How do you get your shildren into the college of their dreams?

Answer 1

Find out everything you can about the kind of students the school is recruiting: GPA, test scores, extracurricular activities, special circumstances. Most of the information is available through the admissions office, but you have to ask (statistical data is always available but rarely publicized). Find an admissions officer at the dream school whom you can talk to and make an appointment to talk to him/her. Give him/her the background of your kids, ask for areas of improvement, alternative routes to enter the college, etc. Maybe a few more AP classes will boost your kids to the front of the line, maybe two years at a community college will do the trick, or maybe a year of Peace Corp will make your kids stand out. Ask these questions and follow their recommendations. Ask around to see if anyone you know is an alum of the school, or knows someone on the inside, see if they have any advice (but take everything with a grain of salt, don't blindly follow every advice given). If you are willing to fork out some money, get a consultation with private/independent college counselors, sometimes they are right on the point and other times they are not. Get a good referral from others that have used the service and see if it's for you and your kids.

Answer 2

You can not get your children into the college of their dreams! They have to get it. You can assist and help them though. Encourage them to study, study, study. Encourage them to learn early what it takes to get into the college of their dreams. What if their dream changes? I wish people would say how old their kids are. If already in High School then it may be too late. Figure, for the best colleges/universities in America your student needs at least a 3.5 to a 3.8 GPA. They should take the most challenging courses their high school offers. If possible, take AP classes or take classes at a Junior College. If necessary, start at a Junior College and transfer!. It is more than GPA and test scores that the best of the best look at though. Those two things are simply weed out materials. If your students has a 3.8 GPA and scores a 1500 or more on the SAT everyone assumes they are a shoo in! that is not always true. Admissions Counselors also look at involvement in school, work, volunteering, etc. A student with a 3.5 gpa and a 1400 SAT score who was active in two sports, held a part-time job, was in 2 or 3 clubs, and volunteered over the summer at the local hospital will have a BETTER chance at admissions to an IVY league school than a student with a 4.0 and a 1400 SAT score who did not play sports, was in 0 to 1 club, never volunteered and did not work. They want to see a commitment to community as well as education. Of course..if mommy and daddy can throw a few hundered thousand dollars at the school for a donation (or prepay tuition) this changes everything!

Answer 3

Win the Lottery would be the easy route but that is a dream also. I would say to research all of the possiblities for financial aide. There are alot of grants out there you just have to really look. I would think a scholarship would help too. Try to be optimistic about there future. Hard work really does pay off. Good Luck!

Answer 4

Start in elementary school. Help your child to plot out a course of action. Take a poster board and map a life map. Every year or so update the map and see how things are going. As they get in high school put in more details. Revise more often and let your child decide if they have the same goal. Some childs will change in middle of the stream from medicine to engineering. Help your child don't push your child.

Answer 5

Start when they are young. Save lots of money just in case they don't get a scholarship - but encourage them & let them know the importance of good grades EVEN while they're still in grade school, especially into high school. And let them know ALWAYS that they should never give up on their dreams - they can be anything they want to be.

Answer 6

1. save a dollar a day every day until child's eighteenth b. day
2. Start young by reading and encouraging them to read
3. Read to them in the womb.(studies show this helps their brain devlop faster during critical trimesters)
4.Make reading fun and encourage child's fun of learning
5. Teach your kid to mulitplication tables before they teach it ast school
6. Be a chapter ahead; Once you get the syllabus at the beginning of the year and and review the chapter evry day
Getting to the school of your dreams requires much planning and strict discpline
*The article I stated in number 3 is on the link below

Answer 7

There are several ways, encourage them to enroll in advance placement classes as well as extra curricular activities. Help them by getting study guides for the PSAT and SAT. When the student gets ready to complete their essays to apply to these schools have them go to the local colleges' english department there are always professors willing to help students with their writing. All schools love well rounded students that means they will adapt better to the new surroundings. and as always be as supportive as possible.

Answer 8

Depends. If it is early in their highschool years than lots of hard work, studying, and disaplin will help. If they are almost out of highschool and do not have the grads needed to get into said college than they are going to have to look more at going to a college that will tranfer into the college of their dreams and work hard at getting the grads needed to get in. It also doent hurt to have lots of money

Answer 9

encourage the child to do the work needed to qualify. Oh, and make sure it's the college of THEIR dreams, not YOURS

Answer 10

1. pick a goal that they want to do
2. go up to college go to admission and enroll in
3. go to finanial aid office and ask about paying for college
4. go to register office pick class
if you are a first time college student go to admission and they will help you. (please remember their also advisement)
5. tell all children book and girlfriend/boyfriend dont mix
6. your their for a goal and a dream
good luck.