1. BEHAVIORAL TRUTHS of Confident College Applicants Alistair Grant, HighGround Education Bruce Reed, Compass Education Group

2. Philosophy Language Culture Discovering and Creating Alignment

3. Process Problems People Philosophical Hierarchy

4. Displacement Language Familiar Anxiety Tension Obligation Judgment Facts Anonymity Comfort Applicant Default Depth Joy Poise Choice Curiosity Truths Creating Advocacy Unexplored Author Empowering

5. Seeing oneself as an author Successful Behavioral Truths are Revealed Assume Control Embrace Accountability Create Advocacy Demonstrate Vision

6. Order of Operations WHO (are you?) WHO (do you want to become?) (do you want to join?) WHY (do you want to go to college?) WHAT (would you like to do while you are there?) WHEN (do you want to/ when should you go to college?)WHERE (do your answers point you?)

7. Successful Behavioral Truths Students…  Approach the process with curiosity, the birthplace of successful behavioral truths  Show up with the right attitude  Acknowledge what the college process demands of them  Invest fully in the process and in themselves  Take ownership of the process  Humanize the process and personalize it  Focus on what is actionable by building strong relationships with teachers, coaches, parents and peers  Create advocacy by building those relationships

8. Successful Behavioral Truths Students…  Create a high school narrative that allows them to enter the process with a posture of confidence  Understand that proper preparedness will always reveal itself during the process  Maintain realistic expectations about where they are likely to gain admission  Realize their responsibility is not to “find” the perfect college, but rather a community where they can “create” the very experience they envision  Realize that they are not a passenger; they are driving the bus, not getting on and expecting to be taken somewhere

9. Detrimental Behavioral Truths Students…  Compare themselves to other people navigating the process  Focus on the noise that this process can generate  Focus on the outcome, not the process  React to the media hype  Hold onto unrealistic expectations  Change themselves to become who they think the college wants them to be  Realize that a lack of preparedness will always reveal itself  Write a high school narrative that does not allow them to enter the process with a posture of confidence

10. Creating Culture  Positive Alignment and a Shared Mindset  People, Problems, Process  Preparation, Reflection, and Accountability  Postures of Confidence and Control  Correct Order of Operations