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How to help your kid navigate the college admissions process -- from scheduling standardized tests to writing essays -- month by month, girlfriend's-guide style.So, your child is a high school junior. You've heard other parents with kids older than yours whisper the word "college" like it was a terminal disease. You've seen their taut, maniacal grins as they try to hold it together. The process of weathering and conquering the college admissions process with a teenager is a daunting affair for many. Advice will pour in through friends, your child's guidance counselor, and your mother's neighbor's cousin.Thankfully, Jill Margaret Shulman, a college admissions coach, application evaluator, college writing instructor, essayist, author, and empathetic parent, is here to be your fiercest ally.
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Jill Margaret Shulman is the founder of In Other Words, a college essay coaching service. She has evaluated applications at elite colleges and taught at The New School, New York University, Gotham Writers Workshop, Touro College, and the City University of New York. Jill's publications have appeared in The New York Times, Family Circle, Full Grown People, Family Fun, Parents, Parents.com, Good Housekeeping, O the Oprah Magazine, and more. She lives in the college mecca of Amherst, Massachusetts with her husband (and two children whenever they are home from college) .
