Becky Munsterer Sabky

Valedictorians at the Gate (eBook, ePUB)

Standing Out, Getting In, and Staying Sane While Applying to College

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Named one of Grown & Flown's "Best Book on College Admissions and Paying for College"

"The most honest, most helpful book I've ever read on applying to college"
-New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant

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 spending years as a college admissions director at Dartmouth, Becky Munsterer Sabky had seen it all. The perfect grades, the perfect scores, and the perfect extracurriculars. Valedictorians were knocking at the gate, but Becky realized that in their quest for admission many of these students were missing something. Their transcripts were golden, their interviews polished, but they weren't applying for college, they were competing for it-and in the end they didn't know what prize they were really striving for.

In Valedictorians at the Gate, Sabky looks beyond the smoke and mirrors of the intimidating admissions gauntlet and places the power firmly where it should be: in the hands of the students themselves. Offering prescriptive, actionable advice for students and their (hopefully not helicoptering) parents, Sabky illuminates the pathway to finding the school that is the ideal match.

Witty and warm, informative and inspiring, Valedictorians at the Gate is the needed tonic for overstressed, overworked, and overwhelmed students on their way to the perfect college for them.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Henry Holt and Co.
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 3. August 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781250619044
• Artikelnr.: 60044181

Autorenporträt

Becky Munsterer Sabky

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
1. THE BIG PICTURE
THE COLLEGE SEARCH
2. FIRST STEPS
3. CREATING THE RIGHT COLLEGE LIST
4. THE CAMPUS VISIT
5. COMING TO A HIGH SCHOOL NEAR YOU
THE APPLICATION
6. THE SCHOOL REPORT
7. RECOMMENDATIONS
8. EXTRACURRICUL ARS
9. TESTING
10. THE PERSONAL STATEMENT
11. SUPPLEMENTAL ESSAYS
12. SUBMIT TING THE APPLICATION
13. ALUMNI INTERVIEWS
SPECIAL CONSIDERATIONS
14. A WORD ON EARLY
15. INTERNATIONAL APPLICANTS
16. RECRUITED ATHLETES
POSTDECISION
17. DECISION DAY
18. ADMIT TED STUDENT EVENTS
19. WELCOME TO COLLEGE
20. BEST IN CLASS
Works Consulted
Acknowledgments