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1. |  By: Adams Media Publisher: Adams Media Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Roommates and Dorm Life
Get ready for the best years of your life! College Survival: Roommates and Dorm Life contains everything you need to know about living with a new person. With advice from the realities of dorm life, making contact with your roommate, settling disputes, and the importance of keeping a clean room, you’ll have a great first semesterand maybe even a life-long friendship!
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2. |  By: Adams Media Publisher: Adams Media Publication Date: 01-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 27-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Getting Ready for College
Get ready for the best years of your life! College Survival - Getting Ready for College contains everything you need to know about preparing for the next few years. With advice from deciding what to bring to your dorm room to the pitfalls of credit cards to the thrills of living on your own for the first time, you’ll be big man (or woman) on campus in no time.
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3. |  The Independent Schools Guide 2012-2013, 18th Edition By: Gabbitas Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 01-JAN-2013 Insert Date: 22-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Independent Schools Guide 2012-2013, 18th Edition All parents want their child to be happy and successful at school, but few decisions are harder than identifying the right school for your child. The Independent Schools Guide, now in its 18th edition, provides all the guidance and advice needed to make the most informed decisions. The book includes an extensive reference section for over 2,000 schools; details on fee planning, scholarships and bursaries; guidance for overseas parents, including language support and guardianship, and detailed profiles of over 200 schools and colleges. For any parent, guardian...
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4. |  By: Jacqueline Connelly; Patrick Forsyth Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-SEP-2010 Insert Date: 04-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Study Skills Guide The Study Skills Guide covers the essential skills that lead to success at university. With advice on how to work efficiently and achieve great results, this comprehensive guide offers practical and proven ways to cope with the challenges you will face. Designed to help you achieve important goals, it offers vital advice on how to the get the best out of your study, including advice on revision and exam techniques; tips on note-taking and writing good essays and dissertations and guidance on how to impress with presentations.
With free online downloadable resource material, this essential...
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5. |  College Apps: Selecting, Applying to, and Paying for the Right College for You By: Trish Portnoy Publisher: Course Technology PTR Publication Date: 21-NOV-2012 Insert Date: 29-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: College Apps: Selecting, Applying to, and Paying for the Right College for You Today's high school students are in new territory when it comes to making college and career decisions. College costs, the current economy, and the wide variety of educational options available mean that students and their parents are, more than ever, in need of careful, clear guidance and advice. A roadmap for millennials and their parents, COLLEGE APPS: SELECTING, APPLYING TO, AND PAYING FOR THE RIGHT COLLEGE FOR YOU leads readers through the transition from high school to college. Based on Trish Portnoy's popular course, College Freshman Seminar, the book is a comprehensive guide covering...
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6. |  By: Catherine Catherine Dawson Publisher: Kogan Page Publication Date: 03-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 07-NOV-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Learn While You Earn With rising costs of higher education and worrying levels of graduate unemployment, many people are choosing to balance their professional training with the financial security of employment. But what are the options for those looking to gain qualifications without taking on high levels of debt? And what grants or funding may be available across the UK?
This new title, published in conjunction with The Times, looks at the many ways in which learning can be initiated, re-started or continued while still earning money. From the more obvious routes of apprenticeships, to part-time learning...
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7. |  By: Infinite Ideas Publisher: Infinite Ideas Publication Date: 27-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 02-MAY-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Breeze through your exams
Breeze through your exams offers insider information needed for exam success. It contains a selection of some of the best exam ideas from our best-selling title, Pass your exams.We reveal some brilliant ways to motivate yourself for success and gain the confidence to ensure that your hard work pays off on the big day. You'll find fantastic tips on improving your attitude to studying, committing information to memory and learning how to learn. The tried and tested techniques in Breeze through your exams will help you to turn your exam performance around.
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8. |  By: Lynn O’Shaughnessy Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 23-APR-2012 Insert Date: 18-FEB-2012 Slots: 1.0 | This bestseller has been completely updated
to provide you with the answers that you need to find wonderful
colleges and universities at more affordable prices. The second
edition of The College Solution, which contains approximately 90%
new material, is aimed at helping parents and teenagers become
empowered consumers as they navigate through the college process.
Billions of dollars are available to pay for college, but not
everybody gets their share. It's not always the families with the
brightest students or the parents who are struggling financially
who receive the most money. The College...
