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1) Admission
Author
Language
English
Description
From the New York Times bestselling author of You Should Have Known (adapted as The Undoing on HBO), comes a page-turner about a college admissions officer with a secret—now a major motion picture starring Tina Fey and Paul Rudd.
For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic...
For years, 38-year-old Portia Nathan has avoided the past, hiding behind her busy (and sometimes punishing) career as a Princeton University admissions officer and her dependable domestic...
Author
Pub. Date
2009
Physical Desc
x, 165 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
High school can be boring. High school curriculum can be frustrating and out of touch. So what is the answer for young people whose creativity, bright ideas, and boundless energy are being stifled in that over-scheduled and grade-driven environment? What would you do if you could go to college without going to high school? Would you travel abroad, spend late nights writing a novel, volunteer in an emergency room, or build your own company? What dreams...
Author
Series
Language
English
Description
"At the local state university, two feuding departments have faced off on the battleground of PC culture. Each carries their views to extremes that may seem absurd, but highly educated people of sound mind and good intentions can reasonably disagree, right? Then someone winds up dead, and Virgil Flowers is brought in to investigate...and he soon comes to realize he's dealing with people who, on this one particular issue, are functionally crazy. Among...
Author
Series
Testing volume 2
Lexile measure
HL 840L
Language
English
Formats
Description
Now a freshman at the University in Tosu City with her hometown sweetheart, Tomas, Cia Vale's attempts to expose the ugly truth behind the government's grueling and deadly Testing put her and her loved ones in great danger.
6) The examiner
Author
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"University professor Gela Nathaniel must make her new master's program in multimedia art succeed. If it doesn't, then Royal Hastings University will cut her funding and she'll be out of the job she loves. The six students in this inaugural course will be key to that success...but how well has she selected the team? The students include a talented young sculptor who is determined to graduate with top grades, a former gallery owner with limited artistic...
Author
Publisher
Sourcebooks
Pub. Date
2014.
Edition
Fifth edition.
Physical Desc
373 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
Get Accepted To The College That's Right For You Everyone has their own idea of the perfect college. The Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College is the only admissions guide that starts with an in-depth assessment of your priorities, then takes you step-by-step through the process of applying to the schools you actually want to get into. New sixth edition is fully updated with information on standardized testing, financial aid, online applications,...
9) The Black family's guide to college admissions: a conversation about education, parenting, and race
Author
Publisher
Johns Hopkins University Press
Pub. Date
2024.
Edition
Second edition.
Physical Desc
xxv, 267 pages ; 23 cm
Language
English
Description
"This book will educate Black families on the college admission process and provide them with the information, tools, and knowledge they need to explore college options"--
"Finding the right college is a challenge for all students, but Black families face additional challenges and questions when navigating the admissions process. Veteran admissions experts Timothy L. Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown demystify this complexity by advising families...
Author
Series
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
Rowan and Neil, in a committed long-distance relationship while attending different colleges in Boston and New York City, face the challenges of navigating the first months of college life and personal struggles as they strive to make their relationship last.
Author
Publisher
Flatiron Books
Pub. Date
2022.
Edition
First edition.
Physical Desc
273 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Description
"Part memoir and part literary true crime, Tell Me Everything is the mesmerizing story of a landmark sexual assault investigation and the female private investigator who helped crack it open. Erika Krouse has one of those faces. "I don't know why I'm telling you this," people say, spilling confessions. In fall 2002, Erika accepts a new contract job investigating lawsuits as a private investigator. The role seems perfect for her, but she quickly realizes...
14) Acceptance
Author
Pub. Date
2007
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
286 pages ; 24 cm
Language
English
Description
A comic chronicle of a year in the life in the college admissions cycle.
It's spring break of junior year and the college admissions hysteria is setting in. "AP" Harry (so named for the unprecedented number of advanced placement courses he has taken) and his mother take a detour from his first choice, Harvard, to visit Yates, a liberal arts school in the Northeast that is enjoying a surge in popularity as a result of a statistical error that landed...
Author
Publisher
University of Minnesota Press
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
1 online resource (xii, 400 pages) : illustrations
Language
English
Description
Chronicles the history of Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, detailing its evolution from a Presbyterian secondary school in frontier St. Paul to a nationally prominent liberal arts college. Highlights influential leaders and defining moments in the school's history, and examines the school's transition from an evangelical college into a progressive, secular institution and the relationship between religion and education during the twentieth...
16) Rookery blues
Author
Pub. Date
1995
Edition
1st ed.
Physical Desc
484 pages ; 25 cm
Language
English
Author
Publisher
New York Review Books
Pub. Date
[2021]
Physical Desc
237 pages ; 22 cm
Language
English
Description
"Corbin College, not quite upstate New York, winter 1959-1960: Ruben Blum, a Jewish historian--but not an historian of the Jews--is co-opted onto a hiring committee to review the application of an exiled Israeli scholar specializing in the Spanish Inquisition. When Benzion Netanyahu shows up for an interview, family unexpectedly in tow, Blum plays the reluctant host, to guests who proceed to lay waste to his American complacencies. Mixing fiction...
Author
Publisher
Poisoned Pen Press
Pub. Date
2015.
Edition
First e-book edition.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (287 pages)
Language
English
Description
Four 1974 Barrett College graduates reunite in 1994 to take on a quest to find out what happened to the college's stolen Sirena statue and hopefully win a million-dollar prize from a billionaire alumni.