Dear High Schooler thinking about elite colleges –
The recommendations in this book aren’t for everyone. And probably won’t work for everyone. And that’s the point actually.

This book is intended to help a handful of candidates employ specific tactics and strategies to distinguish themselves positively among playing fields of tens of thousands of other elite college applicants. The goal of this guidebook is to help individuals be recognized as absurdly unique, talented, and promising. This book is for the bright, the brave, and the bold (i.e., YOU).

We will leave the recommended test taking, grades, sports and extracurriculars to other books. You’ve already read them. The practical techniques shared inside go far beyond what most other advisors are doing and recommending. Those books tell you how to make a hamburger, this book tells you how to create your special sauce that makes you the one every school will want.