Debbie McDowell
debbiem@isb.ac.th
The final Parent Coffee of the year will be on Friday, 20 May, @ 9:00 AM in the MS Skybox. The university counselors will host our 15th and final parent coffee for the 2021-22 academic year. We’ve covered a wide variety of topics, and we’re thankful for the great turnouts, albeit on Zoom. Here are the session topics we have presented:
- Intro to University Counseling @ ISB
- Standardized Testing
- Rankings
- US Higher Education 101
- Studying in the UK; Applying Through UCAS
- Studying in Canada
- Studying in the Netherlands
- Studying in Hong Kong
- Studying in Australia
- Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Thai Community Coffees
- Financing Higher Education
Fortunately, for our final meeting, we will be able to see you in person on campus. We’re excited to see you in the Skybox, which is located in the middle school. As the majority of our time will be spent answering questions, we ask that you go ahead and ask them in the Google Form. Of course, you can ask additional and follow-up questions at the event.
To enter campus, parents will need to have received a negative result from an ATK COVID test and complete the “event” form, which is a QR code they will scan at the front gate the day of the event.
Junior Seminars have finished for the year. But, every grade 11 student should schedule a meeting with their counselor to discuss their draft university essay or personal statement and to review their “Universities I am Considering” list on Maia Learning. Please keep in mind that university counselors will be encouraging students to have a balanced and diversified list of institutions on their application list. Students should be aspirational as well as realistic regarding their admissibility to specific universities and be careful to select universities that are not the same ones as everyone else to broaden their opportunities for admissions. Please confirm with your child that he/she has scheduled a meeting with his/her counselor.
Seniors have until Thursday, 26 May to complete their check out form with all the appropriate signatures. Please encourage your senior to check in with his/her university counselor to complete that form and update Calfo with their counselor to confirm where the final ISB transcript needs to be sent.
University Visits
On campus visits:
Wednesday, 18 May, New York University, Abu Dhabi @ 12:40 in HS Conference Room
Friday, 20 May, University of British Columbia @ 12:40 (MPB 1)
Virtual university visits: Be sure to check the Virtual University Visit list for university presentations that are available for students and families to join.
Please check the ISB University/College Counseling website for loads of information. You will find university research tools, transition resources for students and parents, recordings of Parent Coffees and family presentations, virtual university visits, information about testing and how to sign up for the SAT at ISB, a list of summer programs about which the counselors have been informed, and the ISB School Profile.
Kindly,
Debbie