Harvard Crimson to publish book this fall: "How To Get Into Harvard"

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<p>"How They Got into Harvard: 50 Successful Applicants Share 8 Key Strategies for Getting into the College of Your Choice"</p>

<p>... due out in September for holiday giving to Class of 2010 applicants!</p>

<p><a href="http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=fX56FhpBfC&endeca=1&isbn=0312343752&itm=8%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/isbnInquiry.asp?userid=fX56FhpBfC&endeca=1&isbn=0312343752&itm=8&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>MORE about this upcoming publication:</p>

<p>Synopses & Reviews</p>

<p>Publisher Comments:</p>

<p>Proven Admissions Strategies from Successful Students</p>

<p>In How They Got into Harvard, fifty successful applicants to Harvard University share their tips and tactics for succeeding in the college admissions process. The students profiled in this book were not all class valedictorians, star athletes, or Harvard "legacies." In fact, many were simply strong all-around applicants who beat the odds and got into one of the country's most selective institutions. Through each concise account of a single student's r</p>

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<p>This book is defintely on my shopping list no doubt about that</p>

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<p>How entrepreneurial of the Crimson.</p>

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<p>Yup. We're very entrepreneury-type folk.</p>

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<p>They think that simply by virtue of the fact that they got into the school that they know why, which is simply not the case. Ask many of the kids on this site why they got in and they'll often say "Dunno" or a reason that was not the case at all. This college admissions hype is reaching dizzying hype, and everyone is chipping in with their own (sometimes useless) two cents.</p>

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<p>I'm not sure I'll be making this purchase.
I'd rather get in my own way. haha.</p>

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<p>I'll skim over it at the library and MAYBE I'll get it.</p>

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<p>If random freshmen can get huge book contracts to explain how they "got in", and cynical "college counselors" (you know who I mean) can swindle applicants and their families to the tune of $25,000 or more to help "guide" an application, why shouldn't the Harvard Crimson get in on the deal, keeping some of the "advice business" in-house, as it were?</p>

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<p>Well, my argument would be... why should these students know how they got in any better than those college counselors?</p>

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<p>Byerly,</p>

<p>Did you see the the front page article in the 7/11 WSJ? (not a free site so can't post link) ~$3,000 college application camps. The feature student lists Harvard as her first choice. Think she'll get dinged for attending the camp, or will picture on the the WSJ front page be a hook?</p>

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<p>My daughter is one of the students featured in this upcoming book. She got picked because one of her friends in the dorm is a Crimson staff writer who was working on the project.</p>

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<p>She doesn't know "why" she was admitted in the sense of knowing anything about the adcom deliberations of her app. But she does know what she did to prepare, how much effort it took, and that it ultimately was successful. And from her own experience and her on-campus friends' she has developed a sense of what sort of students with what level of achievements and stats are likely to be admitted. Some applicants may find this perspective useful. If you don't, save your money.</p>

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<p>That I shall do. ;)
Congrats on your daughter though.</p>

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<p>Amazon.com link for How They Got into Harvard: </p>

<p><a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312343752/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0312343752/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>You ask an interesting question. </p>

<p>If the kid had asked me, I would have said: by no means give your name to a WSJ reporter covering the latest college admissions scam.</p>

<p>But then, the kid <em>didn't</em> ask me.</p>

<p>Oh, and here's a link to the disturbing WSJ story you mention:</p>

<p><a href="http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05192/536249.stm%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.post-gazette.com/pg/05192/536249.stm&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Hmmm--seems like the Harvard Crimson comes out with a book a year about some aspect of getting into Harvard. Didn't they come out with 50 Essays that got people into Harvard? What do they do with the $$?</p>

<p>Larry Summers has said that the kind of students who get accepted to Harvard are: intelligent, passionate and lucky. Pretty nebulous terms, but I think reading about these students and their accomplishments can put some flesh on those words.</p>

<p>I think most non-CC kids have no idea how tough the competition is for non-URMs/athletes interested in HYP, in terms of test scores and EC depth/accomplishments. I know at our local high school, the kids in the top 5 figure that with their grades and 1400 SATs, they have a good shot at Harvard. So far, they've been wrong (except for one who is a URM).</p>