Get Into the College of Your Dreams!

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If you are one of the more than two million U.S. high school students applying to college this year, you probably have lots of questions. And we've got answers-hundreds of them! How to Survive Getting Into College has tons of great advice and tips from hundreds of former high school seniors who have been through the college admissions process and succeeded. Special editor Rachel Korn, a former admissions officer at the University of Pennsylvania, Brandeis, and Wellesley, adds her words of wisdom and best tips for getting into the college of your dreams.

Following in the footsteps of Hundreds of Heads' bestselling college life guide, How to Survive Your Freshman Year, How to Survive Getting Into College contains the best tips, stories, and advice on the college application process based on interviews with college students from hundreds of colleges-both public and private-across the country.

How to Survive Getting Into College offers great advice on these topics and more:

Getting organized and starting the process early Making your application stand out Finding money to pay for your education Writing the perfect essay How to survive the interview process Special tactics for athletes and artists Each chapter offers "Headlines: Best Advice and Top Tips" for quick and easy topic reference. The book also contains useful facts and statistics, a listing of helpful websites, and uses icons to point out cool things to consider or especially useful information.

With How to Survive Getting Into College, students have a truly practical guide filled with honest advice dosed with humor from their peers, and parents have a new source of practical, insider information. "College might be called the best four years of your life, but you have to get there first," says Korn. Now, with How to Survive Getting Into College, high school students just got hundreds of steps closer.