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PRO EDUCATORS PLUS
“Fostering students’ exposure to academic centers of excellence.”
What we do
Our college tours will take your children to visit Ivy League colleges
and universities in the Northeastern United States.
When
June 2014, USA Students
July 2014, International Student
Who
Students ages 14 and older
How
Your children will fly from Nigeria to meet Mrs. Folashade Aladesanmi
in Boston. They will tour Harvard University, Yale University, Princeton
University, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), and Boston
Mrs. Folashade Aladesanmi is the
founder and president of Pro
Educators Plus, an academic succcess
organization based in Marietta,
Georgia. She is an education
consultant. She has her first degree in
English and Literature, and a
Master’s degree in Business
Administration (MBA).
Ms. Diane Tizzano received her
Bachelor’s and Master’s degree in
Music and currently is the Director of
Band and Orchestra and the Chair of
the Music department at Euclid High
School in Cleveland, Ohio. She has
been an educator for over 20 years.
In 2012, her band was selected to
perform for Vice President Joe Biden.
She is the mother of childer whose
achievements include: admission
into Harvard and Yale, admission
and graduation from a top Science, Technology, Engineering, and
Mathematics (STEM) program, and
acceptance into all Advanded
Content courses in an acclaimed
Georgia middle school.
Ms. Tizzano traveled to Nigeria in
2009 to work with educators, teachers,
students, and administrators. She is
looking forward to going back in 2014
to continue to pursue the mission of
Pro Educators.
Harvard University
Cambridge, Massachusetts
Harvard University is an American private Ivy League research university
located in Cambridge, Massachusetts. It was established in 1636 by the
Massachusetts legislature, being the oldest institution of higher learning
and the first corporation chartered in the country. Its history, quality of
education, academic influence, and wealth has made it one of the most
prestigious universities in the world.
The university offers 46 undergraduate concentrations (majors), 134
graduate degrees, and 32 professional degrees. For the 2008–2009
academic year, Harvard granted 1,664 baccalaureate degrees, 400 masters
degrees, 512 doctoral degrees, and 4,460 professional degrees.
The university comprises eleven separate academic units:
1)
Arts & Sciences
2)
Business School
3)
Graduate School of Design
4)
Divinity School
5)
Graduate School of Education
6)
Kennedy School (Politics)
7)
Law School
8)
Medical School
9)
School of Dental Medicine
10) School of Public Health
11) Radcliff Institute for Advanced Study
Harvard has been highly ranked by many international university rankings. It has
topped the league table of the Academic Ranking of World Universities (ARWU) in
2012, a position held since the first ARWU rankings were released in 2003. Meanwhile,
it ranked third in the QS World University Rankings, which is collaborating with U.S.
News & World Report to release its annual global ranking.
Yale University
New haven, Connecticut
Yale University is a private Ivy League research university located in
New Haven, Connecticut. Founded in 1701 in the Colony of
Connecticut, the university is the third-oldest institution of higher
education in the United States.
Yale’s central campus in downtown New Haven covers 260 acres (1.1
km2). An additional 500 acres (2.0 km2) includes the Yale golf course
and nature preserves in rural Connecticut and Horse Island. Yale is a
medium-sized research university, most of whose students are in the
graduate and professional schools.
Undergraduates, or Yale College students, come from a variety of
ethnic, national, and socioeconomic backgrounds. Of the 2010–2011
freshman class, 10% are non‑U.S. citizens, while 54% went to public
high schools. Half of all Yale undergraduates are women, more than
30% are minorities, and 8% are international students. Fifty-five percent attended public schools and 45% attended private, religious, or
international schools.
Yale has a system of 12 residential colleges, instituted in 1933 through
a grant by Yale graduate Edward S. Harkness, who admired the
college systems at Oxford and Cambridge. Each college has a Dean,
Master, affiliated faculty, and resident fellows. Each college also
features distinctive architecture, secluded courtyards, a commons
room, meeting rooms/classrooms, and a dining hall; in addition
some have chapels, libraries, squash courts, and more.
The Boston Globe wrote that “if there’s one school that can lay claim
to educating the nation’s top national leaders over the past three
decades, it’s Yale.”
Boston University
Boston, Massachusetts
Boston University (most commonly referred to as BU) is a private
research university located in Boston, Massachusetts. The university
has more than 4,000 faculty members and 29,000 students, and is one
of Boston's largest employers. It offers bachelor's degrees, master's degrees, and doctoral degrees, and medical and dental degrees through
18 schools and colleges on two urban campuses. The main campus
is situated along the Charles River in Boston's Fenway-Kenmore and
Allston neighborhoods, while the Boston University Medical Campus
is in Boston's South End neighborhood. BU also operates 75 study
abroad programs in over 33 cities in over 20 countries and has internship opportunities in 10 different countries (including the United
States and abroad).
In 2013, the university received a record-breaking 52,693 applications to fill only 3,800 seats in the Class of 2017. This was the highest
amount of applications received by any university in North America
with 36 percent of applicants offered admission to the Class of 2017.
The students offered acceptance come from the top 9 percent of their
high school graduating class, have an A- average, scored an SAT
Composite Average of 2016, and an ACT Average of 30.
U.S. News & World Report ranks Boston University 51 among national universities for 2013. Boston University was also ranked 11th
among public health graduate schools, 22nd among law schools,
22nd among social work schools, 31st among business schools, 34th
among medical schools, 42nd among engineering schools, and 56th
among education schools.
In 2012, Emerging, a human resources company based in Paris, and
Trendence, an institute that researches employer branding, personal
marketing and recruitment, ranked Boston University 17th worldwide and 7th in the United States for employability of its graduates.
