<p>Good advice on this post. Will just touch on things not covered.</p>
<p>My son is in block schedule school - sounds similar to your D. Make sure she doesn’t take any more standard college prep classes (only Honors or AP); make sure she takes the minimum electives. Her HS GC should be able to tell you the # of honors and AP classes the top students have taken in the past. For example, at my son’s school the max AP is 5 because of all the requirements and the block schedule.</p>
<p>Go the bookstore and skim some books on getting into the top colleges - pick a couple that you like.</p>
<p>Take 3 Subject Test - you need to have at least two with good scores (730+).</p>
<p>A few unique thoughts - instead of piling up on EC’s work on one unique interest. Two good books cover this - the first is about developing an Non Teenage Activity (NTA) - something other HS students don’t do - it usually includes interacting/workking with adults. The other is about developing something that is interesting (and will be to Admissions people) - the book is How to Be a High School Superstar - it focuses on “underscheduling” your student so they have free time to explore and find something that really interest them; then they focus on it and develop it; it is usually something outside of school. The book covers students that got into top schools be they were interesting even though they didn’t have the top grades or scores. Everyone else looks the same and that is boring to the Admission people reading Application after Application.</p>
<p>GL</p>