We hope you will join Dr. Maria Andrade Johnson, Regional Specialist IB and former IBC at Santa margarita Catholic High School as she offers insights on how to enrich your school profile and counselor admission letters to better serve your students.
What to Expect
Admissions readers spend only a few minutes with an application — and often less than a minute with your school profile. In that window, does IB read as rigor, or as an acronym they have to decode? This session looks at the profile and the counselor letter as a paired advocacy strategy: what admissions officers actually look for, which IB details change how a file is read, and how to intentionally craft the counselor letter— translating the Extended Essay, TOK, and CAS into evidence of a student's intellectual and personal profile. Lastly, a demonstration of the IB Recognition Database, available to you, students, and families in making their college lists and decisions. An interactive component working with existing school profiles and counselor letters. Coordinators will leave with a checklist, sample language they can adapt immediately, and a guide for recommendation letters to distribute to teachers.