Princeton University
Princeton, New Jersey
Princeton has a long history. Founded in 1746 in Elizabeth as the
College of New Jersey, it is one of the nine Colonial Colleges
established before the American Revolution as well as the fourth
chartered institution of higher education in the American colonies.
The university moved to Newark in 1747, then to Princeton in 1756
and was renamed Princeton University in 1896.
Princeton now provides undergraduate and graduate instruction in
the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and engineering. It
does not have schools of medicine, law, divinity, or business, but it
does offer professional degrees through the Woodrow Wilson School
of Public and International Affairs, the Princeton University School
of Engineering and Applied Science, and the School of Architecture.
The institute has ties with the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton
Theological Seminary, and the Westminster Choir College of Rider
University. Princeton has been associated with 35 Nobel Laureates,
17 National Medal of Science winners, and three National Humanities Medal winners. On a per-student basis, Princeton has the largest
university endowment in the world.
From 2001 to 2012, Princeton University was ranked either first or
second among national universities by U.S. News & World Report
(USNWR), holding the No. 1 spot for 10 of those 12 years. Princeton
was ranked 7th among 300 Best World Universities in 2011 compiled
by Human Resources & Labor Review (HRLR) on Measurements of
World's Top 300 Universities Graduates' Performance .In the
"America's Best Colleges" rankings by Forbes in 2012, Princeton
University was ranked first among all national colleges and universities. The Forbes ranking also takes into consideration national awards
won by students and faculty, as well as number of alumni in the 2008
"Who's Who in America" register.
Mit
Cambridge, Massachussetts
The Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) is a private research
university located in Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States. MIT
has five schools and one college, containing a total of 32 academic
departments, with a strong emphasis on scientific, engineering, and
technological education and research.
MIT places among the top ten in many overall rankings of
universities (see right) and rankings based on students' revealed
preferences. For several years, U.S.News & World Report, the QS
World University Rankings, and the Academic Ranking of World
Universities have ranked MIT's School of Engineering first, as did
the 1995 National Research Council report. In the same lists, MIT's
strongest showings apart from in engineering are in computer
science, the natural sciences, business, economics, linguistics,
mathematics, and, to a lesser extent, political science and philosophy.
The four-year, full-time undergraduate program maintains a balance
between professional majors and those in the arts and sciences, and
is selective, admitting few transfer students and 9.7% of its applicants
in the 2010–2011 application season. MIT offers 44 undergraduate
degrees across its five schools. In the 2010–2011 academic year, 1,161
bachelor of science (abbreviated SB) degrees were granted, the only
type of undergraduate degree MIT now awards.
In the 2011 fall term, among students who had designated a major,
the School of Engineering was the most popular division, enrolling
62.7% of students in its 19-degree programs, followed by the School
of Science, School of Humanities, Arts, & Social Sciences, Sloan
School of Management , and School of Architecture and Planning.
The largest undergraduate degree programs were in Electrical
Engineering and Computer Science, Computer Science and
Engineering, Mechanical Engineering, Physics, and Mathematics.
Quick Guide to US Colleges
Admission Process
Start the process early. It takes time, and the deadlines are strictly followed.
Use the following tips as a helpful guide!
• SAT or ACT? Decide which one is best for you and take it multiple times.
• Know your strengths. Use the multiple intelligences theory by Professor Howard
Gardner as a guide.
• Take the SAT Subject Tests if they are required by the college you are applying to.
Decide which ones to take and narrow your focus when studying the material.
• Have a resume that includes details about all your extracurricular activities and leadership positions
• Start thinking about which of your teachers to ask for recommendation letters.
• Research colleges to decide on a good fit in terms of your major, desired
population, proximity to an airport, student diversity, etc.
• Know and keep up with deadlines for college applications, test dates, and
scholarship opportunities.
• Know statistics about admission for several colleges.
• Prepare to write many essays.
• Decide how your education will be financed. If you are a US citizen, you may be
eligible for some student loans.
Attend and/or encourage your parents to attend the Pro Educators Plus seminar on “5 Tested Tips for Impressing Top Colleges in the US”. These tips were put
together by Ivy League Colleges and only very few people have access to this information. Mrs. Aladesanmi and Ms. Diane Tizzano will be in Nigeria in November 2013 to
present at the seminar. According to the Harvard admissions office, “colleges are not
looking for automatons”, but students who know how to learn and apply knowledge. I
will expatiate on this at the seminar.
I look forward to working with each student and family in creating a lifechanging experience through exposure to academic centers of excellence, as well as
navigating and completing the US college admissions process.
Sincerely,
Mrs. Folashade Aladesanmi.
Founder, Pro Educators Plus
PARENT S’ A PPROV AL S T AMP
PRO EDUC ATOR S P LU S C O ST
“It is with great exuberance that I write this recommendation for
Mrs Shade Aladesanmi. She is an Education Consultant who is
highly respected in the United States. She has lived and taught in
communities all over the US. Shade has a wealth of educational
experience and this she started in her home with her children.
Her first son is a pre-med undergraduate student at Harvard and
her other children have been at the top of their classes each year
since kindergarten and have won multiple awards. I am delighted
to be one of the first moms to enroll my twins in this Ivy League
tour and I know it will be a very enlightening experience for my
children and I. I am aware of the fact that every parent has very
high expectations for their children- If you are one of those-then
this tour is for you. Hope to see your children at the tour- their
future is great!
Ekuase Sanusi
Pediatrician and Mother
“I can’t wait until my girls are old enough to attend Pro Educators
Plus Ivy League College Tours. If you want to prepare your
children to compete in the 21st century global market, Pro
Educators College Tours is a MUST”.
Banke Meshida-Lawal,
CEO & Head Makeup Artist, BMPRO Nigeria Limited
Mrs. Folashade Aladesanmi
Founder and President of
Pro Educators Plus, Inc.