About the Book:
Every year it seems to get harder to get admitted to college. Application numbers keep going up (over 100,000 per year at UCLA), and acceptance rates keep going down (under 5% at Stanford). Thousands of perfect GPA/SAT/ACT scoring students, and hundreds-of-thousands of lower scoring applicants regularly get rejected from universities that they thought would accept them.
Traditionally, a regional admissions officer would spend 12-15 minutes on your initial application review. Recently, however, many over-worked offices have revamped the process, with two cross-region admissions officers simultaneously reviewing each application for 4-6 minutes. So, you have approximately five minutes to wow the judges, and move on to the selections committee.
While you sit on one side of a scale, your competition sits on the other. The odds are stacked against you. What, if anything, can you do to help tip the scale in your favor?
The answer is the same for every high school student and every college. And, it's not as hard as it seems. You just need access to the same “secrets” that college admissions experts are selling to their clients for hundreds of dollars an hour.
This step-by-step guide grants you that access. It reveals the 12 things that matter most in the admissions process, and provides corresponding steps for making a notable first impression, and ultimately getting admitted. It's like having your own private college counselor right at your fingertips.
Every single paragraph contains important information that will help tip the scales towards your acceptance. Aim to complete each step within its target time period, beginning the summer before junior year and ending the summer before senior year. If the date has already passed, complete the step as soon as possible.
After you have checked off each step, your applications will be complete. You will then be able to relax and enjoy senior year. But, don’t relax and enjoy it too much, because colleges can, and do, rescind acceptances.
Traditionally, a regional admissions officer would spend 12-15 minutes on your initial application review. Recently, however, many over-worked offices have revamped the process, with two cross-region admissions officers simultaneously reviewing each application for 4-6 minutes. So, you have approximately five minutes to wow the judges, and move on to the selections committee.
While you sit on one side of a scale, your competition sits on the other. The odds are stacked against you. What, if anything, can you do to help tip the scale in your favor?
The answer is the same for every high school student and every college. And, it's not as hard as it seems. You just need access to the same “secrets” that college admissions experts are selling to their clients for hundreds of dollars an hour.
This step-by-step guide grants you that access. It reveals the 12 things that matter most in the admissions process, and provides corresponding steps for making a notable first impression, and ultimately getting admitted. It's like having your own private college counselor right at your fingertips.
Every single paragraph contains important information that will help tip the scales towards your acceptance. Aim to complete each step within its target time period, beginning the summer before junior year and ending the summer before senior year. If the date has already passed, complete the step as soon as possible.
After you have checked off each step, your applications will be complete. You will then be able to relax and enjoy senior year. But, don’t relax and enjoy it too much, because colleges can, and do, rescind acceptances.