All the Wisdom and None of the Junk: Secrets of Applying for College Admission and Scholarships

by Katie Kramer, Katy Craig

Overview

This book gives students inside information - but only what they truly need to create exceptional college and scholarship applications. The authors have taken their combined 30+ years of experience working with competitive selection processes and simplified it in an easy-to-use guide. All the Wisdom and None of the Junk gives students the techniques they need to excel in the high-stakes college application process by taking readers step by step through actual prompts and sample responses to the Common Application (accepted by nearly 700 colleges and universities) and the Boettcher Scholarship Application.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781548860523
Publisher:	CreateSpace Publishing
Publication date:	07/12/2017
Pages:	114
Product dimensions:	8.50(w) x 11.02(h) x 0.24(d)

About the Author

Katy Craig has worked professionally with higher education selection processes for 17 years. This includes those for college admission, honors and leadership programs, and various national and regional scholarships. She is also a national and international speaker on leadership and on personal and professional development. Katie Kramer is president and CEO of the Boettcher Foundation, where she leads the philanthropic organization in both scholarship and grantmaking work. Katie served as the foundation's first scholarship director and was instrumental in establishing the processes and systems the foundation continues to use. As a board member of the National Scholarship Provider's Association, Katie frequently shares best-practices and other guidance with scholarship providers throughout the country.

Editorial Reviews

2017-09-22
A brief but comprehensive instruction manual for applying to college.Filling out college applications can be an exasperating affair, especially since the stakes are so high, and students are forced to guess what admissions officers are looking for. Debut authors Craig and Kramer attempt to simplify the process by providing insight into the admissions officer's mind and by walking the prospective student through each step of a college application. They distinguish between admissions and scholarship applications. For the former, they use the widely accepted Common Application as their model, and for the latter, the application for the Boettcher Foundation, for which Kramer serves as CEO. The guide begins with the preparations one can take in the first semester of freshman year of high school and then walks through multiple steps until graduation. The authors cover a lot of ground in such a short book—they discuss the different kinds of deadlines, how to efficiently reuse various parts of one college application for other applications, and how to craft effective essays. For example, they teach candidates how to extol their strengths without seeming arrogant. They also furnish various resources for financial counsel and support. Numerous sample essays are provided with editorial comments about their virtues and vices. Further, there is a wealth of advice about how to not only sell one's quirky individuality as an asset, but also mitigate the damage done by poor grades or even by a record of disciplinary action. It's remarkable how much useful information is packed into such a condensed manual—all delivered in mercifully accessible prose. Also, the authors' meticulousness is notable—the organization of the book makes following its prescriptions easy and should go a long way toward unburdening the applicant of both tedium and nervousness. Both Craig and Kramer are veterans of professional education with a wealth of experience assessing applications, and that expertise is unmistakably present in this volume, which every parent should buy for their college-bound child.A clear and practical resource, intelligently structured.

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