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9. |  Panicked Student's Guide to Choosing a College Major By: Laurence Shatkin Publisher: JIST Publishing Publication Date: 01-APR-2011 Insert Date: 01-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Panicked Student's Guide to Choosing a College Major Everything students need to know to overcome panic and choose a major for rewarding education....
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10. |  College Success Guide, Second Edition By: Dr. Karin Blackett; Patricia Weiss Publisher: JIST Publishing Publication Date: 01-MAY-2011 Insert Date: 01-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: College Success Guide, Second Edition Walks college students through steps that are proven to make them successful in college and life....
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11. |  Parent's Guide to College and Career By: Barbara Cooke Publisher: JIST Publishing Publication Date: 01-APR-2010 Insert Date: 01-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Parent's Guide to College and Career Down-to-earth advice for parents who want to constructively help with their child’s college and career planning, without micromanaging or hounding....
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12. |  The Kids' College Almanac , Fourth Edition By: Robert A. Weinstein; Barbara C. Greenfield Publisher: JIST Publishing Publication Date: 01-MAR-2010 Insert Date: 01-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Kids' College Almanac , Fourth Edition A fun and interesting way for middle school students to get their first information about college and how it’s a possible and worthwhile goal to pursue....
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13. |  50 Best College Majors for a Secure Future By: Laurence Shatkin; Editors at JIST Publisher: JIST Publishing Publication Date: 01-JUL-2009 Insert Date: 01-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: 50 Best College Majors for a Secure Future This eye-opening book pinpoints the best majors that connect to rewarding jobs with great stability....
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14. |  By: Jan Melnik Publisher: JIST Publishing Publication Date: 01-AUG-2007 Insert Date: 01-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: One-Hour College Application Key features include targeted questions and helpful worksheets, quick-start strategies, professional advice from college admissions directors....
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15. |  College Majors Handbook , Second Edition By: Paul E. Harrington; Thomas F. Harrington; Neeta P. Fogg Publisher: JIST Publishing Publication Date: 16-SEP-2003 Insert Date: 01-NOV-2011 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: College Majors Handbook , Second Edition The most accurate and helpful information available for making decisions on a college major—or what to do with a degree you have....
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The Truth About Finding Great Academic Fits in Your College Search Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 31-AUG-2010 Insert Date: 14-SEP-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Truth About Finding Great Academic Fits in Your College Search This Element is an excerpt from The
College Solution: A Guide for Everyone Looking for the Right School
at the Right Price (9780132365703) by Lynn O’Shaughnessy.
Available in print and digital formats.
Why you’d better not rely on the
college rankings! A cautionary tale…and a better way to find
the right college for your child.
On a hot summer day in 2007, Antioch College
announced its own obituary. The 155-year-old college, which had
been founded by abolitionists, had imploded: it was out of money,
students, and time. Why dwell on Antioch’s problems? It can
serve as a warning to any...
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Funding College: Finding Grants, Government Loans, and Colleges That Are Free By: Jane White Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 01-FEB-2010 Insert Date: 02-MAR-2010 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Funding College: Finding Grants, Government Loans, and Colleges That Are Free This Element is an excerpt from America,
Welcome to the Poorhouse: What You Must Do to Protect Your
Financial Future and the Reform We Need (ISBN: 9780137020171)
by Jane White. Available in print and digital formats.
How to tame monstrous college costs:
practical ways to protect your kids’ financial future--and
your own!
College can now sink anyone deep in debt, so
your first plan of action should be to protect your kids from
having their lives destroyed if they can’t make payments and
wind up having their credit rating destroyed. Then, take these
steps to lower your college costs.......
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18. |  The College Solution: A Guide for Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price By: Lynn O’Shaughnessy Publisher: FT Press Publication Date: 06-JUN-2008 Insert Date: 22-MAY-2008 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The College Solution: A Guide for Everyone Looking for the Right School at the Right Price “The College Solution helps
readers look beyond over-hyped admission rankings to discover
schools that offer a quality education at affordable prices. Taking
the guesswork out of saving and finding money for college, this is
a practical and insightful must-have guide for every
parent!”
—Jaye
J. Fenderson, Seventeen’s College Columnist and
Author, Seventeen’s Guide to Getting into College
“This book is a must read in an era of
rising tuition and falling admission rates. O’Shaughnessy
offers good advice with blessed clarity and brevity.”
—Jay
Mathews, Washington
Post Education Writer...
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