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The Academic Index is the “trade secret” of certain Ivy League admissions committees: It’s a precise mathematical formula that’s used routinely to rank most applicants.  \n• Do minority students really have a better-than-average chance of getting into an Ivy League college? A IS FOR ADMISSION explainshow minority applicants are actually gauged.  \n• Are certain applications tagged for special consideration by the admissions staff? Absolutely. Find out whether your profile fits into oneof these privileged categories.  \n• How are essays and interviews appraised? Here are the criteria for powerful, winning essays and instructive advice for interviews.  \nA IS FOR ADMISSION also tells you if going to an elite private school—or a public high school—will help you, whether where you live makes a difference, which high schools have the highest acceptance rates, your odds for acceptance if you’re deferred or wait-listed by a top school, and much more.  \nAuthor ’s Note  \nThe content of this book is based upon my years as an admissions officer at Dartmouth College and my ten years of experience as a private admissions consultant. In that capacity, I read thousands of applications, and had a front-row seat in seeing how the Ivy League admissions process works.  \nAll of the student essays, applicant profiles, and case studies cited within are based on composites of the scores of applications that have come across my admissions desk. None are quoted directly in this book.  \nTo my beloved husband, Bruce, and tomy sweet children, Alexia and Ian.  \nPreface  \nA Is for Admission has been a consistent top seller in the college admissions field since its original publication in 1997. Two years later, in 1999, the paperback was released with minor updates. In honor of its tenth anniversary, my editor recently asked me to look through the book in order to see whether I might add any updates that would make it just as timely today as it was in 1997. At first I demurred, thinking that I’d have to dedicate a year or more to reworking each chapter. Then the oddest thing happened: I sat down to reread the original book and realized that despite the increased number of applicants to top colleges, very little in the admission scene has actually changed! Sure, more colleges take the common application and more applicants from more high schools and more countries apply to top colleges every year, but in terms of the substance of selectivity, colleges have not made any major substantial changes to their admissions policies despite all the calls for reform from both me and scores of others. This perhaps is a sign of how slowly things change in the world of education, or a reflection of the basic fact that top colleges, once they have handpicked their choices for special cases (legacies, minorities, recruited athletes, development cases, etc.), still rely largely on test scores, grades, and academic awards and accomplishments to pick the rest of the class by merit. Though the mechanics may shift slightly as far as the Academic Index is concerned, the bottom line is that scores, grades and rank, and academic achievements still are the deciding factors and the criteria for successful applicants. The actual AI is not as central as it used tobe, but the factors that make up the formula still are critical in the admissions process.  \nWith an eye toward updating things that were just plain wrong or no longer current, I have gone through the book with a fine-tooth comb and made the necessary changes. This new edition contains all the latest data as far as numbers of applicants, college rankings, new early-admissions policies, and formula shifts that were available prior to publication. 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