The Red Pen’s Mentorship Programme helps middle and high school students develop a well-rounded profile so that they stand out in a competitive undergraduate landscape. Based on your child’s goals and identified areas of academic and non-academic interests, our counsellors guide families to start planning early. They mentor, motivate and encourage students through their formative years to carefully pick the right subjects and engage in extracurricular opportunities that authentically enhance your child’s profile.
Step 01: Getting To Know You Session
Designed for children from grades 8-11, our mentorship programme helps younger students build their profile for the competitive undergraduate landscape. Our counsellors take the time to understand the priorities and goals for your child’s global education and build a customised roadmap to achieve it.
Step 02: Psychometric Testing & Evaluation
Using widely-researched scales to conduct psychometric evaluations, our counsellors help identify potential career pathways that suit your child’s aptitude and interests. They offer advice and next steps on how to build relevant competencies and enhance learning profiles through co-curricular and extracurricular opportunities.
Step 03: Brainstorming & Mind Mapping
Our counsellors reach out to a vast network of over 150 global partners and affiliates to find unique and enriching opportunities for your child. By analysing, identifying and carefully organising the correct programmes, they develop S.M.A.R.T goals (specific, measurable, assignable, realistic, time-related) and timelines to support your child’s objectives.
Step 04: Executing An Action Plan
Based on your customised action plan, our counsellors guide you and your child every step of the way. They help with summer school selection and applications, academic advice (on board options and subject selection), college exploration and research. They also assist with developing a unique extracurricular profile, introduction to relevant mentors, interview preparation, resume building, standardised test planning, other academic enrichment options and more.
Step 05: Frequent Check-ins
To ensure your child is on track to building his or her enhanced profile, our counsellors conduct catch-up sessions every two weeks. Here they discuss progress or help with any roadblocks your child may be facing and motivate them to stay on course. These are supplemented by six-monthly “big picture” sessions that check in on larger goals and make sure he/she is on track to meet them.
At The Red Pen, we take great pride in finding the best-fit opportunities for your child.
Our dedicated consultants include graduates from the University of Oxford, University of Cambridge, London School of Economics and Political Science, Stanford University, University of Pennsylvania, Columbia University, Emory University, New York University, Duke University, Carnegie Mellon University, University of California, Santa Barbara, Cass Business School, Mount Holyoke College, The George Washington University, Denison University, Adelphi University, Bryant University, University of Manchester, TU Darmstadt and more.
We offer a highly curated list of opportunities. Each extracurricular and academic acceleration programme goes through a rigorous evaluation process for quality and curriculum before being suggested.
Our specialists understand the nuances of each national and international curriculum including, CBSE, CISCE, Cambridge International Examinations, A-levels, IB, APs, IGCSE and more to help your child select the right subject and board.
Our team has worked with students from across the globe, including the US, UK, Italy, Hong Kong and Singapore, among others, who have gone on to be accepted as some of the most competitive global universities.
