Spend only a few dollars to help you save thousands of dollars in scholarships, time, and energy, by learning from a team of specialists how to get the best schools and offers.The process that involves the international student-athlete and family finding the best American college, including all its related tasks and paperwork, can be very complicated and even frustrating, especially if you do not have any guidance. The main objective of this e-book is to give you the direction you will need during this process so you can choose the best school and handle the process as easy and safely as possible. I want to help you by sharing the tactics that worked for hundreds of tennis players, with a step-by-step process on how to: - Understand the entrance terms, when to get started, and how to make a calendar.- Figure out what you need to have and understand before you start talking to coaches.- Clarify the collegiate sports leagues and their eligibility requirements.- Prepare for exams.- Understand tennis requirements (UTR and which schools fit your tennis level).- Produce a great tennis video.- Research schools - Contact coaches.- Define your budget to the coaches and the reason why it is important.- Get scholarships.- Understand the offers and costs.- Negotiate.- Choose the best school for you.- Avoid pitfalls.- Understand the junior colleges.- Deal with the unknown.- Do all the paperwork.- Learn about housing and meal plan.- Understand immunization forms and health insurance.- Understand the I-20 process and obtain a student visa.- Conduct the process with ease.- Deal with eventual problems after arrival.- Transfer to another institution.- Become a successful student-athlete and get the most out of the experience.Therefore, you are in the right place if you want to do your own college placement with method and efficiency, having autonomy in all parts of the process. I will take you by the hand and show you all the steps you need to take, what to do and what not to do. You will have access to all my knowledge acquired by working with college placement for more than 15 years. I want to share with you everything that I have learned after I sent more than 800 tennis players with different academic, athletic and financial profiles to the USA. Some of you may be acquainted with the American culture, while others have never been to the USA. Parents can also get very anxious because they are sending their son or daughter overseas, and also because they do not know how to better handle the process. Moreover, the vast majority of the players is not a TOP 200 junior ITF. Most likely you will have to make most or all first approaches, and this is also why this guide has been written for you: to teach you how to research schools, talk to coaches, negotiate scholarships, and so on. And even if you are a TOP 200 ITF who gets seen in tournaments and contacted by coaches who research your results, this guide is written for you as well, so you do not depend solely on the ones that contacted you, and that way you have a variety of great possibilities to choose from, besides learning about paperwork, scholarship negotiation tactics, and all the tricks during process, that we make available to you here.Also, by writing this e-book, I hope that college coaches and even the admissions counselors can also benefit from your better understanding of the process. When you have the right expectations, learn how to contact coaches, and ask the right questions, the better the process can become for everyone.My name is Mauricio Cabrini, I am from Brazil. I played college tennis at University of North Carolina at Wilmington, an NCAA division 1 program, and graduated with a double major in Communication Studies and Spanish in 2005. I founded MC Graduation in 2008, a college placement company, that has worked with more than 1000 student-athletes from many countries. I hope you enjoy this e-book, and that it can lead you