What You Don't Know Can Keep You Out of College - A Top Consultant Explains the 13 Fatal Application Mistakes and Why

Zusatztext In this refreshing and informative book! Don Dunbar puts a human face on applying to college. From his decades of experience in the field! Dunbar infuses the application process with a spirit of character and integrity. How just it is that the care and caring in these pages will unfailingly help applicants to achieve success. (Richard Lederer! teacher! author! and public radio broadcaster) This book concentrates on getting into college the honest way. It's no 'quick fix.' It emphasizes maturity and the ability to see yourself as others might see you. Don doesn't tell students to pretend to be someone they are not-- he advises them to try to evolve into someone they'd like to be. (Ted Sizer! former headmaster of Philips Academy! Dean of the Harvard Graduate School of Education! and founder of the Coalition of Essential Schools! and Nancy Sizer! teacher at Harvard and public and private schools! including Philips Academy) Informationen zum Autor Donald Dunbar is the founder of Dunbar Educational Consultants and the author of What You Don't Know Can Keep You Out of College: A Top Consultant Explains the 13 Fatal Application Mistakes and Why Character Is the Key to College Admissions . Dunbar has more than three decades of experience in the field of education! serving as everything from a teacher to a coach to an admissions consultant at schools all over the world. G. F. Lichtenberg is a contributor to David Banks’s  Soar: How Boys Learn! Succeed! and Develop Character ! which was called a “must-read” by Kirkus Reviews . Lichtenberg has also contributed to Max Siegel’s Know What Makes Them Tick: How to Successfully Negotiate Almost Any Situation and Donald Dunbar’s What You Don't Know Can Keep You Out of College . He is graduate of Harvard College and the Iowa Writers Workshop. Klappentext In the tradition of "The Gatekeepers!" a top consultant explains the 13 fatal mistakes students make on their college applications! and addresses why character is the key to college admissions. Fatal Mistake #1 You Don't Know What "Prepared" Really Means Beware this error if… —You've been known to procrastinate, especially on big assignments —You do your best writing at the last minute —You usually make a good impression, so you figure you'll pretty much wing it on the interviews You'd be amazed at how many stories I've heard like the following one. Bob's mother called me the day after early applications were due. "He doesn't want to show me his personal essay," she said. "He says he didn't even start writing it until the night before the deadline and then he got sick of everything he had to say. So he just sent in whatever he had! He doesn't even remember if he ran spell-check. Are we in trouble?" Yes, Bob's application was in trouble indeed. If the application season is a race, then Bob had collapsed on the ground with the finish line in sight. When I hear a story like this one, what I hear is not laziness. It's not exhaustion or an "understandable" feeling of being overwhelmed. What I hear is a lack of preparation. Not that I blame anyone who runs out of time or patience for a college application. The fact is, no one is naturally prepared for this process, which asks you, as a high school student, to do things you would normally never choose for yourself. Chatting with a strange adult you may never see again about your future (aka the Interview). Documenting your high school life of preprinted forms, to be read by more strangers, most of whom you will never meet (aka the Application). Waiting outside an all-night post office in the middle of winter, clutching envelopes that need postmarks (aka the Last-Minute Deadline). These strange rituals of college application don't come natu...

Product details

• Authors: Don Dunbar, Don/ Lichtenberg Dunbar, G. F. Lichtenberg, G.F. Lichtenberg
• Publisher: Penguin Books USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 05.07.2007
• EAN: 9781592403028
• ISBN: 978-1-59240-302-8
• No. of pages: 210
• Dimensions: 152 mm x 229 mm x 13 mm
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Education > Education system