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All too often, applying to college or graduate school is reduced to a numbers game: scores, rejection rates, GPAs. Katie Malachuk takes a much more enlightened approach, with a unique combination of skills: She’s a consultant for a top admissions counseling firm, a graduate of Harvard and Stanford, the former admissions director for Teach for America, and—maybe more importantly—she is an instructor at one of the nation’s best yoga schools. Now she illuminates a beautiful new path to the admissions process, with You’re Accepted. Blending her practical know-how with perceptive spiritual insight, Malachuk has a wealth of expert advice to share with all academic applicants. In You’re Accepted, she probes the genuinely meaningful questions that will help readers uncover concerns that matter for a lifetime. Her conversational style makes it easy to explore personal values, the happiness factor, and other traits that need to be recognized when choosing schools that are a good fit. Ultimately, readers also get to know the “personalities” of prospective programs, taking geography into account as well (climate and local culture are more important to your success!). In addition, Malachuk emphasizes the nitty-gritty tips every applicant needs to know about honing all aspects of the application itself, including how to write an essay from the point of view of the admissions committee. She also tackles issues rarely discussed in other admissions-prep books, such as coping with the anxiety of the waiting game and how to handle loving but overbearing parents. Helping applicants transcend the application process, You’re Accepted replaces competitive angst with true wisdom about the gifts we each bring to our life journey—and the liberating revelation that higher education can serve a higher purpose.