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"Jamie Beaton was admitted to Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Wharton, Columbia, Harvard Law, Yale Law, Cambridge, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, Stanford Business School and was awarded the Schwarzman Scholarship before he turned 26. In [this book], he shares his insider knowledge about the elite college admissions process with you, delivering honest and effective advice guaranteed to maximize your chances of getting into the school of your choice"...
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Deluged with messages that range from "It's Ivy League or bust" to "It doesn't matter where you go," college applicants and their families often find themselves lost, adrift in a sea of information overload. Finally-a worthy life preserver has arrived. The Enlightened College Applicant presents a no-nonsense account of how students should approach the college search and admissions process. Instead of providing recycled entrance statistics or anecdotal...
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For all the anxiety that surrounds the college admissions process, one part of the application lies completely within a student s control: the essay. In this book, Rachel Toor writing instructor and coach at all levels from high school to senior faculty, and former admissions officer at Duke University shows that the key to writing a successful application essay is learning to present an honest portrait of yourself.
4) As you wish
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College student Christy trusts God to guide her in making decisions about school and her boyfriend Todd.
5) Hell bent
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Alex Stern volume 2
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English
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"Alex Stern returns in #1 New York Times bestselling author Leigh Bardugo's Hell Bent, another tale of murder and dark magic set among the Ivy League elite. Galaxy "Alex" Stern is determined to break Darlington out of hell-even if it costs her a future at Lethe and at Yale. But Alex is playing with forces far beyond her control, and when faculty members begin to die off, she knows these aren't just accidents. Something deadly is at work in New Haven,...
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GHF Press
Pub. Date
2017
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English
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As the number of homeschoolers continues to increase, professionals who work with homeschoolers seeking higher education need to develop a plan to recruit, assess, and assimilate these particularly motivated, thoughtful, creative students. Combining her professional experience with insights gathered from surveys of US colleges and universities, author Lori Dunlap provides the information you need to more fully understand this population, along with...
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The Experiment, LLC
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[2015]
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English
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Re: The future is in your hands-not Harvard's, TO: All students wondering "Can I get into my dream college?" CC: All parents wondering "Can we afford it?", FROM: Educational consultant Kristin M. White, MEMO: College Rankings Don't Matter. This claim might sound crazy, but it's true: Research shows that where you go to school makes little difference to future financial success or quality of life-personal qualities such as ambition, perseverance, and...
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"From the former Stanford University sailing coach, the first person sentenced in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, the riveting true story of how he was drawn unwittingly into a web of deceit, about the sophisticated scheme designed to take advantage of college coaches and play to the endless appetite for university fundraising, and about the ways in which justice and fairness do not always intersect"--
9) Begin again
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2023.
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College freshman Andie is used to fixing other people's problems, but when her seemingly perfect plan for her future starts to crumble, Andie struggles to fix them and learns that the best-laid plans are not necessarily the right one
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Ediciones Urano
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2019
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Español
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"Una guía práctica para todos aquellos padres que quieran ayudar a sus hijos a atravesar con éxito el complicado sistema educativo de Estados Unidos, analizado por una avezada periodista y madre de dos alumnas universitarias."--Publisher's website.
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Sourcebooks
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[2021]
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English
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A guide to 320+ four-year schools, including quotes from real students and information you won't find on college websites. In addition to detailed and candid stories about each school, you will find lists of strong programs and popular majors at each college, information on how to apply, graduation and acceptance rates, and exclusive academic, social, and quality-of-life ratings. -- Adapted from back cover.
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Viking, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
[2020]
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English
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"The College Conversation is intended to be an all-purpose guide for mapping the way through the college application process in a way that offers practical advice and reassurance to keep both anxious parents and confused children sane and grounded. Rather than adding to the existing canon of "How to Get In" college guides or rankings, the approach of The College Conversation is more in the vein of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters...
13) The perfect race
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Five & Two Pictures
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[2020]
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English
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Coach Courtney Smith-Donnelly takes her coaching wisdom to the track and works with a female athlete at a small Christian college who tries to overcome long odds and win a national title in the 800-meter run. Coach Donnelly's training methods and teachings about life both line up with the concept that to win, they first have to lose. Originally releases in select theaters.
14) Spooky schools
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Among the 11 spooky schools in this book, children will discover an art institute haunted by a mischievous ghost and a university in Florida where a man with glowing red eyes mysteriously appears.
17) Valedictorians at the gate: standing out, getting in, and staying sane while applying to college
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Henry Holt and Company
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2021.
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English
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"A former Ivy League admissions officer offers an inspiring battle cry for sanity in the college application process that looks beyond the rankings to successfully determine what's truly the best school for you or your child. After years as a college admissions director for Dartmouth, Becky Munsterer Sabky had seen it all. The perfect grades, the perfect scores, and the perfect extracurriculars. The valedictorians were knocking at the gate, but...
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"What Every Science Student Should Know is the perfect personal mentor for any aspiring scientist, meant to help students avoid pitfalls while providing much-needed encouragement. It covers the entire college experience including choosing a major, mastering study skills, doing scientific research, finding a job, and most important, how to foster and keep a love of science. This guide is a distillation of the authors' own experiences as recent science...
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