The College Bound Organizer: The Ultimate Guide to Successful College Applications (College Applications, College Admissions, and College Planning Book) - Softcover

Costaras, Anna; Liss, Gail

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1633536831 ISBN 13: 9781633536838

Publisher: Mango Media Inc, 2017

Synopsis

College Bound?

The College Bound Organizer is your step-by-step comprehensive guide to organize every step of the college application process from college search through college admission.

College admissions is tougher than ever: Between now and 2020, about 90 million high schoolers in the U.S. will try to get into college. Each of these students will apply to many schools―5, 10, perhaps as many as 20―and each of those applications has a daunting number of T’s to cross and I’s to dot. With standardized test taking and school visits, the college application essay to write and forms to fill out, there is so much to do. Applying to college is intimidating and overwhelming for both teenagers and parents.

“Planning ahead and “getting there first” can do more than help students get into a good college―it can provide them with life skills, a solid education, and lifelong friends.” –Business Insider

If you intend to be college bound: The challenge is to be well informed, prepared, focused and organized throughout the multi-step college search and admission process. Your solution is The College Bound Organizer, the ultimate guide to help students effectively navigate this very complicated and stressful process.

"Using The College Bound Organizer is one way to help you stay focused on what is really important."--Edward B. Fiske, bestselling author of Fiske Guide to Colleges

The College Bound Organizer helps students:

• Understand what admission officers are looking for in an applicant
• Prevent common mistakes students make on their applications
• Build a personal profile
• Plan an individualized testing schedule
• Research colleges to identify schools that are a good fit
• Develop a balanced list of schools
• Secure letters of recommendation
• Complete and submit applications accurately and on time
• Develop the college application essay
• Apply for financial aid and scholarships
• Ace interviews
• Sort and manage application results
• Make a final decision

About this title

From the Author:

Anna Costaras and Gail Liss are co-founders of Bound to Organize, LLC, an educational consulting firm, and co-authors of The College Bound Organizer. Anna and Gail understand how stressful the college search and application process can be. As mothers of six college graduates, they have been through the process in their own homes and have worked with college bound teens as mentors and advisors.
These longtime friends-turned-business-partners created The College Bound Organizer, the first and only comprehensive workbook and definitive guide for every high school student on the college track. How did Anna and Gail come up with the idea? Their story begins 25 years ago on the trading floor of a large New York based commercial bank. The two young women bonded instantly, forming a close personal friendship that helped them get through children’s birthday parties, kindergarten separations, middle school cliques, high school course selections and ultimately, college admissions. If raising three kids each seemed overwhelming at times, applying to college turned out to be downright staggering. Six students, 40 college visits, 71 college applications and two career women brought to their knees.
Anna and Gail quickly discovered that the application process had changed dramatically since they applied to college. More complicated and confusing than ever, it necessitates a level of expertise and savvy that practically requires a master’s degree in business. Which, luckily, Anna and Gail have, making them the perfect guides for students planning to attend college. Combining their career expertise with everything they’ve learned from their own children’s experiences, their goal was to share their organizing system with the college bound community. They’ve packed The College Bound Organizer with worksheets, checklists, charts, tips and advice that make it easy-to-use for parents and teenagers alike. After all, who wouldn’t want to successfully navigate the college search and application process with less stress and anxiety?
Two moms. Six kids. One great idea.

About the Author:

Anna Costaras holds a BS and MBA from New York University Stern School of Business. She is the founder of a college-bound mentoring program for underserved students from her community. She is actively involved with Adventures in Learning, an educational enrichment program for children in need of after-school support, as a volunteer and college mentor, and has served on the Board of Directors. Anna is a veteran of the college application process, having guided her three children on their paths― graduate and undergraduate― to Cornell University, Wake Forest University and New York University.

Gail Liss earned a MBA from New York University Stern School of Business, studied at The London School of Economics and holds a BA from the University of Rochester. Gail serves on the Advisory Board of Young Women’s Leadership Network, which supports The Young Women’s Leadership Schools and College Bound Initiative. Gail has extensive experience with the college application process and has served as a coach and advisor. She has also counseled her three children: two graduates of Brown University and one graduate of Wesleyan University.

In 1980, when he was education editor of the New York Times, Edward B. Fiske sensed that college-bound students and their families needed better information on which to base their educational choices. Thus was born the Fiske Guide to Colleges, which is now the #1 bestselling college guide. In addition to the Fiske Guide to Colleges, Fiske is the author of Fiske Guide to Getting Into the Right College, Fiske Nailing the New SAT, Fiske Real College Essays That Work, Fiske WordPower, Fiske Countdown to College, and several other books that help you find and get accepted to colleges that match you. A graduate of Wesleyan University, Fiske did graduate work at Columbia University and assorted other bastions of higher learning. He left the Times in 1991 to pursue a variety of educational and journalistic interests, including a book on school reform, Smart Schools, Smart Kids. When not visiting colleges, he can be found playing tennis, sailing, or doing research on the educational problems of South Africa and other third world countries for UNESCO and other international organizations. Fiske lives in Durham, North Carolina, near the campus of Duke University, where his wife, Helen Ladd, is a member of the faculty. They are coauthors of When Schools Compete: A Cautionary Tale, Elusive Equity: Education Reform in Post-Apartheid South Africa, and Handbook of Research in Education Finance and Policy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Mango Media Inc
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1633536831
• ISBN 13: 9781633536838
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 206