC "Good Morning America", and CBS "The Early Show", plus several CNN and FOX programs, National Public Radio and the Associated Press Broadcast Radio network.
Prior to joining The Princeton Review in 1999, Franek served as a college admissions administrator at Wagner College (Staten Island, NY) for six years. He earned his B.A. at Drew University in Political Science and History. An avid history buff, he conducts historical walking tours of New York City for Sweet City Tours, a company he founded. Franek, 40, lives in Manhattan.
The Princeton Review (www.PrincetonReview.com) is an education services company based in Framingham, MA with offices across the USA and abroad. It is known for its classroom and online prep courses, career education programs, tutoring programs, website, books, and other resources for high school, college, graduate, and post-grad students.
Books for sale and signing will be available courtesy of Lake Forest Bookstore.