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first reviewed The New Rules of College Admissions when I was working as a high school counselor, At the time, I was looking for helpful college planning resources for students and parents, I have often referred to this resource, Over the years, it has become one of my favorite books on preparing for college admissions,

When I first read this book I was skeptical because a private educational consulting firm called, College Coach, developed it, My fear was that the book would end up being an advertisement for the firm and instead of providing useful information it would attempt to persuade parents and students to seek their consulting services.
To my delight, I was wrong, The book provides a wealth of useful information for prospective college students and their parents,

The book is written in a straightforward, easytoread manner, It is also divided into to chapters that focus on specific aspects of the application process, This allows readers to easily locate relevant information as they move through college application process,

Each chapter is written by an expert coach from College Coach who was a former educational professional at prestigious college, The writing flows together in a cohesive manner despite being authored by different writers,

The titles of the chapters are as follows:

Chapter One: The High School Experience
Chapter Two: Standardized Tests
Chapter Three: College Selection
Chapter Four: The Application
Chapter Five: The Application Theme
Chapter Six: Essays and Personal Statements
Chapter Seven: Activities
Chapter Eight: Letters of Recommendation
Chapter Nine: Interviews
Chapter Ten: Paying for College
Conclusion: What Next


This book is targeted to parents of traditional aged, college bound students applying to competitive colleges.
Although the authors are speaking to their parents, high school students can also easily glean helpful information from reading this book, However, this book is not written for nontraditional students or transfer students, Although students in these groups will still be able to gain useful information from reading this book they may wish to find a source written for them specifically.


Although I was initially skeptical of The New Rules of College Admissions because it was written by an educational consulting firm, I now see the advantage of having a book such as this being written by various coaches from an educational consulting firm: The experts bring their varied backgrounds from working at colleges throughout the country together for a perspective that would be applicable to seeking admission at any college.


The book is well written and packed with helpful information for prospective college students and their parents, I recommend this book to college bound high school students and their parents who would like help with the college application process,

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High schoolgrade Freshman, sophomore, junior, senior
Nearly,colleges in USA

Chap: The high school experience
PWhat courses are absolutely essential year by year
Answer: Academic solids
English
Social Science History
Mathematics
Science, Preferably with lab
Foreign Language

PIs is better for my child to take easier coursed and get As, or take harder courses such as AP classes and get Bs
Answer: Premier school, AP and honors whenever available.
Grade Achieved in Courses As

Chap: standardized tests
College Board sitelink collegeboard. org/
PSATPreliminary scholastic achievement test: National Merit ScholarshipHigest scores: National Merit Scholarship Commended Scholars, Semifinalist, finalist p

SAT I and SAT II Subject Tests scholastic achievement test,SAT II formerly called achievement test
SAT I Critical Reading, math, Writing:hoursminutes
SAT II

This is no advantage to taking more thanSATII exams p

AP Advanced Placement Test: usually coincide with AP classes School awards for outstanding performance
grade:qualifying gradeorexcellent

CLEP College Level Examination Program : demonstrate collegelevel achievement, exams in undergraduate college courses.


ACT American College Tests sitelinkwww, act. org
Most schools will consider the ACT in place of SAT I and II, p
ACT:Enghish, readign, math,minutes writing
Pro: Alignment with high school curriculum,

Chap: College selection
sitelinkwww, petersons. com
sitelinkwww. collegeboard. com
sitelinkwww. princetonreview. com

::dream schools,just right schools,no problem schools, total

Chap: The application
Admission option: Rolling admission, Regular decision, Early decision and Early Action.

section of application: Personal information and academic background, Activity Chart, Short Essay, Personal statement/Major essay,
Using common application when school offered, P. psitelinkwww. commonapp. org
Proofreading the hard copy of online version in case differently shown up on screen

Chap: The application theme
minutes assess time in college admission officer: theme to make applicant standing out

Chap: Essays and personal statement
words personal reflection and analysis
type of questions: Openended and analytical questions p
Openended questions: "tell us about a meaningful experience, and why it is meaningful to you" : give a personal insight on the topic, not description.

analytical questions: be given a quote, portion of essay, and ask to take a stance and explain how their beliefs fits with their stance, Answer why, with their own life experience, provide personal insight into their own thoughts and belief,

ShortAnswer essaywords
point Standard font: Times New Roman, Courier, Arial

Chap: Activities

Chap:Letters of recommendation
Guidance Counsellor recommendation Guidance Counsellor assigned inth grade
Teachers recommendation letter
wsitelinkwww.
commonapp. org Teacher Recommendation Form to look at questions in the recommendation letters,

Chap:interviews
Oncampus Interviews informational nonevaluative and evaluation interview
Alumni Interviews
Student Interviews
minutes interview
Interviewing: The "Big Three " Opening Questions firstminute
Why are you applying here What are your academic interests What are your extracurricular activities
It's about uncovering the passion behind the activity.
p
Interviewing: Open Ended Question secondminute
Can

this student do the work academically
What will this student contribute socially, culturally, and personally if we admit him to join our school community
Again, the key question is "Why".
Why soccer, important ppplist of common interview questions
Interviewing: Final impression lastminute

Chap:Paying for college
Federal methodology and Institutional methodology

Recruitment schoolarship: often called presidential or dean's schoolarshp, based on academic abilities meritbased scholarship
sitelinkwww.
fastweb. com sitelinkwww. collegeboard. com scholarship search database

If your children received a scholarship from a source other than colleges to which he is applying, he must report the award to each college from which he is selling financial aid.
p

The FAFSA: Free Application for Federal Students Aid required by almost all schools sitelinkwww, fafsa. ed. gov online or paper, no fee for filing the FAFSA,
The CSS: College Scholarship Service Profile required by some schools, Each student files the FAFSA and CSS profile once each year,

sitelink ed. gov/resources

The FAFSA
, answering the questions on the FAFSA
, selecting college that will receive the FAFSA Data
sixdigit Federal School Code
, signing the FAFSA
Sign FAFSA online by typing their Federal PIN number fourdigit PIN, undermust have one parent sign Parent different PIN number, obtain from sitelinkwww.
pin. ed. gov. PIN can be also used for sign student and parent promissory note,
. reviewing the Student Aid Report SAR

The CSS profile
, registration
sitelinkwww. collegeboard. com: list only the college that require CSS profile, no need to list any school that need only the FAFSA,per college.
. application

Unusual circumstances: contact directly to Director of Financial Aid,

Unusual circumstances letter that is submitted after a financial aid offer has been made is called "appeal", Write as soon as you can, the same time you file the FAFSA, or file "appeal form" after receive a financial aid,

The Financial aid statement FAS
The Student Bill,