How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country’s Top Students
- ISBN13: 9780767917872
- Condition: NEW
- Notes: Groundbreaking New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
Product Description
The only guide to getting ahead once you’ve gotten in—proven strategies for making the most of your college years, based on winning secrets from the country’s most successful students
What does it take to be a standout student? How can you make the most of your college years—graduate with honors, choose exciting activities, build a head-turning resume, and gain access to the best post-college opportunities? Based on interviews with star students at universities nationwide, from Harvard to the University of Arizona, How to Win at College presents seventy-five simple rules that will rocket you to the top of the class. These college-tested—and often surprising—strategies include:
• Don’t do all your reading
• Drop classes every term
• Become a club president
• Care about your grades, Ignore your GPA
• Never pull an all-nighter
• Take three days to write a paper
• Always be working on a “grand project”
• Do one thing better than anyone else you know
Proving that success has small to do with being a genius workaholic, and everything to do with playing the game, How to Win at College is the must-have guide for making the most of these four vital years—and getting an edge on life after graduation.
How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country’s Top Students
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The book I received from all new books took a month to get to me. Then when I received the book, it was misprinted and is missing the last 10 chapters.
The book itself seems very fascinating, but it’s hard to tell when you’re missing the ending.
Rating: 1 / 5
As a parent, I read the book and returned it. (My daughter, the freshman, insisted I get my money back.
From chapter 18:
“Break the curve once a term… The advantages of blowing the curve on an assignment are obvious.” This is college not kindergarten. If your kids are enrolled in a competitive school with an intense curriculum, this advice is borderline asinine. My son, the EE, competes each week with a number of other kids on his senior design project. Each one of them wants to knock it out of the park.
From chapter 19:
“Make sure you that you always question at least one question at every lecture.” — I seem to remember a proverb about stupid questions. I reckon Mark Twain once said, “Better to be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.”
From Chapter 24:
“Dress nicely for class” — has this author ever been to a college campus ? (!) That was a rhetorical question.
If you want to give your kids some street smarts about college, get them a copy of College 101: The Book Your College Does Not Want You to Read That books isn’t perfect. It is even slightly dated. But, it is damn amusing, amazingly candid, and brutally honest.
Rating: 2 / 5
Brilliant present for the college freshman, or current senior in high school.
Rating: 5 / 5
I just wish I had found this book when I was a freshman in college.
Rating: 5 / 5
Excellent book, useful tips. But, Straight-A offers far more advice on how to succeed in college.
Rating: 4 / 5