"Proven strategies for successfully navigating the college admissions process from a former Yale admissions officer Every year, throngs of college applicants miss out on getting into the right school simply because they haven't received appropriate guidance. Now, Eva Ostrum, a renowned education consultant who has coached countless families through the harrowing application process, offers parents and their children a friendly, no-nonsense guide to admissions success. Drawing on her own expertise and the advice of deans of admissions across the country, Ostrum provides realistic action plans for everything from essay writing to creating a college admissions timetable. The result is a system that parents and their kids can easily master together, giving them the tools that they need to get on the right track as early as grade nine so they can get into the college and university of their dreams. "