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How to Win at College: Surprising Secrets for Success from the Country's Top Students | 
 enlarge | Author: Cal Newport
Publisher: Broadway
Category: Book
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Avg. Customer Rating:  29 reviews
Sales Rank: 20209
Media: Paperback
Number Of Items: 1
Pages: 208
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.1
Dimensions (in): 7.8 x 4.8 x 0.5
ISBN: 0767917871
Dewey Decimal Number: 378.198
EAN: 9780767917872
ASIN: 0767917871
Publication Date: April 12, 2005
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Product Description
The only guide to getting ahead once you’ve gotten in—proven strategies for making the most of your college years, based on winning secrets from the country's most successful students
What does it take to be a standout student? How can you make the most of your college years—graduate with honors, choose exciting activities, build a head-turning resume, and gain access to the best post-college opportunities? Based on interviews with star students at universities nationwide, from Harvard to the University of Arizona, How to Win at College presents seventy-five simple rules that will rocket you to the top of the class. These college-tested—and often surprising—strategies include:
• Don’t do all your reading
• Drop classes every term
• Become a club president
• Care about your grades, Ignore your GPA
• Never pull an all-nighter
• Take three days to write a paper
• Always be working on a “grand project”
• Do one thing better than anyone else you know
Proving that success has little to do with being a genius workaholic, and everything to do with playing the game, How to Win at College is the must-have guide for making the most of these four important years—and getting an edge on life after graduation.
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 Go big or go home, 5 star book hands down August 17, 2008
let's face it folks, the key to winning is successful strategy. Cal breaks it down through efficient ways to do well. He filters out the grind student's advice, and applies highly intelligent ways to be a student. He doesn't hold your hand through college, he tells you to get off your arse, stop procrasting, learn new ways to study, and still have a life.
When i hit college next fall, I'll have zero anxiety now from his book alone.
 Lots of good tips on college life July 29, 2008
This is a book about getting more from the college experience.
Suggestions such as write for the school newspaper, volunteer, attend political rallies, advice on summer employment (he advocates getting a job in the field you are interested in working as career), etc.
There are some study tips covered as well.
The author has another book called, "How to Become a Straight A Student" that is very good at discussing ways to improve your grades and live a balanced life too.
Books like this are why I get self-help books on Amazon July 13, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
If you're looking at reviews for this book then you're likely looking for some insight into the college process on a deeper level than surface-level advice. In that case, you should undoubtedly get this book.
I'm going to college next year, and I'm the type of person who copes with things by reading about them. Books like this book are the reason I do that. It's clear and easy to read, it's direct, it's straightforward, and best of all, it's full of simple advice that can dramatically improve one's college experience. It provides this advice without being pretentious- the book's title turned me off at first, and while the author certainly has a very pragmatic approach to college life, he decries resume-padding and the like.
I've recommended it to many of my classmates, and it will serve as a sort of bible for me next year. As much as it's helpful on a practical level, it's helped me in another way, too. I went looking for books because I was nervous about next year. This book helped reassure me by encouraging me to focus on the exciting aspects rather than the unnerving ones. If only I could get such a powerful effect every time I spent ten dollars.
Reasonable, revealing advice June 10, 2008
2 out of 2 found this review helpful
**UPDATED --- now 5 stars
Cal Newport's passion for the subject is transparent. Writing as an experienced, well-researched "big brother," Newport avoids being didactic while imparting advice he clearly believes in.
The advice is, quite simply, great. From the attitude to the study techniques, Newport covers a good majority of what a college student needs to accomplish in order to win as per his interpretation. For any freshman or sophomore looking to become one of those all-around stars on campus -- for anyone ambitious -- I highly recommend this book.
Some of the advice is, at first, overwhelming. However, it is all very, very true and tested. As Cal would say about any assignment, let it simmer in the background of your mind for a while. You will realize how prescient his advice is.
Thanks Mr. Newport for the great advice!
Every graduating HS Student should read this book June 5, 2008
This little gem has been a boon to both my current college students. I now give the book as a HS graduation present. It proveides very wise tips on how to continue that streak of success that the colleges loved enough to admit your student in the first place. A positive road map with both common sense and forward looking ideas to enter the real world.
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