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Your Ticket to the 40 Acres
Audiobook, Ebook, and Paperback
Surviving the College Admissions Madness
Audiobook, Ebook and Paperback
Getting into Public Texas Universities
Online Course
Audiobook, ebook, and paperback
Surviving the College Admissions Madness
Unlike any book written about higher education, Surviving the College Admissions Madness is a complete takedown of a deeply flawed and thoroughly broken system. Unconventional, irreverent, and entertaining, Kevin Robert Martin argues that elite universities do not care about their applicants.
College admissions is highly undemocratic and dehumanizing. University bureaucracies alienate applicants from their humanity and sense of self. Reading essay advice books might help you get in, but they won’t help you stay sane. Surviving and even thriving depends on digging deep into your beliefs and understanding your behaviors within the broader context of society.
This isn’t another Admissions 101 “how-to to write a killer essay” book or a promise of “six easy steps” for Ivy League acceptance. Instead, Admissions Madness is the first of its kind to integrate applicant psychology with the sociology and economics of higher education. I write for families and high school educators who want a deeper understanding of the truth.
I provide helpful advice for avoiding application mistakes, building a reasonable college list, minimizing debt, identifying cognitive errors and distortions, and helping applicants reframe their college applications. I equip readers with the vocabulary, frameworks, and tools to make sense of America’s broken higher education system, starting with the admissions gatekeepers.
Available in Kindle, Paperback, and Audiobook
Audiobook, ebook and Paperback
Your Ticket to the Forty Acres
UT-Austin Admissions Guide
Stressing about your University of Texas at Austin undergraduate application?
Put yourself in your reviewer’s shoes to better understand this complicated and uncertain process. Kevin shares entertaining stories from visiting hundreds of schools and working with thousands of students.
Learn exactly how UT reviews their applicants, what they want to see, and things that you should avoid. He provides dozens of tips for your essays and resume.
Explore how affirmative action and race in admissions influences the admissions process and what you can do to demonstrate a diverse perspective.
Available on Kindle, Print, and Audiobook
Admissions Course
Getting into Texas Universities
Are you interested in diving deep into college admissions while putting forward your best applications? How do you write outstanding college essays? What does an admissions reviewer see after you press submit?
Getting into Texas Universities is perfect for you.
In over 85 modules, this course walks you through the holistic review process. Understanding how admissions works at UT-Austin will make you more competitive for selective programs nationwide. It is the most comprehensive material for college applications available anywhere.
This course provides over 12 hours of premium audio commentary, 35 application workshops where you see essays and resumes evolve from first drafts to final submissions, and dozens of Apply Texas essays and college resume samples so that you can better understand how reviewers score applications. Includes audio and ebook copies of Your Ticket and Admissions Madness.
