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Greene, Howard; Minton, Robert – 1987
A 12-step plan for investigating colleges and making college choices is presented for college applicants. In addition to information on selective college admissions, the 12 chapters cover the following steps: knowing admission requirements and procedures, determining the student's strengths, following a demanding curriculum, taking advantage of…
Descriptors: Admission Criteria, Check Lists, College Admission, College Applicants
College Entrance Examination Board, New York, NY. Coll. Scholarship Service. – 1986
Information on financial aid, estimating financial need, managing money, and expenses at over 3,500 colleges is provided. College costs are based on the following: tuition and fees, books and supplies, room and board, transportation, and personal expenses. The following financial aid sources are examined; the Pell Grant Program, the Supplemental…
Descriptors: Eligibility, Family Income, Federal Aid, Higher Education
Direct linkJohnson, Dale D.; Johnson, Bonnie; Farenga, Stephen J.; Ness, Daniel – Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc., 2005
This book presents a critical analysis of the National Council for Accreditation of Teacher Education (NCATE). This accreditation organization has been in existence for 50 years and claims to accredit approximately 700 teacher education programs that prepare two-thirds of the nation's teachers. There is no convincing research, however, that…
Descriptors: Accreditation (Institutions), National Organizations, Teacher Education, Criticism
Krefetz, Gerald – 1995
This guide to paying for college is written for families that expect to pay most, if not all, of the costs of college out of savings, investments, gifts, inheritances, borrowed funds, or a combination. It outlines usual approaches but also indicates some unorthodox methods. Chapters cover the following topics: (1) planning for college expenses;…
Descriptors: Credit (Finance), Educational Finance, Estate Planning, Financial Needs
College Board, New York, NY. – 1992
This book is designed to help students and their families plan for and meet college costs. Organized into three main sections the first, "Paying for College," contains 10 chapters as follows: (1) "What Does College Cost?"; (2) "How Much Will Youth Be Expected To Pay?"; (3) "How To Make Time Work for You";…
Descriptors: Access to Education, College Admission, College Athletics, Colleges
Shields, Charles J. – 1988
Advice is provided to parents about how to help their teenagers through the college application admissions process. Parents learn how much to get involved, where to go for the right information, what kind of questions to ask, how to get financial aid, and what timetable to use for every stage in the process of going to college. Fifteen sections…
Descriptors: Athletes, College Admission, College Applicants, College Bound Students
Lovell, Susan, Ed. – 1983
A step-by-step guide to paying for college is presented that tells how and where to apply for financial aid, lists expenses at 3,200 schools and colleges, and shows how to estimate financial need. The book also describes how a student can manage money more effectively in order to live on a limited budget; tells how some students and families…
Descriptors: Budgeting, Check Lists, College Applicants, Comparative Analysis
Willingham, Warren W.; And Others – 1985
The relationship among preadmission characteristics of students, admission policies, and different measures of success during college was studied at nine colleges: Bucknell University, Colgate University, Hartwick College, Kalamazoo College, Kenyon College, Occidental College, Ohio Wesleyan University, University of Richmond, and Williams College.…
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Academic Aptitude, Admission Criteria, College Admission
