The College Solution: A Guide for Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price
by Lynn O'Shaughnessy
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Author: Lynn O'ShaughnessyEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 2008-06-16
ISBN: 0132365707
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: FT Press
Accessories:
- Let's Get Real About Money!
- The Rules of Parenting (Richard Templar's Rules)
- The Rules of Money: How to Make It and How to Hold on to It (Richard Templar's Rules)
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Book Review: A must-have for every parent with a (hopefully) college-bound kid
Summary: 5 Stars
As a mother of a HS junior who attends a local school in France, I have to take a more active role with the US college search since his school has no guidance counselor and there are no college road shows in the vicinity. I find myself reliant on word of mouth and written sources : guidebooks, blogs ,, newspaper articles, books /websites & advice and have invested the better part of son's junior year compiling information for the college search.
I ordered this book after reading a reference on a college admissions blog. I finished it during a train ride - and found it so riveting that I missed my stop.
Based on the title, I had expected to find just tips for affording college education but was pleasantly surprised by the author's insistence on quality -how to get your money's worth. So often the writers authoring these books report from the hallowed halls of academia. This author is a parent - and bases her experience as a mother of a college freshman while wearing her financial reporter thinking cap. How many college admission books are written from this point of view?
One innovation is that the book reverses the criteria for the college search by starting with match schools , not reach, where the student has more chance of obtaining scholarship money. The bottom up approach also instructs on how to find the best fit academically with several chapters on grading academic departments and discussions on professor ratings. Not stopping with the college admissions process, she addresses another under looked category - undergraduate research. And thanks to the author's chapter on freebies & best buys, I have added another school to the list.
The book closes with a list of informational websites, helpful cheat sheets and timelines in the appendix.
The author has packed an enormous amount of information here but has addressed the most salient points in a practical college admissions and quality education search. I could have saved a considerable amount of time and money had I read this book first and feel more empowered now for the final year of the search.
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