The Neurotic Parent's Guide to College Admissions

The Neurotic Parent's Guide to College Admissions
Author: J.D. Rothman
Publisher: Prospect Park Books
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2012-04-01
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 0983459428

Admissions rates of 6 percent? Kids applying to thirty-two colleges? Sixteen-year-olds with more impressive resumes than Fortune 500 CEOs? Has the nation lost its mind? Why yes, it has! J.D. Rothman, the Neurotic Parent of blog fame, takes readers on a hilarious satiric journey through today’s insane college admissions process. The vividly illustrated book takes you from the Itsy-Bitsy Fiske Guide and Junior Kumon Tips for Preschoolers through Rejection Letters from the Heart and Bed Bath & Bye-Bye.

Panicked Parents' Guide to College Admissions

Panicked Parents' Guide to College Admissions
Author: Sally Rubenstone
Publisher: Petersons
Total Pages: 255
Release: 2002
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 9780768909272

Discusses college choice, tests, finance, the application process, the admission decision, and other concerns.

Parent's Guide to College Admissions

Parent's Guide to College Admissions
Author: Marjorie Nieuwenhuis
Publisher: Kaplan
Total Pages: 260
Release: 2000
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9780743201841

Your Step-by-Step Guide to Managing the College Admissions Process. Kaplan's Parent's Guide to College Admissions sheds light on the often bewildering and always nerve-wracking college admissions process. From choosing the right school to paying for it, long-time college counselor Marjorie Nieuwenhuis provides the expert advice you need to guide your son or daughter through one of life's most important decisions. * When should we start the process? * How much should a parent help? * What should my teen be doing now? * How should colleges be assessed? * Which admissions tests does my teen need to take? * What are our financing options? * When should we visit campuses? Includes up-to-date advice on Early Decision, electronic applications, ethics in the admissions process, and more.

Parents Guide to Surviving the College Admissions Process

Parents Guide to Surviving the College Admissions Process
Author: Ellen Fitzpatrick Pinkman
Publisher: Carol Publishing Corporation
Total Pages: 132
Release: 1996
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780806518251

With the same blend of wit, common sense, and empathy that is needed to be a good parent, child psychologist Michele Elliott offers parents a treasure trove of tips for getting through the day, getting through life, and getting through a crisis with children ages four to twelve. This highly browsable compendium is full of practical advice on common problems, entertaining anecdotes, illuminating quizzes, and helpful suggestions on parenting matters practical, educational, and spiritual. Topics range from how to get children to bed on time or stop sibling fights, to how to maximize kids' learning abilities; from how to answer embarrassing questions to how to create holiday magic without spending a fortune; from how to help children cope with grief to the ten worst and ten best things you can say to a child. Perfect parents -- like perfect children -- don't exist, but those who follow the invaluable advice in this book will be 601 ways nearer to getting it right

College Admissions Cracked

College Admissions Cracked
Author: Jill Margaret Shulman
Publisher: Little, Brown Spark
Total Pages: 309
Release: 2019-08-06
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 0316420549

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.

I'm Going to College---Not You!

I'm Going to College---Not You!
Author: Jennifer Delahunty
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2010-08-31
Genre: Education
ISBN: 142992215X

Acceptance by a top college is more than a gold star on a high school graduate's forehead today. It has morphed into the ultimate "good parenting" stamp of approval--the better the bumper sticker, the better the parent, right? Parents of juniors and seniors in high school fret over SAT scores and essays, obsessed with getting their kids into the right college, while their children push for independence. I'm Going to College---Not You! is a resource for parents, written by parents who've been in their shoes. Kenyon College dean Jennifer Delahunty shares her unique perspective (and her daughter's) on one of the toughest periods of parenting, and has assembled a top-notch group of writers that includes best-selling authors, college professors and admissions directors, and journalists. Their experiences with the difficult balancing act between control freak and resource answer questions like: --how can a parent be less of a "helicopter" (hovering) and more of a "booster rocket" (uplifting)? --what do you do when your child wants to put off college to become a rock star? and --how will you keep from wanting to kill each other? Contributors include: Jane Hamilton David Latt Neal Pollack Joe Queenan Anne Roark Debra Shaver Anna Quindlen Ellen Waterston

