How to help Your kid navigate the College Admissions process, month by month, girlfriend\'s-guide style.
She lives with her husband and two children (whenever they are home from c.
Jill has also taught writing at The New School and City University of New York and written for the New York Times, Family Circle, Parents, Good Housekeeping, and O, The Oprah Magazine, among others.
She has spent nearly a decade shepherding high school students and their parents through the College Admissions process and reading and evaluating applications at Amherst College and Williams College.
About the Author: Jill Margaret Shulman is the founder of In Other Words, a College essay coaching service.
You\'ve got College Admissions cracked, and now, this book has got Your back.
Come as you are -- whether chill or roiling with anxiety -- and Shulman, along with a platoon of experts and fellow parents, will help you maintain Your strength and sense of self-worth, so easily lost somewhere between Your teenager\'s screaming, "I hate you You\'re ruining my life " and typing Your credit card number into the College Board\'s website for the twentieth time.
She\'ll guide you through the entire crazy ritual that College Admissions has become, month by month, breath by deep, cleansing breath, until you drop Your kid off at College where she will ignore Your phone calls and texts.
Thankfully, Jill Margaret Shulman, a College Admissions coach, application evaluator, College writing instructor, essayist, author, and empathetic parent, is here to be Your fiercest ally.
Advice will pour in through friends, Your child\'s guidance counselor, and Your mother\'s neighbor\'s cousin.
The process of weathering and conquering the College Admissions process with a teenager is a daunting affair for many.
You\'ve seen their taut, maniacal grins as they try to hold it together.
You\'ve heard other parents with kids older than yours whisper the word "college" like it was a terminal disease.
So, Your child is a high school junior.
How to help Your kid navigate the College Admissions process, month by month, girlfriend\'s-guide style