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How can you graduate with honors, choose exciting activities, build a head-turning resume, gain access to the best post-college opportunities, and still have a life? 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 your class. These 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

Proving you can be successful and still have time for fun, How to Win at College is the must-have guide for making the most of these four important years—and getting and edge on life after graduation.

© 2020 Tantor Media (Audiobook): 9781705201268

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Audiobook: 11 February 2020

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