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Clark’s Eye on Books

By Clark Isaacs

How to Make Colleges Want You

Insider Secrets for tipping the Admission odds in your Favor Author: Mike Moyer ISBN: 978-14022-1367-0 Pages: 152, $12.95, Publication Date: 2008, Soft Cover, Non-Fiction, Published by Sourcebooks, Inc.

Whether you are a freshman or a senior in high school, this book is an eye-opener for you! Mike Moyer tells you the way to dramatically increase your chances of getting intothe college of your choice. In How to Make Colleges Want You, he provides freshapproaches to getting your college application out of the maybe or no stacks, to the yes

we want you stack. The book also contains references to Mike’s website:http://www.collegepeas.com  where additional information and additions to the

chapters are contained. 

Mike tells you what he did to get accepted to the college of his choice by describing hisunusual activity of raising homing pigeons while in high school. He took a homing pigeon to his first interview with the admissions counselor and sent a message to himself from the counselor! This NTA (non-teenage activity) got him recognized as special.

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Getting into a competitive college requires a lot more than grades or regular schoolactivities; it is a question of planning. Moyer makes suggestions to accomplish the goalof getting into a prestigious college with his inside secrets. A few are, attending acommunity college for a year or two to obtain better grades, transfer in to fill one of thevacancies left by someone who has moved on, and start in mid-year instead of competing

with the freshman entry class.

Consider there are 43,000 high schools and an equal number of valedictorians who applyto highly competitive colleges. Their applications are your competition for admission tothese colleges and even with good grades, you still are not in their strata. The techniquesin this book are designed to raise your chances for admission by 10 to 20 per cent. Whenyou apply Mike’s ideas during your high school years, the odds are even better.

Mike Moyer is unique, as he not only provides this fairly inexpensive blue print for success, he lectures at high schools giving students a great heads-up on obtainingadmission to choice schools. He has a highly informative lecture on CD which is

available at his website: http://www.collegepeas.com. As a bonus, Mike offers a 25%discount to readers of this column who want to learn more. Enter the code “CLARK” for the discount.

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Publisher Weekly Best Selling Books:

Week of January 12, 2009

Fiction

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1 Black Ops. W.E.B. Griffin;

Putnam, $26.95. ISBN 9780399155178.2 Scarpetta. Cornwell, Patricia;

Putnam, $27.95. ISBN 9780399155161.3 Running Hot.  Krentz, Jayne Ann;.

Putnam, $25.95. ISBN 9780399155215.4 The Host. Stephenie Meyer;

Little, Brown, $25.99. ISBN 9780316068048.5 Fire and Ice. Garwood, Julie;

Ballantine, $26. ISBN 9780345500755.

Non-Fiction

1 Outliers. Malcolm Gladwell;

Little, Brown, $27.99. ISBN 9780316017923.2 The Last Lecture.  Randy Pausch with Jeffrey Zaslow;

Hyperion, $21.95. ISBN 9781401323257.3 Dewey. Vicki Myron with Bret Witter;

Grand Central, $19.99. ISBN 9780446407410.4 Flat Belly Diet.  Liz Vaccariello and Cynthia Sass;

Rodale Press, $25.95. ISBN 9781594868511.5 American Lion. Meacham, Jon;

Random House, $30. ISBN 9781400063253.

 Are there any books you would like reviewed? This column will find those which are

of special interest for your reading pleasure. Visit Clark Isaacs at 

http://clarkisaacs.ning.com  and tell him what you would like to have him write about.

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