How to Win the Million Dollar College Admissions Game

The Ultimate Guide for Getting Into the College of Your Dreams

De: Dr. Agnia Grigas

Narrado por: Jerry Murry

You've heard the horror stories. Brilliant kids getting rejection letters, acceptance rates plummeting, an elusive and impossible selection process. Not to mention, all of the contradictory advice that leaves you with more questions than answers.
If this sounds all too familiar, this book is exactly what you need. Dr. Agnia Grigas has cracked the college admission code, and she shares it all with you here, in her groundbreaking book, How to Win the Million Dollar College Admissions Game.
What's Inside
For two decades, Dr. Grigas has helped students win the admissions game and enroll in their dream colleges. Now, she reveals her best-kept secrets in this fun, relatable, inspiring guidebook so you and your child can also play and win the college admissions game. In this audio, you’ll find details about:

• Strategic approach: It's not just about grades or test scores. Learn the hidden variables that really swing admissions decisions.
• Holistic growth: Watch your child evolve into a confident, unique individual, ready to take on the world, not just ace a standardized test or get into a "top" college.
• Actionable steps: No fluff. Each chapter shares practical strategies you can put to work today.
• Success stories: See these success strategies in action with relatable stories of real kids who got into their dream schools.

About the Author
DR. AGNIA GRIGAS is the founder of College Admissions Secrets, a leading college admissions consultancy in Los Angeles, California. A Columbia and Oxford grad, Dr. Grigas is a respected scholar with a mother's touch. Her insights and innovations in college admissions have shaped the future of children all over America.
Who Needs This Book?
For parents who value education as the gateway to a lifetime of opportunities, this book is your manual for helping make your child's dreams come true—no matter their current age!
The college admissions landscape can be a nerve-wracking, stressful period for the whole family, but it doesn't have to be. Dr. Grigas will guide you through, with clear, reliable, and attainable steps. Get How To Win The Million Dollar College Admissions Game today!

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A Recipe for Burnout

How to Win the Million Dollar College Admissions Game is less a college admissions guide and more a playbook for manufacturing adolescent anxiety. The core message? Stop being a kid. Pick your lifelong passion by middle school. Specialize early. Build a résumé that looks more like a LinkedIn profile than a reflection of a curious, developing human.
As a successful physician, I find this mindset not only misguided but harmful. I majored in biology, yet some of the most valuable intellectual growth I experienced came from dabbling in philosophy and history—courses that expanded my thinking and made me a better doctor. My father, a highly accomplished surgeon, majored in history, not biochemistry. We both succeeded not because we followed a rigid track early, but because we were allowed to explore widely, discover our interests organically, and specialize later when it mattered.

This book tells students the opposite: that to get into a top college, they need to show “spikes,” not “well-roundedness.” That being good at many things is a weakness. That your teenage years must be consumed with strategic positioning, not exploration.

Compare this to the powerful evidence laid out in David Epstein’s Range:

Epstein demonstrates that most elite performers—from Roger Federer to top inventors and Nobel laureates—sampled broadly before specializing.
He explains how “wicked” learning environments (like college, medicine, or entrepreneurship) reward people who can adapt, synthesize across fields, and approach problems with interdisciplinary thinking—not those who burned out chasing a narrowly defined goal from age 12.
Studies cited in Range show that generalists are more innovative, more flexible, and more successful in the long term than early specialists.
Epstein even coined the idea of “match quality”—the fit between a person’s abilities and the work they do—which is highest when individuals are allowed to try multiple paths before locking into one. That idea is absent from Grigas’s book, which seems to assume students already know their destiny and should devote high school to building a pitch deck for it.
If you want your child to develop intellectual range, adaptability, and lasting fulfillment—not just the illusion of success on paper—skip this book. Let them explore. Let them be kids. The college that deserves them will value that far more than another contrived “passion project.”

Exactly what was needed

This book brings all the disjointed pieces of information out there, together. You might or might not be familiar with some parts or methodologies of what colleges look for in a potential candidate. You might or might not be familiar with what it potentially take for your child to succeed. What sets this book apart from the rest, is that it streamlines every aspect. That clear picture the book lays out for you, gives a much needed Eureka moment.