Read Online Go Your Own Way 7 StudentCentered Paths to the Best College Experience Alex Ellison Books
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Isn’t there a better way to “do college�
In this book, Alex Ellison shares a new way for students to discover their own paths to college. Moving beyond the Cult of College Prestige, Alex offers a student-centered approach, inspired by the unique personalities, talents, and passions of her clients to create a discovery process that helps families find clarity amid the increasingly dysfunctional college-application process.
Read Online Go Your Own Way 7 StudentCentered Paths to the Best College Experience Alex Ellison Books
"As someone with a long career on a number of college campuses as a professor, an academic dean and a president, I was eager to see whether Alex Ellison has anything new to add to the literature on helping students gain admission to college. She does. I found her book to be helpful, reassuring, accessible, based on solid research, relevant to the contemporary situation, and, most important, wise. Indeed, it amounts to a successful educational consultant giving away her best advice for the price of a book.
The book’s main audience is those who guide students in their process of selecting and applying to colleges: parents, teachers, counselors and mentors. As the title suggests, Ms. Ellison’s focus is on helping students find the school that fits their unique “personality, talents, and passions.†She argues strenuously against the tendency of students to choose a college based on its reputation or ranking.
In an honest accounting of her own experience choosing a college, Ms. Ellison explores the fallacies and misunderstandings rampant in the process. She honors her own parents’ supportiveness while regretting they did not challenge her to think more broadly about what success means. Now she does that for the students she works with.
Before getting into detailed steps for advising young people, Ms. Ellison insightfully analyzes American cultural beliefs and the role they play in college choice, e.g., college as emancipation from our limitations and the mantra that anything is possible for anyone. Of particular value is her analysis of the unique characteristics of the current generation (e.g., security obsession) and the role these play in student choice.
This book is the opposite of a “one size fits all†approach. The core of the book urges mentors to help students get a clearer picture of their characteristics so that “personalized matchmaking†is possible. Based on her experience and on research, Ms. Ellison describes seven archetypes, suggesting for each specific ways to “do college.â€
For each type she includes a detailed description of traits, illustrated by stories of students she has worked with. That is followed by tailored approaches to making college decisions, caveats, tips and tactics for counseling, and a sample list of appropriate colleges with descriptions.
The book ends with a few chapters which I found most important and helpful: ways of thinking about values in this stage of life, a warning about the expectation that with the right plan and effort one can manage a perfect outcome to one’s life, and advice about how to think about what constitutes a happy life.
Given my long experience with students and college choice, I highly recommend this book to those who guide young people in making these difficult decisions."
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Go Your Own Way 7 StudentCentered Paths to the Best College Experience Alex Ellison Books Reviews
- My college days are behind me and my daughter is 17 years away, but I still found this book to be a fascinating read, especially in light of the current events around the college scandal. Alex Ellison's approach to understanding what's important about pursuing higher learning is different for each student, and the "Cult of College Prestige" (as she terms it) can be counterproductive.
- As someone with a long career on a number of college campuses as a professor, an academic dean and a president, I was eager to see whether Alex Ellison has anything new to add to the literature on helping students gain admission to college. She does. I found her book to be helpful, reassuring, accessible, based on solid research, relevant to the contemporary situation, and, most important, wise. Indeed, it amounts to a successful educational consultant giving away her best advice for the price of a book.
The book’s main audience is those who guide students in their process of selecting and applying to colleges parents, teachers, counselors and mentors. As the title suggests, Ms. Ellison’s focus is on helping students find the school that fits their unique “personality, talents, and passions.†She argues strenuously against the tendency of students to choose a college based on its reputation or ranking.
In an honest accounting of her own experience choosing a college, Ms. Ellison explores the fallacies and misunderstandings rampant in the process. She honors her own parents’ supportiveness while regretting they did not challenge her to think more broadly about what success means. Now she does that for the students she works with.
Before getting into detailed steps for advising young people, Ms. Ellison insightfully analyzes American cultural beliefs and the role they play in college choice, e.g., college as emancipation from our limitations and the mantra that anything is possible for anyone. Of particular value is her analysis of the unique characteristics of the current generation (e.g., security obsession) and the role these play in student choice.
This book is the opposite of a “one size fits all†approach. The core of the book urges mentors to help students get a clearer picture of their characteristics so that “personalized matchmaking†is possible. Based on her experience and on research, Ms. Ellison describes seven archetypes, suggesting for each specific ways to “do college.â€
For each type she includes a detailed description of traits, illustrated by stories of students she has worked with. That is followed by tailored approaches to making college decisions, caveats, tips and tactics for counseling, and a sample list of appropriate colleges with descriptions.
The book ends with a few chapters which I found most important and helpful ways of thinking about values in this stage of life, a warning about the expectation that with the right plan and effort one can manage a perfect outcome to one’s life, and advice about how to think about what constitutes a happy life.
Given my long experience with students and college choice, I highly recommend this book to those who guide young people in making these difficult decisions.
