Open the Gates to the Ivy League: A Plan B for Getting into the Top Colleges

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Ivy League schools on average reject some 90 percent of applicants. But there is another way to get into the top colleges in the United States—the back gate—that will still see motivated students come out the front gate with an Ivy League diploma.

This book is the plan B that offers you an alternative set of keys to seven of the Ivy League universities: Harvard, Yale, Columbia, Cornell, Dartmouth, Pennsylvania (Penn), and Brown. Also covered are the so-called second tier of elite universities, including Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Duke, Northwestern, and University of Virginia, among others, which have highly selective admission requirements and confer social and economic benefits on par with the traditional Ivy Leagues.

From extension schools to special programs for working students to online studies, the range of back gateways is remarkable for leveling the field for students of all stripes. This book provides the little-known strategies to help you succeed in enrolling in the school of your dreams.

Review

FROM EDUCATION WEEK

“In 
Open the Gates to the Ivy League: A Plan B for Getting into the Top Colleges 
(Prentice Hall Press, 2013), author C.W. Henderson exposes ‘back gateways’ for getting into 25 prestigious schools, seven of which are hallowed-hall Ivies. Henderson’s audience is Jager-Hyman’s ‘brand-name shoppers,’ who would find stock in Henderson’s assertion that the name recognition and well-connected alumni networks of elite universities give students ‘a significant, sometimes even a dramatic, edge over everyone who earns a diploma elsewhere.'”  – Education Week

FROM EDUCATION WEEK

“In 
Open the Gates to the Ivy League: A Plan B for Getting into the Top Colleges (Prentice Hall Press, 2013)…if students fail to get into a top 40 school, Henderson says try and try again–and shows applicants how to do so, sometimes for less than they would pay otherwise.” – 
Education Week (blogs.edweek.org), August 7, 2013

FROM BOOKS WORLD

“end up with an Ivy League diploma…all the specifics…current…essential…more information at openthegates.com” –
BWW Books World

FROM UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA  UVA Today

“In ‘Open the Gates to the Ivy League: A Plan B for Getting in the Top Colleges’ (Prentice Hall Press, 2013), author C.W. Henderson exposes ‘back gateways’ for getting into 25 prestigious schools, seven of which are hallowed hall Ivies. Henderson also cites back entrances to elite universities through transfer programs with less-elite universities, such as transferring to University of Virginia from any one of the state’s community colleges.” –
UVA Today

FROM INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS TIMES

“…students should apply to colleges with back doors…in addition to first choices and safety schools
…wealth of information about some of the best universities in the world…the author assessed the degree of openness of each back gateway.  Some are wide open, others half-open, and some just barely cracked ajar. These assessments are based on a variety of factors, the most important of which are annual admissions rates, program expectations, and the depth and breadth of application criteria and requirements.” – IBTimes Staff Reporter

From the Author

THE ONLY GUIDE TO COLLEGE ADMISSIONS THAT OFFERS AN ALTERNATIVE GATEWAY TO GETTING INTO THE NATION’S TOP-RATED UNIVERSITIES.

A unique, step-by-step guide that reveals alternative ways to get in an Ivy League or other top-ranked colleges, such as MIT, Duke, Northwestern, and many others
Profiles each college and provides all the specifics needed to gain admission via “the back gateway”
Just released in 2013 — a current and essential publication as college entrance becomes more competitive and costs are escalating
For rich kids, poor kids, and international students

According to the book, Open the Gates to the Ivy League, twenty colleges ranked in the top twenty-five by U.S. News have back doors for college admissions