Jessica Brondo was recently profiled in Newsday in its Executive Suite section. Read on here for the full article.
Jessica Brondo Featured in Family Circle article–Making the Grade:
10 Smart Study Tips for Students
When it comes to test-taking, what can you do to ensure your kids really know their stuff? (Hint: It’s not helping them power through a late-night cram session.) We chatted up the experts to learn their very best tips.
Create a Study Schedule
Putting off studying until the day before, then frantically trying to digest weeks’ worth of information until midnight—or later. Is your kid’s test-prep M.O. something like that? If so, it’s time to shake up his routine. “Cramming is a short-term solution to passing an imminent test,” says Jessica Brondo, founder of The Edge in College Prep, edgeincollegeprep.com. “But students who study over longer periods will recall material more easily come test time.” Ideally, your child would keep up with his work and only review for the test. To start him on that path, suggest that he begin studying at least a week in advance and let him plan daily half-hour work sessions. Have him post the schedule where you both can see it, like on the fridge or by the family computer.
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Jessica Brondo featured on Forbes blog – how to go global with your small business
The phrase “going global” is being tossed around almost as much as Charlie Sheen used to tweet #winning, but despite how pervasive the phrase has become, there are few small business owners who really understand what it actually takes. Over the past five years, I’ve expanded my company, The Edge in College Prep, from New York to London, Frankfurt, Rio de Janeiro and Buenos Aires, and have plans to expand to several other international cities over the next two years. We specialize in test preparation and admissions counseling for overseas students applying to U.S. universities.
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Interview with Jessica Brondo featured on Princeton’s Shared Effort blog
Q: What is your previous involvement in volunteering and college preparation, and what first motivated you to found The Edge?
I have been volunteering all my life and have been tutoring since I was a sophomore in high school. I’ve always loved teaching and continued tutoring and teaching SAT classes throughout my time at Princeton. After I graduated, I worked for a different SAT prep company for a year as a Site Director. That company only focused on the SAT and only offered classes and its methods and business practices were a little shadier than I would have preferred, so I ended up leaving to start The Edge with an honest approach to test prep and a motto that we can make students’ college dreams come true. It was important to me to incorporate the values I learned from volunteering with V-Day and from my time with Princeton Against Cancer Together (PACT), which I founded at Princeton.
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Featured in Long Island Business News – Top 50 most influential women in business
Jessica Brondo founded The Edge in College Preparation in 2005, after graduating from the Woodrow Wilson School for Public and International Affairs at Princeton University. There she garnered the hallowed Susan M. Huffman Senior Thesis Prize, awarded to the senior with the best thesis and the Women with Wings Award, bestowed upon the University’s 25 most influential women. While at Princeton, she served as a tutor for the SAT for four years and then accepted a site director position at a well-known SAT preparation company based on Long Island where she coordinated nearly 500 students in three of the company’s largest courses.
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Featured in ElleGirl – five tips for deciding which school to choose
Featured on STACK – 3 Top Tips for Athletes who want to improve Study Habits
With classes, games, practice and workouts, athletes have limited time to study and do homework. Although studying is clearly beneficial, most student-athletes don’t know how to study effectively. The suggestions below can be applied when studying for any academic test. They are designed to help you get the most out of the little time you have.
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Featured on BNet – 5 Signs It’s Time To Hire
By Laura Vanderkam | January 27, 2011
“It’s absolutely amazing,” says Jess Brondo, who owns The Edge an educational consulting company. After doing most of the back office work herself for years, she finally hired an office manager who’s been doing “such a great job. It’s really been a great lesson. When you give someone the tools and train them properly on what works for you, they can do just as good a job as you,” she says. Plus, she’s “giving me the time to focus on other things.”
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The Edge In College Preparation Founder Jessica Brondo on MSNBC
Featured on Forbes.com – How (Not) To Get Into An Ivy
If you’re a typical potential Ivy League applicant, you’re probably not spending your summer hanging out by the pool. Like tens of thousands of other ambitious teens, you’re more likely to be found sacrificing nights out with your friends to cram for the SATs, committing your days to an internship that looks good on a college resume, enduring too many boring campus tours with mom and dad, and generally spending the summer before your senior year of high school freaking out about looming college application deadlines. Or, even worse, you’re dreading the rejection that might possibly follow.
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“The Competitive Edge in Westchester”
The Edge, an international educational consulting company, has just touched down in Westchester and has big plans for the community. The Edge provides test preparation and admissions counseling services for students of all ages. While the company mainly focuses on standardized tests for high school students, namely the SAT, ACT, and SAT II exams, it also offers programs for students applying to private high schools and graduate programs.
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