<html><head></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; -webkit-line-break: after-white-space; "><div><div><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#de2a00">PLEASE do not reply to this email, contact <span class="gmail_sendername">Janet <span class="">Huseby</span></span></font> <span dir="ltr"><a href="mailto:jan@smuseby.net" target="_blank"><span class="">jan</span>@<span class="">smuseby</span>.net</a></span></span></div><div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"> </div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><b>The Berkeley Book of College Essays--third edition--has arrived!</b> The updated book, a collection of over 80 college essays written by Berkeley High School students , will be sold for $15 during registration. Checks should be made out to Berkeley High School Development Group. All proceeds benefit the <span class="" style="">BHS</span> College and Career Center.</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><b>What the back of the book says:</b><br>
</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"></div></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div style="word-wrap:break-word"><div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">A lively collection of personal essays written by the seniors at Berkeley High School. </i></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">Coming from all walks of life and backgrounds, the diverse students write about their </i></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<i style="font-size: 15px;">eclectic interests, lifestyles, triumphs, and hardships. Includes:</i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">• essays written by more than 80 successful University of California and other selective </i></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;"> school applicants,</i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">• a variety of prompts and essay formats,</i></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">• an updated “Getting Started” guide for the <span class="" style="">UC</span> and Common Application essays</i></div><div class="gmail_quote">
<i style="font-size: 15px;"><br></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">“These essays encompass the richness of cultures, achievements, experiences, and points of </i></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">view within a remarkable urban high school, and they demonstrate emphatically that there are </i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">many different ways to write a <span class="" style="">smashingly</span> effective college application essay.”</i></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Bob Laird, former director of undergraduate admission, <span class="">UC</span> Berkeley, </span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 15px;">and author of The Case for Affirmative Action in University Admissions</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;"><br></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">“This is a useful, provocative, and entertaining new book. It is radically different in wholesome </i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">ways from most of the other ‘How To’ essay books that crowd the bookstore shelves. And it is a </i></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">great cultural survey of Berkeley.” </i><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Jonathan Reider, director of college counseling at San Francisco University High School and former admissions officer at Stanford University</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;"><br></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">“My New York City high school students loved how unique these essays were. They were really </i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">honest, and many of the writers used unexpected and even everyday stories to communicate </i></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">who they were, instead of traditional essays where students just list their talent and successes.”</i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">Jessica <span class="">Marchetti</span>, former teacher at Millennium High School in New York City, and now assistant principal at Frank <span class="">McCourt</span> High School, New York</span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;"><br></i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">“A beautiful portrait of a diverse, contentious, and delightful group of young people. </i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">They have inherited a world that is often harsh and cruel, but they have found a way to </i></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><i style="font-size: 15px;">redeem themselves and us with their generosity, </i><i style="font-size: 15px;">perseverance, and heart.”</i></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span style="font-size: 15px;">Ilene Abrams, college advisor,</span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">Envision Academy of Arts </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px; ">and Technology, Oakland</span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">The third edition was compiled by Janet <span class="" style="">Huseby</span> with Vicky Elliott and Elaine <span class="" style="">Ratner</span>; production by <span class="" style="">BHS</span> parent Evelyn <span class="" style="">Whitburn</span>. All essays were contributed by Berkeley High students as a gift to the school--copies of the book will be mailed home to third edition contributors, at the end of next week. </span></div>
<div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;"><br></span></div><div class="gmail_quote"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 15px;">The book was funded with a grant from the Berkeley High School Development Group. If you are interested in contributing to the sale of this book as a publicist, please contact <span class="" style="">Janet</span> <span class="" style="">Huseby</span> at <span class="" style="">jan</span>@<span class="" style="">smuseby</span>.net. We need your help!<br>
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