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Your Ivy competitive edge. The most effective college application strategies ever published. Transform your college applications into Bam! Pow! Wow!—without high-priced consultants, tutors, or prep courses. Using actual common application personal essays, activities and honors sections, supplemental essays, and letters of continued interest from accepted applications to University of Virginia, Duke, and Princeton, Coach Mom Top College Admission Playbook shows you how to stand tall above thousands in one quick listen.

Student life can be overwhelming, with so many issues to deal with including living away from home, workload, deadlines and exams, family pressures and challenging relationships. It is not surprising that you might struggle to cope sometimes. But there are simple and effective ways that you can take ownership of your mental health, meaning you stay stress free, enjoy your university experience and achieve academic success.

Learn how to record audiobooks from a seasoned recording artist. In celebration of his 200th audiobook and a decade in the business, Jack Nolan shares his experience, wisdom, and woes to help you learn how to record audiobooks, or elevate your recordings and performances to the professional level.

Un manual práctico y fascinante para que padres, abuelos y maestros descubran las pasiones y habilidades innatas de los más pequeños. Cada niño es especial y único. Pero ¿cómo identificamos los talentes específicos de nuestros hijos? ¿Qué podemos hacer para ayudarlos a expresar, cultivar y disfrutar de sus pasiones?

The thought of traveling abroad and starting a new life in a country that offers more promising career prospects is one that crosses many minds around the world. We, at Radviser, know this and this is exactly why we’ve dedicated our lives to helping people get accepted into the universities of their dreams and land their dream jobs thereafter.

Ready for college? Take a confident approach to college admissions with this definitive guide – all without stressing yourself out. Getting into college is a magnificent stepping stone that can definitely give you an edge in your professional career and in your life. Unfortunately, the part that comes before all this is not so easy.

This easy to follow and humorous book of hard-earned wisdom will have you understanding the modern fire service, and how to navigate your way through it. It covers tough subjects to help you get through your day, and help you shine as a new firefighter, or anyone new to the emergency services field. This rookie bible is here to assist you with the day-to-day life of living with your new fire service family for the next 25 plus years.

Träumst du davon, ein Buch zu schreiben und zu veröffentlichen? So ging es mir mein ganzes Leben lang. Erst mit 34 habe ich diesen Traum verwirklicht und seither erfolgreich 15 Bücher veröffentlicht. Mit dem Schreiben und Publizieren dieser 15 Träume habe ich einiges gelernt. Und weil ich mir am Anfang dieser Reise gewünscht hätte, anderen Autoren und Autorinnen über die Schulter gucken zu können und von ihnen lernen zu dürfen, gibt es dieses Buch.

Canada is consistently ranked high in the most desirable places to live and raise a family. Cities like Calgary, Vancouver, and Toronto are often ranked among the 10 best cities to live in the world. Canada is also a great place to practice medicine as an international medical graduate. A quarter of all physicians in Canada are IMGs. Canada offers physicians plenty of demand for more doctors, excellent quality of life, the ability to be more in control of their earnings and to earn well, world-class education for you and your family, and more.

La educación universitaria debe adaptarse necesariamente a la Cuarta Revolución Industrial. Todos los países e instituciones académicas se enfrentan al reto de volver a capacitar a varias generaciones de trabajadores y profesionales que se están quedando obsoletos ante el nuevo paradigma económico. El sistema educativo ha fallado. No ha evolucionado para responder al advenimiento de la revolución digital; hemos preparado a millones de personas para afrontar los desafíos de ayer pero no a las demandas de mañana.

For every college-failure-turned-success story, there are countless less-inspiring ones. The real reason why most people don’t make the grades they need or become so disheartened that they drop out of college early has nothing to do with the subject they’re studying or their drive to succeed…. It’s because they lack essential study skills and inside knowledge. Your courses focus on your subject—as they should…. But there’s a wealth of other information you’re missing out on that could make the difference between a pass and a fail.

Wie schaffen wir es, in einer immer stärker digitalisierten Welt alle Menschen mitzunehmen und für die Herausforderungen der Gegenwart und der Zukunft fit zu machen? Die Expertin für digitale Bildung—Yasmin Weiß—macht deutlich, warum wir dafür lebenslanges Lernen brauchen und wie sich dieses erreichen lässt. Wie es gelingt, diese Berührungsängste abzubauen und eine lernende Gesellschaft zu werden, um wirtschaftlich zukunftsfähig zu bleiben, zeigt dieses Buch.

The ultimate guide to help Black families navigate the college admissions process. Finding the right college is a challenge for all students. But Black families face additional challenges and questions while navigating the admissions process. In The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions, veteran admissions experts Timothy L. Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown share provocative insights and demystify this complex process to answer important questions from where to apply to how to get in.

How do you find the best education options that fit your budget and are absolutely right for your child? And how do you save for your kids’ college without wrecking your own retirement, or putting your other goals completely out of reach? This definitive guide gives you everything you need to give your children the best education possible, at a price you can all afford. Detailed explanations of the key elements in planning for college are paired with worksheets and exercises to give you a full picture of your family’s college financial position.

Universities play an indispensable role within modern democracies. But this role is often overlooked or too narrowly conceived, even by universities themselves. In What Universities Owe Democracy, Ronald J. Daniels, the president of Johns Hopkins University, argues that—at a moment when liberal democracy is endangered and more countries are heading toward autocracy than at any time in generations—it is critical for today's colleges and universities to reestablish their place in democracy. For those committed to democracy's future prospects, this book is a vital resource.

Frustrated or overwhelmed by the college admissions process? Imagine how confusing it may be for your college-bound teen. It's important for your maturing high schooler to be in the driver's seat of applying to and choosing the right school. But, how can you support and guide your teen without taking over? This book explains each step in the process and provides clear, concise tips on what your student should be doing, when they should be doing it, and why each step is so important.

The college classroom is inevitably influenced by, and in turn influences, the world around it. In the United States, this means the complex topic of race can come into play in ways that are both explicit and implicit. Teaching Race in Perilous Times highlights and confronts the challenges of teaching race in the United States—from syllabus development and pedagogical strategies to accreditation and curricular reform.

You’ve wrapped up high school and now you’re heading to college, full of all the excitement that comes with such a massive step in life. But there’s one question: How are you going to ace your first year?

For most people, college is a significant investment, but with an important caveat: You need to graduate from it to reap the benefits. But the statistics for successfully graduating are not good. In this highly listenable book, Matt McCarthy drives home the lessons about what differentiates a college graduate from a college dropout. With his engaging style, McCarthy shares fundamental truths in a way that is accessible to both students and their parents. And by adopting the lessons in these minutes, a student is far more likely to graduate and realize the rewards of having done so.

We want you to be filled with confidence, so that you can ace engine performance first time round. We've professionally narrated more than 100 questions and answers from the official guides—and all of the answers are helpfully explained in detail to give you a holistic understanding. We've included a mix of the 7 different question formats (excluding illustrations), the same that you’ll have on the day of the real exam.