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🎓 SCHOLARSHIP OPPORTUNITY — APPLY ASAP

The New York Law Enforcement Foundation is offering a $1,000 college scholarship opportunity for eligible children of Emerald Society members.

The application window is closing quickly — don’t miss the opportunity to apply!

Eligible students must be attending college full-time during the 2026–27 school year. High school seniors entering college and current college students may apply.

📄 Complete and submit the attached application as soon as possible.

If you have an eligible child, get your application in ASAP!

Please share with fellow Emerald Society members who may qualify.

Progress doesn’t mean perfection, and you shouldn’t expect perfection either! Small shifts impact your child more than you’d think, and they display real progress.

- If your child’s mornings used to be all screens and sugar, and now there’s protein, water, and a little sunlight mixed in, that’s progress.
- If evenings used to be nothing but screen time, and now they play outside, read a book, and get to sleep a half hour earlier, that’s progress.
- If the day before a test used to mean cramming, caffeine, and a maxed out stress level, and now it means an early night, a real meal, and a lighter load, that still counts, even if the nerves haven’t fully gone away.

Progress > perfection. Focus on building the habits that make the hard parts more manageable, one small shift at a time.

Start building better habits with a trusted tutor. Head to tutoringbychristine.com to learn more.

📍 253 Nelson Ave, Staten Island, NY

Test-optional. Test-free. Test-required. They sound similar, but they are not the same thing.

More than 2,000 four-year colleges are test-optional for 2026-27, and about 85 more are test-free, meaning they do not consider scores at all. In total, over 90% of four-year colleges do not require a score. But “do I have to?” and “should I?” are two different questions, and the second one depends on your child, not just the school’s policy.

Here is why the details matter. Alabama, Rutgers, and Syracuse are all test-optional. Alabama still requires a score for automatic merit scholarship consideration. Rutgers says a submitted score can only help, never hurt. Syracuse keeps merit scholarships open to every applicant, score or no score. Same policy name, three different outcomes for scholarship money.

Testing is one piece. The application is the rest. Join our Common App Workshop with college admissions expert Kate Coffman on August 11th or 12th, and let’s get your child’s essay, activities list, and supplements in shape.

Register at tutoringbychristine.com.

📍 253 Nelson Ave, Staten Island, NY

Our Annual Backpack Drive is here.

Every year, we collect school supplies to support the students living in the Project Hospitality Family Homeless Shelter, so they can start the school year with what they need.

We are collecting backpacks, notebooks, pocket folders, pens and pencils, markers, highlighters, and colored pencils. Everything should be new and unopened.

Drop off donations at Tutoring by Christine, 253 Nelson Avenue, Staten Island, NY, Monday through Wednesday from 9am to 7pm now through August 9th.

Can’t stop by? Order directly from our Amazon or Target wishlist, link in bio.

Every backpack makes a difference for a child starting the school year.

📍 253 Nelson Ave, Staten Island, NY

The Common App opens August 1st. Is your child ready? 👀

If your student is a rising senior, the time to start thinking about this is right now. Not in October when first quarter exams hit. Not when the deadline is two weeks away.

Want to get ahead of the process? Join us for our next free webinar with college admissions expert Kate Coffeman TOMORROW!

Register through the link in our bio.