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How is it possible that Harvard is more affordable for most American families than the local state university? Or that up to half of eligible students receive no financial aid? Or that public universities are rejecting homegrown middle-and working-class applicants and instead enrolling wealthy out-of-state students? College admission has escalated into a high-stakes game of emotional and financial survival. How is the deck stacked against you? And what can you do about it?Susan F. Paterno, a veteran academic and author, answers these questions and more in Game On. Paterno helped her four very different kids navigate the application process to a wide range of colleges, financing their four-year educations on a finite budget. She smartly decodes the college admissions industry?the consultants, the tutors, the rankers, the branding companies hawking "advantage"? and arms you with the knowledge you needed to make the system work for you.
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Susan F. Paterno is the director of the journalism program at Chapman University in Orange, CA and an award-winning journalist with more than twenty years' experience as a reporter, writer and columnist. A senior writer for "American Journalism Review," Professor Paterno has also written for the Los Angeles Times, the New York Times, U.S. News & World Report, and many other publications. She has collaborated on a half dozen books, including writing The Newswriters Handbook and Talk Straight, Listen Carefully: The Art of Interviewing with M.L. Stein.
