What Colleges Don't Tell You (And Other Parents Don't Want You to Know) 272 Secrets for Getting Your Kids into the Top Schools

A sought-after packager of high school students shares highly coveted strategies to help parents get their kids into the countrys most competitive colleges Did you know? A childs 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 theyve 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 nations 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 teachers 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 todays college-bound teenagers who seek to gain a proven edge in the highly secretive and seemingly arbitrary college admissions process, "What Colleges Dont Tell You (and Other Parents Dont 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.Wissner-Gross, Elizabeth is the author of 'What Colleges Don't Tell You (And Other Parents Don't Want You to Know) 272 Secrets for Getting Your Kids into the Top Schools', published 2006 under ISBN 9781594630316 and ISBN 1594630313.