Chapter 1 Getting Started: Fact Finding – This chapter helps
students gather the personal, family and high school information
that is required repeatedly on all college applications.
Chapter 2 A Snapshot of Your High School Years: Who Are You? –
Students are guided on how to build their resume using worksheets
to compile a complete history of their involvement in
clubs/extracurricular activities, sports, community service,
awards, competitions, and work and summer experience. Advice on how
and when to request recommendations is also included in this
chapter.
Chapter 3 Testing A to Z: Track Your Scores – All aspects of
standardized testing including identifying test dates, recording
registration deadlines and test locations, and developing a master
test schedule are covered in this chapter.
Chapter 4 Researching Schools: Getting Acquainted – This chapter
advises students on how to effectively research colleges to
identify appropriate schools. Instruction is provided on what to
observe and take note of during on-campus visits and online
searches, how to arrange and keep track of on-campus and alumni
interviews, and how to manage correspondence with school
representatives.
Chapter 5 Define Your Choices: You’re Ready to Apply! – Included
are all the steps necessary to ensure that applications are
received and each file is complete.
Chapter 6 Paying the Bills: Show Me the Money! – Tools and
recommendations are presented on how to apply for financial aid and
scholarships, manage deadlines and accurately compare aid
packages.
Chapter 7 The Home Stretch: You’re Almost Done! – Strategies and
guidance are provided on how to sort through acceptances, handle
deferrals and waitlists, and choose the best-fit college.
Chapter 8 The Interviews: Conversations with College Admissions
Professionals— Candid responses from high school and college
representatives offer valuable insight into the college process.
Anna Costaras holds a BS and MBA from New York University Stern
School of Business. She is the founder of a college-bound mentoring
program for underserved students from her community. She is
actively involved with Adventures in Learning, an educational
enrichment program for children in need of after-school support, as
a volunteer and college mentor, and has served on the Board of
Directors.
Anna is a veteran of the college application process, having guided
her three children on their paths— graduate and undergraduate— to
Cornell University, Wake Forest University and New York University.
Gail Liss earned a MBA from New York University Stern School of
Business, studied at The London School of Economics and holds a BA
from the University of Rochester. Gail serves on the Advisory Board
of Young Women’s Leadership Network, which supports The Young
Women’s Leadership Schools and College Bound Initiative.
Gail has extensive experience with the college application process
and has served as a coach and advisor. She has also counseled her
three children: two graduates of Brown University and one graduate
of Wesleyan University. In 1980, when he was education editor of
the New York Times, Edward B. Fiske sensed that college-bound
students and their families needed better information on which to
base their educational choices. Thus was born the Fiske Guide to
Colleges, which is now the #1 bestselling college guide. In
addition to the Fiske Guide to Colleges, Fiske is the author of
Fiske Guide to Getting Into the Right College, Fiske Nailing the
New SAT, Fiske Real College Essays That Work, Fiske WordPower,
Fiske Countdown to College, and several other books that help you
find and get accepted to colleges that match you.
A graduate of Wesleyan University, Fiske did graduate work at
Columbia University and assorted other bastions of higher learning.
He left the Times in 1991 to pursue a variety of educational and
journalistic interests, including a book on school reform, Smart
Schools, Smart Kids. When not visiting colleges, he can be found
playing tennis, sailing, or doing research on the educational
problems of South Africa and other third world countries for UNESCO
and other international organizations. Fiske lives in Durham, North
Carolina, near the campus of Duke University, where his wife, Helen
Ladd, is a member of the faculty. They are coauthors of When
Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale, Elusive Equity: Education
Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa, and Handbook of Research in
Education Finance and Policy.
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