This guide book will help you to: analyze each prompt, plan the essay carefully, make a compelling argument, use the allotted time effectively, evaluate sample essays, increase your confidence.

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Features thirty-seven vocabulary lessons defining more than 365 words commonly found on the SAT. Includes memory tips, review exercises, and pronunciation keys, as well as an alphabetical word index.

Provides exam content review, score-raising strategies, practice questions with detailed answer explanations for each part of the exam, and full-length practice tests, along with additional online resources.

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A guide to 320+ four-year schools, including quotes from real students and information you won't find on college websites. In addition to detailed and candid stories about each school, you will find lists of strong programs and popular majors at each college, information on how to apply, graduation and acceptance rates, and exclusive academic, social, and quality-of-life ratings. -- Adapted from back cover.

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An exploration of the college admissions process from a higher education expert, who pulls back the curtain on its mysterious, sometimes bizarre, inner workings.