Countdown to College, Monique Rinere
Countdown to College, Monique Rinere
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Countdown to College
The Essential Steps to Your Child's Successful Launch

Author: Monique Rinere

Narrator: Nicol Zanzarella

Unabridged: 8 hr 2 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 03/05/2019


Synopsis

After all the testing and touring and applying, your child has been accepted to college. Congratulations! Now what?

Every new student grapples with making a successful transition to college—with remaining healthy, happy, grounded, and in school. Indeed, the national statistics are sobering: One in three freshmen will not come back for sophomore year, and less than 50 percent will graduate on time. A student’s adjustment is key, especially during the period starting with the lazy summer months before move-in and ending at the dizzying close of a student’s first semester. Distilling lessons and sharing stories (some cautionary, some entertaining, all helpful) from her long college advisory career, three-time Ivy League dean Monique Rinere presents a unique month-by-month road map to a college experience that is rich, rewarding, and successful for teens and parents alike. Taking parents from the moment the acceptances arrive to the end of the first college semester, her expert advice covers:

• assessing the right fit among your child’s options: who and what to ask to get the real scoop on campus and academic life
• understanding actual costs: considering hidden expenses, financial-aid and scholarship fine print, loans, and work-study opportunities
• parenting through the senior slump so that students don’t jeopardize their hard-won college spot
• talking to your child about freshman culture shock and their new freedoms around parties, food, finances, and sleep
• what your child needs to know about working with an academic advisor, interacting with professors, and creating their own community of advisors
• how to help your rising freshman create a conceptual bridge from what they are, a graduating high school senior, to what they want to be, a college alum
• time-management and class-scheduling tips to help your child pick an appropriate class (and extracurricular) load
• advice for parents facing the emptying nest: letting go of your anxieties about your child’s autonomy and seizing this opportunity to reinvent your life in new and intentional ways

“A valuable and comprehensive guide for parents of college-bound students . . . The months between high school and college are a critical time, but Dr. Monique Rinere gives you confidence that everything will be all right.”—Marvin Krislov, president, Pace University

About The Author

Monique Rinere was a first-generation college student, earning her B.A. from Hunter College and then her M.A. and Ph.D. degrees from Princeton University. She was a residential college dean at Princeton and the dean of advising for Columbia, and she founded the advising programs office at Harvard University. She is now the associate vice president of The New School, leading academic advising, career development, academic integrity, and student health services, among other student-centered initiatives. She lives in New York City.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Leslie on March 09, 2019

Many books exist that espouse various ways to make sure your child's college application stands out so they get into their dream schools and how to ensure your child aces the scholarship competition. These books seem to stop at the application stage and do not address the important questions of how......more

Goodreads review by Alicia on August 29, 2019

This is a very helpful book for a very specific type of parent for a very specific area. The book offers in depth advice to middle or upper class parents of teens who have been accepted to college and will be leaving for college for the first time, living away from home in dorms and working very lit......more

Goodreads review by Patsye on May 11, 2019

Parents of high school juniors and seniors will benefit greatly from reading this book, especially if this is their first child going to college. The author has a multitude of information about many aspects of preparing for college, and presents helpful lists of questions to ask. She highlights aspe......more

Goodreads review by patrick on July 11, 2019

A good book for any parent having a high school student prepare for college. Weather college is right for the student or not. How to prepare for the applications, filling out forms for finical aid and many other questions that come up. Once your student is accepted the book goes over classes choosin......more

Goodreads review by Judy on November 13, 2018

Countdown to College includes lots of useful information about the college application process and the beginning of college life. As I read I found myself wishing there were bullets or checklists at the beginning of each chapter to highlight the key points coming. I enjoyed the examples of real stud......more


Quotes

“A valuable and comprehensive guide for parents of college-bound students . . . The months between high school and college are a critical time, but Dr. Monique Rinere gives you confidence that everything will be all right.”—Marvin Krislov, president, Pace University