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In a time when crossing guards are posted to prevent high schoolers
from jumping in front of trains and parents shelling out $100K for
packaged college applications, education has become a mad race to
grab the Ivy ring. Based on experience in admissions with the Ivy
League and other highly competitive universities, emerging
scientific evidence on the impact of emotional intelligence and
mindfulness, and discussions with admissions officers, students,
families, and high school counselors, this book is a guide on how
to go through the existing, however brutish, college applications
process with less stress and anxiety, and more joy and mindfulness.
Equipped with the powerful tools of emotional intelligence and
mindfulness, this work acknowledges the reality of what the process
is, and challenges young people to reach for a more meaningful
ideal for themselves. This book shares a look at the holistic
admissions process and offers an alternative one to the current
climate of untenable stress. This updated model aims to shift
mindsets from treating the admissions process as a ruthless
competition with one externally-prescribed definition of success,
to a step in a lifelong journey of curiosity and wonder. By
building self-awareness, compassion, resilience, it's possible to
navigate the process with greater authenticity, balance, and joy.
In a time when crossing guards are posted to prevent high schoolers
from jumping in front of trains and parents shelling out $100K for
packaged college applications, education has become a pressure
cooker to grab the Ivy ring. Based on almost two decades in Ivy
League admissions, emerging scientific evidence on mindfulness, and
interviews with admissions officers, students, families, and high
school counselors, this book picks up where Frank Bruni left off
with his 2016 bestseller, Where You Go is Not Who You’ll Be: An
Antidote to the College Admissions Mania. Whereas Bruni makes a
compelling case for a reframing of a flawed system, Taking the
Stress Out of College Applications is a guide on how to go through
the existing, however brutish, process with less stress and more
joy. Equipped with the powerful tools of mental and emotional
intelligence training, it acknowledges the reality of what is, and
challenges young people to reach for a more meaningful ideal. For
those who question the use of mindfulness in what may seem a
selfish purpose, as the peace activist Thich Nhat Hanh says, “we
need not fear that mindfulness might become only a means and not an
end because in mindfulness the means and the end are the same
things.” The current model to getting accepted into elite
colleges, what we call ATLAS 1.0
(Academics-Testing-Leadership-Accolades-Service), was set up
decades ago and has led to many lost happy childhoods. MAP shares
an insider’s expertise on how ATLAS 1.0 really works inside
admissions offices, and introduces an expanded model, ATLAS 2.0
(Awareness-Thinking-Listening-Alignment-Self-Compassion). This
updated model shifts students’ mindsets from the admissions
process as a ruthless competition with one externally-prescribed
definition of success to one step in a lifelong journey of wonder
and possibilities by discovering their own North Star, building
self-awareness and resilience, and navigating with authenticity,
balance, and joy. Recognizing that mindfulness practices can
alleviate some of the points of pain that the competitive world of
college admissions present, MAP attempts to equip young people on
the edge of adulthood –and their loved ones – with an expanded
model for greater mindfulness, self-awareness, and intention for a
successful journey through the process and beyond.
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