Overview

BIG SHIFTS IN COLLEGE ADMISSIONS AHEAD! College acceptance has changed in big ways since the pandemic, and you need to know how. Now, learn about the shifts in and strategies for a vibrant high school journey and college acceptance at your dream schools from nationally beloved and renowned Admissions Advisor, Dr. Deborah Bedor. In this book you will learn the following important items that will take your application to the next level. Develop Your Exceptional Applicant Mindset Big, bold, creative ideas to differentiate you from the crowd of other intelligent students stuck in a standardized educational world. Write Your Winning Application You'll use this unique resource as an “anthology of activation” that will inspire you to take the pieces of your high school life and combine them with the six most important success factors for college applications and Acceptance. Wise Advice From Expert Mentors Nationally-renowned subject experts mentor you in these pages, so you can differentiate yourself via projects in computer science, machine learning, artificial intelligence, research sciences, mathematics for national competitions, debate, athletic leadership, business, humanities, and music. Admissions doesn't care what you do--they care why you do it and how thoughtfully and passionately you can express your journey.

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Author:   Dr. Deborah Bedor
Publisher:   Advantage Media Group
Imprint:   Advantage Media Group
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 2.30cm , Length: 22.80cm
Weight:   0.522kg
ISBN:  

9781642254075

ISBN 10:   164225407
Pages:   376
Publication Date:   08 September 2022
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

PREFACE How to Read This Book INTRODUCTION PART ONE: DEVELOPING YOUR EXCEPTIONAL APPLICANT MINDSET You Do You The Superhero Student Syndrome Your Dream Board! Your Six Make-or-Break College Application Factors What It Takes to Be an Exceptional Applicant When to Think Like Alexander the Great and When to Think Like Chesterton What a Mouse and His Cheese Can Teach Us about the Path to College Acceptance Your Four-Year High School Timetable: What You Need to Do and When The Timeline and Reasons for College Application Prep Why Strive and Achieve for That Best-fit College? PART TWO: BECOMING A LEADER, A SCHOLAR, AND AN ALL-AROUND EXCEPTIONAL APPLICANT You as Foxhog Greg: Bolts Gabriel: Josué Lena: DragonHorse Sneakers Chris: WAVE Speakers Bobby: Helping Hands, a Community Business What the Right Mentor or Advisor Can Mean for You Let’s Think about What Happens in a Student’s Weekly Life Creative Student Projects World Coffee Music Business: The Online Booking Manager The Creative Premed A Biannual Tech Zoo Healthcare Policy Advocate GlassTale: A Recycling Initiative for Hong Kong A Volunteer Student Marketing Corps for Community Vendors The Graffiti Grocer Enamored of Literature: The Big Book of Beloved Vocabulary Devon’s ShirtShip EcoComics Add Your Missing X-Factors Does Your Major Matter? Nurturing Your Exceptional Tilt Admissions Lessons on Academic Rigor and Exceptional Tilt Who’s a Leader? You’re a Leader! Defining Leadership Admissions Officers Will Ask the Question, Where Is the Thread of Passion? The Late Bloomers Can Win The Importance of the Local: Community Service Some Ideas The Power Is in Your Hands. What Do You Do When You Have the Power? Obstacles to Adaptability Improvising through the Obstacles Getting into Science Research: A Walk-Through of How to Compete in Science Fairs You as Science Researcher Different Areas of Science Research Projects How to Choose a General Science Research Area and a Specific Topic Science Research Categories Suggested Timeline of Activities for a Successful Student Science Research Project Time Frame for Different Areas of Student Science Research Projects A Few Examples of Past Student Projects to Get You Thinking about Your Own Brainstorming for your Research Project Finding a Research Mentor Preparation for Reaching Out to a Potential Mentor Extra Special Tips and Hints to Amaze the Competition Judges STEM Research Competitions and Certificates PART THREE: WRITING YOUR WINNING APPLICATION The Art of the Essay A Few Literary Devices to Use Writing Your College Essays The Personal Statement: What Admissions Officers Say They Want and What They Really Want Night and Day The Why Essay: Closing the Deal with Admissions Officers PART FOUR: ADVICE FROM YOUR MENTORS Introduction to Higher Mathematics Study and Competition Your Mentor: Wes Carroll, (MIT), One of the Nation’s Top Mathematics Competition Coaches A Crash Course Introduction on Leadership A Few Techniques of Leadership Your Mentor: Bo Eason, Former NFL Safety, Houston Oilers An Introduction to Business Mentoring Your College Education as a Business Major Your Mentor: Alec Urbach, (Princeton University), marketing consultant, author, and speaker Introduction to Computer Science, Machine Learning, and Artificial Intelligence Your Mentor: Brian Skinner, (Stanford University), Founder, Breakout Mentors, The Personalized Approach for Kids Learning to Code An Introduction to Debate Your Mentor: Julian Dotson, President, District of Columbia Urban Debate League An Introduction to The Value of Music Study Your Mentor: Pamela Stein Lynde, (Peabody Conservatory), Classical Voice and Composition Your Mentor: Jessica Meyer, (The Juilliard School), Instrumental Music and Composition Interviews with Your College Student Mentors The Best of Princeton (Students from Freshman through Senior Year) The Best of Harvard (Freshman and Sophomore Students) The Best of Duke The Best of Brown University The Best of Brown PLME (Eight-Year Program in Liberal Medical Education) Students from a Potpourri of Universities (UPenn, Columbia, Yale, Stanford, Cornell, Duke, U Chicago, Carnegie Mellon, the UCs, Northwestern, Rice, Bowdoin, NYU, and Vanderbilt) ** PART FIVE: KEEPING THE STRESS DOWN AND THE FAMILY HARMONY UP DURING HIGH SCHOOL!** A Note Looking Forward to Your College Freshman’s Mental Health Finally ... It’s Not You, It’s Them PART SIX: IN CLOSING Baccalaureate APPENDIX A Look into Direct-Med Programs Sample Questions How to Prepare before Applications Details to Know for the BS/MD Some of the Nation’s Best and Most Nurturing BS/MD Programs according to My Students Test Optional / Test Blind: What You Need to Know for a Postpandemic Future

