Americorps: Serve Your Country and Pay for College [Paperback]

Product Details

• Paperback
• Publisher: Conway Greene Pub Co (January 1996)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1884669123
• ISBN-13: 978-1884669125
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.2 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,671,108 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Nothing You Couldn't Have Found On Your Own, April 20, 2005

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Jason Scott "jasonrscott.com" (Knoxville, TN) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Americorps: Serve Your Country and Pay for College (Paperback)

As a current applicant to the Americorps NCCC I bought this book looking for something that would convey perhaps a slightly more thorough understanding of the various elements of the Americorps program. Unfortunately this is not exactly the book for this. There are about 13 or so pages with project profiles that were written by members of various Americorps projects, unfortunately these "essays" (which typically run from half a page to about a page) don't really go into any real depth. In fact, some are so lifeless you could probably get the same value from reading the descriptions provided by the programs you are looking into on the Americorps website (americorps.gov). After this small collection of essays is about 100+ pages of program listings with contact information which, as far as I'm concerned, is totally obsolete as this same information can be readily accessed on the internet for free. Save your two dollars and just look on the web.