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The Truth about College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together second edition

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Updated and completely revised, the ultimate family guide to managing a college search in a positive way.

Is your family just starting to think about visiting colleges? Maybe you are in the throes of the college search, feeling stressed out and overwhelmed. Miss a deadline? Should you be looking in-state or out-of-state, big school or small? How do you pay for it, and what is a "FAFSA" anyway?

The Truth about College Admission is the easy-to-follow, comprehensive, go-to guide for families. Brennan Barnard and Rick Clark―with combined decades of experience and insight from both the high school and university sides of the process―provide critical advice, thoughtful strategies, helpful direction, and invaluable reassurance during the long and often bewildering college admission journey. This book covers every important step: searching for colleges, creating a list of prospective schools, weighing financial considerations, crafting an application, learning what schools are looking for academically and outside the classroom, and understanding how colleges decide whom to accept. Helpful sections like "Try This," "Talk About This," and "Check In," and "Extra Credit" show your family how to have open and balanced conversations to keep everyone on the same page, feeling less stressed, and actually enjoying the adventure together.

This completely revised second edition includes new information on affordability and aid that addresses important financial considerations. It also explores changes in standardized testing and the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic. The Truth about College Admission is the practical and inspiring guidebook your family needs, an essential companion on the path toward acceptance to college.

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    Johns Hopkins University Press
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    September 5, 2023
  6. Language
    English
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Affordability and aid for college.

Changes in standardized testing.

The impact of the pandemic on college admissions.

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Changes in standardized testing.

The impact of the pandemic on college admissions.

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At last, a book about the college admission process that doesn't promise secret tips for admission (hint--there are none!) but instead provides advice from two respected and experienced professionals. If families are looking for how to manage the college admission process in an ethical, thoughtful, student-centered way, this book provides an important road map written in a way that even the most reluctant student will find engaging.
--Thyra L. Briggs, Vice President for Admission and Financial Aid, Harvey Mudd College

Honest, insightful, and practical. Barnard and Clark give straightforward guidance to families working to make sense of an ever-changing higher education landscape. Their experiences and reflections provide organization to a process that can feel, at times, overwhelming.
--Erica Sanders, Director of Undergraduate Admissions, University of Michigan

In a time when the college admission process seems fraught with mystery, anxiety, and competitiveness, this book achieves something most college guides don't: it balances the why with the how. The authors guide students and families through the deeper questions of why they want to go to college and what they hope to achieve. They then demystify the process and provide tactical and solutions-driven support for a student's journey to higher education. If you are looking for a book to help you navigate the admission process with passion and purpose, this is the one.
--Dr. Angel B. Pérez, CEO, National Association for College Admission Counseling

THE admission guidebook for families that will take them through the entire college admissions process.
--Maureen Fenton, Grown & Flown

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In a time when the college admission process seems fraught with mystery, anxiety, and competitiveness, this book achieves something most college guides don't: it balances the why with the how. The authors guide students and families through the deeper questions of why they want to go to college and what they hope to achieve. They then demystify the process and provide tactical and solutions-driven support for a student's journey to higher education. If you are looking for a book to help you navigate the admission process with passion and purpose, this is the one.
―Dr. Angel B. Pérez, CEO, National Association for College Admission Counseling

THE admission guidebook for families that will take them through the entire college admissions process.
―Maureen Fenton, Grown & Flown

At last, a book about the college admission process that doesn't promise secret tips for admission (hint―there are none!) but instead provides advice from two respected and experienced professionals. If families are looking for how to manage the college admission process in an ethical, thoughtful, student-centered way, this book provides an important road map written in a way that even the most reluctant student will find engaging.
―Thyra L. Briggs, Vice President for Admission and Financial Aid, Harvey Mudd College

Honest, insightful, and practical. Barnard and Clark give straightforward guidance to families working to make sense of an ever-changing higher education landscape. Their experiences and reflections provide organization to a process that can feel, at times, overwhelming.
―Erica Sanders, Director of Undergraduate Admissions, University of Michigan

Product details

  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Johns Hopkins University Press; second edition (September 5, 2023)
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Paperback ‏ : ‎ 288 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 1421447487
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-1421447483
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 1.3 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 7 x 0.61 x 10 inches
  • Customer Reviews:
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    Brennan Barnard, M.Ed is the Director of College Counseling at Khan Lab School, CA. He is also the College Admissions Program Advisor with the Making Caring Common, a project of the Harvard Graduate School of Education, and Director of College Counseling for the College Guidance Network. He was the founding Director of College Counseling for US Performance Academy, an on-line independent high school for elite athletes.

    During over two decades in education Brennan has worked as a teacher, coach, dorm parent, admission officer, counselor and administrator at a number of independent high schools and colleges. He has counseled Olympians, thespians, artists, cadets, social workers, engineers, philosophers, doctors, writers, lawyers and everything in between.

    Brennan is a member of the Advisory Board for the New Hampshire College and University Council’s New Hampshire Scholars Program and on the Executive Committee for the Character Collaborative. He presents regularly on character, athletic recruiting, mindfulness, discipline and other topics in college admission. A contributing writer for Forbes.com, he has written about college admission for the Wall Street Journal, Washington Post, Thrive Global, HuffPost, San Francisco Examiner, New York Times, Concord Monitor, Journal of College Admission and other publications. He has also been featured in articles in the Boston Globe and Associated Press and an occasional featured guest on New Hampshire Public Radio. He has been interviewed about college admission by New England Cable News and ABC News. Brennan was a New England Association of College Admission Counselors Professional of the Year for 2017 and honored with the Association for College Counselors in Independent Schools’ Excellence in Counseling Award in 2021. He is co-author of, "The Truth About College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together" and the new companion guide “The Truth about College Admission Workbook: A Family Organizer for Your College Search.”

    A native of suburban Philadelphia and practicing Quaker, he is a graduate of Westtown Friends School. Brennan earned a bachelor’s degree in Psychology and Spanish from Franklin & Marshall College and a master’s degree in Higher Education and Student Affairs Administration from The University of Vermont. This father of two lives in Hopkinton, New Hampshire where he is a volunteer firefighter.

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    After two decades of working at the intersection between high school and college, I'm a student of the admission experience. My goal in writing is to provide perspective, insight, and levity in order to help families have better conversations and actually enjoy this unique chapter together. With experience on both the high school and college side, I've served as director of undergraduate admission at Georgia Tech since 2008. I am an Atlanta native, and live there with my wife, Amy, and our two kids AJ and Elizabeth.

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