From promise to distinction.
Some students arrive at eleven, bright and still discovering what moves them. Others arrive at sixteen with a question they can't stop thinking about. Every student enters where they are and leaves with work and capacities that set them apart.
The Confident Learner: the foundation
Grades 5–12 · Online · Nine 50-minute sessions with a certified mentor
The Confident Learner gives students the thinking tools that high performers use, years before most people learn them. Students discover how their minds work, how to turn effort into mastery, how to generate and develop original ideas, and how to present themselves with poise. It is rigorous, hands-on, and energizing.
The nine sessions
Thinking About Thinking: Who am I as a learner and a creator?
Practice Makes Progress: Turning effort into mastery through strategy
Connecting Ideas: Linking what I know to where I want to go
Growing Big, Bold Ideas: Originality, elaboration, and creative productivity
Listening and Working Together: Collaborative intelligence and leadership
Ethics in Action: Decisions that are fair, principled, and good for the community
How Have I Grown?: Honest self-assessment, as experts practice it
Looking Back to Learn Forward: Synthesis, and the art of the presentation
Sharing My Story: Presenting my growth to an audience
Students leave with a portfolio, a recorded presentation, and a certificate. Parents receive home extensions after each session and scheduled meetings with Dr. Feit, included.
Tuition: $1,800 for the complete program, including parent meetings with Dr. Feit.
The Independent Learner Program: distinction
Grades 9–11 · Weekly, online · One-on-one with an expert ILP mentor
This is where students become the person admissions officers remember and professors want in their labs. Over a full year, each student designs and completes original work around a genuine interest, in science, engineering, medicine, public policy, business, the humanities, or the arts. They review the professional literature, learn the methods of their field, work with experts, and present findings to audiences who can use them. Then comes the step that distinguishes an ILP project from nearly any other: the findings are carried forward into actionable community change, put to work by organizations that can use them.
Most students continue their ILP work in college, and many carry it into their careers.
The year
Map strengths, interests, and academic record, and plan courses and summers with intent
Design a strategic, original capstone that builds on what the student already cares about
Research and create, with emphasis on research methods and writing
Connect with experts, organizations, and community partners
Present online and in person, building real authority as a speaker
Look ahead to college and career pathways, and assemble a portfolio of the work
Tuition from $4,900 per semester; full year (September 15 – June 1) $8,900. Scheduled parent meetings with Dr. Feit are included.
The College Process: the story
Grades 11–12 · Weekly, online · With Dr. Feit and ILP mentors
The strongest applications aren't packaged. They are earned, then told well. We help students articulate who they are, what they've built, and where they're headed, with the clarity and depth selective universities look for. Support runs from strategy and the college list through essays, submission, and the final decision.
Services
Comprehensive: capstone and college process together
Strategy and essay development
Essay review
Strategy and advisement
Tuition by individual proposal, following your first conversation with Dr. Feit. We collaborate readily with families' existing counselors, including counselors in China.
