RECO Reads Sr.
Show expertise in any subject area by engaging with advanced scholarly literature. Craft a specialized research proposal or scholarly reviews. Ideal for students in Grades 10–12 who are ready for real depth.
2 months | 8 live hours | Write 1500+ words | Individual mentoring
Advance your reading skills.
Colleges expect students to arrive ready to engage with complex academic texts. Unfortunately, schools typically do not equip students with these skills.
Working one-on-one with a Ph.D. mentor in their field, students take on the classic challenge of patient reading — valued by colleges even more today in the age of AI.
Students leave with tangible evidence, showing colleges their ability to read, think, and engage critically with challenging ideas.
How it works
Start with a call with our founder to choose your track — specialized or big questions — and your topic.
Connect with a mentor with similar interests, who will curate a special curriculum for you.
Before each session, you will be assigned readings and writing tasks.
In the 2-3 sessions, you will refine your research proposal (specialized track) or reviews (big questions track).
Specialized Track
-
Craft a formal research proposal showing understanding of research design / process. Perfect for students looking to dive deep into niche areas.
-
Good research begins with a coherent and realistic proposal.
Writing one shows a sophisticated appreciation of research and provides genuine, rich experiences to discuss in essays and interviews.
-
Curated scholarly articles and primary sources in your chosen topic.
-
AI and Technology: Bias amplification in large language models used for college admissions screening
Economics and Society: The impact of informal labor platforms on income stability among urban youth in India
Arts and Culture: The representation of women’s ambition in post-2000 Indian cinema
Sciences: The effects of microplastics on freshwater ecosystems
Big Questions Track
-
Write reviews of classic texts tackling the biggest questions in your field.Perfect for students with broad interests and/or UK applicants.
-
In the rush to appear “specialized“, high schoolers typically do not read big-picture texts that have shaped entire fields.
This course helps students develop broad, original perspectives on their field and position themselves as sophisticated thinkers.
-
A wide selection of texts within a single discipline or theme by influential writers.
-
AI and Technology: How is artificial intelligence reshaping decision-making in everyday life?
Economics and Society: Why does poverty persist despite economic growth?
Arts and Culture: How do art and culture reflect social change?
Sciences: How does human activity affect the natural world?
Vivaan’s journey with Reads Sr.
Vivaan (Grade 10, Bangkok Patana School) chose the specialized track and wrote a research proposal.
Working with papers from the Quarterly Journal of Economics, his project combined demographic data, policy analysis, and planned field interviews, and focused on how political and economic institutions determine whether demographic change reduces or deepens inequality.
