Campus Confidential: The Complete Guide to the College Experience by Students for Students
Everything You Need to Know About College!Don't get to the end of your college career wishing you had "figured it all out" sooner. If you want to know what to do and what not to do to take full advantage of the opportunities for educational and social growth and success in college—this is the book for you!Campus Confidential is the ultimate insider's guide to surviving and thriving in college. Written in a friendly, conversational style, Campus Confidential offers a comprehensive, chronological treatment of the college experience by the author, a Yale graduate, and a blue-ribbon panel of fourteen diverse "mentors" from colleges and universities around the country. But this is not just another fluff-filled freshman handbook. Campus Confidential is the complete guide to the college experience—providing solid, road-tested advice for every stage of the process, from high school students getting ready to apply, to college seniors looking for jobs or applying to graduate school, and everything in between.Campus Confidential first takes you step-by-step through the college admissions process, with chapters on how to conduct a productive college search, prepare for the SAT, write effective applications, and use the famed "Relevance Calculus" to choose the college that best matches your interests. It then discloses the ten things you must do before you leave home and the ten things you must do as soon as you arrive on campus.Campus Confidential takes you through a goal-setting workshop at the beginning of each year of college, teaches you how to stay safe on campus, demystifies fraternities and sororities, and provides advice on living with roommates, developing effective study habits and time management strategies, choosing a major, making choices about sex, drugs, and alcohol, acing final exams and term papers, going abroad, writing a thesis, deciding what to do after college, and much, much more.Simply put, Campus Confidential is the one "must-have," complete college survival handbook that you cannot afford to be without.