How Get Right College - Softcover

Fiske, Edward B.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0812916867 ISBN 13: 9780812916867

Publisher: Three Rivers Press, 1988

Provides advice on self-assessment, transcripts, college catalogs, SATs, campus tours, interviews applications, and recommendations

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From School Library Journal:

YA-- Almost every question that a college counselor hears is answered here. This is a wonderful book, written with a sense of humor and illustrated with witty cartoons. Anxious high-school seniors and their parents want to know their ``odds'' of getting into a particular college, and Fiske addresses the mysteries of the admissions process. He is aware of the rumors about college admissions that result in half-truths and clarifies many issues that confuse students. Besides covering the basics of the college admissions process, Fiske helps students think through each issue they must face, including early decision and the application essay. This book is easy to use as a reference, but it is so interesting and entertaining that most readers will be compelled to finish it.

Cyd Thomas, Episcopal High School, Bellaire, Tex.

From Library Journal:

There is an abundant supply of titles similar to this one, e.g., Peterson's Guide to College Admissions (Peterson's Guides, 1987. 4th ed.) and Scott Gelband and others' Your College Application (LJ 10/15/86). Fiske, education editor of the New York Times and author of numerous college guides, surveyed admissions' counselors at 150 " top colleges" and has woven their wisdom into a lively, witty, yet pragmatic book that takes the prospective student from a self-evaluation checklist through the selection of the "right" college. Many practical tipse.g., how to write an admissions essayare offered. Fiske could have included more about some of the rather expensive services students encounter (SAT courses), but overall this solid achievement is recommended. Richard H. Quay, Miami Univ . Libs., Oxford, Ohio
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