Glenbard Parent Series speaker to provide behind-the-scenes look at college admissions

On Thursday, Oct. 6, the Glenbard Parent Series: Navigating Healthy Families will present "Valedictorians at the Gate: Standing Out, Getting In and Staying Sane While Applying to College" with former college admissions director Becky Munsterer Sabky. It will be held at 7 p.m. via Zoom.

Go to glenbardgps.org for further information and the link to this webinar.

To be placed on a reminder list for GPS events or submit a question in advance, send an email to Gilda Ross, Glenbard District 87 student and community projects coordinator, at gilda_ross@glenbard.org.

Sabky's best-selling book "Valedictorians at the Gate" is a behind-the-scenes, insightful look at how to best prepare for the college admissions process.

When she was a high school senior, Sabky was rejected by the college of her dreams. She did everything right but still received the "thin envelope." A decade later she was making admissions decisions for an Ivy League university.

She will illuminate the path to finding a school that is an ideal match. She will provide practical suggestions and advice that will de-stress and demystify the college application process.

Sabky is a former director of international admissions at Dartmouth College. She's also an award-winning newspaper columnist and a blogger.

GPS is generously sponsored by the Cebrin Goodman Center, Community Consolidated School District 93 Birth to 5 Coalition, Cooperative Association for Special Education (CASE), College of DuPage, Duly Health and Care, Emmy Gaffey Foundation, Glenbard Early Childhood Collaborative, Kids Matter, Kiwanis Clubs of Division 9, Prevention Leadership Team of the DuPage County Health Department, Rosecrance Health Network and Webb-Hutter Family Fund of DuPage Foundation.