Let's face it, college is hard and some professors do NOT make it any easier. In high school teachers said constantly - "College will be different from high school you know!"
Yh.. We get it..
But what they didn't give us was a blueprint to master the college game.
But I knew there had to be a way to get A's and top my class because if other students could do it, then heck so could I.
That's when I began searching for answers from my classmates who easily aced their classes. They said they barely studied but always got great grades. That didn't make any sense to me. So I studied what top students were doing and what made them special. The truth is, their habits were just totally different from everyone else and ALL top students did the same things whether they meant to or not. That's when I knew I struck GOLD!
One of the first lessons I observed was how much top students wrote. But even further than that, I observed WHAT they wrote. I realized that top students wrote way more effectively in class than most of us. So I copied what they did and added it to my system. Then I realized how top students managed their time, and I added that to my system too! BUT.. It didn't stop there because these two strategies were just the tip of the iceberg.
Ya-da ya-da ya-da... It took me 3 years to move from 34th in my classroom in grade 9, to the top GPA of the ENTIRE graduating class by grade 12 and securing 2 full scholarships to college (and acing all of those college courses too as an Economics and Music Major). My system isn't about taking easy classes. No picking who my professors were. None of that - because that system doesn't work after college. I developed a system that produced the best results regardless of the course and one that applied to learning outside of college that lead to success.
The system was perfected with further research then put into this awesome book that took me 2 years to publish! The systems in this book got me those results! It feels crazy to know that I did all of this without half the stress of most college students. By my senior year I served on the student government, enrolled in the ROTC program, became a university ambassador, served as a Peer Mentor, led the university orchestra, mentored hundreds of students, all while managing my own real estate business and still found the time to write this 200-page book for you.. Look, if I can do this, believe me, so can you.
Order now and get on it! Kiss stress buh-bye.
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“The distinguishing characteristic of The Full Student is that it is written by a current college student, which makes the book authentic, relatable, and immensely purposeful.”
My journey began as a young boy in grade 7 in the bottom third of my class. Well to be fully honest, I was second to last in my class by grade averages. Who did I beat out in smarts? None other than my best friend at the time.
The two of us anchored the class as class clowns, always the first (and last) to bring out the giggles. We enjoyed every second of it. There was only one problem. At the end of every semester we'd both dread having to face the grade reports sent to our parents.
Mine would say the usual "has potential but needs to settle down". I got the same remarks from teachers so consistently that it became a theme at the end of each semester. My dad would say, "Oh I already know what they'll say," then we'd both recite what we knew the teachers said.
As I grew into grade 9, I began to turn the tide and take matters into my own hands because I knew college years were ahead. I needed to settle down at some point if I intended to get to the next academic level.
Truth is, for a long time I believed that I just didn't work hard enough and that once I began to work harder, things would just fall into place. I believed that if I really applied myself to studying and reading more at home, I could one day stumble into the top half of my class.
Little did I know that through my search for answers I would come to find practical methods for high levels of achievement that would last for a lifetime. The principles I uncover in this book would move me from 2nd to last in my class, to having the highest GPA of all graduating seniors from my high school, being accepted into 9 universities, and ending up with full scholarship offers from two of them.
In these pages I discuss how the 'boy with potential' telling jokes at the back of the classroom evolved to quite literally having the luxury of choosing where I wanted to go for college without paying a dime. This book will explain my approach in full as well as how you might use them for your success.
I wrote these things down as a response to the fact that I needed this information years ago but did not have it. I had to struggle before I found the light. Hopefully with this college student success book, you will not have to struggle to find answers as I did but will instead find them in a single place. READ AN EXCERPT HERE.
Olivia “Babsy” Grange, CD, MP Minister Of Culture, Jamaica
"The distinguishing characteristic of The Full Student is that it is written by a current college student, which makes the book authentic, relatable, and IMMENSELY PURPOSEFUL"
-Evin Deschamps
Director of Academic Resource Center, Seton Hall University
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