A thorough yet concise guide to college admissions that covers a lot of familiar territory.
The intimidating process of applying to college is broken down into manageable chunks for students and parents in this relatively compact volume.
The editor-in-chief of The Princeton Review, which provides services to college applicants, tries to demystify topics from choosing your best fit college—in terms of academics and affordability—to navigating the bewildering worlds of standardized testing (whether, when, and which) and financial aid. The guide covers frequently asked questions about the best classes to take in high school, the importance of extracurriculars, how to navigate online applications, and more. Institutions named in the examples are overwhelmingly elite private schools and prestigious state universities, an unfortunately narrow focus. No mention is made of the increasingly popular option among upper-middle-class families of looking overseas for affordable alternatives. Despite glancing references to saving money by attending a local community college before transferring to a four-year institution, the overall assumption is that families will be able to afford to invest a lot of time and money in this process. Fortunately, guides like Loren Pope and Hilary Masell Oswald’s Colleges That Change Lives (Penguin, 2012), which focuses on liberal arts colleges, and Strive for Colleges’ I’m First! Guide to College (Strive for College Collaborative, 2018), for first-generation college students, help fill in some of these gaps.
A thorough yet concise guide to college admissions that covers a lot of familiar territory. (Nonfiction. 14-adult)Pub Date: May 15, 2018
ISBN: 978-1-5247-5853-0
Page Count: 208
Publisher: Princeton Review
Review Posted Online: March 19, 2018
Kirkus Reviews Issue: April 1, 2018
Occasional high-carat insights here into the tricky nexus of passion and power, surrounded by massive quantities of a highly...
The frame for Out magazine editor Lemon’s debut novel is this: To while away his last hours on Earth in 1987, gay American John Webster, supposedly awaiting execution in his cell in a Havana prison, writes an endless farewell letter to his teenage Cuban lover, Eduardo, a boxer who killed a thief wanting John’s sneakers, but whose murder charge was mysteriously shifted to John. His memory bottomless, John recalls their first meeting in New York, when both attended an embassy party, and their passionate involvement before Eduardo had to return to Cuba with his mother, a member of Castro’s government. John also remembers their next meeting, after he came to Cuba as part of a labor brigade to cut sugar cane, and left the brigade to seek out his lover in Havana—a joyous reunion overshadowed by the assault on a Havana street and subsequent flight to a family friend’s house in rural Cuba. John then recounts in mind-numbing detail his incarceration and interrogation and Eduardo’s trial and what followed, with the acrid scent of homophobia always in the air.
Occasional high-carat insights here into the tricky nexus of passion and power, surrounded by massive quantities of a highly toxic sludge of rumination and detail.Pub Date: April 1, 2001
ISBN: 1-55583-645-3
Page Count: 288
Publisher: Alyson
Review Posted Online: May 19, 2010
Kirkus Reviews Issue: March 1, 2002
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