"Now a USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller!
How do you REALLY get accepted to Harvard, Yale, and the Ivy League?
Told from the fresh and personal perspective of 26-year-old Crimson Education CEO and Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford graduate Jamie Beaton, Accepted! is an honest and practical guide on beating the odds and getting into Ivy League and other elite schools – the smart way.
Beaton takes you behind the doors of the world's top college admissions offices, revealing the highly strategic selection processes applied by institutions whose reputations depend on the number of students they admit, or more pointedly, the tens of thousands that they don't.
In Accepted!, Beaton delivers the ultimate insider ""how to"" and disrupts cliched admissions advice with savvy strategies like:
Moneyballing the university rankings and increasing your chances of admission Class spamming your way to academic supremacy and acceptance Playing the early application dating game and understanding how institutions are using it to their reputational advantage
Packed with real-life examples from the thousands of students Beaton has helped land a spot at Harvard, Stanford, and other esteemed universities, Accepted! is a never-before assembled culmination of secrets, insights, and application strategies guaranteed to maximize your chances of ""getting in"" to the school of your choice.
From ambitious students and their supportive parents to academic advisors and admissions professionals, Accepted! is the must-read guide to demystifying the often-convoluted and increasingly competitive world of elite college admissions."
By:
Jamie Beaton
Imprint: Jossey-Bass Inc.,U.S.
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions:
Height: 224mm,
Width: 150mm,
Spine: 23mm
Weight: 340g
ISBN: 9781119833512
ISBN 10: 1119833515
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 04 February 2022
Audience:
General/trade
,
ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active
Foreword xv Introduction xix 1 Signaling, the Hunger Games, and McHarvard 1 2 Class Spam: Deadly and Effective 7 3 Early Decision and the Dating Game 17 4 Morpheus Wins: “Show Me The Future!” 29 5 The Extracurricular Results/Effort Ratio: What It Is, How It Works, and Why It Matters 37 6 Not A School Leader? Go Build Your Own Empire 47 7 Don’t Be Fooled: Recommendation Letters Are Audit Trails 55 8 The Kingmakers: Here’s How the Best of the Best Defeat the Rest of the Best of the Best 65 9 It’s All Optional!: What the New “Test Optional” Universe Means to College Admissions 71 10 Powerade, Burger Patties, and the Perfect Personal Statement 79 11 Dual Degrees and Why Double Dipping Opens Doors You May Not Know Existed 95 12 What the Rich Get Wrong: Don’t Pay to Play over Summer 107 13 Why Student Athletes Need to Compete with Their Heads 119 14 Managing Your Toughest Adversary— Your Mind! 129 15 International Students and the Even More Uneven Playing Field 141 16 Moneyball: How to Rank and Choose the Best Universities 147 17 Harvard’s Legacy, My Legacy, and Your Legacy 161 18 The Personalities of the Ivy Leagues and Which One May Be Right for You 167 19 For Parents Only! 187 Epilogue 199 Appendix: Bonus Round 205 Acknowledgments 235 About the Author 239 Notes 241 Index 253
JAMIE BEATON is a graduate of Harvard University, Stanford, and Oxford University. Now the Co-founder and CEO of Crimson Education, the world’s most successful college admissions company according to U.S. News and World Report, he helps students level the playing field in world-leading university admissions.
