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The New College Reality: Make College Work For Your Career by [Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder]

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College is the doorway to a golden future, right? But if you're not careful, it's also a path to a mountain of debt. Worst-case scenario: You struggle for years to pay for an education that you can't turn into a paying job.

But it doesn't have to be that way. In The New College Reality, Dr. Bonnie Snyder tells you how the system works and how to make college pay off. Forget conventional wisdom and let her revolutionary rules show you how to integrate job planning and education with financial responsibility:

Make sure your degree relates to existing or emerging jobs
Resumes, personal brands, and college contacts lead to jobs
Shelter your assets from the financial aid formula
Limit your total borrowing to your expected first-year salary
Always be ready to create your own job

Don't squander money on a useless, self-indulgent degree. Instead, squeeze maximum career value out of every semester of college while scrimping on costs. The result will be a great career that really uses your education.

Length: 258 pages	Word Wise: Enabled	Enhanced Typesetting: Enabled
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Dr. Bonnie Kerrigan Snyder (Lancaster, PA) is a Certified College Planning Specialist. An honors graduate of Harvard, she holds advanced degrees from Virginia Tech and Pennsylvania State University. She has worked as a college admissions officer, a college career counselor, a college professor, and a certified high school guidance counselor. --This text refers to an alternate kindle_edition edition.

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ASIN : B007O2CVOU
Publisher : Adams Media (March 18, 2012)
Publication date : March 18, 2012
Language : English
File size : 1192 KB
Text-to-Speech : Enabled
Screen Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
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Word Wise : Enabled
Print length : 258 pages
Lending : Not Enabled

Best Sellers Rank: #2,501,954 in Kindle Store (See Top 100 in Kindle Store)
- #363 in College & Education Costs
- #1,739 in Education Funding (Kindle Store)
- #1,767 in Education Finance

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Wally

A Big Hit With a Couple Misses

Reviewed in the United States on June 11, 2017

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I particularly appreciated Reality Rule #6: Double-check everything a college advisor tells you. The quickest way through college is to take full responsibility for planning your own course schedule. (I've never seen this point addressed in any of the literature.)
I strongly disagree with the author’s advice on student loans. She is promulgating the 100% of targeted starting salary rule for student loans. I suppose this looks reasonable to her from the prospective of her Ivy/Northeastern prism. If you look at the career outcomes data, this rule is far too risky. Fifty percent of those who matriculate end up paying off loans being under employed or unemployed.
She missed the American Opportunity Tax which can be as much as $10,000 off the top.

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M. Manella

As a CFP® and Director of Financial Planning I say...

Reviewed in the United States on February 10, 2014

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Every grandparent, parent and young teenager considering higher education MUST read this book.

Do not be had by "Planners" that advise shifting assets...annuties and life insurance; control costs with a plan for repaying loans. In other words, plan to become an adult with personal responsibility for your life with an understanding that bad decisions early in more that one area of life can have adverse life-long consequences.

Understand your EFC, the timing of your other goals and all the financial solutions you have in place and then shop schools. It is likely to be your 1st or 2nd largest financial expense in your life and if it yields little return and jeapodizes other plans keep in mind. We live longer, we change jobs and careers more often and the road less traveled, "... made all the difference." - Robert Frost

Matt Manella, CFP® - BA in Biblical and Theological Studies, Minor in (Marine) Biology

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Gina

Wow---get this book NOW!

Reviewed in the United States on August 24, 2016

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Wow! Stunned. I have a high school senior, and I regret not having this book sooner. However, just reading this book has transformed our approach to college with our children. Snyder KNOWS what she is talking about---GET THIS BOOK NOW!

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Jennifer Britain

Fantastic tool for parents getting ready to send kids off to college.

Reviewed in the United States on September 3, 2019

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This book was one of my most used resources during my child's college search. Invaluable, unbiased information. Definitely recommend.

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StuartPat

A must have for college bound students and their parents

Reviewed in the United States on April 5, 2015

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Great advice, still relevant for today's high school seniors. After reading it, I purchased 5 more copies for students and parents. The advice is on point, easy to read, with resource links for deeper review.

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Dena

Five Stars

Reviewed in the United States on July 8, 2014

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This was a very eye-opening book. A must read for parents of high school students.

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cathy

tune up is a rip off

Reviewed in the United States on August 22, 2013

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What?
College is an overpriced investment for the value and conforms to a classic financial bubble, just like the housing bubble which burst in 2009. Save your $ for grad school.

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Freddi Faye

Worth buying

Reviewed in the United States on November 5, 2013

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Great book that is easy to read and very useful. I especially loved the lists of careers that would be most popular in the future.

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