Accepted!: Secrets to Gaining Admission to the World's Top Universities - Paperback

by Jamie Beaton (Author)

Now a USA Today and Publishers Weekly bestseller!

How do you REALLY get accepted to Harvard, Yale, and the Ivy League?

Told from the fresh and personal perspective of 26-year-old Crimson Education CEO and Harvard, Stanford, and Oxford graduate Jamie Beaton, Accepted! is an honest and practical guide on beating the odds and getting into Ivy League and other elite schools - the smart way.

Beaton takes you behind the doors of the world's top college admissions offices, revealing the highly strategic selection processes applied by institutions whose reputations depend on the number of students they admit, or more pointedly, the tens of thousands that they don't.

In Accepted!, Beaton delivers the ultimate insider "how to" and disrupts cliched admissions advice with savvy strategies like:

• Moneyballing the university rankings and increasing your chances of admission
• Class spamming your way to academic supremacy and acceptance
• Playing the early application dating game and understanding how institutions are using it to their reputational advantage

Packed with real-life examples from the thousands of students Beaton has helped land a spot at Harvard, Stanford, and other esteemed universities, Accepted! is a never-before assembled culmination of secrets, insights, and application strategies guaranteed to maximize your chances of "getting in" to the school of your choice.

From ambitious students and their supportive parents to academic advisors and admissions professionals, Accepted! is the must-read guide to demystifying the often-convoluted and increasingly competitive world of elite college admissions.

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An insider's guide to winning at the elite college admissions game

"Jamie Beaton has more experience than anyone, from his personal journey as a New Zealander to Harvard, Stanford, Oxford and Yale to his pioneering role as Co-founder and CEO of Crimson Education, which has helped thousands of students crack the code of Ivy League admission. ACCEPTED! is the real deal--and fun to read to boot. Tiger Mother approved."

--AMY CHUA, New York Times bestselling author of Battle Hymn of the Tiger Mother and The Triple Package

"No one knows more about how to get into a top school than Jamie Beaton. This book is filled with actionable advice for improving your odds."

--ADAM GRANT, New York Times bestselling author of Think Again, Originals, and Give and Take

"Higher education has always been exclusive, and in the last 5 years it has become even more so. Lean on Jamie and his experience to get into the best programs in the world."

--SCOTT GALLOWAY, NYU Stern Professor of Marketing and New York Times bestselling author of The Four, Algebra of Happiness, and Digital IQ Index

Jamie Beaton was admitted to Harvard, Stanford, Yale, Princeton, Wharton, Columbia, Harvard Law, Yale Law, Cambridge, Oxford as a Rhodes Scholar, Stanford Business School and was awarded the Schwarzman Scholarship before he turned 26.

In Accepted!: Secrets to Gaining Admission to the World's Top Universities, he shares his insider knowledge about the elite college admissions process with you, delivering honest and effective advice guaranteed to maximize your chances of getting into the school of your choice.

Author Biography

JAMIE BEATON is a graduate of Harvard University, Stanford, and Oxford University. Now the Co-founder and CEO of Crimson Education, the world's most successful college admissions company according to U.S. News and World Report, he helps students level the playing field in world-leading university admissions.