How to Avoid Admissions Armageddon
Every year, parents come out of the word work and call the office in full-blown panic mode, after their child gets rejected from every single college they dreamed of.
They're stunned, because at the time they applied, hey thought: "Our kid has great grades! Wonderful extracurriculars! Leadership! They’ll be fine!"
They weren’t fine.
Because good grades, good scores and being secretary of National Honor Society aren’t enough, these days.
The game has changed since you and I applied to college. The college admissions process is barely recognizable, compared to the way things were in ancient times (the Eighties and Nineties). Unrecognizable and ridiculous.
If you want your child to:
Get into a top-tier and "best fit" school, not just settle for any college that takes her
Unlock massive amounts of merit scholarships that other families never even hear about
Avoid the stress, the scrambling, the last-minute disasters in the college application process
…then they need a bulletproof strategy to become an "Incomparable Applicant:"
To stand out, and GET IN.
Can you handle a little harsh reality? It doesn't do any good to do write up the "same old, same old" as every other applicant on your college applications and essays.
Your college application is your last, best chance to make your "closing argument" as to WHY YOU should be picked out of a "sea of sameness" and offered a spot at your Dream College.
This is about about marketing. Not a meritocracy. (I know this is harsh. Even politically incorrect. But I don't care, I just want you to know the truth.)
Unlike your guidance counselor, I GET this and personally do the same exact thing every day to market myself. Heck, you can see for yourself with all these goofy emails, authored books, webinars and occasional news appearances that I shamelessly reference ad nauseam.
I'll tell each of my students, "This is about 'deserving to get in.' It's about marketing. To these colleges, you're a product. You're not 'Johnny,' applying to college. You're the MARKETER of Johnny, a kid applying to college."
I know that's a little rough around the edges, and of course YOUR kid is special and you love him very much.
But I'm the Joe Friday of college advisors. I deal with "just the facts."
Look, in a perfect world, things would work on pure merit. Every kid who "deserved" to get into their Dream College would get in.
But that's not reality, and I don't see how that's even doable. Instead, Kids need to learn how to advocate for themselves and persuade why they should be picked out of a crowd..
...For college application purposes, and in LIFE.
That’s what we teach in the College Application Edge Bootcamp—the same system that has helped students, year after year, for 11 years:
Earn five-figure scholarships—even without perfect SAT scores
Secure spots at Ivy League and elite colleges
Position themselves as “must-admit” candidates
But the bootcamp isn't just about teaching -- it's about DOING.
As in..
...Getting all the applications and essays done, without Mom or Dad having to scream and threaten them all summer!.
Or fall for that matter!
Only 8 families can get in at the special $3,495 tuition before the price jumps back to $5,995.
Click here to grab one of the last spots.
- Andy "Do Or Do Not, There is No Try" Lockwood
P.S. I hate to say it, but I promise you this:
Parents who wait until March 2 will email me, begging to get in at the lower price. And I’ll have to say no. Lock in your spot now.