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Acing the College Application: How to Maximize Your Chances for Admission to the College of Your Choice (Acing the College Application)
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Rating:  - Gain an edge in college choice(s)
This short guide book is filled with useful tips on subjects that might otherwise be overlooked by many college applicants. It also provides examples of essay formats that should be very helpful. I recommend it for any high school applicant, especially those with their sights on a particular institution.
Rating:  - Don't Apply Without Reading This Book!
Our son is currently engaged in his college hunt. He's a fairly well qualified high school junior...top 10% of his class, varsity sports, Eagle Scout, outside job, etc. We thought this college thing would be a fairly easy process. WRONG!
We are so thankful to have discovered this book. Dr. Hernandez does a superb job of explaining the entire process of applying to a "highly selective" college or university. She provides a behind the scenes look at how a college application is screened, while providing many practical and insightful recommendations on completing the process. Had we not discovered this book I can assure you our son would have made some egregious errors when completing his applications.
To date we've visited Cornell, Duke, Wake Forest and UNC-Chapel Hill. Each of the college admissions lectures we received at these institutions validated the information in this book. It was as though Dr. Hernandez was prescient. If you've not already done so, I cannot encourage you enough to VISIT COLLEGES. Listen to their admissions presentations. Take their tours. Talk to their students. You'll learn a great deal that's not addressed in the U.S. News & World Report and Princeton Review college selection guides. And it's FUN!
Run, don't walk to purchase this publication. It's a quick read. Have a highlighter handy.
I also highly recommend "The Early Admissions Game" by Christopher Avery. It's imperative you understand the effect of "Early Decision" on the college acceptance process.
Good luck during your college hunt!
Jim
Rating: - My BEST Books for College Students...
This certainly ranks up there. My other choices for 2007, hands down:
1) How To Ace Your Way Through College & Still Have a Life
2) The MLA Handbook
3) Fiske Guide to Colleges
Dr. Vernon M
Cambridge, MA
Rating: - Got me Into The Ivy League
I used this book when helping me fill out my college application to Cornell University. Cornell recently just had their lowest admission year at 20%. I have only a 1280/2000 on the SAT (710M 570V) and got accepted.
I did everything the book asked me too. Highlighting my advantages and writing descriptions to EC's the exemplified leadership.
This is tailored to the Common Application. However it can definitely be applicable to all applications. I do credit this book with getting me into all the schools I applied to except one. This is the only book I used in the application process. I recommend it.
Rating: - Michele Hernandez is a goddess
this book and her other, A for admission, are really the only ones you need for the college admissions process. Hernandez is thorough and straight forward. her other book is better than this one and some of the stuff in this is repetitive of her first, but i bought this one as a Thank you for all the help i received from her first book.
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