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Selecting a college requires making some real decisions about who you are and what you want. You must consider many options: large or small school, city or country, financial considerations, and how well you will fit in. Buckalew suggests how to find out about yourself And The school.

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School Library Journal Review

Gr 10-12-- A first chapter, purporting to help students choose whether or not to go to college, is definitely slanted toward a ``yes'' decision, citing a study that ``successful'' people are usually those who finish a college program. A brief self-assessment to help readers determine college choices completes the chapter. The rest of the book contains wise and useful advice for the prospective college-goer. The prevailing attitude is that the best schools are not always the biggest and fanciest, corresponding to the viewpoint in Loren Pope's Looking Beyond the Ivy League (Penguin, 1990), which could serve as a companion volume. An interesting and beneficial chapter teaches how to cope with the subsequent stress of this process. The book concludes with some information on expectations during the first year of college, a subject covered in depth in College Bound (College Board, 1988) by Evelyn Kaye and Janet Gardner, and with a helpful and encouraging word to parents. Information on the colleges themselves is beyond this book's scope. Thoughtful and clear, its aim is to help teens who do opt for college to feel satisfied and comfortable with the selection process. --Diane P. Tuccillo, Mesa Public Library, AZ (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.

Booklist Review

This is not the typical college guide that describes various colleges, testing procedures, interviews, and financial aid plans. The authors successfully approach another concern, concentrating on how to deal with the emotions involved in handling the whole process of choosing a college. The importance of happiness and developing close friendships makes a crucial difference in whether a student is successful in finishing school. Buckalew and Hall encourage self-assessment and the choosing of an adult who can advise in making the decision. Several students, along with the authors, discuss first-hand experiences in coping with fears, confusions, excitement, parents, friends, teachers, the first year of college, and the overall changes that take place in the process of facing a new stage in life. An excellent chapter on the subject of stress provides the reader with tactics that can be used throughout life. Index. Rowh, below, deals with stress in college. --Kathy Bonnar