Focus on the young person Questioned revisted at the dinner table students begin to think about college Question

1: Why? Why do you want to go to college Barely half of the people actually graduate. Suggest that a lot of young people go to college for the sake of it. Stop and think about why you are doing this. How will you know what is a good education? Learn lecture hall or in the lab? College searchs begin to look different. Become the driver in the process. Be student centered. Often directions of what we need to do, without considering what the young person needs we miss. Pyramid of Selectivity. Very sharp point at the top. Some schools its 1/13. How important is depends on where you think you want to go. The further up the pyramid the more pressure they feel. Pyramid sees the relative importance when applying to schools. Selectivity is the relationship with the ratio of applied/get in. Selectivity is the relationship between those two numbers. Colleges are trying to create the most distance to be more selective and move up the pyramid. Some colleges admit 2000 because they forecast only 500 will actually come. Early Decision all enrolmen management tools to hit your numbers. Many colleges are trying to waive application fees to increase application growth. VIP applicants dont have to send in letters, applications an all that if invited.

Some of you get packets of applications already filled out. They do that because of SAT/ACT/PSAT etc. Everytime you register they ask information from you. Lead Generation colleges are spending hundreds of dollars to buy information about you from tests. Net Price Calculator End of October will have all colleges in which their will be a tool on all colleges of the total cost, government action. College are going to collect more information about you on this new net price calculator. As you get all this information, it will go to your head. This will be good because they dont know you. What they want is your application. They they will know you and ask you application VIP applicants great, but dont grow your list because it wont cost you anything, and it also says you wont do as a great job with your other applications.

Finding a good college fit, five elements: Other four are in the workbook but the one is: place that values you what you have to offer. College campus has seen what you have done and want you to continue to do that. Not randomly choosing you, want you as a success. They will admit you and they will invest in your success. Its a good fit. If you find 6/8 colleges and you apply. You become one of many applicants. Flaw in logic of accepting the good ones is that the diversity is implicit and that good is subjective. How do you define good. 90% of the students that apply are good. They can do the work. 90% of 8000 is 7200 applications. Only 2000 get in for instance. Scale of Acceptability- if you do it all on academic terms, and the top are those who will be the high lists and also JGB, just got bye. Competitive playing field. Now on academic terms you can see what the competition looks like. If you apply on the playing field, you have hope. If you look at it logically, the further up the playing field the more you have hope. Still there is never garuntee. The admission committee regards this not only on purely academic terms. Diversity is key. Some students from different states, some with musical abilities, some can build libraries. Might value the development of our arts programs. Once on the playing field anything can happen. Define what coleges are looking for. Many of you are interested in schools at the top of the pyramid. The schools at the top have an academic index Subject Tests, GPA, and SAT. They will look at your number and see if you hit their index. They will only look at those because that is the most efficient. Sense of their reality. There is a group of people on a college campus is the most interested not coaches as commonly believed, but rather professors. Collegues talk and the professors are the ones who influence the decision. They decide how it will be taught. They are the ones that told the admission community what students they want. The professors did the recruiting. Professors are making their way known of the admission process. They give the agenda. They give which people they like and that is what influences the admission community. Many students that are very bright levels of achievement come and go. Lack of a better term, there are underachievers. They got the goods but they choose not the use it.

Important message: the mystery is not who has it. Admission officers know the probability people have it. The mystery is using it. Use it well all the time. Professors will say they want diversity. Code for they want students of different ethinic background? But proffesors give another position: when you bring them in, you want different students who see life from different sets of lenses. Some people see life from different lenses. Lenses of geographic background. Each of you has the capacity of bringing diversity to college campus. This allows you to share it. Every college and university wants to make sure all of the academic programs are populated. If you are into a program that is UNDERPOPULATED you have the big advantage. Find colleges that value you when you get in. We value diversity of thought. What is diversiy of thought? It is that part of your DNA that sets you apart. You each have the opportunity to your eye to diversity. Aside from the academic definition of giftedness. Everyone is somehow different and gifted. You were revealing your gifts. Revealing the things that give you joy in life. Gifts that allow you grow. We could reveal your gifts. Admission officer will see you credentials and see you as good. If you admit her, what do we get? It is assumes on the playing field, but its more of what the college gets. Its incumbent on you to take academic responsibility now. When deans of admission come they want you to get good grades. But that is just the tip of the iceberg. There are other factors that tell you what to get in after the other factors are discovered. Hidden Agenda: Three elements of the hidden agenda First: Money: One of the biggest changes is the money. College has morphed into businesses. The decisions are now looking at calculations of finances. If you are fortunate to be financially self sufficient, you have a credential. If you need assistance, things get more complicated. Before they put you in they want to see the economic advantages. If you need $40,000 dollars of assitence, the expectations go down. OI return on investment. College admissions are investors. I am very happy to do that. If there is a student that has the money, he will bring the money. He will make sure his return is commenced on his investment. College will look at money. If you find places that want you, you need to look at the money. There is an idea that you might want to

