<p>I am turning senior and wondering about this...
I'm about to publish a 200 page self-help book for high school students.
I wrote consistently over an year (and revised about 5 times in the process)
and I'm planning on publishing this over the summer.
I just wrote it for fun as I was organizing a student counseling program for the local junior high kids entering high school.
I guess publishing a book would help me somehow, but I'm not expecting much boost from it.</p>
<p>If anyone has any idea, how much would this help me with college admission?</p>
<p>I realize that it's not easy. I'm not that sure yet.
I'll probably self publish it if it takes too much time.
After all, I'm not dying over this or anything.</p>
<p>hmm Momwaitingfornew you seem to know some stuff about publishing. that's cool </p>
<p>I think I'll probably end up self publishing this. I have better things to do than running around looking for darn publishers.</p>
<p>Do you have $10K plus? That's what a friend recently spent to "publish" her book. FYI, you will not be considered a published author by self publishing a book.</p>
<p>Self-publishing won't get you anywhere, except for credit for sticking with the project.</p>
<p>It takes about a year from acceptance to actual publication, so even if the book were accepted tomorrow, it wouldn't have time to be a success before application time.</p>
<p>you can self-publish it through lulu.com for pretty cheap (less than 10gr, anyway). who knows if it'll help much in the admissions process, but it certainly can't hurt (unless the writing is awful). and the published copy of the book could be a great attachment/exhibit on your apps.</p>
<p>In the sad world that is contemporary college admissions, it appears that not one person thinks the PROCESS of writing a book, as a high schooler, will be looked upon favorably by colleges.</p>
<p>Publishing takes time, effort and persistance. If you think you have some good work, make the effort to see if you can get an agent to take your book on (most publishers will only go through an agent) - the best place to start looking is Writers Market (a book). </p>
<p>I discourage self publishing because to those that know the publishing industry it is not impressive. It will also mean that you have to market your book yourself (and it won't be so easy getting ride of all those copies of your work). It takes time, effort and a lot of work to market a self published manuscript. </p>
<p>As far as an EC, the fact that you have finished writing a book and are looking for a publisher is certainly worth mentioning and perhaps even writing an essay about. Just because you aren't published yet, doesn't mean that your accomplishment isn't noteworthy.</p>
<p>Hi,
Just curious but what race are you? Reason i ask is because where i live, Texas, they have these small publishing companies that will actually publish your work if your Hispanic. Of course the material has to be reasonable but yea its pretty neat they will review the work then publish it and then i guess they send it to major companies to distribute. I dont know the whole process but i do know that they will publish and sell it for ya, with them getting a slice of the pie. Its one of those like take pride in your heritage type of companies. </p>
<p>Also try your state colleges, reason is, if i remember correctly, some college have deals for students, in general, to send in there work to the college, then their students review it and what not and then they will actually publish some copies for ya. NMSU has a program like that.</p>
<p>Good luck and congrats in accomplishing something so major like that.</p>