What Colleges Dont Tell You (And Other Parents Dont Want You to Know) : 272 Secrets for Getting Your Kid into the Top Schools

English

ISBN: 0452288541

EAN: 9780452288546

Category: Education / Higher/Education / Parent Participation/

Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

Release Date: 07/31/2007

Age Range: 18-UP

Synopsis: Did you know? A childs guidance counselor can help reverse a deferral. A parent can help get a child off a waiting list. And there is a way for students to back out of Early Decision once theyve been accepted. In a time when parents are finding themselves frenzied by the college application process, What Colleges Dont Tell You (And Other Parents Dont Want You to Know) offers the only reasonable remedy-informed parental involvement. Based on the inside information Elizabeth Wissner-Gross has gleaned from working for over ten years as a highly successful packager of high school students, and from exclusive interviews with heads of admission at some of the countrys top schools, this book empowers parents by decoding the highly secretive and seemingly arbitrary college admissions process, revealing 272 little-known, tried-and-true secrets to help parents get their kids into the countrys most competitive colleges. Secret 13: Nominate Your Own Kid! If you think your kid deserves an award, dont wait for a teacher to do it. Secret 32: Lopsidedness Rules. Well-roundedness is passe. Secret 87: Cram for the SATs with Your Child. And see the scores rise! Book jacket.

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What Colleges Dont Tell You (And Other Parents Dont Want You to Know) : 272 Secrets for Getting Your Kid into the Top Schools

Illustrated: No

Format: UK-B Format Paperback

Height: 0.73 inches

Width: 5.62 inches

Length: 8.52 inches

Weight: 10.09 oz

Pages: 336