Save the date! September 13th 2012

August, 2012                                                                                                                         

Dear Discovery School Community,

I am writing today to inform you about an opportunity to provide your students direct access to university and college admissions professionals during an upcoming Council of International Schools university admissions tour. 

The CIS Office of Higher Education exists to create linkages between CIS’s higher education Members and CIS’s secondary school Membership, the college counseling community, and prospective undergraduates and their families. As part of this objective, CIS conducts tours to bring university admissions professionals to member schools to inform and advise your students and professional staff about higher education options and the admissions process. Our university and college membership currently includes almost 500 institutions from around the world. 

Our Latin AmericaCommittee is comprised of a group of experienced university admissions professionals who volunteer their time to plan and direct recruitment activities. To this end, a member of the Latin America Committeehas been working with a local school on creating a fabulous opportunity for your students to meet with 33 University representatives from all over the US.   The host school will be reaching out to your community to invite you to the university fair held at the American School of Tegucigalpa on September13^th, 2012.  Please contact Mrs. Ivonne Casco to confirm if any parents will be accompanying students to the fair.   

At this event, your students will have personal interaction with the participants (all of whom are admissions professionals from a variety of post-secondary, CIS member institutions) to discuss their academic achievements and goals. All of the represented institutions provide high-quality, undergraduate education with a diversity of curricular and co-curricular opportunities.

The tourdirector is Virginia Groves, Assistant Director for Office of International Student Services (OISS) at Pepperdine University in Malibu, California.

We are pleased to bring a CIS university tour to your school community and hope that we may gain your support and assistance to help colleagues at our member colleges and universities learn more about your school program, community and students to benefit us all.

Best regards,       

Jane Larsson, Executive Director