Rexanne Sarkisian

`in`itiative: What Every High School Parent Should Know About College Admission and Financial Aid in 2014: a Veteran Parent Shares H Rexanne Sarkisian

Publisher Marketing: Did you know . . . That awareness of a few key facts throughout high school will make your child's college application process much easier? That grades and behavior in all four years of high school affect your child's acceptance to college? That financial decisions you make right now may enable or disable your child's attendance of the best college he or she can achieve? That perfect grades and test scores are not perfect predictors of acceptance to top colleges? That your child's after-school activities can earn college acceptance and even a scholarship? That Harvard and Princeton can be less expensive than a state university? The time to think about applying to college is not senior year or even junior year. It is 9th grade. Across the U. S., as more and more students desperately compete for acceptance to college, savvy families know that college admission success starts long before senior year. If you want to help your child enjoy high school and gain admission to a great college, this guide gives you the early scoop about college admission and financial aid. This book shares one parent's discoveries about the college application process and her family's successful strategy for admission.