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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.

Table of Contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright
  4. Foreword
  5. Introduction
  6. Chapter 1: Signaling, the Hunger Games, and McHarvard
  7. Chapter 2: Class Spam
  8. Chapter 3: Early Decision and the Dating Game
  9. Chapter 4: Morpheus Wins
  10. Chapter 5: The Extracurricular Results/Effort Ratio
  11. Chapter 6: Not A School Leader? Go Build Your Own Empire
  12. Chapter 7: Don't Be Fooled
  13. Chapter 8: The Kingmakers
  14. Chapter 9: It's All Optional!
  15. Chapter 10: Powerade, Burger Patties, and the Perfect Personal Statement
  16. Chapter 11: Dual Degrees and Why Double Dipping Opens Doors You May Not Know Existed
  17. Chapter 12: What the Rich Get Wrong
  18. Chapter 13: Why Student Athletes Need to Compete with Their Heads
  19. Chapter 14: Managing Your Toughest Adversary—Your Mind!
  20. Chapter 15: International Students and the Even More Uneven Playing Field
  21. Chapter 16: Moneyball
  22. Chapter 17: Harvard's Legacy, My Legacy, and Your Legacy
  23. Chapter 18: The Personalities of the Ivy Leagues and Which One May Be Right for You
  24. Chapter 19: For Parents Only!
  25. Epilogue
  26. Appendix: Bonus Round
  27. Acknowledgments
  28. About the Author
  29. Index
  30. End User License Agreement
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