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A high school student greatest competition getting into college is what I like to call “Sameness”. In other words, it is going to be competing against all the students who have the same grades, SAT Score, same everything and how you going to stand out. Well, I always like to tell the parent imaging this student as a little brown box is going down a college conveyor bell towards the Admission Office and you miss this people are noticing if there are 5,000 little box it look just like yours in 5,000 other little box are behind yours looks the same. They all look the same.
How do you stand out? How do you get to notice? Why I get a tie little red ribbon around your box. How do you do that? Let me give me you an example and it so many. Student goes to a teacher to ask for a letter recommendation and basically it says something like this, you know, I was just looking or watching same old guy on my computer the other day and he said, “I had a ribbonized my sameness.” And the guy says what are talking about? Say, “Look, I can have that standard letter recommendation that you write for everybody else. You know with all aptitudes makes stand with all this qualities that you think I have. I do not want to be part of the sameness routine look like everybody else. I need to have you write a little story about one character trait that you like, that you admired me.”
Okay, and colleges really like stories. So, there is a dimension about a student that colleges really like to see. That they not use to seeing in a form of stories. So, that is a very valuable tip that you can use right away and if you like to have other valuable tips in a series or free videos which I provide, on an ongoing basis. Go to my website right now at www.VideoCollegeDad.com and theme of those videos is “Easy ways to get in the College and Easy Ways to Afford It.” So, go to that site right now and I will be talking to you in a months ahead. I am Paul Hamppil.
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