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Summary: Will save parents of college bound kids $$, grief & fights.
Review: The College Admissions Mystique, by Bill Mayher, was a fabulous read. It was easy to understand and offered a lot of valuable information. The book addresses both parents and students, and I would hightly recomend it to both, especially those just getting started. It is never to soon to start reading this book.
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Summary: This is the most useful book I've read yet!
Review: The College Admissions Mystique, by Bill Mayher, was a fabulous read. It was easy to understand and offered a lot of valuable information. The book addresses both parents and students, and I would hightly recomend it to both, especially those just getting started. It is never to soon to start reading this book.
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Summary: Not bad, but not superb.
Review: This book is not bad, but not as good as "The Fiske Guide To Getting Into the Right College" (my top choice), or "Making It Into A Top College" (my second choice).This book is very good and different from other college guides in saying that to buy prestige and not substance by going to selective colleges is like buying status in purchasing cars during the '50s. Nobody bothered to check under the hood. People just assume that brand means everything. The best part of the book is chapter 16 about how to make yourself a college list. It is very realistic. It saves one from aiming too high or too low in college selection. I think the biggest lack in this book is that the author does not recommend a set of colleges that he thinks is better than the selective colleges that he so distasted of. Such a list would have guided the students and parents to better college choices.
Rating:
Summary: Not bad, but not superb.
Review: This book is not bad, but not as good as "The Fiske Guide To Getting Into the Right College" (my top choice), or "Making It Into A Top College" (my second choice). This book is very good and different from other college guides in saying that to buy prestige and not substance by going to selective colleges is like buying status in purchasing cars during the '50s. Nobody bothered to check under the hood. People just assume that brand means everything. The best part of the book is chapter 16 about how to make yourself a college list. It is very realistic. It saves one from aiming too high or too low in college selection. I think the biggest lack in this book is that the author does not recommend a set of colleges that he thinks is better than the selective colleges that he so distasted of. Such a list would have guided the students and parents to better college choices.
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