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"""In her role as one of the nation's premier college admissions advisors, Dr. B told her students in early 2020 that the biggest disruption facing high schoolers in the college admissions process will come when standardized tests are minimized in importance or deleted from all required applications. At that time, students will have to pull themselves up through their wits, subject mastery, and imagination, emerging from the in-school rut where classmates follow each other down the same course and activity paths instead of defining what is unique and remarkable about themselves. Dr. B admits that this won't be easy. It takes far less critical thinking and creativity to follow what your high school has framed as the ""right"" way to spend grades nine through twelve. But the way you adapt to such a charge will begin to shape a more thoughtful and innovative generation (not to mention, more successful college applications). Here we are, post pandemic, when in fact, the standardized test is being reconsidered as a necessity for college admission and the reliability of acceptance to a top-tier school is becoming less and less easy to predict. So, Dr. B has addressed the new college admissions environment by writing the most skillful, comprehensive, inspired, strategic, no-baloney guide to college acceptance. The Exceptional Applicant is a game changer--different from any guide for high school students you've ever read. Dr. B unpacks volumes of action steps, an array of creative projects, sample college essays, and a mindset for creating remarkable possibilities and adventures during high school. Included are tips and wisdom from some of the nation's leading educators in research, technology, mathematics, music, business, debate, and athletic leadership--fields that, if pursued at a high level during high school, can create the EXCEPTIONAL APPLICANT who pops off the pages of the college application and makes Admissions say, ACCEPTED. --RICHARD ROSSI Founder, the National Leadership Academies"""

In her role as one of the nation's premier college admissions advisors, Dr. B told her students in early 2020 that the biggest disruption facing high schoolers in the college admissions process will come when standardized tests are minimized in importance or deleted from all required applications. At that time, students will have to pull themselves up through their wits, subject mastery, and imagination, emerging from the in-school rut where classmates follow each other down the same course and activity paths instead of defining what is unique and remarkable about themselves. Dr. B admits that this won't be easy. It takes far less critical thinking and creativity to follow what your high school has framed as the right way to spend grades nine through twelve. But the way you adapt to such a charge will begin to shape a more thoughtful and innovative generation (not to mention, more successful college applications). Here we are, post pandemic, when in fact, the standardized test is being reconsidered as a necessity for college admission and the reliability of acceptance to a top-tier school is becoming less and less easy to predict. So, Dr. B has addressed the new college admissions environment by writing the most skillful, comprehensive, inspired, strategic, no-baloney guide to college acceptance. The Exceptional Applicant is a game changer--different from any guide for high school students you've ever read. Dr. B unpacks volumes of action steps, an array of creative projects, sample college essays, and a mindset for creating remarkable possibilities and adventures during high school. Included are tips and wisdom from some of the nation's leading educators in research, technology, mathematics, music, business, debate, and athletic leadership--fields that, if pursued at a high level during high school, can create the EXCEPTIONAL APPLICANT who pops off the pages of the college application and makes Admissions say, ACCEPTED. --RICHARD ROSSI Founder, the National Leadership Academies

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DR. DEBORAH BEDOR CEO, College Admission Central. As one of the nation’s most beloved and respected college admissions experts and best-selling author of Getting IN by Standing OUT, Dr. Bedor has had the pleasure of coaching and advising top-tier and Ivy League-bound precollege students for the past thirty years, with remarkable acceptance rates. Dr. Bedor works granularly and creatively with each student, from ninth through twelve grade, as a mentor, innovative résumé builder, college application essay consultant, and high school life coach—structuring and elevating every part of the student’s college application journey, creating standout candidates for acceptance. Dr. B graduated from the University of Pennsylvania, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude, and has lectured on student entrepreneurship in workshops at both Harvard and Columbia Universities.

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