Truth About College Admission Books
The Truth about College Admission is a guide designed to help families bring hope-filled language into their college search and selection in a way that is desperately missing. It is intended to broaden readers’ view on the landscape of American higher education; to give families tools for having intentional and honest conversations about broad subjects like aspirations, as well as practical matters like money and time; and to approach visiting, applying to, and ultimately selecting colleges in a healthy, unified, and balanced manner.
Excerpts from the Workbook
Click below to download excerpts from the workbook to sample the types of worksheets, activities, tools, and guidance you can gain from The Truth About College Admission Workbook.
- Excerpt from Chapter 1: Why are you going to college? A self-reflection
- Excerpt from Chapter 4: Building a college list
- Excerpt from Chapter 5: The college visit
- Bingo Card Game
Spotify Playlist
In The Truth About College Admission Workbook, each chapter begins with lyrics from songs that Rick Clark and Brennan Barnard have put together into a Spotify playlist. As you read through the book and work through its activities, listen along to this playlist to get inspired during your college admission process.
Brennan Barnard is the director of college counseling at the Derryfield School and US Performance Academy. He also serves as the college admission program manager for the Harvard Graduate School of Education's Making Caring Common Project. Rick Clark is the director of undergraduate admission at the Georgia Institute of Technology.
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