Product Description

College Admissions Together is more than a practical how to get into college book, though it does explain key aspects of today's college admissions process for both parents and students. It is a guide to healthy family relationships during the college admissions process. This invaluable book looks at the often stressful process of finding the right college for your child not as an ordeal but as an opportunity to bond as a family and to give your child safe passage to adulthood as he or she determines which colleges are the best fit. In College Admissions Together, educational consultant Steve Goodman and family psychologist Andrea Leiman help parents recognize that what makes the college admissions process a potential danger zone for families is the combination of the teen's growing independence and the parent's need to help him or her make critical decisions for the future. They answer difficult questions like how to stay involved in the process while allowing your child to make more choices. They help you put the college admissions process into the context of your child's passage to adulthood and understand what he or she is feeling and facing as your child makes the decision of where to go next. Using Goodman and Leiman's advice, tips, and exercises, the college admissions process will lead to a greater appreciation of each other and mutually rewarding family relationships that last a lifetime. College Admissions Together serves families, counselors, teachers, and others as an essential resource during a stressful time in most families' lives.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #341504 in Books
• Published on: 2007-08-27
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 224 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781933102542
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Steven Roy Goodman, MS, JD, is an international authority on college and graduate school admissions. Over the past eighteen years, he has designed admissions strategies for more than 1,500 applicants to colleges, graduate programs, and business, law, and medical schools. Steve Goodman has spoken at the White House, the 92nd Street Y, and the World Bank and has been cited in many national and regional media outlets including the annual college editions of the Atlantic and U.S. News and World Report, as well as on ABC, CNN, and even TV Asahi in Japan. Steve lives in Washington, DC, with his wife and daughter. ANDREA LEIMAN, PhD, is a licensed clinical psychologist in Maryland and Washington, DC. She received her doctoral degree in clinical psychology in 1977 and has extensive experience working with children and families. In addition to providing diagnostic psychological testing, she offers individual therapy for children, adolescents, adults, and couples, as well as consultation to parent groups, organizations, and school staffs on issues of child development. Dr. Leiman is an adjunct professor at the University of Maryland and at Argosy University.

Customer Reviews

what a cool book!
College Admissions Together: It Takes a Family, by Steven Roy Goodman and
Andrea Leiman, is an outstanding work which should have an immediate place
in the homes of all parents and children contemplating the utterly complex
and confusing college admission process in the immediate or not so immediate
future. Clearly written, sensitively thought out, brimming with examples,
College Admissions Together has one general theme; no one child can pass
through the college admissions process today alone, without the help and
assistance of his or her family. More pertinently, the authors argue, the
family must be understanding, patient, helpful and loving in their attitudes
and assistance towards the college applicant, rather than judgmental, harsh
or critical.

College Admissions Together: It Takes a Family is full of examples of what
NOT to do as parents, and shamefully, you or I might well recognize some
parental behaviors that we may have engaged in in the past that will not and
cannot assist our children in the complex and difficult burden of applying
to college. The authors stress harmony, understanding and love, along with
respect for the child-applicant; affirmation and positive thinking rather
than negativity and disapproval; and in all respects, achieving a positive
result through goal-oriented actions as a cohesive group.

Achieving what College Admissions Together: It Takes a Family and its
authors want us to do will not be easy; it may require time, and breaking
down some walls and barriers, including speaking to our children as adults
and sentient beings. But in the end, the approach urged by this book and its
authors makes sense, and plenty of it.

This is a must-read for all parents, and also all students, contemplating
college in the next 1-6 years.

--Maria M. Zissimos, Esquire, Attorney at Law