go to certain places but you need the money. You cant begin with the assumptions that one college will give you financial aid. If your on the bubble, on the margin. When you are at the top of the playing field, you are higher on the playing field, now you bcome a scholarship candidate. If you need and want assitence, this is how you think about getting it. The Second Element: Yield: As soon as you begin to express interest, college will begin a data file for you. Your application will be read by a guy like me on my laptop. At first they see two boxes, and those boxes will have nothing to do with ti. It will represent the campus experience you had from 9 to 0 and also your interest. Not only you are on my playing field but you have stuff that you want. There needs to be a garuntee that they will actually show up. Applying to a bunch of those schools will also make the application come across as whimsible. Ask the likely hood that this student will enroll. If you look to box number 1, the digit is 2 and 0. Waitlisted immediately. It happens most at the higher up schools. Demonstrate interest if you see college interest, and they got those card. Take the 60 seconds in filing out the card because then you get credit for attending that conversation. See a lot of college refs. Ref says would you like to see this response for me. The best way to demonstrate interest is to go visit the college. The best time to visit is when you can doesnt matter when. Go when you can. Holiday trip, vacation trip etc.. First place you want to go is to indicate you are there. Nobody knows otherwise. Admission officer wants to know all of that. All the caveats, colleges and universities that doesnt do the card thing, and sometimes it happens, but they will bother, after you applied they will bother, you will get a letter in a mail, and they will offer alumni interviews. College and universities just only offer alumni interviews just to see who shows up, thats it. Just looks to show if you arrived for that alumni interview. Just be attentive to opportunity to your interest in the college. See who recruits from here. Those important projects from the interest problems. From the institution process. Brief email, dont make me scroll down, just a brief email. Get the info and you expressed interest. Just started a conversation. Why not extend yourself with a question. Another question occurs to you, you resend them an email. Two or three times before you applied that a cyber relationship

continues. The odds are the first person who reviews your application is someone you may have contacted. Ghost applicants are random applicants. They might be 1 in the class, but they will be on the waitlist. Demonstrating the interest is not a garuntee defeats the question mark Last: SAT: The SAT exists today only to allow admission directors who can do the work. Its a diagnostic test. Its honestly useless, and they realize the SAT makes no difference. They look for trends. They just like big numbers. They can brag that the SAT is a universal metric though it is not. The SAT is grossly misused but you do need to worry about it. Two options, SAT or ACT. The ACT is a wonderful option for a number of reasons. They look at both interchangeably. The ACT is not an SAT clone. The ACT is more of a subject based test. Try one of each and see how it goes. See which test suits you best. Take it no more than 3 times. This shows you can improve results but after the 3rd test save your money and have a life. There are now 850 test optional without test results. If you are looking a college that is test optional, and your scores are below their averages, then dont send it in. At the end of the day we saw the average score was identical. If you want to know more about the test options, its called fair test . org. On the Easton Application: Assume Easton is in Ohio. Private, NCAA division 3. The first hotspot is the point of origin (diversity). Canton Ohio is no diversity. Mobile Alabama does. Academic interest is seen if we have underpopultions. If you need financial aid, you say yes, it wont hurt you. 1/3 of them dont apply and 2/3 will apply and then demonstrate they wont need (they discriminate later) Not based on this yes. The hurdle goes down. Its almost like a win win. The most important legacy is mother, father, sister/brother, its a factor that gets you in. Resume is your academic honors: if we admit this student to Easton, what do we get. Personal essay is one of the useless parts of the application. It satisfies a requirement but thats it.

Most important hotspots is all of the academic history. Differnet program evaluations. Have an opportunity to provide yoru name and your email to me. Provide a weekly blog, if your interested, its free. If you share info I will protect info. I am not interested in becoming your college counselor, I am simply happy to be a friend in this process. College planning workbook, $20.00, they are available on the internet.

Hooks used to prove interest. Show commitment. Valued by the institution. Connection between aspirations. Must connect the dots. Many students makes the mistake by going out randomly, but connect the dots. Packages himself well. See him in his lectures of together. This guy however *Austrin, has no Math. No evidence of that. Still puzzled with a 720 on math? Cant do physics without math? But that is not the question, the question is how does he use it in the Math Curriculum. Demonstrate he is using math in the classroom. Easton is seeing him take Psychology instead of Math. Why is he taking Spanish senior year? Big problem overlooked by students, if there should be irregularities in your program. If things are not the way you like them to be, you need to explain why. Else you must guess. Admission directors are cynics. He sees they are SLACKING OFF senior year. He could attack these problems with a note, interview. If you college advisor does not agree with you, you must explain. Essay A lot of essays seem to be written by Reluctant essays. ESSAYS ARE ARBITRARY OFTEN Realize that you create a barrier if you are reluctant to making an essay. If you want to achieve you want to get behind that barrier. You want to relax, so much negative essay on talking about I cant. Find your voice, your voice is like your DNA. Your voice is fine. Choose a topic which you were expert. If your essay is regurgitating things, but you should also choose a topic which you can write confortably about it. Is there evidence of technical merit And then evidence of creative merit. Good Essay. Worthless. Do you really want good enough to represent you in life. When an admission officer sees good enough they go right by it. You want them to read the whole thing. You get to choose. Always choose the course that makes sense to you. Not what makes sense for your friend. Choose colleges that value you for what you have done. Choose courses that make sense. She gives credit for literary magazine but she also is missing Math.

A lot of multicultural candidates now how will he share those cultural heritage will help him. Do we know that about josh? He probably goes to Korea, but he doesnt share it.