Publication date:
13 July 2008Length of book:
240 pagesPublisher
Rowman & Littlefield PublishersISBN-13: 9780742547834
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.
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.
If 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!