"The handbook is a must-have for filling out the CommonApp! It provided tips that I wouldn't have found online. My application is more polished and professional than it would have been without it."
— Nate Weeks
The Fastest Route to Admissions
Dr. Yo’s step-by-step instruction manual and set of high-level strategies and advice—packed with 30 years of experience helping students get into their dream schools—enable college applicants to cast themselves in the best possible light according to today’s admissions standards.
Facts
Over 90% of Dr. Yo's students earned admission to at least one of the top three colleges on their list each of the last eight years using the advice contained in this Handbook.
Over 30 years of college counseling, classroom teaching, extracurricular advising, and private tutoring experience condensed captured in a single, user-friendly guide..
The number of applicants to U.S. colleges has risen every year since the 1990s, driving national acceptance rates to intimidating all-time lows, but with this Handbook, students can still differentiate themselves and stand out from the competition,
About the Author
Dr. Michael J. Youmans, aka Dr. Yo, founded CollegePrepExpress in 1990. He attended Kingswood Oxford School in West Hartford, received his B.A. from Harvard in 1986, his MA in English Language and Literature from Middlebury College Bread Loaf School of English and Lincoln College, Oxford, in 1993, and his Ph.D. in Secondary Curriculum and Instruction fromÂBoston College Lynch School of Education in 2006. Over the course of more than 30 years, Dr. Yo has taught a wide range of classroom subjects including English, math, music, philosophy, astronomy, social studies, and physics at a half-dozen schools at the high school, junior high school, and junior college levels in Connecticut and Massachusetts before leaving the classroom in 2008 to run CollegePrepExpress full time.