The U.S. Departmnet of Education has the website APPLYING FOR ADMISSION. This website provides links to relevant websites.
THEY WANT TO SELL YOUR KID TO ... ,is a very informative article for parents who face the difficult question: What price are you willing to pay to boost the chances that your child is the one of the ones who gets in? This article is by Penelope Wang, a Money Magazine senior writer (September 19, 2007). This article gives a list of some items that money can buy in the admission process?
Private coach for college admission
Academic subject tutors
SAT or ACT tutors
After school enrichment activities
Volunteer service in some far and distant land or down the block
Attendance at a university summer program This article tells how colleges help stir up the admissions frenzy
Many colleges use enrollment management try to figure out how likely it is that particular students will enroll
Many colleges use marketing and recruiting college brochures, postcards and other mailings This article tells what can be done to ramp down the stress and the spending yet still ensuring the best education
This article advises you to pick the schooling, not the school. The crazy competition for freshman slots is actually confined to about 150 schools - in particular the top 50 in the U.S. News & World Report college rankings. But there are more than 2,200 four-year institutions in the country, which accept 70% of applicants on average. Many parents steer their kids toward elite schools thinking that a brand-name B.A. confers a crucial advantage. But if the student is bright, she'll do just as well as an Ivy grad later in life even with a degree from a less selective college. That was the finding of a 1999 Princeton study that looked at the outcomes of students who'd been accepted at an Ivy or similar college but chose to attend a less selective school.
This article advises you to target your spending by figuring out the specific kind of help needed.
I CAN GET YOUR KID INTO AN IVY: Michele Hernandez boosts that 94% of her teenage clients are accepted by their first choice school. Her price: As much as $40,000 a student. The inside scoop. What makes Hernandez's story so compelling is that she "is an insider-turned-outcast. A former admissions officer at Dartmouth College, she dared to reveal secrets of the opaque selection process in her book, A Is for Admission: The Insider's Guide to Getting Into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges, and then to build a thriving business that helps people game the system." A Is for Admission: The Insider's Guide to Getting Into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges is not aimed at guaranteeing admission to an Ivy League school," she wrote in the introduction. "However, it will teach you how to maximize your chances and show you how to present yourself in the best possible light." "The book was a success and became Hernandez' most effective advertisement when she went into college consulting full-time in 2000." Another one of her books is "Acing the College Application: How to Maximize Your Chances for Admission to the College of Your Choice." Nova Southeastern University (Ft. Lauderdale, FL). Michele Hernandez "earned a quickie doctorate in education from Nova Southeastern University in Florida, where she had moved in 1998. About that degree she is candid: "It's kind of crappy compared to my other ones [Dartmouth and Columbia]. But I figured it would be good to have. I am a doctor. It gives me some credibility."
