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Plenty of college admission guides promise to help students crack the Ivy League, but few of these have detailed knowledge to back up their advice. Michele Hernandez, on the other hand, is the ultimate insider. A Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Dartmouth College, she also worked as Dartmouth's assistant director of admissions for four years. In A Is for Admissions, Hernandez describes the step-by-step process Ivy League schools use to evaluate an application. Along the way she settles some ancient debates, including the comparative importance of SATs versus high-school grades, public versus private high schools, and extracurricular activities versus part-time employment. She evaluates every possible factor affecting chances for admission, including special categories of students such as recruited athletes, minority applicants, and legacies. Most dramatically, Hernandez reveals the precise mathematical formula used by admissions officers to rank applicants. Using her guidelines, readers can calculate their own AI (Academic Index) and--should their scores come up short--learn ways to compensate in other areas.
Refreshingly, Hernandez helps would-be Ivy Leaguers keep their goals in perspective. She strongly advises against "grade grubbing" or "working for the grade." If you think attending a top college is the key to success, Hernandez cautions that the Ivies may not be for you. "If your goal is to make money, but you don't enjoy studying or reading, don't waste your time by trying to get into an Ivy League or highly selective college.... The beauty of an Ivy League/highly selective education lies in the intellectual atmosphere.... It does not lie in the prestige of having a diploma from Princeton or Dartmouth on your wall." Levelheaded and clearly written, A Is for Admission is the perfect guide for the student (or parent) who has his eyes set on the stars. -- Dieser Text bezieht sich auf eine vergriffene oder nicht verfügbare Ausgabe dieses Titels.
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Drawing on her four years as an admissions officer at Dartmouth, Hernandez walks through the elements of the college application process, concluding with tips that could result in coveted acceptance letters. That rejection notices often go to many 4.0 valedictorians must astonish and anguish parents and their high-schoolers, and the reasons for such a disappointing fate are commonsensically presented here. Hernandez discusses them in her breakdown of the major components of the application: grades, tests, teacher recommendations, and the essay. She focuses on them in an interesting way, emphasizing that they are most persuasive if they provide proof of a love of learning, which a test obviously cannot do. But, the tests trump everything: that is the main "secret" Hernandez reveals. The cruel truth is that an Ivy League officer typically gloms onto the academic index, a number that sums up the SAT score, the SAT II score (once called Achievement Tests), and an estimated class rank. The remainder of Hernandez's discussion is rather anticlimactic but still usefully advises applicants who hope their athleticism, alumni relatives, rich donor parents, or ethnicity might tilt a finely balanced decision in their direction. This book gives experienced, practical insight into a process as mysterious as a conclave of cardinals, and Hernandez's publisher is promoting heavily to arouse the potentially huge readership: several hundred thousand students apply every year to the most select colleges. Gilbert Taylor
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This book does an extremely good job in explaining what goes on behind the scenes of Ivy Colleges admissions, but at the same time, gives an extremely hard time to the student with a solid, but not exceptional academic record. Let me give an accurate synopsis of a few pages in the book. Setting: 4 admissions officers are together, looking at admissions and discussing them. When one admissions officer opens the file, he says "Oh boy. This must be the thousandth newspaper editor we had today. Pfff." Another admissions officer then says "And this is also the zillionth applicant today who is strong in science/math but has bad verbal skills." (700V/800M!!!) Just an example. This book gives a painfully honest view of what really goes on behind Ivy colleges admissions. It shows that it's not true what the officers at the Ivies say: On the contrary, only the top (and I mean top) have a chance of making it.
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Every time I (who will be applying to college soon) open this book, my hands shake and my pulse quickens. According to Ms. Hernandez, getting into "highly selective" colleges such as Dartmouth, her pet school, and others like it is virtually impossible. Furthermore, she paints an extraordinarily bleak picture for the "average guy" type of high school student- a person who is NOT the captain of the football team, the editor of the school newspaper, and/or a refugee from a destitute foreign country. Sorry for being so cynical, but if she's right, most people have got to log off and hit the books.
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As a college counselor and parent of two, A is For Admission was a great help in understanding what happens when someone applies to Dartmouth (and other Ivy League schools). I was able to help my children and students write strong application essays to differentiate themselves from other applicants. Both my children are now at Brown U.
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One of my favorite all-time books!
I learned such valuable insight from "A is for Admission" that I truly believe it was a crucial factor in my daughter's early acceptance to an Ivy League university this... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 13. Februar 2000 veröffentlicht
Satisfied customer
The book offers a much-needed dose of reality for anyone approaching the competitive world of college admissions. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 30. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Must reading for would-be Ivy Leaguers
My wife and I are parents who have gone through the elite college admissions process once, and will do so again with our second child who is now in the eleventh grade. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 21. Oktober 1999 veröffentlicht
Straight Talk from a Pro....... And it 's all true!
Hernandez tells us what goes on behind those Ivy Halls when dedicated, but weary, admissions professionals weed through thousands of applications. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 1. Oktober 1999 von hadalamac@aol.com Bill
A Wind in the Ivy!
The words of Sra. Hernandez blow like a strong wind ruffling the leaves of ivy and exposing the vines. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 29. September 1999 veröffentlicht
poor grammar and syntax makes information seem dubious
This book is interesting but frustrating. It explains in excruciating detail the admissions process at ONE Ivy League school (Dartmouth), and purports to offer this as a general... Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 23. September 1999 veröffentlicht
a real downer...
This book made it seem like if you didn't have a 4.0 GPA and a 1600 on your SAT that you didn't have a chance to get into the top colleges in the US, which is not true! Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 25. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
This book is a must read for serious applicants!
I highly recommend this book - it was very readable and includes invaluable information about the college entrance process. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 3. Juni 1999 veröffentlicht
AN ADVICE BOOK THAT REALLY WORKS
This book allowed my daughter to assess her chances and create an application that put her assets in the most positive light. Lesen Sie weiter...
Am 7. Mai 1999 veröffentlicht
Excellent insights into how it really works.
Getting your kid into a good college is a nerve-racking process for most parents. It certainly has been for us. We have found the customer reviews in Amazon very helpful. Lesen Sie weiter...
Veröffentlicht am 26. April 1999 von Marmez1@aol.com
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