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Tackling College Admissions : Sanity + Strategy = Success by Cheryl Paradis and Faren R. Siminoff (2008, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherRowman & Littlefield Publishers, Incorporated
ISBN-100742547833
ISBN-139780742547834
eBay Product ID (ePID)63145495
Product Key Features
Number of Pages240 Pages
Publication NameTackling College Admissions : Sanity + Strategy = Success
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2008
SubjectConsumer Guides, Student Life & Student Affairs, General, Parent Participation
TypeNot Available
Subject AreaRéférence, Education, Psychology
AuthorCheryl Paradis, Faren R. Siminoff
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.7 in
Item Weight12.2 Oz
Item Length8.9 in
Item Width5.9 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2007-037763
Dewey Edition22
ReviewsIf you have a child in high school who will soon be heading off to college, buy this book now! Parents do more than write the checks--directly or indirectly, we are part of our children's college application process, giving advice, helping organize, influencing. Now, at last, Tackling College Admissions helps us help our kids (and ourselves) through the often daunting challenge. Faren Siminoff and Cheryl Paradis are fun, breezy, able experts, they know the territory, and they keep reaching out to us and what we need to know as parents. With up-to-date explanations of the ever-evolving hoops that the college-bound must jump through and short, user-friendly questionnaires to pinpoint our fears, fantasies, and foibles, including unrealistic expectations, Tackling College Admissions is a helpful book for parents--and parents matter!, Finally! A book with a balanced and helpful approach to college admissions from a parent's perspective. In our times of both high competition and high expectations, it's increasingly vital for parents to stay sane. Tackling College Admissions will help you do that, whether your teen is NAF (Not Always Focused) or AFT (the Always Focused Teen). Unlike many guides that focus on admission to Ivy League and other highly selective colleges, this guide helps parents with something much more important--finding the college that's the right fit for the teen. Tackling College Admissions is a no-nonsense, practical guide useful to every parent of a college-bound teen., Even if the college application process seems overwhelmingly complicated and strewn with emotional landmines, you don't need to be a 'catastrophizer.' Tackling College Admissions helps to de-stress the college application process. The authors help you understand yourself, your teenager, and what matters in a school. This passionate yet practical guide will get you and your teenager organized and started in the right direction.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal378.1/610973
Intended AudienceTrade
Table Of ContentPart 1 Part I: Training for the Race Chapter 2 Dispelling the Three Big College Myths Chapter 3 The Parent Trap Chapter 4 Know the Common Challenges: Assess Your Teen Part 5 Part II: Running the Race Chapter 6 The Dreaded Countdown: College Tasks from Freshman through Senior Year Chapter 7 Let the Tests Begin: Those Standardized Tests and Beyond Chapter 8 Drawing Up the College List: So Many Schools, So Little Time Chapter 9 Taking It on the Road Chapter 10 Packaging for Success: The College Application and the "Extras" Chapter 11 Personal Considerations: Issues We All Think About but Don't Discuss Chapter 12 Crossing the Finish Line: Making the Decision Chapter 13 Looking Back, Looking Forward
SynopsisTackling College Admissions provides parents with timely strategies and management skills to successfully steer their teen into the college that is best suited for them. With unique insights and tactics for organizing, motivating, and negotiating with their teen, the book also provides parents with important survival strategies to cope with this stressful time in the parent-teen relationship., Tackling College Admissions provides parents with timely strategies and management skills to successfully steer their teen into the college that is best suited for them. With unique insights and tactics for organizing, motivating, and negotiating with their teen, the book also provides parents with important "survival" strategies to cope with this stressful time in the parent-teen relationship., Every year millions of parents shepherd their teens through the arduous college admissions process. They are bombarded with too much information and with destructive and pervasive college admissions myths. Tackling College Admissions: Sanity + Strategy = Success by Cheryl Paradis and Faren R. Siminoff provides just what the college admissions doctor needs: sanity, perspective, and common sense. The racecourse to college admissions is littered with obstacles--some anticipated, some unexpected. However, with knowledge and a little humor, virtually all teens can cross the finish line into that good-fit college. Paradis and Siminoff offer a simple, two-part approach to college admissions. Part I shows parents how to become effective coaches through employing self and teen assessment and discarding the college myths. Part II takes parents through the ins-and-outs of the college admissions process, alerting them to potential hurdles and teaching them effective, easy-to-implement strategies to overcome these.
LC Classification NumberLB2343.32.P373 2008
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