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How to be a High School Superstar a revolutionary plan to get into college by standing out (without burning out)

What if getting into your reach schools didn't require four years of excessive A.P.-taking, overwhelming activity schedules, and constant stress? In How to Be a High School Superstar, Cal Newport explores the world of relaxed superstars--students who scored spots at the nation's top colleges by lead...

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Main Author: Newport, Cal
Format: Books Print Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Broadway Books, ©2010.
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Universities and colleges > United States > Admission.
College choice > United States.
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Table of Contents:
  • The law of underscheduling. Horseshoe crabs and blogs
  • Rethinking "passion"
  • The making of the relaxed superstar
  • The systematic superstar
  • The underscheduled student
  • The law of focus. Solar panels, stress, and Stanford
  • The superstar effect
  • Good begets good
  • When more is less
  • The law of innovation. The laziest student at Bella Vista High School
  • The failed-simulation effect
  • Lassiter's insight
  • The three rules of innovation
  • A tale of three innovations.

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