Programs
Talent development, built around your child.
Every program begins with who your child already is: their strengths, their interests, and the questions they can't stop asking. From there, we develop that talent into real capability, original work, and the confidence to lead. Students enter where they are, at any stage.
Stage 1 · Foundation
The Confident Learner
The thinking tools high performers use, learned years before most people discover them.
- Grades 5–12
- Online
- Nine 50-minute sessions
- Certified mentor
Is this your child?
- Bright and curious, and still discovering what truly lights them up
- Works hard, and wants that effort to turn into real mastery
- Has big ideas, and wants the confidence to share them
Students discover how their own minds work, how to turn effort into mastery, how to generate and develop original ideas, and how to present themselves with poise. Each session builds on your child's particular strengths and interests. It is rigorous, hands-on, and energizing.
What your child builds
- Command of their own thinking
- Strategies that turn effort into mastery
- Original ideas, developed with rigor
- Poise in front of a real audience
What your family receives
- A portfolio, a recorded presentation, and a certificate
- Home extensions after every session
- Scheduled meetings with Dr. Feit
See 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
Tuition: $1,800 for the complete program, including parent meetings with Dr. Feit.
Book a conversationStage 2 · Distinction
The Independent Learner Program
A year of original work around a genuine interest, carried all the way to real-world impact.
- Grades 9–11
- Weekly, online
- One-on-one expert mentor
- September – June
Is this your child?
- Keeps returning to one interest: in science, policy, business, the arts, or something no one has named yet
- Is ready for real work, not more homework
- Wants an application that shows who they are, not just what they scored
This is where students become the person admissions officers remember and professors want in their labs. Each student designs and completes original work built on what they already care about. They review the professional literature, learn the methods of their field, work with experts, and present to audiences who can use their findings. Then comes the step that sets an ILP project apart from nearly any other: the findings are carried forward into real community change, put to work by organizations that need them.
What your child builds
- An original capstone in their own field
- Research methods and real-world writing
- Relationships with experts and community partners
- Authority as a speaker, online and in person
- Work that continues into college and career
What your family receives
- A clear plan for courses and summers
- A portfolio of the year's work
- Scheduled meetings with Dr. Feit
See how the year unfolds
- 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.
Book a conversationStage 3 · The Story
The College Process
Applications that show who your child truly is, and what they have built.
- Grades 11–12
- Weekly, online
- Dr. Feit and ILP mentors
Is this your child?
- A junior or senior with work, and a story, worth telling
- Wants a college list built on fit, not prestige alone
- Needs essays that sound unmistakably like them
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.
Ways to work with us
- Comprehensive: capstone and college process together
- Strategy and essay development
- Essay review
- Strategy and advisement
What your family receives
- A thoughtful, well-matched college list
- Guidance through every deadline and decision
- Collaboration with your existing counselors, including counselors in China
Tuition by individual proposal, following your first conversation with Dr. Feit.
Book a conversationNot sure where your child fits?
Begin with a complimentary twenty-minute conversation with Dr. Feit. Tell her about your child's strengths and interests; she'll tell you candidly what she sees and what's possible.