Review: Beware this is for homeschoolers
Rating: 3 out of 5
Date: 07 10, 2013
This book did have some interesting information that could be helpful in the future.  However, I found much of the advice totally obvious for a high school student wishing to enter college.  OMG, I can't use "LOL" in my essay?I am pretty sure the following is not a sentence: "Thirteen lightening strikes." I believe strikes is a noun in this fragment and that both thirteen and lightening are modifiers.  Strikes can be a verb but I don't think it is in this case.  I did not major in English, so I could be very wrong. I don't think this should be listed as an example of how to write technically perfect in an active voice. I wish I was sure, but perhaps a colon would have been appropriate.  'The weather was stormy: thirteen lighting strikes.' I don't think the 'thirteen lighting strikes' can stand on its own as a sentence. I could be wrong, and it wouldn't be the first time either. I personally wouldn't risk using a colon improperly on an application. I would advise complete sentences.  What about the lighting strikes?  'Thirteen lighting strikes' leaves it hanging.  What did the strikes do?  I wanted more! Thirteen lighting strikes hit within a thousand feet of our position. Thirteen lighting strikes left me shell shocked. Thirteen lighting strikes made me doubt the advise in this book.Thanks for the list of colleges that are geared toward homeschoolers.