The Parent's Guide to College for Students on the Autism Spectrum

The Parent's Guide to College for Students on the Autism Spectrum
Author: Jane Thierfeld Brown
Publisher: AAPC Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2012
Genre: Asperger's syndrome
ISBN: 9781934575895

A parent-friendly book, made especially so because it is written by parents who also are autism professionals, that takes the fear and mystery out of the college experience.

Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be

Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be
Author: Frank Bruni
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Total Pages: 218
Release: 2015-03-17
Genre: Education
ISBN: 145553269X

Read award-winning journalist Frank Bruni's New York Times bestseller: an inspiring manifesto about everything wrong with today's frenzied college admissions process and how to make the most of your college years. 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. In Where You Go is Not Who You'll Be, Frank Bruni explains why this mindset is wrong, giving students and their parents a new perspective on this brutal, deeply flawed competition and a path out of the anxiety that it provokes. Bruni, a bestselling author and a columnist for the New York Times, shows that the Ivy League has no monopoly on corner offices, governors' mansions, or the most prestigious academic and scientific grants. Through statistics, surveys, and the stories of hugely successful people, he demonstrates that many kinds of colleges serve as ideal springboards. And he illuminates how to make the most of them. What matters in the end are students' efforts in and out of the classroom, not the name on their diploma. Where you go isn't who you'll be. Americans need to hear that--and this indispensable manifesto says it with eloquence and respect for the real promise of higher education.

College Success

College Success
Author: Bob Roth
Publisher: Author House
Total Pages: 298
Release: 2010-04-20
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1449088635

All parents want their children to be successful in college. For most, success means that their children graduate from college with a good job or are accepted to Graduate School. This book is for parents who want to help their children achieve the success they desire in college and beyond. Clearly, there are paths that lead to those two goals, paths that are often unknown or unclear to parents and students alike. For that reason, the author describes and emphasizes the key factors that lead to college, employment and career success. Parents also receive much useful advice on how to help their children capitalize on their natural talents, find their stride and pursue their dreams. The early chapters quickly take readers through the years prior to college, so parents with children who are not yet in college can determine if they are ready and what they need. In fact, some students may benefit from taking a year off after high school. For parents with children about to enter college or already in college, the author has included the information, tools, techniques and suggestions that both parents and students need. Parents will learn how students can avoid the ugly side of college life, how students can select their major and career direction, the three areas in which students must excel, the universal success skills students should develop, the 18 myths that students believe, the importance of accomplishments, the value of preparation and much more. Most importantly, parents will learn to play an effective supporting role in student success. Each chapter of this book covers a topic that all college parents should understand and address. With the information provided, parents will have the ability to help their children chart a course that can significantly improve their chances for success, during and after college.

Parents' College Survival Guide

Parents' College Survival Guide
Author: MR John S. Groleau Groleau Msfs
Publisher: Lighthouse Financial Publishing as a Division of L
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2011-05-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 9780983605508

PLAN, SAVE, SUCCEED 57% of students take up to 6 years to get a bachelors degree 37% of college freshman don't go back sophomore year 44% never graduate at all A Certified College Planning Specialist with 25 years experience, John Groleau helps families reduce their college education costs. It started with his mother, JoAnne, the first college graduate in his family. Now, together with his wife, Layla and their four children, the Groleau family helps parents and students with the many challenges of planning successfully for college. Their proven strategies have helped hundreds of families including their own, having successfully navigated through the college experience with their four children. In this timely book, the Groleaus, lead by John, share their extensive knowledge to help both parents and their children choose the colleges, pay as little as possible while getting the finest education and most importantly, thrive in their college experiences for a lifetime of success.