The Ultimate Guide to College Transfer

The Ultimate Guide to College Transfer
Author: Lucia D. Tyler
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
Total Pages: 204
Release: 2017-05-19
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1475826893

The Ultimate Guide to College Transfer is a comprehensive guide, designed to make college transfer between four-year schools as successful as possible. Chapters outline the steps to take from the moment a student finds him/herself considering college transfer to the first semester at his/her next college. The book contains vignettes (based on real student stories) and excerpts from interviews with transfer students, parents, and higher education professionals. The information and advice they share will be helpful, informative, and reassuring to families going through a college transfer and enlightening to high school and college personnel. College transfer, when done for the right reasons and in the right way, can be an extremely positive experience for students. This is especially true when the student goes from merely surviving in their old environment to thriving in their new one.

College Essay Essentials

College Essay Essentials
Author: Ethan Sawyer
Publisher: Sourcebooks, Inc.
Total Pages: 257
Release: 2016-07-01
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1492635138

Let the College Essay Guy take the stress out of writing your college admission essay. Packed with brainstorming activities, college personal statement samples and more, this book provides a clear, stress-free roadmap to writing your best admission essay. Writing a college admission essay doesn't have to be stressful. College counselor Ethan Sawyer (aka The College Essay Guy) will show you that there are only four (really, four!) types of college admission essays. And all you have to do to figure out which type is best for you is answer two simple questions: 1. Have you experienced significant challenges in your life? 2. Do you know what you want to be or do in the future? With these questions providing the building blocks for your essay, Sawyer guides you through the rest of the process, from choosing a structure to revising your essay, and answers the big questions that have probably been keeping you up at night: How do I brag in a way that doesn't sound like bragging? and How do I make my essay, like, deep? College Essay Essentials will help you with: The best brainstorming exercises Choosing an essay structure The all-important editing and revisions Exercises and tools to help you get started or get unstuck College admission essay examples Packed with tips, tricks, exercises, and sample essays from real students who got into their dream schools, College Essay Essentials is the only college essay guide to make this complicated process logical, simple, and (dare we say it?) a little bit fun. The perfect companion to The Fiske Guide To Colleges 2020/2021. For high school counselors and college admission coaches, this is an essential book to help walk your students through writing a stellar, authentic college essay.

Guide to Colleges 2022

Guide to Colleges 2022
Author: Edward Fiske
Publisher:
Total Pages: 116
Release: 2021-05-11
Genre:
ISBN:

Every college and university has a story, and no one tells those stories like former New York Times education editor Edward B. Fiske. That's why, for more than 35 years, the Fiske Guide to Colleges has been the leading guide to 320+ four-year schools, including quotes from real students and information you won't find on college websites. Fully updated and expanded every year, Fiske is the most authoritative source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Helpful, honest, and straightforward, the Fiske Guide to Colleges delivers an insider's look at what it's really like to be a student at the "best and most interesting" schools in the United States, plus Canada, Great Britain, and Ireland―so you can find the best fits for you.In addition to detailed and candid stories on each school, you will find: A self-quiz to help you understand what you are really looking for in a college Lists of strong programs and popular majors at each college "Overlap" listings to help you expand your options Indexes that break down schools by state, price, and average debt Exclusive academic, social, and quality-of-life ratings All the basics, including financial aid stats, SAT/ACT scores, and acceptance ratesPlus a special section highlighting the 20 public and private Best Buy schools―colleges that provide the best educational value

The Complete Book of Colleges, 2020 Edition

The Complete Book of Colleges, 2020 Edition
Author: Princeton Review (COR)
Publisher: Princeton Review
Total Pages: 1154
Release: 2019-07-02
Genre: Education
ISBN: 0525568115

No one knows colleges better than The Princeton Review! Inside The Complete Book of Colleges, 2020 Edition, students will find meticulously researched information that will help them narrow their college search.

An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing with 2020 APA Update

An Insider's Guide to Academic Writing with 2020 APA Update
Author: Susan Miller-Cochran
Publisher: Macmillan Higher Education
Total Pages: 1416
Release: 2020-03-18
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1319368808

Praised for its accessible approach to teaching disciplinary writing, the first edition of An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing was embraced by instructors and students at two-year and four-year schools alike. With its flexible, transferable frameworks and unique Insiders video interviews with scholars and peers, the text enables students -- and their instructors -- to adapt to a variety of writing situations in different disciplinary discourse communities.In the second edition, the authors build on that proven pedagogy with additional support for the writing process, critical reading, and reflection, to give students even more help with academic writing, no matter the discipline. Featuring two books in one, an innovative rhetoric for academic writing (available as its own book) and a thematic reader with readings from the disciplines, An Insider’s Guide to Academic Writing is based on the best practices of a first-year composition program that has trained hundreds of teachers who have instructed thousands of students. Also new to the second edition: a Launchpad with a complete e-book, in addition to modules about writing in applied fields.

Power to the Transfer

Power to the Transfer
Author: Dimpal Jain
Publisher: MSU Press
Total Pages: 188
Release: 2020-02-01
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1628953829

Currently, U.S. community colleges serve nearly half of all students of color in higher education who, for a multitude of reasons, do not continue their education by transferring to a university. For those students who do transfer, often the responsibility for the application process, retention, graduation, and overall success is placed on them rather than their respective institutions. This book aims to provide direction toward the development and maintenance of a transfer receptive culture, which is defined as an institutional commitment by a university to support transfer students of color. A transfer receptive culture explicitly acknowledges the roles of race and racism in the vertical transfer process from a community college to a university and unapologetically centers transfer as a form of equity in the higher education pipeline. The framework is guided by critical race theory in education, which acknowledges the role of white supremacy and its contemporary and historical role in shaping institutions of higher learning.

