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Education is the ladder that can enable people to climb to heights otherwise thought unachievable. Education is also a currency that has value the world over. Like currencies, some education has more value than others.

This book focuses unashamedly on elite education. It's about how the cream of the world's universities select from some of the best and brightest students graduating from high schools around the world every year. The maths, as any of these bright students will tell you, are not on their side when they apply to Harvard, MIT, or Oxford. But in this book, Jamie Beaton generously shares his own firsthand and professional knowledge to help students tilt the table a bit more in their favor.

Students aspire to attend elite universities for a whole range of reasons, including the fact that a degree from one of them opens doors to employment at similarly elite global companies. These universities' selection processes, as you'll read in the following chapters, are so thorough and rigorous that employers of choice know much of the sorting task has been done for them.