Cardinal Tutorial College Counseling

A student’s ability to communicate effectively is the number one predictor of your child's academic success. Success in IB, AP, or A-Levels, and most importantly, university admissions, are completely based on your child's ability to write. 

With this in mind, Jake Anderson founded Cardinal Tutorials after being inspired by one-on-one instruction from Oxford faculty. Based on Stanford's structured argumentation style and Oxford’s stylistic tutorial system, Cardinal Tutorials coaches students between the ages of 15-18 who want to study and later work in the US and UK through its three-tiered options. Depending on a student's age, Cardinal Tutorials will guide your child through university applications to the US and UK and transform your child's communication skills necessary to succeed in the English-speaking academic and professional world.

Basic: Ages 17+ Applying to University

  • Profile assessment (complimentary)

  • Build student profile

  • Shortlist of schools and scholarships and set deadlines to apply

  • Navigate Common Application and UCAS systems, as well financial and merit scholarships

  • Draft student resume

  • Brainstorm, guide, and edit the UCAS Personal Statement + Common Application Personal Statement + Supplemental Essays of up to 5 US Universities

  • SAT preparation (if necessary)

  • Interview preparation (if necessary)

  • Hours: 50

  • Price:

    • Option 1 —$4,000 Initial Payment + $4,000 Final Payment

    • Option 2 — $7,000 Initial Payment

    • All payments made through WeChat

  • Private lessons teaching Cardinal Tutorial communication techniques from Stanford and Oxford

  • Goal setting

  • Private tutoring with IB/A-Levels/Homework

  • SAT Preparation 

  • Public speaking coaching 

  • Entrance into writing competitions

  • Profile assessment

  • Build student profile

  • Shortlist of schools and scholarships and set deadlines to apply

  • Navigate Common Application and UCAS systems, as well financial and merit scholarships

  • Draft student resume

  • Brainstorm, guide, and edit the UCAS Personal Statement + Common Application Personal Statement + Supplemental Essays of up to 5 US Universities

  • Hours: 100

  • Price:

    • $14,000 Total

    • Customers may choose to pay in multiple intervals or on a monthly basis

    • All payments made through WeChat

Long-term: For Ages 16+

Intensive Transformation: For Ages 15+

  • Total transformation of student's English writing and speaking

  • Intensive three years of English development through teaching the Cardinal Tutorial Methodology Course

  • Private lessons teaching Cardinal Tutorial communication techniques from Stanford and Oxford

  • Goal setting

  • Private tutoring with IB/A-Levels/Homework

  • SAT Preparation 

  • Public speaking coaching 

  • Entrance into writing competitions

  • Profile assessment

  • Build student profile

  • Shortlist of schools and scholarships and set deadlines to apply

  • Navigate Common Application and UCAS systems, as well financial and merit scholarships

  • Draft student resume

  • Brainstorm, guide, and edit the UCAS Personal Statement + Common Application Personal Statement + Supplemental Essays of up to 5 US Universities

  • Hours: 150

  • Price:

    • $20,000 Total

    • Customers may choose to pay in multiple intervals or on a monthly basis

    • All payments made through WeChat

About Jake Anderson, Founder of Cardinal Tutorials

My name is Jake Anderson. After graduating from the American School of Barcelona, an international school, I was admitted to Stanford University, and graduated with a degree in International Relations. Besides also being admitted to Yale, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Michigan, and Virginia, among others, I was offered several scholarships, such as the Trustee Scholarship at USC and the Gabelli Scholarship at Boston College.

While at Stanford, I interned at the European Parliament in Brussels and studied abroad at Magdalen College, University of Oxford, where I completed my tutorial in Victorian Literature and received one-one-one instruction from Oxford faculty. My experience as a student within the Oxford's Tutorial system inspired me to start Cardinal Tutorials and teach in the tutorial style. While not working with Cardinal Tutorials, I coach the Spanish National Debate Team, which competes in the World Schools Debating Championship.

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