By Ragoo Raghunathan

You may call this the best/most attended event of our ISW-PEN initiative since we started with over 180 registrants and 150+ attendees at the event that was organized and co-hosted by the ISW PEN and ISW-University initiatives on June 10th at the India Center in Shrewsbury. 

The panel consisted of Jillian Greenspan (School Counselor at WHS), Jennifer Cluett (Dean of Admissions at WPI), Divya Raghunathan (College Junior, UMass), Raj Kasbekar (Parent of college Freshman) and moderated by Ashish Cowlagi (Ex-President, ISW and parent of college Freshman). 

It started off with introductions of each speaker followed by very well crafted questions by the moderator around several topics including When to start the process, How to start the process, How to find a college that fits, and How to get in with discussions around Academics, Extracurriculars and College Essays.

The panelists shared their experiences and opinions about the entire process and several questions from the audience led to further discussions. The session ended at 1.30pm but the audience continued the conversations with the panelists well after the main discussion. 

Overall, the event was very successful and there have been requests to hold another session in a few months for people who couldn't make it or get some additional questions answered this time around. To compile any unanswered questions, a survey was sent after the event. Click here if you attended and would like to add your input.

You can watch the recorded version of the live event here https://fb.watch/lgdC8JQQz8/

Please feel free to join the ISW PEN  WhatsApp group for future notifications and to help plan such events in the future at: https://chat.whatsapp.com/FCugdnQFmTQ5mYygCf8hQR