The Truth About College Admission

A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together

By: Brennan Barnard, Rick Clark

Narrated by: Adam Barr

Is your family just starting to think about visiting colleges? Maybe you are in the throes of the experience, feeling stressed out and overwhelmed. Did we miss a deadline? Should we be looking in-state or out-of-state, big school or small school? And what is a "FAFSA" anyway?

The Truth About College Admission is the easy-to-follow, comprehensive, go-to guide for families. The expert authors - with inside knowledge from both the high school and university sides of the experience - provide critical advice, thoughtful strategies, helpful direction, and invaluable reassurance during the long and often bewildering college admission journey. From searching for colleges and creating a list of favorites to crafting an application, learning what schools are looking for academically and outside the classroom, and getting insight into how colleges decide who to accept, this book covers every important step. Helpful sections like "Try This", "Talk About This", and "Check In" show your family how to have open and balanced conversations to keep everyone on the same page, feeling less stressed, and actually enjoying the adventure together.

The Truth About College Admission is the practical and inspiring guidebook your family needs, an essential companion along the path to college acceptance.

©2019 Johns Hopkins University Press (P)2021 Tantor

Great Narrator

As the father of a current high school junior, it has been a long time since I explored the admission process. This guide is a very up to date, informative explanation of the current admission process. Additionally, the narrator is great.

A Must Listen for High School Students and Parents

The book gives a lot of useful and interesting insights into college admissions. The authors also do a good job putting college admissions in perspective and offering considerations for the students and parents to ponder.

Required reading for all 1st year admissions Staff members

This is helpful to gain an overall landscape of college admissions. A peak behind the curtain of what admissions is all about. Well done.

Glad I listened

I’ve now listened and read a few college admission focused books/audiobooks. All I can say is this I one is different, in a good way.

Utterly useless (in the opinion of the parent of a child who is now attending an elite school)

The information contained in this book was broad, and with little detail or actionable information. It provides the most cursory overview of the college admission process, and not much more than that. May be of value for somebody who has absolutely no experience or knowledge with US colleges, and that’s about it. I found many other free Internet guides that were more useful than this.