You will be fully informed after you read this fab book. Dr.Browne-Miller has tapped into a source of information that if put to use in the real world, could likely change the way we all live (and allow for death). Angela has done human kind a service by being brave enough to bring this information forward. The concepts are dynamic and useful. I highly recommend this book and her others on this subject to anyone interested in the science of mind - and the realms of free thinking, cutting edge information. Lastly, this book isn't completely about dying... it is also about living a better way of life that sets you free

I thank heavens for this book. It helped me change my life. I am a patient of the author's and she guided me through this book step by step. I have given copies to many friends all over the country and it is helping all of them. The way this book counterpoints the practical and the spiritual and integrates them after that makes the whole thing work. She is one of the greatest therapists in the world and this book is proof!

The subject of this book--who gains admission to America's colleges and universities, and why--is very important to all citizens, not simply prospective college students and their parents. The author, Angela Browne-Miller, explains why her subject is important but then spends most of her book detailing the highly complicated and idiosyncratic admissions' policy of one school, the University of California, Berkeley.

The book suffers from Bay Area-itis, the belief held by some residents of the San Francisco Bay Area that they are at the center of the universe, the prophets of all that is new and about to become significant in American culture. The author lives and works in the Bay Area and constantly extrapolates lessons from the local university to "everywhere." Not surprisingly, the book is published by a Bay Area company. (As a professor at Indiana University, Bloomington, I can assure her that most of her points about admissions' policy do not apply here, nor at other public universities in this area, or at most schools in many other areas of the country.)

The book is also badly organized and the author often does not follow some interesting leads, instead she lapses into highly opinionated diatribes. Ironically, I should have been more interested in her comments about Berkeley--I hold two degrees from the school and spent almost ten years of my life there--but her discussion is often so convoluted that I became bored and skipped pages.

The book contains a few good nuggets--e.g., a nice summary of the history of women's education in the U.S.--but, on the whole, it delivers none of its promise: to inform the reader about the important subject of college admissions.

As an admissions professional, this is one of the best books to start with regarding the struggle with promoting diversity on college campuses. The case study of UC-B shows how intricate the issue is and how much it permeates other issues on campuses--retention, student services, alumni giving, etc. Its a fairly easy read and one I recommend to all colleagues. Add this one to your shelf!

This amusingly misunderstood book (and major record of our times) pretty much says it all. People are so stuck in their ways of analyzing social problems and politics that they can't see the forest through the trees - or the truth through their delusions. It seems that many readers place the blindingly colored glasses of their personal biases and expectations over their eyes before reading. Tell these readers that this is not a book of the left or the right. It is most likely closest in foundation to libertarian underpinnings. This is not a book favoring the SF (California) Bay Area view that it is the center of the world. This is a book revealing the mess that higher education has stumbled into and is now blaming on funding, affirmative action, and so on. Bureaucracy is the problem, not social policy, the author writes. Experiments in education are wonderful, but these experiments become fixtures - expensive institutions that do not change well when times change - like universities. How expensive such a poor use of brainpower and taxpayer money and student time these experiments are becoming! This book proposes we look for the truth about supposedly democratic higher education and dig for reality regarding the cancerous bureacracies growing out of colleges and taking them over. Bureacracies do nothing for social programs such as admissions but stifle their value and waste their funding. The individual stories in this book are enough to make the read worth it. Keep the book - it will feel like a scrapbook of this era only a few decades from now. The author's true-to-the-truth weaving line of assessment of the wandering history of admissions policy demonstrates that the messy implementations of great social experiments are enough to make disbelievers out of even their own inventors.