In college, the structure goes away. The learning pyramid is completely turned upside down.  You do about 20% of your learning in class and about 80% of your learning out of class.   In fact, it is not unusually for half your grade to occur during the last month of the semester.   You have projects, papers or other assignments that you are supposed to working on all semester long.  In college, you learn the hard way that you can’t throw these assignments together the week before they are due and expect to make a good grade or even pass for that matter.   And if you multiple this last month effect times the four or five classes you are taking, it becomes quite easy to understand how things can unravel even for the best students.

Thirty percent of college freshman dropout after their first year!  And Surprisingly, only around half of the students who enroll in college end up graduating with a bachelor’s degree!

The Fact is College is taking longer and longer to get through with Less than 60 percent of students who enter four-year schools finish within six years.

The average time-to-degree at the (so-called) four-year college hovers at about five years, with only one-third of students graduating in four years and another third taking six or more years to finish.

Alarmingly, of the students that do graduate a third of students transfer before graduating adding thousands of dollars to the cost of their degree.

And the situation at community colleges is no better. Only fifty percent of students graduate within two to four years, while a full quarter of students are taking more than four years to complete their associate’s degree.

Behind these shocking facts and figures are millions of broken dreams, heartaches, and piles of mounting debt.

Your Student Doesn’t Have to Be One Of These Statistics!

It’s not their fault! Students and Parents just don’t realize the challenges faced in transitioning from high school to college.   The skills students learned in high school don’t transfer well to the unstructured college environment.

In fact, students are not just unaware of the challenges they will face in college; they are downright overconfident in their abilities.

According to CBS News, 71% of students surveyed rated themselves as being in the top 10% of students in their academic ability.  Amazingly, over 70% of students believe they are amongst the top 10%.  And the fact remains, even if they are in the top 10%, the approaches that got them there won’t keep them there in college.

We dedicate, so much time, energy, and money on getting into college, but we give little thought to how to transition, how to be successful in this new environment.

The Current Trial And Error Process Is Just Too Costly!

The reality is that Every College Student can succeed academically and obtain a top GPA.

The simple reason why so many college students struggle is that they have not learned how to transition from the structured high school environment to the unstructured college academic environment.

I am Dennis Stemmle, college professor, bestselling author, parent of a college student, and founder of College Success Academy.  As a college professor,  I have seen the good, the bad, and the ugly, when it comes to student performance.

I never knew how big our education problem was until my son became one of those dreaded statistics mentioned earlier.

As a top performing high school student, he got into all his desired colleges, and we just never were worried about him performing well.   However, his excitement from his college acceptances, the prospects of moving out of the house, and his embracing his independence, quickly led to frustration, stress, and surprise struggles.

After his first semester, our straight-A high school student found himself on academic probation.    That’s when I knew I had to figure out why millions of top high school seniors struggle to succeed in college.

I spent months talking to students, looking for similarities, trends, and kernels of knowledge that could help me understand the challenges and issues faced by students transiting from high school to college.

I gathered together all the tips, tricks, and suggestions from these students and transferred this knowledge to my son who used this information to go from academic probation to Dean’s List the very next semester.

I knew I was on to something and I needed to share this knowledge with as many incoming college freshman as possible.  As a result, College Success Academy was born.

At College Success Academy, our mission is to help millions of high school seniors and underclassmen successfully transition to college and become more self-reliant, fulfilled, and successful.

Our complete success system will allow students to hit campus ready to go like a well-seasoned upperclassman.  In our course, You will learn:

ü  How to Demystify the College Experience

ü  How You Can Prevent Academic Problems

ü  How to Manage Your Grade Point Average

ü  Time Management Skills and Strategies

ü  How To Conquer Procrastination

ü  Classroom Skills You Will Need In College

ü  Study Skills That Wil Maximize Your GPA

ü  Test-Taking Skills To Ace Any Exam

ü  How To Write Papers Like A Pro

ü  The Most Effective Note Taking Strategies

ü  Secrets Hidden in Your Professors Syllabus

ü  The Secrets of Top Students

ü  How to Interact with Your Professors

ü  Managing Stress

ü  Financial Discipline & Budgeting

ü  How To Leverage Technology

ü  …And Much, Much More!

 

Did You Know, A Low GPA Could Sabotage Your Income For Years?

According to a recent study of compensation, a third-year analyst made an average total comp of $65,000, if the person’s GPA was 2.8 or less, compared to $77,000 for a GPA of 2.9 to 3.1.  The ‘A’ student, with a GPA of 3.8 to 4.0, pulled down an average total comp of $115,700 – a more than $50,000 a year premium over the 2.8 or lower graduate.

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Don’t make the same mistakes that millions of incoming first-year students make. The statistics are alarming and speak to the national crises in higher education. The traditional orientation and transition methods just don’t work.

It is well known that those who don’t learn from history are doomed to repeat it.   College is just too expensive and time-consuming not to do everything you can to prepare for your student’s college success.

In the United States, we have the lowest college completion rate in the developed world.  Our dropout crisis doesn’t get discussed a great deal outside of education circles, but it needs to be.

Our education system isn’t built to facilitate a smooth transition from high school to college and the results are not just financial, but leave in the wake millions of broken dreams, lost opportunities, and uncertain futures.

I knew I had to do something, I knew I had to make a difference, so out of our necessity and desires arose real solutions that work.   Click on the link below to start your successful journey today!

The cost associated with transitioning to college are not just financial, they are deeply emotional as well.  Reports show, that one-third of all college students report being overwhelmed after just one semester, and according to the American College Health Association, 32% of students say they have felt so depressed “that it was difficult to function.”

Alarmingly, recent statistics say one in ten college students makes a plan for suicide.  We owe are students more!  We MUST prepare them for their college transition!

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