How to Be a Scholar: Smoothing the Transition from High School to College...and Beyond (Third Edition)

For a growing number of people, moving from high school to college and then college to career are two of life's biggest transitions.

For many, they are also two of life's biggest challenges.

This book is intended to help make both of these transitions, but especially the first, smoother than they might be otherwise.

How to be a Scholar: Smoothing the Transition from High School to College...and Beyond provides evidence-based recommendations for maximizing academic success in those crucial first semesters in college.

Full of relevant information on the various support services offered by the university, it serves as a reference for the integration and use of all these resources.

By completing worksheets provided at the end of each Chapter, students will be fully engaged, and they will finish the book with a portfolio that will be useful as they transition from high school students to college scholars, and beyond.