College Admissions Together: It Takes a Family

by Steven Roy Goodman and Andrea Leiman

College Admissions Together is more than a practical how to get into college book, though it does explain key aspects of today's college admissions process for both parents and students. It is also a guide to healthy family relationships during the college admissions process. This invaluable book looks at the often stressful process of finding the right college for your child not as an ordeal but as an opportunity to bond as a family and to give your...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1933102543
• ISBN13: 9781933102542
• Release Date: September 2007
• Publisher: Capital Books (VA)
• Length: 181 Pages
• Weight: 0.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

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College Admissions Together: It Takes a Family, by Steven Roy Goodman and Andrea Leiman, is an outstanding work which should have an immediate place in the homes of all parents and children contemplating the utterly complex and confusing college admission process in the immediate or not so immediate future. Clearly written, sensitively thought out, brimming with examples, College Admissions Together has one general theme; no one child can pass through the college admissions process today alone, without the help and assistance of his or her family. More pertinently, the authors argue, the family must be understanding, patient, helpful and loving in their attitudes and assistance towards the college applicant, rather than judgmental, harsh or critical. College Admissions Together: It Takes a Family is full of examples of what NOT to do as parents, and shamefully, you or I might well recognize some parental behaviors that we may have engaged in in the past that will not and cannot assist our children in the complex and difficult burden of applying to college. The authors stress harmony, understanding and love, along with respect for the child-applicant; affirmation and positive thinking rather than negativity and disapproval; and in all respects, achieving a positive result through goal-oriented actions as a cohesive group. Achieving what College Admissions Together: It Takes a Family and its authors want us to do will not be easy; it may require time, and breaking down some walls and barriers, including speaking to our children as adults and sentient beings. But in the end, the approach urged by this book and its authors makes sense, and plenty of it. This is a must-read for all parents, and also all students, contemplating college in the next 1-6 years. --Maria M. Zissimos, Esquire, Attorney at Law