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College Admissions Cracked: Saving Your Kid (and Yourself) from the Madness [Pehme köide]

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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 234x154x24 mm, kaal: 340 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 29-Aug-2019
  • Kirjastus: Little, Brown & Company
  • ISBN-10: 0316420522
  • ISBN-13: 9780316420525
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 320 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 234x154x24 mm, kaal: 340 g
  • Ilmumisaeg: 29-Aug-2019
  • Kirjastus: Little, Brown & Company
  • ISBN-10: 0316420522
  • ISBN-13: 9780316420525
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How to help your kid navigate the college admissions process -- from scheduling standardized tests to writing essays -- month by month, girlfriend's-guide style.

So, your child is a high school junior. You've heard other parents with kids older than yours whisper the word "college" like it was a terminal disease. You've seen their taut, maniacal grins as they try to hold it together. The process of weathering and conquering the college admissions process with a teenager is a daunting affair for many. Advice will pour in through friends, your child's guidance counselor, and your mother's neighbor's cousin.

Thankfully, Jill Margaret Shulman, a college admissions coach, application evaluator, college writing instructor, essayist, author, and empathetic parent, is here to be your fiercest ally. She'll guide you through the entire crazy ritual that college admissions has become, month by month, breath by deep, cleansing breath, until you drop your kid off at college where she will ignore your phone calls and texts.

Come as you are -- whether chill or roiling with anxiety -- and Shulman, along with a platoon of experts and fellow parents, will help you maintain your strength and sense of self-worth, so easily lost somewhere between your teenager's screaming, "I hate you! You're ruining my life!" and typing your credit card number into the College Board's website for the twentieth time.

You've got college admissions cracked, and now, this book has got your back.
In(tro)duction 3(4)
Welcome to Anyone Navigating the College Admissions Process (Now or Ever)
I FALL OF JUNIOR YEAR: Five Things You Really Need to Hear Right Now
Chapter 1 The College Search Prequel
7(32)
Survival (Whether or Not You're Feeling the Fittest)
Appropriate vs. Inappropriate Parent Involvement: Reality Checks
Broaching the "College Shopping" Topic with Your Teen
Becoming an Educated Consumer
Considering Outside Intervention: Options from Flyweight to Heavyweight
Translating Your Kid's High School Life So Far into College Admissions Data
To-Do List
II WINTER OF JUNIOR: YEAR Five Helpful Mantras for the Winter of Our Discontent
Chapter 2 January
39(26)
Everything My Clients Ever Wanted to Know (Though Perhaps More Than You Ever Wanted to Know) About Standardized Testing
SAT vs. ACT
The Ins and Outs of Athletic Recruiting
To-Do List
Chapter 3 February
65(28)
Planning When and Where to Visit
How to Visit: Dos and Don'ts
Signing Up for Senior Classes: Rigor vs. Grades
To-Do List
III SPRING OF JUNIOR YEAR: Five Fantasy Responses to "Where's Your Kid Applying to College?"
Chapter 4 March
93(18)
March Winds Blow
Type-A Parents, This Is Your Moment to Organize!
Guesstimating Your Kid's Chances
Spring Meetings: When College Talk Is Released into the Open Air
To-Do List
Chapter 5 April
111(21)
Surviving April Showers of Constant Interrogations
The Spring Break College Tour Extravaganza
Interview Tips for Introverts, Extroverts, and Everyone in Between
The Skinny on Recommendations
To-Do List
Chapter 6 May
132(11)
Your Junior's Spring Fever and Stressors
Who Will Help My Kid with the Infamous College Essay and Everything Else?
Summer Activities That Look Impressive vs. Just Doing Life
To-Do List
IV SUMMER VACATION: Five Ways to Sneak in College Visits Without Letting Them Consume Your Summer
Chapter 7 June and July
143(18)
Summer Campus Visits: A Cautionary Tale
Testing Your Patience
Time to Write (or Plan to Write, or Think About Writing) the Personal Essay
A Gap Year, or No Gap Year? That Is the Question
To-Do List
Chapter 8 August
161(27)
Application Intel
Answers to My Clients' FAQs About the Common Application
Summer's End
To-Do List
V FALL OF SENIOR YEAR FIVE: Dinner Table Topics Other Than College
Chapter 9 September
188(17)
`Tis the Application Season
ED or EA or RD, Oh My!
Fall Meetings
Fall College Visit and Revisit FAQs
Finalizing the College List
To-Do List
Chapter 10 October
205(15)
Submitting Applications
Facing the Dark Side: The Financial Aid Forms
To-Do List
Chapter 11 November
220(3)
The Thanksgiving Challenge
To-Do List
Chapter 12 December
223(18)
Early Notifications Coming In
Submitting RD Applications
To-Do List
VI SECOND SEMESTER SENIOR YEAR AND BEYOND FIVE: Necessities for Your Kick-to-the-Finish Survival Kit
Chapter 13 Winter of Senior Year
241(12)
And So We Wait
FAQs About What the *%$! Is Going On in Admissions Offices
To-Do List
Chapter 14 Spring of Senior Year
253(14)
The Wait Is Over: RD Notifications Arrive
Making the Decision
To-Do List
Chapter 15 Graduation Through College Drop-Off Day
267(14)
Emotional Pyrotechnics
And Then They're Off
To-Do List: Epilogue
278(3)
Five Lessons from the College Admissions Process to Apply to Your Life
The Chill Parents' Revolution
To-Do List
Resources 281(6)
Acknowledgments 287(2)
Glossary of College Admissions-Related Terms You Can Never Un-Know 289(10)
Index 299
Jill Margaret Shulman is the founder of In Other Words, a college essay coaching service. She has spent nearly a decade shepherding high school students and their parents through the college admissions process and reading and evaluating applications at Amherst College and Williams College. Jill has also taught writing at The New School and City University of New York and written for the New York Times, Family Circle, Parents, Good Housekeeping, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others. She lives with her husband and two children (whenever they are home from college) in the higher education mecca of Amherst, Massachusetts.