Hernandez College Consulting

The Ultimate Guide to Top High School Contests and Awards

With over 60 pages of awards, contests, and other opportunities to distinguish yourself, this guide helps you stand out and achieve at the level top colleges expect. Contact information and details are provided so all you have to do is find appropriate categories to meet your interests. This is a MUST have for every high school student hoping to go above and beyond the norm.

AND, as bonus, you’ll receive a FREE Gift, our exclusive tracking sheet so that you can keep all of your submissions organized!

About the Authors

Dr. Michele Hernández and Mimi Doe cofounded Application Boot Camp®; LLC after publishing their best-selling book, Don’t Worry: You’ll Get In in 2005. Application Boot Camp®; LLC is a company devoted to empowering high school students from around the world in the college admissions process.

MIMI DOE is the award-winning author of Nurturing Your Teenager’s Soul: a Practical Approach to Raising a Kind, Honorable, Compassionate Teen, Busy but Balanced: Practical and Inspirational Ways to Create a Calmer, Closer Family, and 10 Principles for Spiritual Parenting: Nurturing Your Child’s Soul, and was a finalist in the Books For a Better Life Award.

Mimi and Michele co-authored Don’t Worry You’ll Get In!, Set Yourself Apart: The Ultimate Guide to Top Summer Programs, and Application Boot Camp® Self Guided Program.

Doe founded the popular web site, SpiritualParenting.com, and holds a Master’s Degree in Education from Harvard University.

Dubbed a “parenting guru” by Ladies Home Journal, Mimi is the preeminent expert in the area of instilling balance and awareness in the household. Doe is featured in weekly segments on The Hallmark Channel’s New Morning TV, and has appeared on Oprah and the CBS Early Show. Her work has been covered in such publications as Child, Parenting, McCalls, Family Circle, Redbook, Reader’s Digest, Publisher’s Weekly, USA Today, The London Independent, and The Washington Post.

Mimi is an advocate for children and teenagers and believes that in the college admissions process, knowledge is power. Her work writing, Don’t Worry You’ll Get In with Michele and co-founding Application Boot Camp®; is an effort to lessen the stress associated with this frantic process. It’s her mission to make applications and admissions less stressful by fully informing kids as well as supporting them in presenting their true selves.

She lives in Concord, Massachusetts, with her husband and two teenaged daughters.

DR. MICHELE HERNANDEZ is known as America’s premier college consultant through her work with high school students and her best selling books: A is for Admission (Warner), The Middle School Years (Warner), and Acing the College Application (Ballantine).

Hernández has been featured in hundreds of newspapers, magazines, radio and television programs including Newsweek, Bloomberg, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, The New York Post, Atlantic Monthly, The Today Show, CNN, and MNSNBC.

As an assistant director of admissions at Dartmouth College for four years and the academic dean of a private high school in South Florida, Hernãndez has crafted a unique angle for assisting students gain admissions to the most selective colleges, incorporating her “inside perspective” on the admissions adventure.

Dr. Hernández graduated Phi Beta Kappa from Dartmouth College in 1989 and went on to earn a Master’s degree in English and comparative literature from Columbia University and a doctorate in education. She is married to Bruce Bayliss, former headmaster of the International School in Portland, Oregon. They have two children, ages 11 and 5, and two golden retrievers and a Gordon setter. The family lives in Weybridge, Vermont.

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