What Colleges Don't Tell You (and Other Parents Don't Want You to Know): 272 Secrets for Getting Your Kid Into the Top Schools - Hardcover

Wissner-Gross, Elizabeth

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1594630313 ISBN 13: 9781594630316

Publisher: Hudson Street Press, 2006

Synopsis

A sought-after “packager” of high school students shares highly coveted strategies to help parents get their kids into the country’s most competitive colleges Did you know? A child’s 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 they’ve been accepted. Based on the controversial insider information Elizabeth Wissner-Gross has gleaned from working for years as a successful packager of high school students and from interviews with heads of admission at some of the nation’s most competitive colleges, this book helps parents answer questions such as: Can an application be sabotaged by a competing student or parent? How do colleges really know if a student applies to two or more schools for Early Decision? Is it possible to prescreen a teacher’s recommendation? As well as the biggest question of all: Of the tens of thousands of highly qualified students that graduate each year, why should a college choose yours? Targeting the college-educated parents of today’s college-bound teenagers who seek to gain a proven edge in the highly secretive and seemingly arbitrary college admissions process, What Colleges Don’t Tell You (and Other Parents Don’t Want You to Know) reveals 272 little- known, unconventional, tried-and-true secrets to help parents get their children into the most competitive schools of their dreams.

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Review:

"An empowering insider's guide."--Melissa Hartman, Imagine magazine, Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth

"Insider Wissner-Gross... knows exactly how to help graduates gain admission to the most prestigious colleges in the country, including Harvard, Yale, and Princeton... Dig in and give your kid a much-needed advantage."--Kirkus Reviews

"Wissner-Gross has found a keenly sought after niche in helping parents 'package' their children for college admissions... Most helpful is [her] advice gleaned from admissions officers... and her reminder to stay persistent."--Publishers Weekly

About the Author:

Elizabeth Wissner-Gross, trained as a journalist, has for ten years succeeded in helping students, including her own children, gain admission offers to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, and other competitive colleges.

About this edition

• Publisher: Hudson Street Press
• Publication date: 2006
• ISBN 10: 1594630313
• ISBN 13: 9781594630316
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 307