The Guide: A College Admissions and Financial Aid Guide For All Students

by Luke Heine, Cole Scanlon, Carole Trone

Overview

Featured in The New York Times, Forbes, and The Harvard Education Magazine, The Guide covers the entire college application and financial aid process.

Sent to over 63,000 public educators each year and written by recent Harvard grads and top admissions counselors from around the US, the guide covers:

writing winning essays,

preparing for the ACT and SAT

building a strong list of extracurriculars

finding scholarships

the difference between merit and need based aid

activity sheets

formatting your resume

and much more

This text's #1 goal is to help you attend and afford college by putting your best foot forward-whether that be applying to a local technical college or the Ivy League.

This is the resource we wish we had when applying to university. All proceeds are donated back to Fair Opportunity Project to provide students with free resources.

About the Author

Fair Opportunity Project is a nonprofit started by Luke Heine and Cole Scanlon to help students attend and afford college from all backgrounds. Sending free college resources to 63,000 public educators each year and featured in Forbes, The New York Times, and The Harvard Education Magazine, Fair Opp continues to work with counselors around the US to help students attend and afford college.

Presently Fair Opportunity Project has over 50 volunteer mentors, is working to increase FAFSA application in Wisconsin via a $476,00 grant, and is continuously updating their resources to make sure that students from all backgrounds have a shot at attending and affording college.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781088042540
Publisher:	Fair Opportunity Project
Publication date:	07/31/2022
Pages:	134
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.34(d)

About the Author

Luke Heine is a Finnish-American cross-functional exec, exited founder, full stack engineer, ML patent holder, YC & Harvard alum, and occasional angel investor. He created and led the biggest social network for TikTok celebs at time of acquisition, along with leading a team building +25 consumer facing products. He won Forbes 30u30, is a mentor at Harvard Business School, and runs a nonprofit sending free college application advice to almost every public high school in the US (63,000 public educators). He was former chair of Harvard's Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development, an author with Emerald Publishing, and presently volunteers with the State of Minnesota. His work has been featured in The New York Times, Forbes, New America, CrunchBase, and TechCrunch.

Cole Scanlon is an author and entrepreneur with expertise in education, economic development, and health policy. He is the co-founder and co-director of Fair Opportunity Project, an edtech nonprofit that sends free college application advice to almost every public high school in the US, and the Lab for Entrepreneurship and Development, a research lab he co-founded at Harvard's IQSS. Cole won Forbes 30 Under 30, is on the Advisory Board of Yale's Center for Digital Health and Innovation, has degrees from Harvard and Oxford, and previously worked for The World Bank, Goldman Sachs, and Google. His work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Harvard Gazette, and Forbes.

My focus and passion is social impact. After graduating from Wesleyan University, I spent some early days with Planet Propaganda and then earned my master's and doctoral degrees in Educational Policy Studies from the University of Wisconsin-Madison. I've led winning teams selected for gener8tor's gBETA Social Impact program, StartingBlock Madison's Social Impact Initiative, and Schmidt Future's Alliance for the American Dream competition. I teach undergraduate classes at the University of Wisconsin-Madison on social and policy issues in education. At the Center for Academic Excellence at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, I developed communications strategies for reaching different audiences about the challenges of student access and success for first-generation, students of color, and low- income college students. I provided early research and policy support for the launch of WISCAPE, a campuswide research and policy center for postsecondary issues at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and worked for Chancellor David Ward at UW-Madison. As Executive Director for a statewide education nonprofit, we partnered with K-12 schools, students, and parents on accelerated and advanced curriculum programs.

Editorial Reviews

"I was accepted to Stanford regular decision...I don't think I would be where I am without folks like you and the existence of organizations like the Fair Opportunity Project. Thank you!" - Iris F., High School Senior

"Fair Opportunity Project gets to the heart of one of the most pervasive inequities in our education system: college access." - Katherine K. Merseth, Senior Lecturer at Harvard University

"I was a high school counselor for 12 years. This is an amazing tool! Thank you! " - Robin P., High School Counselor

"I've been a high school counselor for 15 years and I am passionate about college counseling. This resource is the best one stop guide for everything you need to explore your college options" -Lora N., High School Counselor

The Guide is AMAZING!!!!!!! I applaud your work and your attention to detail and how you have thought of the admissions process truly from the eyes of a teenager! I will be sharing this resource with all of my students!" - Janet C., High School Counselor

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