8 First Choices: An Expert's Strategies for Getting into College - Softcover

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<div><B>Joyce Slayton Mitchell</B> has served 17 years as the Director of College Advising at the Nightingale Bamford School in New York City. She currently has a consultancy at the North London Collegiate School Jeju, ROK. Mitchell is the author of 41 works of nonfiction, including <I>The Korean Guide to American Universities</I> (in Korean Language), <I>The Chinese Guide to American Universities</I> (in Mandarin), and <I>College to Career: The Guide to Career Planning and Winning the Heart of the College Admissions Dean</I>. She writes a college advice column in the <I>Hardwick Gazette</I> (Vermont), and in the China Daily&#8217;s teen edition, 21st Century, for Mainland China&#8217;s national school students. She resides in New York City.<BR></div>

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<div><BR><B>WHAT THE COLLEGE ADMISSIONS DEANS ARE SAYING</B><BR><BR><I>Eight First Choices</I> is the culmination of 25 years of experience from premier college<BR>counselor Joyce Slayton Mitchell. You will learn how to take charge of the admissions process and how to successfully apply to your eight first-choice colleges.<BR><BR><B>HARVARD</B> &#147;Mitchell offers many great insights into the complexity of the college admissions process.&#8221;<BR>&#151;William R. Fitzsimmons<BR><BR><B>CONNECTICUT COLLEGE</B> &#147;Mitchell&#8217;s advice is straight up and free of gimmicks&#151;a rarity found in today&#8217;s college admissions resource books.&#8221;<BR>&#151;Martha C. Merrill<BR><BR><B>NORTHWESTERN</B> &#147;Read this book and some of it out loud. Mitchell knows the hearts&#151;and minds&#151;of students and their parents.&#8221;<BR>&#151;Sheppard Shanley<BR><BR><B>CARLETON</B> &#147;Compare the search for college in 21st-century America to a wild, white water rafting ride, then you want this author as your river guide.&#8221;<BR>&#151;Paul Thiboutot<BR><BR><B>SMITH</B> &#147;<I>Eight First Choices</I> makes a scientist out of the high school senior who sets out to collect data until she finds her eight perfect matches.&#8221;<br>&#151;Audrey Y. Smith<BR><BR><B>UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN</B> &#147;This is one of the finest publications about college admissions that has come out in some time.&#8221;<br>&#151;Ted Spencer<BR><BR><B>UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA</B> &#147;This is the only book that puts you, as the college applicant, at the center of the admissions process.&#8221;<BR>&#151;Eric J. Kaplan<BR><BR><B>BRYN MAWR</B> &#147;This is, by far, my first-choice guide to the college admissions process.&#8221;<BR>&#151;Jenny Rickard<BR><BR><B>INDIANA UNIVERSITY</B> &#147;What a terrific resource for students and families! Eight First Choices is a balanced, step-by-step guide to college selection.&#8221;<BR>&#151;Mary Ellen Anderson<BR><BR><B>UNIVERSITY OF PITTSBURGH</B> &#147;Give yourself a gift&#151;make full use of this expert&#8217;s advice.&#8221;<BR>&#151;Betsy Porter<BR><BR><B>EMORY</B> &#147;She gets it right, and she knows what&#8217;s most important in all of this: the students!&#8221;<BR>&#151;Scott L. Allen<BR><BR><B>DUKE</B> &#147;The admissions profession enjoy Mitchell&#8217;s valuable insights, sharp opinions, and clear writing as she examines the college selection process.&#8221;<BR>&#151;Christoph Guttentag<BR><BR><B>WESLEYAN</B> &#147;This book brings the advice of one of the great college counselors to many who need it and haven&#8217;t typically had the advantage.&#8221;<BR>&#151;Nancy Hargrave Meislahn<BR></div>

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