Includes index.

What High Schools Don't Tell You, But This Book Will xi -- Part I Secret to College Admissions Success? You Have to Have a Game Plan -- Chapter 1 You Can't Exceed Your Goals If You Don't Have Any: Helping Your Child to Identify Her Passions 3 -- Chapter 2 Strategic Summers: The Time to Gain the Advantage for College 21 -- Chapter 3 Designing the Four-Year Academic Plan: What Colleges Mean When They Say They Prefer Kids Who Challenge Themselves to the Fullest 47 -- Chapter 4 Coordinating the Game Plan with Your Child's School: Inviting the Faculty to Join Your Team 76 -- Part II Amazing Array: Finding the Best Opportunities for Your Kid -- Chapter 5 Mathematics: The Triad-Three Pedigrees for Math Students 87 -- Chapter 6 Science and Engineering, Part I: Raising a Science Olympian 111 -- Chapter 7 Science and Engineering, Part II: Launching Inventors and Explorers on the Research Track 125 -- Chapter 8 Arts: Spotlighting the Creative Applicant 163 -- Chapter 9 Humanities: The Scholar Every College Wants 197 -- Chapter 10 Journalism, Media, and Advocacy: Headlining the Front-Page Kid 215 -- Chapter 11 Government: Building a Political Leader from the Ground Up 233 -- Chapter 12 Business: Marketing the Future Mogul 246 -- Appendix Four-Year Summer Plans for Forty Different Interests 259.