Maximizing College Success : Real-World Strategies for Surviving and Thriving

Designed to help students confidently navigate the transition from high school to college and to succeed throughout their academic careers. The book illuminates the significant social and learning changes that come with college life and helps students avoid common mistakes that can impede academic and personal growth.

Maximizing College Success: Real-World Strategies for Surviving and Thriving is designed to help students confidently navigate the transition from high school to college and to succeed throughout their academic careers. The book illuminates the significant social and learning changes that come with college life and helps students avoid common mistakes that can impede academic and personal growth.

Readers discover the complexities and challenges of both new and old relationships in college, the importance of communication savvy, and how imperative it is to balance time, money, energy, and perspective. By presenting examples of how others view student behavior, the book addresses work habits, what a university expects from its students, the importance of providing feedback and getting involved, and what to make of new rules, regulations, and procedures. Students gain practical advice for studying, networking, collaborating, learning from others, and establishing healthy, sustainable behaviors. The book concludes with critical survival tips and insight as to what students can expect after graduation.

Accessible, direct, and highly practical, Maximizing College Success is an ideal resource for college students at the beginning of their academic careers and can also be used to support college orientation and success programs.