College Prep Guidebook: How to Ace High School, Excel on the ACT, and Thrive at the College of Your Choice

The College Prep Guidebook acts as an expert mentor for high school students, facilitating the paths to winning acceptance to top universities and achieving success in college. It provides strategies and secrets for effectively raising the student’s GPA and placement tests scores, while having fun during the high school years. The book explains the various sources of funding for a student’s education, and which ones they might best avoid. It reveals how lower income students can have the ACT, SAT, and college applications fees waived. It reveals how many students can receive a “free ride,” full tuition, books, and housing at the most prestigious universities, and when it may be less costly to attend a private collage than a public one. This book helps high school students avoid ineffective routes, filled with drudgery and wasted effort, and reveals surer paths that facilitate the achievement their educational goals. It provides a guide, mapping out safer routes to success so students can thrive and delight in the educational experience. Among of the secrets provided are: •How to study more efficiently, learning more while expending less time and effort. •Which test (the SAT or ACT) students depending on their personal strengths and background, should focus on for the best results. •Placement test tips and strategies, and traps and pitfalls to avoid. •Strategies for achieving superior placement test scores. •How to earn a higher grade point average with minimal extra work. •How to develop the leadership experience that top colleges recruit. •How to prepare college applications that get the desired results. •How to compose an outstanding college application essay. •How you can, even with the same GPA and placement cores, dramatically multiply your chances gaining acceptance into an elite university. •How students from middle and low income families can get their college education paid for at private universities. •How to gain the education benefits of an Ivy League college education from a public university. •Advice on the most and least favorable ways for having military service pay for college. •Advice on which sports scholarships are most advantageous. •Advice on selecting among colleges, which will serve the student best. •Mentoring on how to avoid common pitfalls that doom many college students. •How to succeed and have fun at the same time. The College Prep Guidebook provides exclusive access to supplemental college placement test practice materials and links for applying for college and financial aid.