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Post Hill Press
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
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Jill Madenberg draws upon her 20-plus years of counseling experience while her daughter Amanda-a student who just recently went off to college-adds tips and personal stories. Whether you are wondering how to choose high school classes and activities, create a realistic college list, get the most out of a campus visit, or maintain a positive and healthy attitude, Love the Journey to College will help you make educated decisions throughout the process-and...
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English
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Jeff Selingo, journalist and editor-in-chief of the Chronicle for Higher Education, argues that colleges can no longer sell a four-year degree as the ticket to success in life. College (Un)Bound exposes the dire pitfalls in the current state of higher education for anyone concerned with intellectual and financial future of America.
Publisher
College Board
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"The Official Digital SAT Study Guide provides a comprehensive resource for understanding updates to the SAT in the digital format. It includes four official practice tests--all created by the test maker. As part of College Board's commitment to access, practice tests are also available in the digital testing platform, Bluebook, at no charge. However, the guide is the only place to find practice tests in print accompanied by over 300 pages of additional...
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Peterson's Guides
Pub. Date
2018
Language
English
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Peterson's® Four-Year Colleges is a valuable resource that includes information on every accredited four-year undergraduate institution in the U.S. and Canada, more than 2,500 institutions in all. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions written by admissions personnel for over 175 colleges and universities. College-bound students and their parents can access details including campus setting, enrollment, academic programs, entrance difficulty,...
Publisher
Penguin Random House
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
"Each year, colleges are inundated with earnest, eager applications. Your own essay may need to shine from among as many as 60,000 others to get noticed! Get inspired by these 55+ unforgettable student essays that got their authors accepted; See what schools like Cornell, Brown, Georgia Tech, Rutgers, Northwestern University, Duke, and many more are looking for in an essay; Read helpful commentary from our experts on what worked--and why. All the...
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Publisher
Bloomsbury Press
Pub. Date
©2013.
Language
English
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A leading African American historian of race in America exposes the uncomfortable truths about race, slavery, and the American academy, revealing that leading universities, dependent on human bondage, became breeding grounds for the racist ideas that sustained it.
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Publisher
HarperOne, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishing
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"From the former Stanford University sailing coach, the first person sentenced in the Varsity Blues college admissions scandal, the riveting true story of how he was drawn unwittingly into a web of deceit, about the sophisticated scheme designed to take advantage of college coaches and play to the endless appetite for university fundraising, and about the ways in which justice and fairness do not always intersect" --
Vandemoer ran the prestigious...
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Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
©2015.
Language
English
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"In this book, Michael Crow will ignite a national discussion on what the new American research university should look like. This new model is one that embraces students with a wide range of backgrounds and abilities while giving elite public schools a run for their research money. Crow proposed his idea--one that would fundamentally redesign the public research university--ten years ago when he became president of Arizona State University and now...
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
English
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"In Game On, Susan F. Paterno--Director of the Chapman University journalism program and mother of four recent college grads--leads you through the admissions process to help you and your family make the best decision possible. Is the college admissions game really stacked against you? Is it getting tougher to get into top schools-into any school-or not? How will COVID-19 change all of these things? Susan F. Paterno, a lifelong academic who knows...
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