The College Conversation

The College Conversation
Author: Eric J. Furda
Publisher: Penguin
Total Pages: 289
Release: 2021-09-21
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1984878360

From an Ivy League dean and a college admissions expert, a guide to help parents support their children as they navigate their way to college The College Conversation is a comprehensive resource for mapping the path through the college application process that provides practical advice and reassurance to keep both anxious parents and confused children sane and grounded. Rather than adding to the existing canon of "How to Get In" college guides or rankings, Eric Furda and Jacques Steinberg provide a step-by-step approach to having the tough conversations on this topic with less stress and more success. The book is organized around key discussions and themes that trace the chronological arc of admissions and financial aid--beginning before the assembly of a list of potential colleges and continuing through the receipt of decisions--with a final section that includes advice on the first year of college. The topics include preliminary conversations about the search, and specifically how parents can think about their children's interests and what kind of college would best suit them; choosing a college (based on its curriculum, culture, and community); writing the most effective essays; assessing acceptances, including considerations of finances and aid; and making the transition from high school to college life. The College Conversation will provide parents, students, and counselors with the credible, level-headed information often missing in this process, as well as a much-needed dash of perspective borne of experience.

The Official Beginner's Guide for ACT 2020-2021

The Official Beginner's Guide for ACT 2020-2021
Author: ACT
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 160
Release: 2020-02-11
Genre: Study Aids
ISBN: 1119634709

ALERT: The Official Beginner’s Guide for ACT 2020-2021 is now out of print, and the digital links included in the book will retire on July 31, 2021. This content will no longer be available to customers at that time. If you are looking for official ACT exam prep materials, please consider The Official ACT Prep Guide 2021-2022 (ISBN: 9781119787341) instead. This book is the ONLY Official Beginner's Guide in the market from the makers of the ACT test and it provides students with all the information they need to know about the enhancements made to The ACT as well as ways to start preparing for the ACT. Learn firsthand from ACT about section retesting, the option for faster results through online testing and an ACT provided superscore. This guide also will allow you to start your prep with an online version of the PreACT Diagnostic test and an official ACT full practice test included in the book and online. The Official Beginner's Guide Includes: Information about the new enhancements to the ACT Exam and scoring information about the ACT test One full length online PreACT Diagnostic test An Official ACT practice test offered in the book and online The Official Beginner's Guide for the ACT® is the best place to start, learn about the ACT, and begin your prep towards success! PreACT Diagnostic is an online version of the PreACT and is designed to provide a practice experience for students who are planning to take the ACT. PreACT Diagnostic provides Composite, Subject, and STEM scores along with predicted ACT score ranges and helps students to identify areas of strength and weakness for further preparation for the ACT. The ACT measures students' achievement in core academic areas important for college and career success : English, math, reading, science, and (optionally) writing.

The Transfer Experience

The Transfer Experience
Author: John N. Gardner
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Total Pages: 348
Release: 2023-07-03
Genre: Education
ISBN: 1000978516

Co-published with At last there is a handbook that everyone in higher education can use to help increase transfer student success. This comprehensive resource has been brought together to meet the need for a truly holistic approach to the transfer experience. The book brings together research, theory, practical applications, programmatic illustrations, case studies, encouragement, and inspiration, and is supplemented by an online compendium for continual updates of resources, case studies, and new developments in the world of transfer.Based on a totally different way of thinking about, understanding, and acting to increase transfer student success, The Transfer Experience goes far beyond the traditional, limited view of transfer as a technical process simply about articulating credits, a stage of student development, or a novel enrollment management strategy. Rather, the book introduces a stimulating array of new perspectives, resources, options, models, and recommendations for addressing the many needs of this huge cohort – making the academic, civic, and social justice cases for improving transfer at both transfer-sending and transfer-receiving institutions.

On My Own

On My Own
Author: Xueli Wang
Publisher: Harvard Education Press
Total Pages: 253
Release: 2021-02-18
Genre: Education
ISBN: 168253491X

2020 ASHE Council for the Advancement of Higher Education Programs (CAHEP) Barbara Townsend Lecture Award 2021 Transfer Champion-Catalyst Award from the National Institute for the Study of Transfer Students (NISTS) 2021 Outstanding Publication Award, AERA Division J Publication and Research On My Own: The Challenge and Promise of Building Equitable STEM Transfer Pathways is the first book of its kind to provide a detailed, on-the-ground examination of the difficult paths—curricular, interpersonal, and institutional—that students must chart through community college. The book follows 1,670 two-year college students over four years as they begin STEM programs in the Midwest and documents their educational and life experiences as they moved toward, or away, from the prospect of transfer to a four-year institution. Their stories reveal that they were on their own, left to navigate the pathways to transfer without meaningful institutional support. The students pursued one of four pathways, or momentum trajectories: linear upward, detoured, deferred, or taking a break. The preexisting and lasting disparities in their access to education and financial resources, their experiences with teaching and advising, and the conundrum between support from and for family, among others, propelled them onto different trajectories in their quest for transfer. As this book makes painfully clear, the current state of transfer acts as a mechanism that perpetuates and worsens inequities in educational outcomes. As Xueli Wang argues, to cultivate an equitable STEM transfer pathway, culturally relevant and responsive supports that are accessible, welcoming, and validating must be put in place at the institutional level and appeal to the talent, motivation, and unique needs of historically marginalized students. In doing so, postsecondary institutions will be better positioned to fulfill their promise as an equitable pathway to bachelor’s degrees and beyond.