Dr. Yo’s FREE Summertime CommonApp Zoominars


A FREE overview of how best to write the most impressive and effective college applications of which you—or your kids—are capable!

Presented by Michael J. Youmans, aka Dr. Yo, author of

Running weekly on Wednesday nights

7:00-8:30pm ET

throughout the summer of 2024, starting May 29


Like this, only on ZOOM!

7:00-8:00pm

  • Overview: Virtual Tour of the CommonApp: Strategies and tips for each major section
  • Developing an Academic Narrative = Grades + Course Selection + Standardized Tests + any outside studies/interests
  • Developing a Personal Narrative = Activities, Athletics, Community Service/Voluteering + wildcard OTHER
  • Writing essays: Main Essay Prompt and College-Specific Supplement Prompts

8:00-8:30pm

  • Q & A

Pick a date and REGISTER FREE 
by texting (413) 329-7540. Feel free to copy/paste, “I'd like to attend your CommonApp Zoominar, 7:00-8:30pm ET, on [a date you choose from below].” That's it!

We'll put you on the roster and reply with the Zoom link 🙂

May

5/29

June

6/12

6/19

6/26

July

7/3

7/10

7/17

7/24

7/31

August

8/7

8/14

8/21

8/28

About the Presenter

Michael J. Youmans, Ph.D., aka Dr. Yo, founded CollegePrepExpress in 1990. He attended Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, received his B.A. from Harvard in 1986, his MA in English Language and Literature from Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of English and Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Secondary Curriculum and Instruction from Boston College Lynch School of Education in 2006. Over the course of more than 30 years, Dr. Yo has taught a wide range of classroom subjects including English, math, music, philosophy, astronomy, social studies, and physics at a half-dozen schools at the high school, junior high school, and junior college levels in Connecticut and Massachusetts before leaving the classroom in 2008 to run CollegePrepExpress full time.