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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.
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Countdown to College: The Essential Steps to Your Child's Success Launch is coming out in March 2019 from Penguin Random House! Why did I write this book? You see, I was a first-generation college student when I first set foot on a college campus many moons ago. After lots of meandering, studying seven languages, living in Germany for years, and changing my major five times, I earned a B.A. in German and Music in 1990 from the City University of New York (CUNY) Hunter College. Inspired by a college adviser, I applied for admission to Ph.D. programs and ended up earning one in Germanic Languages and Literatures from Princeton University. The book I published as a result is a sure cure for insomnia.But this one, Countdown to College, is designed to help parents of high school seniors, the so-called rising freshmen, ensure that their children make a successful transition to college. It passes on lessons I learned in all of these positions:After serving as the Director of Studies of Mathey College and then as the Residential College Dean of Butler College at Princeton, in 2006 I was the founding dean of Harvard College's Advising Programs Office at Harvard University. In 2009, I was recruited to Columbia University to serve as the Dean of Advising for Columbia College and The Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science at Columbia University in the City of New York. Currently, I am an Associate Vice President at The New School in the heart of Greenwich Village, working to support students in myriad creative ways.I have given dozens of talks to high school and college students and their parents on how to choose a college and excel there. I am represented by Dystel, Goderich & Bourret Literary Management. ?
