After 20 years of higher education and then a great multi-track career, the author now provides insight into what makes for college success. The Mentored Action Plan (MAP) he presents in this book can be used by nearly any student to guarantee an academic and career advantage over contemporaries around the world. The plan makes all the difference for students who compete for the best college placements and career positions. This book guides a student through this unique and powerful plan helping them to identify, organize, and apply the human resources that will drive them to greatness. The process forever changes how students plan for, and engage, in academics and career development.

The Success Factors There are at least a dozen people in every student's life who will do everything in their power to ensure that the student experiences an overwhelming academic and career placement success. This book tells how to locate, organize, and work with those people. Students can wish and pray to get into the college of their choice, or they can prepare the college to be eagerly expecting their application and anxious to approve it. This book shows the way. Winding through the college and graduate school selection, admissions, and academics can be a wandering, unstructured journey. But this book turns that notion upside down and makes positive, strategic action the norm. Then a student can, like millions of others, hope for a call-back from a resume for a job, or they can position themselves in such high demand that they have the joy of saying "no" when offered multiple opportunities. This book helps them create that success.