Elizabeth Wissner-Gross, author of What High Schools Don't Tell You - our blogger for the week of 10/22:

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Elizabeth Wissner-Gross is our guest blogger for the week of October 22nd. If you have any questions for Elizabeth Wissner-Gross, add a comment to any of her posts. Here is some brief information about What High Schools Don't Tell You - 300+ Secrets to Make Your Kid Irresistible to Colleges by Senior Year: 

The headlines prove it: Competition for admission to America's top colleges is more cutthroat than ever. Gone are the days when parents could afford to let high school guidance counselors handle the admissions process alone-gone, also, are the days when a student could wait until senior year to prepare for it. As Elizabeth Wissner-Gross, a highly successful educational strategist, knows from working for over a decade with hundreds of middle- and high school students and their parents, if you want to raise a kid colleges will compete for, you must act, early and aggressively, as opportunity scout, coach, tutor, manager, and publicist-or be willing to watch that acceptance letter go to someone whose parents did.

What High Schools Don't Tell You reveals 250 strategies to help parents stack the admissions deck in their kid's favor, gleaned from Wissner-Gross's expertise and from interviews with parents of outstandingly high achievers-strategies that most high school guidance counselors, principals, and teachers simply don't know to share. From identifying exactly which academic credentials will wow an admissions committee to which summer programs and extra-curriculars can turn an ordinary applicant into a must-have, What High Schools Don't Tell You demonstrates how hands-on parental involvement early in a child's high school career is essential to achieving college admissions success.

About Elizabeth Wissner-Gross

Elizabeth Wissner-Gross, trained as a journalist, has for ten years succeeded in helping students, including her own children, gain admission offers to Harvard, Princeton, Yale, MIT, and other competitive colleges.

What High Schools Don't Tell You
300+ Secrets to Make Your Kid Irresistible to Colleges by Senior Year
Elizabeth Wissner-Gross - Author
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Book: Hardcover | 9.25 x 6.25in | 320 pages | ISBN 9781594630378 | 19 Jul 2007 | Hudson Street Press

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