Rating
4.13 of 5 Votes: 1
ISBN
0767932587 (ISBN13: 9780767932585)
Publisher
Three Rivers Press
Personally, I think the "superstar" ideal isn't that realistic. It does not present itself in a way you can reach it through goal-setting and it is mostly based on chance. Sure, high school students who started a business and got a C in a class in freshman year got into great and famous colleges. That's because they started a business! A college is going to accept a student with a successful business with a C over a good student with straight A's. Not all students have the chance to start a business. Now, I disagree with the finding one thing to focus on strategy because I love to do many things and I wouldn't want to give any of them up. But some people may like the suggestions listed in this book. I believe you just have to see if it fits you. Obviously, it is not the lifestyle for me. Cal Newport writes about a “subculture of students that [he calls] the relaxed superstars.” These students “live relaxed and happy high school lives yet still breeze into their reach schools…. They challenge a lot of what we thought was true about the college admissions process.”After interviewing hundreds of these students, he figured out that there are three basic themes to their approach. First, they tend to include an unusual amount of free time in their schedules to pursue their interests. Second, they master one serious interest. And, third, they pursue accomplishments that are hard to explain. Instead of employing the overused “passionate,” he prefers the phrase “interestingness” to describe these relaxed superstars and the results that these three approaches create. These students become genuinely interesting people by pursuing their interests. And that, my dears, is the crux of the book. Allow high schoolers free time to pursue their interests and they will get good at that interest and that will expand their opportunities. They will become less concerned about the hoops that their peers will jump through “to get into college” and become more interesting to the admissions offices. © 2014 Kristin N.P. Rappe
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