8 First Choices: An Expert's Strategies for Getting into College - Softcover

Mitchell, Joyce Slayton

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1932662391 ISBN 13: 9781932662399

Publisher: Supercollege, Llc, 2009

Synopsis

8 First choices is the #1 college guide endorsed by more top college admissions deans than all other college guides. Written within an educational framework, this college guide offers specific guidance to help students do a self-assessment, research the colleges, communicate through application, interview, and essay in order to select the top eight colleges that are the strongest fit for them. Establishing readers as anthropologists, students will learn to observe 20 campus cultures, assess each one, and research their options in American higher education.

About this title

About the Author

Joyce Mitchell writes for college advice columns in both the Hardwick Gazette (Vermont) and the teen edition of the China Daily. She has served as the director of college advising at schools in New Jersey and New York City, an editorial advisory board member for the College Board’s Review, and a school committee member of U. S. News & World Report’s special college issues. She is the author of College to Career: The Guide to Career Planning and Winning the Heart of the College Admissions Dean. She lives in New York City.

From the Back Cover

#1 College process guide, 8 First Choices, offers seven basic assumptions that are contrary to common knowledge about getting into college:
1. Choose eight first choices.
2. You are in charge.
3. Make a friend of your advocates.
4. SATs and ACTs don't get you in.
5. The college market is not a tight market.
6. Personalize the process.
7. Be authentically and specifically you.

From the Inside Flap

Written within an educational framework, this college guide offers general guidance to help students do a self-assessment and select the top eight colleges that are the strongest fit for them. Establishing readers as anthropologists, students will learn to observe 20 campus cultures, assess each one, and research their options in American higher education. Additionally, it offers several basic assumptions that are contrary to common knowledge about getting into college. Written by a college counselor with decades of experience, 8 First Choices is the #1 process guide on the market.

Edition details

• Publisher: Supercollege, Llc
• Publication date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1932662391
• ISBN 13: 9781932662399
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 192