Elite in the Press
The L.A. Times Featuring ELITE
For many teens, days of summer far from lazy
 Courtesy Photo from The L.A. Times: At the Elite Educational Institute in Northridge, instructor Elizabeth Cho, left, and student Christine Cao, 15, make a point to each other in a class on how to write an SAT essay. |
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By Seema Mehta, Los Angeles Times Staff Writer For fun this summer, Mario Zubia spent six hours a day, five days a week in a Caltech classroom studying neuroscience and physics. He topped it off with five hours of homework a night. And the 17-year-old Santa Maria resident did it by choice. |
Lincoln Heights Project Article in The Korean Daily
Lincoln Heights ProjectIn exemplary fashion, a Korean Tutoring Center and a Korean Church work hand-in-hand to provide free educational services to students from lower socioeconomic households.
The Lincoln Heights Project, which was launched in February of 2009 as a joint effort between Elite Educational Institute and Young Nak Presbyterian Church's Education Department, just wrapped up its first stage of services. Many underprivileged students from Los Angeles' Lincoln Heights area were given free SAT preparation, education and college entrance counseling, all the while being imbued with the dream of a college education.
According to Karen Hwang, a Director with Elite Educational Institute, the project was started after learning about the utter lack of resources for college entrance preparation faced by most students in the Lincoln Heights area.
Elite Student with Perfect SAT Score profiled in OC Register
Photo Courtesy : OC RegisterIRVINE – At first, Hope Xu thought her SAT score was a mistake.
Maybe the exam administrators hadn't applied the curve yet. Maybe she wasn't reading her score report correctly. Maybe her less-than-perfect raw score on the essay portion of the SAT – 9 out of 12 – hadn't been factored into her curved, final score.
"The computer screen said, '800, 800, 800.' I said, 'Where's my score? It's out of 800,'" said Xu, 16, a junior at Irvine's University High School. "I probably sat there for about 40 seconds, and then I said, 'Wake up.' In my head, I was thinking, what should I do? Should I get up and dance? Should I cry? Usually, when stressful moments come up, I don't react."
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