How to College: What to Know Before You Go (and When You're There)

The first practical guide of its kind that helps students transition smoothly from high school to collegeThe transition from high school―and home―to college can be stressful.

Students and parents often arrive on campus unprepared for what college is really like.

Academic standards and expectations are different from high school; families aren’t present to serve as “scaffolding” for students; and first-years have to do what they call “adulting.” Nothing in the college admissions process prepares students for these new realities.