Total Solution

Stanford looks for them with the intensity of a scientist. The Ivies accept nearly all of their applicants based on these criteria. This element of the application pushes students either above or below admissions thresholds for the University of California.

Are we speaking about grades? Test scores?

Neither. We're talking about extracurricular activities and what the student does outside of the classroom. What's more, we're speaking about interesting extracurriculars. Not piano. Not badminton. Not answering phones (aka "volunteering") at the local hospital

But how do students "make themselves interesting"? It's a question that plagues most families, and the response to which is ThinkTank Learning's Total Solution Package. Total Solution turns solid academic students into passionate, unique, focused kids who colleges see as "difference makers" on their campuses and beyond.

Total Solution can begin working with students as early as the summer after their 8th grade year, and takes them through the first semester of 11th grade, when they begin working with the PCAP Early Action program. The program begins with an interest inventory and personality test - both of which give the student an idea of the college major and career they would best be suited for. Through meetings and research, the strategy for the "packaging" of the student is gradually determined. Once the student has been focused in a particular direction, the ThinkTank consulting staff develops a plan of action for the time that the student has until their college applications are due.

We implement this plan of action with the end result being the student's admission to the most prestigious school for which they're admissible. The earlier the student begins the program, the better their odds for acceptance to a top-tier university. The specifics of the package are included below.

TT Total Solution Package features

Courses and SAT / Initial / Final Consultations (2 or 3 sessions):

Select four years of high school courses.
Select SAT dates and subjects.
Discuss appropriate solutions for students.

Finding Extracurricular Activities(7 sessions):

Take a personality test and discuss results.
Take an interest test to help narrow their future occupation search.
Journal and discuss different topics to start them thinking about their future.
Discuss how what they do now affects their future.
Complete exercises to help find unique extracurricular activities.
"Try on" an occupation by researching and speaking with a person in that occupation.
Setting goals and creating a path that students will present to parents including revised course selection, extracurricular activity selection, summer extracurricular activities selections, SAT dates and subjects.

Study Skills Seminar (3 two-hour group sessions):

Discuss the importance and difference between learning and earning good grades.
Learn how the brain works.
Discover the memory devices that can aid in learning.
Learn how to prepare to study.
How to take notes.
Learn mnemonic aids.
Study efficiently.
How to study different subjects.
How to study for tests.
How to write papers.

Make Good Ideas Work (Monthly Group Sessions):

Meet once a month for two hours.
Meeting place for newly proposed extracurricular activities projects.
People looking to join extracurricular activities to meet with people starting extracurricular activities.

Creating Signature Projects (9 sessions):

Only by consent of consultant

Help to create or find a unique extracurricular activities project for student to work on that will make a student stand out among their peers.
Help develop a plan and get started on project.
Help find additional students to help with project.

How To Join

Although we would love to help as many students as possible, we simply cannot accommodate all applicants due to limited capacity and resources. TT Total Solution Package is offered three times a year: beginning of summer, fall semester, and spring semester. Eligible applicants will have the followings

Rising 9th, 10th, and 11th graders
With a minimum GPA 3.0
Residence in the Bay Area
A completed application

TT Scholarship

To encourage students achieving their potentials, ThinkTank Learning will offer scholarship of $3,000 to the highest achieving student.

Total Solution Prices

First Solution Package (9th & 10th) Picking Courses, and SATs, initial consultation Finding EA Study Skills Seminar Make GIW (Good Ideas Work)	$1500
Total Solution Package (11th) Picking Courses, and SATs, initial consultation Finding EA Create Signature Projects / EA Study Skills Seminar Make GIW (Good Ideas Work)	$2,750
Premium Total Solution Package (9th-11th) Picking Courses, and SATs, initial consultation Finding EA Create Signature Projects / EA Study Skills Seminar Make GIW (Good Ideas Work) General Consulting (Unlimited Sessions)	$6,000