College Learning

Admissions by Design is a poignant, unorthodox, and thorough guide that upends the traditional paradigm of college admissions. Incorporating the latest research in brain science and human development and using stories from her nearly 20 years of work with students, Lisa Fisher offers students practical tools to reframe the college admissions process to one of an inspired and authentic journey toward self-discovery.

Navigate the challenges of student life with ease using our practical guide! In today's demanding academic landscape, we understand the need for a balanced approach to excel as a student. This guide is here to offer you sensible advice and proven techniques to help you enhance your academic performance, secure the grades you desire, and smoothly transition into the college programs of your choice. Discover the simplicity and effectiveness of our guide, divided into three sections, each with two chapters, providing you with a structured and easy-to-follow path. The first section delves into ...

This book outlines the benefits of completing your pre-professional course requirements at a community college with sound advice regarding coursework, the professional entrance exam, and interview for pre-nursing, pre-pharmacy, and pre-med students.

The Right Choice is an efficient, solution-oriented book to give you data, decision points, and details to help shape this life-changing decision by providing a framework to work from. If you or someone you love is choosing a college to attend, it’s important to know the reasons for why to attend a public college vs. a private college vs. a religious college. This book will help you narrow your options by helping you answer these questions:

In Class Dismissed: Why College Isn’t the Answer, Nick Adams explains how you can achieve the American dream without receiving a traditional education.

Communicating in Written English: A Guide to Prepare for College Level Reading and Writing bridges the gap for students who are starting their first year in college after many years absent from the classroom. This easy guide provides tips for reading analysis, sentence structure, punctuation, writing composition, essay construction, common mistakes made by freshman college students, and general advice for your freshman composition course. This is the perfect jumpstart to ensure your readiness for English 101.

Congratulations, you’re on your way to college! But that doesn’t mean you can rest easy for the next four years. You need to start planning for your future in the job market right now, and the best way to succeed in the job market is to succeed in college. Fortunately, Succeeding in College and Life has all the answers you will seek.

This five session guide builds your vocabulary for college by presenting challenging words in multiple settings. Learning new vocabulary is a multi-stage process involving multiple interactions with new words in context. This course achieves this by explaining words through their definitions as you would expect, but then presenting them in stories, with their opposites, explaining relevant Greek and Latin word stems, semantic scales and using other proven techniques to rapidly expand your vocabulary via challenging, but commonly used words.

The transition to college is difficult. Figuring out where to go, how to study, and what to be involved in outside of class are just a few of the many concerns riddling the minds of prospective college students. In The Modern Guide to College, Dr. Kent Ingle, president of Southeastern University, offers advice and valuable information to help college students succeed during the years that will shape their futures.

Armed with the practices and suggestions provided in this book, any high school senior driven to continue their studies can maximize their time and focus, and perhaps excel to a level they may not even be aware they are capable of. Many of the practices provided in this book can also be applied to any individual at any age seeking to increase their productivity in any domain.

Every year, millions of post-secondary hopefuls vie for enrollment at the nation's top academic institutions with hopes of standing out in a saturated crowd of equally talented candidates. But as those would-be students and their parents know all too well, gaining admittance is a small part of the battle—the bigger hurdle can often be how to pay for it. In an era where families are willing to put themselves into suffocating debt for the sake of higher education, paying for college is increasingly prohibitive.

Written by the premier author in Windows administration, William Stanek, and addressing the needs of Windows 2003 administrators and support staff, Managing Group Policy Classroom To Go is designed to help you build your knowledge of Windows Server 2003.

The Sh*t They Should Have Taught You in College boils down the hard facts of life as a modern-day fairy tale for adults. Providing a free-spirited, off-the-cuff, potty-mouthed portrayal of the quarter-life crisis and the challenges that come with it, the audiobook is a jam-packed therapy session with mixed drinks.

In this amusing and multiple award-winning how-to guide for professors, seasoned instructor Mike Kowis shares 44 college teaching tips that will help any teacher. This brutally honest audiobook is based on the many lessons that Mike learned during his 15 years of teaching, and it's filled with dozens of hilarious - and often embarrassing - anecdotes. Engaging College Students: A Fun and Edgy Guide for Professors will help you fully engage your students in classroom discussions.

Are you ready to unlock powerful strategies to get into your dream school? The College Admissions Blueprint is your essential guide to mastering the undergraduate application process and turning your college aspirations into reality. This concise and comprehensive roadmap offers invaluable strategies for each step of the application journey. From landing stellar recommendation letters to delivering eloquent interviews, this blueprint will empower you with the tools for success.

So much effort in our early lives is spent aimed towards university, but upon arrival, we are left to fend for ourselves. While this is partly the beauty of university, there are many useful tips, tricks and guidance that the author and their cohort have prepared to help you get the most out of these precious (and expensive!) years. The author started as an underachiever at school, entering university only through sheer luck. Despite initial doubts from teachers and admissions staff, the freedom at university fostered significant personal growth, reflected throughout this book's chapters.

For college admissions help, give your child that "unfair" advantage in applying to college, without cheating, offering bribes, using legacy, or giving donations. Here's the kind of insider information that’s made the author's own clients refer him to their friends for the past 17 years. It's a free, fast, and entertaining listen that's designed for the hard-bitten realist who takes nothing at face value, especially in light of the college admissions scandal of 2019.

At a time of political tribalism and ideological purity tests, it can be hard to remember that cross-party hatred isn't an inherent feature of partisan politics. But, as this book reminds us, a backward glance - or a quick survey of so many retiring members of Congress - tells us that even in the past decade partisan rancor has grown exponentially. In Angry Politics, Stacy G. Ulbig asks why. Even more to the point, she traces the trend to the place where it all might begin - the college campus, among the youngest segment of the electorate.

A quick listen on how to get into the college of your choice and how to pay as little as possible. You'll discover the best kept secret in America that's been around for years. The audiobook will get you angry for what you're required to pay, but it'll get you excited at how many fewer dollars you have to give to a college. With all of its meaty content, it's seasoned with plenty of humor so you won't be bored!

Excuse Me, College Is Now is an invaluable, up-beat guide for college students, and their parents, on how to navigate the stresses of college life to enjoy it. Filled with real-life stories and practical tips, this is a user-friendly book that deals with the major issues college kids face today.