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Summary: The Enlightened College Applicant: A New Approach to the Search and Admissions Process presents a no-nonsense account of how students should approach the college search and admissions process.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield 2016
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378 BELFiske, Edward B.
Summary: A guide to 320+ four-year schools, including quotes from real students and information you won't find on college websites. In addition to detailed and candid stories about each school, you will find lists of strong programs and popular majors at each college, information on how to apply, graduation and acceptance rates, and exclusive academic, social, and quality-of-life ratings -- Adapted...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks, Inc. 2019
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.73 FISSander, Richard Henry
Summary: Argues that affirmative action actually harms minority students and that the movement started in the late 1960s is only a symbolic change that has become mired in posturing, concealment, and pork-barrel earmarks.
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2012
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 379.26 SANFiske, Edward B.
Summary: Draws on interviews with administrators and students to describe college programs, popular majors, application information, acceptance rates, and academic and social ratings on over three hundred four-year colleges.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2021
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378.73 FISFiske, Edward B.
Summary: Shares insider coverage of more than 320 colleges and universities in the United States, Canada and Great Britain, profiling each for their academic climates, social and extracurricular scenes and quality of life while counseling prospective college students on how to identify a school that is most compatible with their needs.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Sourcebooks 2018
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378 FISTanabe, Gen S.
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Publisher / Publication Date: SuperCollege LLC 2001
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.161 TANPaterno, Susan F.
Summary: "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...
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Publisher / Publication Date: 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.1 PATCohen, Katherine
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Publisher / Publication Date: Hyperion 2002
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.161 COHCohen, Cafi.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Holt Associates 1997
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.042 COHBruni, Frank.
Summary: Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasionally devastating process, preceded by test prep, tutors, all sorts of stratagems, all kinds of rankings, and a conviction among too many young people that their futures will be determined and their worth established by which schools say yes and which say no. That belief is wrong. It's cruel. And in...
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Publisher / Publication Date: Grand Central Publishing 2015
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378 BRUCopies Available at Peninsula
1 available in Adult, Call number: 378.1 BRUHarris, Phillip
Summary: Debunks myths and assumptions about standardized tests, proposes alternative methods for evaluating the success of schools, and offers suggestions for helping to reduce the burden of tests on students.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers 2011
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 371.26 HARHarvard Independent (EDT)
Summary: These are the essays that helped their authors gain admission to Harvard, Yale, Brown, Columbia, Wellesley, Pomona, and other outstanding schools -- followed by invaluable comments by experts in admissions, placement, and college counseling at some of the best learning institutions around the country.
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Publisher / Publication Date: New American Library 2013
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.1664 ONEJager-Hyman, Joie.
Summary: "This alternative college admissions guide gives non-straight-A students advice on how to identify, gain admittance to, and pay for the schools that will allow them to flourish"--Provided by publisher.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Ten Speed Press 2013
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1 available in Young Adult Non-fiction, Call number: YA 378 JAGSabky, Rebecca Munsterer
Summary: "A former Ivy League admissions officer shares her stories from the frontlines of the admissions wars and offers advice on how to stand out, get in, and, most importantly, stay true to yourself as you prepare for college"--
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Publisher / Publication Date: Henry Holt and Company 2021
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1 available in Adult Non-fiction, Call number: 378.1 SABSelingo, Jeffrey J.
Summary: A higher-education journalist draws on insider access to explain the nuts and bolts of college admissions today, outlining the unexpected agendas that reflect which and why prospective students receive admission into better schools.
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Publisher / Publication Date: Scribner 2020