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I suggest you read "A is for Admission" and "The Gatekeepers". They were respectively written by a former college admissions officer at Dartmouth and a reporter who shadowed an admissions officer at Wesleyan. You will get an excellent idea of what top universities are looking for, despite the fact that they were written some years ago (the concepts are still valid).

Other good books to read are also "The Talent Code", "The Smartest Kids in the World", and "The Price of Admission".

The bottom line is that your daughter has to both stand out and do something she likes doing. Universities really like students that work real jobs, because they think the student isn't too sheltered. Stay away from expensive-looking activities, because they will hold your child to a higher standard if it looks like she's had the financial background to be helicoptered.

So earning money as a babysitter, working as a counselor at a preschool camp, taking early education classes at a community college, plus a great letter of recommendation from a parent client would hang well together.

She could also work/volunteer at a local newspaper, edit her high school paper, write and publish her own book (poems, short stories, novel), submit her writings for competitions, etc.

You have to create an easy image of your child for the admissions officers - they read thousands of files in a few short months and their brains fuse by the end of the process. Make it easy for them!

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