Focus & Determination, Adam’s Story (Part 1)

The College Checklist Podcast: College Admissions, Financial Aid, Scholarships, Test Prep, and more...

I am so grateful to have had the opportunity to work with Adam when he was a junior in high school. Not only was he thoroughly committed to improving his ACT scores, he then leveraged those scores for some really impressive merit aid awards.

He's a very focused young man who worked hard and reaped the rewards of his efforts.

I always find it so inspiring to hear my students' journeys to college. I hope you find Adam's story as uplifting as I do!

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About Lauren Gaggioli

After graduating from New York University with her B.F.A. in Theater, Lauren moved to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. To make time for auditions during the day, she called upon her academic roots from her high school days and began tutoring the ACT and SAT.

She quickly fell in love - not with the exams, but with the feeling that she was helping students put their feet on a firm path towards a big, bright future.

(Ok, maybe she fell a little bit in love with the exams too. Her dad didn't nickname her #2 Pencil Nerd for nothing.)

After 7 years working as an in-home tutor with a large test prep firm and then in her own independent tutoring company, Lauren distilled her experiences into the 4 different ACT & SAT prep programs that are now available through her company, Higher Scores Test Prep.

Lauren's love of teaching and compassion for what students are facing in today's complex, competitive college admissions landscape allows her to bring a little bit of calm to her corner of the college admissions process.

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Resources Mentioned

Want to improve your test scores and earn more cash for college? Each of my four online test prep courses includes my free Cash for College workshop so you can raise your score and earn thousands of dollars in free tuition too.

Head to higherscorestestprep.com/online-act-prep or higherscorestestprep.com/online-sat-prep to learn more.