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This new edition not only revisits schools listed in previous volumes to give readers a comprehensive assessment, it also addresses such issues as homeschooling, learning. disabilities, and single-sex education. Hilary Masell Oswald lives in Denver, Colorado, where she writes about education, architecture and design, and public policy.

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Evidenced-Based Strategies to Thrive in Your Career, she makes the most compelling case yet that career satisfaction―and the full engagement that comes with it―is more important than ever in today’s workplace. Through personal experience, client case studies, research on happiness and motivation, self-assessment tools, and exercises, she shows you how to create a realistic career vision, set goals, and line up the right resources to take control of your career and happiness. Susan Peppercorn has given us a straight-talking, inspired guide - an antidote really - to the chronic negative thought habits that make success feel fleeting, joy impossible and contentment unachievable. This is a guide that enable us to hold onto the striving for excellence, attention to detail, tenacity and conscientiousness that is often at the heart of perfectionism...and begin to let go of the chronic anxiety and unrealistic expectations that make living and working chronically difficult."

In Never Pay Retail for College , Walker provides a project management framework for families to find and finance the college experience of their dreams. The 12 critical elements required for a successful college plan How both parents and students can minimize debt in the long run How you can become a better informed consumer of higher education How imagining the college funding process like a kitchen remodel can help you come in on time and on budget Why there’s no need for any family to “pay retail” for college, and much, much more! As a scholarship athlete for the women’s volleyball team at the University of Kansas, Beth earned distinction as an Academic All-American. After completing her bachelor’s degree, she went to work for several large corporations including Procter & Gamble, Clorox and McKesson, moving quickly through the management ranks. Beth has been quoted frequently in the press including in the Wall Street Journal, US News & World Report, CNN Money, and the Denver Post. In 2016, she launched the Center for College Solutions, a collaborative coalition of professionals (education consultants, admissions committee members, athletic marketing experts, financial aid gurus, etc.).

As Dean of Admissions at the University of Chicago Law School, Anna Ivey decided the fate of thousands of law school applicants. There are certain things they wish they could tell applicants because it would make their own lives so much easier, but they can't say, "In all honesty, we only spend about five minutes on each file, so you'd better cut to the chase," or, "Please, for the love of god, don't make me read another essay about endangered guppies." Because that was my daily life when I was dean of admissions at the University of Chicago Law School. I crack open the next one on top of the pile, a file belonging to a woman named Sarah. As dean of admissions, I could easily write an "A" for accept or a "D" for deny at the top of Sarah's file based on this hard data alone, so the fate of her application depends entirely on the remaining four minutes I spend scanning the "soft stuff" of her application: her essay, her recommendations, her résumé, and her addendum. They go wrong because they have failed to persuade me that I should choose them over thousands of other applicants with acceptable numbers who I know could succeed at my law school. With visions of Law & Order dancing in my head, I wanted to shoot for the top, for that all-purpose degree that would offer me the greatest career flexibility and the best financial safety net. I remember that queasy, sleepless night before my LSAT, when I inspected the alarm clock every ten minutes while the hours slipped away. How paralyzed I felt by the range of topics when I sat down to tap out my life story in a two-page essay "on the subject of my choice" that would help the admissions committee "get to know me better." The anxiety of waiting for a response, wondering what was holding things up as I compared notes with other applicants. Did they want me to prove that I was applying out of pure motives-for the public good!-and that I wasn't some moneygrubbing status hound? I took my first standardized admissions test in sixth grade, in order to attend junior high at Boston Latin School; for high school, I attended Phillips Academy Andover, moved on to Columbia College, and spent my junior year at Cambridge University in the UK. For all I knew, admissions officers just threw darts at a board, and my luck had just been fantastically good. What I didn't know then is that even smart and accomplished people can make stupid (and common) mistakes on their applications. When I was applying, there were no discussion boards where applicants trade admissions war stories and statistics, share intelligence, critique each other's strategies, waste time ("My List of the Ten Sexiest Ugly Women on TV! Law school admissions officers can't and don't speak candidly about affirmative action, for example, or what kinds of essays make them want to shoot themselves in the head from boredom. I wrote this book to offer applicants straightforward, practical tips from an insider's perspective. I've read thousands of files, conducted hundreds of admissions interviews, and traveled across the country to meet with and counsel hundreds of thousands of prospective applicants at law school forums and pre-law society fairs. In The Ivey Guide to Law School Admissions, applicants will find answers to questions like these:

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