Career Discovery and Development
Advising and Mentorship from University Professors
Essential Skills & Knowledge for College Admission & Future Careers
Click on "Apply Here" above and fill out the application form
You will be contacted for an interview to assess your fit to the program
A faculty or PhD advisor will be assigned to you for 1-1 meetings, career development, and academic mentorship
You start planning your education & career path, conduct research, take classes, etc.
We believe great mentorship shouldn't be reserved for families who can pay premium rates. Our Y-advising sessions run $50–$150/session on a sliding scale. Let us know your circumstances during the interview and we'll find a number that works.
Introduces the basic concepts and methods in science, what differentiates science from other types of information and human enterprises,
Discusses the processes that shape evidence and data, the role of observation and experimentation, different types of measurement and data, how data can be visualized for better understanding
Our series on computers and machine learning, what counts as a machine, symbolic vs. distributed computation, basics of machine leanring, the perceptron and neural netowrks
Descussing the concept of validity, defining different types of logics and reasnoning, understanding how assumptions of your logic leads to consequences
What is langauge and why do we have it? Understanding truth and how language captures it, the relation between sentences and evidence that make them true, Verification
understanding and quantifying uncertainty, basics of probabilities and statistics, measures and models that describe the data and their uncertainty
Introduction to different types of media, basics of how information is procssed and presnted to consumers, developing basic skills in verifying different types of information presented in the media, benefits and harms of social media
Basic introduction to cognitive science, how humans think and process information, understanding basic brain neuroanatomy, exploring basic functions of the brian such as vision and language
Introduction to mathematical reasoning, basic algebraic equations including linear, quadratics, polynomial, and exponential, geometry and trigonometry, mastery of SAT level mathematics