New Service: College-Bound Profile (with Strong®)
Tokyo Academics is excited to announce a new service for high school students: the “College-Bound Profile” counseling service. As part of our growing menu of College Admissions Counseling services, this 90-minute session provides students with a solid foundation to identify personal values, interests, and passions; explore majors and career trajectories; and plan for the overall college admissions process.
What is the College-Bound Profile?
In a single 90-minute session, students will:
- Identify potential major/career paths that align with their interests
- Connect students’ academic interests, work styles, and preferences regarding learning and leisure to high-ranking and best-fit universities and colleges
- Aid students in planning a plan for study, extracurricular activities, and further information-gathering to strengthen their college applications and awareness of options for post-secondary study
- Work through a series of self-evaluative activities to help students determine their focus earlier on, and plan their high school career accordingly
- Outline a plan-of-action to research, develop, and execute a meaningful long-term approach to their high school career
What is the Strong®?
The College-Bound Profile counseling session draws from the Strong Interest Inventory®, a psychological assessment that provides robust insight into a person’s interests and identifies related academic trajectories and career paths. Based on over 80 years of empirical research, the Strong® provides respondents with comprehensive information about relevant fields of study, extracurricular opportunities, and career paths.
Students complete the assessment online at home and then sit down in a one-on-one 90-minute session with a Strong®-certified counselor to review their results across four instrument measures.
Who will benefit?
This counseling session is perfect for students in 9th through 12th grade who:
- Are undecided regarding their academic and career interests
- Want to learn more about themselves and the opportunities available to them
- Have a wide range of interests, both academically and personally
- Wish to hone their academic strengths and focus on their career goals
- Are considering a wide range of potential options and want help on how to make the most of their opportunities
- Want to jump-start their college search process with psychologically-backed research and resources