Christie Barnes - What Every Parent Needs to Know About College Admissions: How to Prepare Your Child to Succeed in College and Life─With a Step-by Step Planner (College Guidebook)

Praise for What Every Parent Needs to Know About College Admissions

This is the go-to guide for students to find the right path, at the right time, for the right tuition , to lead to their best c areer outcome. Implementing Individualized Career and Academic Planning in middle and high school helps identify interesting, high-paying careers in growth fields. Barness book is the first available for parents and students to plan for a successfu l future.

Anna Costaras and Gail Liss, authors of The College Bound Organizer and the forthcoming The College Bou nd Planner

In What Every Parent Needs to Know About College Admissions , Barnes examines how our education systems are adapting to todays workforce demands by combining practical experience with traditional approaches to create more opportunities for any student to access high-paying, in-demand jobs in modern fields. She walks students and parents past the limiting notion of college or bust and explores how work-based learning in combination with related instruction can be an options multiplier for students. Its that kind of endless possibility were building with CareerWisestudents can start with a youth apprenticeship and end with a PhD or a corner officeand Barnes s book helps students find the career and education paths that are right for them. Apprenticeship can be a powerful enhancement to education or a fast-track to a top career, or both.

Noel Ginsburg, founder, CEO, and chairman of the board at CareerWise Colorado, the nonprofit tasked with running the statewide youth apprenticeship system i n Colorado

When it comes to college planning, some parents are like passengers sitting on deck chairs on the Titanic as it sinks, convinced the ship is unsinkable. We need a book like this to explain new realities, new changes, and new opportunities for higher education and college success.

Laura Miller, counseling coordinator and CTE Campus Administrator at Cherry Creek Innovation Campus, Centennial , Colorado

As a higher education professional with six years of experience working in admissions, assessment, advising, and presently as a financial aid specialist, I have witnessed the considerable strain navigating the college process causes for students and their parents. The internet is full of advice, but so much of it is outdated or incorrect. It is evident that Christie Barnes spent many years gathering information that will vastly improve the preparation and transition process from high school to college.

Natalie Eck, financial aid specialist at Valencia College in Orland o, Florida

The path from high school to higher education to a successful career is no longer a straight line. This planner is a map that will help you navigate these treacherou s waters.

Scott Horn, PhD in Geospatial Information Sciences from the University of Texas at Dallas, Geographic Information Systems (GIS ) Lecturer

A valuable book that examines how elitism affects college and career choices.

Bonnie Timmermann, producer/castin g director

Id be honored to say my kid goes to Harvard. But with my kids, I have learned you wind up where you are supposed to be. And this book explains where you are supposed to be. We have to stop labeling, reach schools, safety schoolslabeling is setting yourself up for disappointment. This book is great when the kid doesnt get in somewhere, doesnt want to go to their only options, or when they get inis the college really the right place? This book is about understanding and running with the options that present themselves. As Barnes says, there isnt a one-size-fits-all magic college that will bestow the perfect future on anyone who enters. Every college or higher ed experience can get you there if you are not always fixated on what you might be missing somewhere else. As Bar nes says,

Hide the name of the college and consider the program ; would it inspire my student to learn? The students learning , not the school name , is what matters in today s world.

Nina Kleinert, graduate of Beverly Hills Public Schools, mom of four Beverly Hills Public School s children

As a mental health professional who works with teens and families, it has been disheartening and concerning to see how much the pressure to succeed in the classroom and achieve high grades and GPA scores to get into the top-name colleges has been damaging the self-esteem of many students and contributing to high levels of anxiety and depression, and even self-harming behaviors. Barness book is such a helpful and impactful read for parents, students, teachers, and school administrators as it gives insight not only into the problem with the culture of academic success and its negative impact, but more importantly the solutions and multiple options to help teens thrive in the right way with the right mindset that keeps their mental health and self-estee m intact.

Talisa Stowers, licensed marriage and family therapist and owner of 3 In One Health Counseling and Wellnes s Practice

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What Every Parent Needs to Know About College Admissions: How to Prepare Your Child to Succeed in College and LifeWith a Step-by-Step Planner

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication number: 2021936122
ISBN: (print) 978-1-64250-315-9, (ebook) 978-1-64250-316-6
BISAC category code FAM034000, FAMILY & RELATIONSHIPS / Parenting / General

Printed in the United States of America

Table of Contents

Successfully Navigating the First Change to
College in Fifty Years

Career PathwaysCareers, Starting Salaries, and
Education Requirements

I write books about perceptions versus reality. My books have been acclaimed by the New York Times , ABC, and NPR. Recently I have appeared in Forbes and the Readers Digest . Primarily, I focus on parents beliefs about the best and worst for their children and whether those clung-to beliefs match facts. One example is Do parents perceptions of the greatest dangers to their children match with the most prevalent dangers that actually befall children? Sensational news stories, flashy marketing, social media, and rumors lead us parents to beliefs that are far from reality.

As a parent of college-bound high school-aged triplets plus one, I felt it was time to turn my scrutiny to college admissions, college outcomes, and career success to best help my children and those heading to col lege soon.

Okay, I have been really, really busy raising triplets and troubleshooting parent problems, mine and others. I knew I was operating on assumptions about college choice and admissions that I accepted from my personal college experience, and more relevant, high school meetings, college admissions books, and college websites. For example, I took for granted that the goal was for my triplets to get accepted at the best college, as college has been the Golden Ticket to a high-paying career for life with an elite college (also known as the best, the most prestigious, the highest-ranking, the most selective) being added insurance of a glowing future. But when my cousins brilliant, selective-college graduate children did not get anticipated job offers, my curiosity was piqued. Were they just unlucky? They were excellent students graduating from the nations top colleges. But now they were filling out job applications three hours a day, taking part-time jobs, and eventually attending graduate school after of a year of rethinking. Then friends, and grown children of friends, showed me two loanstheir mortgage figure and their student debt figureand I could not tell which was which, the amounts were both so colossal and eerily similar. Was it time for a new book?