Self-Management Skills and "College Knowledge"

This cleverly named chapter is filled with very useful knowledge for the high school educator/administrator to consider for making his/her school a place where students will be aptly prepared for their future in college. There are many, many useful tips and lots of ideas and advice (some rooted in good old obvious common sense) for the high school student/educator/administrator to follow or use where college readiness is concerned.
Briefly, let us discuss a few of these elements of self-management skills and "college knowledge."
There is a lot of talk about time management when it comes to succeeding in college. One must be able to show maturity by having such skills. College students must learn how to balance all of their obligations, opportunities and distractions.
Study skills, study groups, knowing how to prepare for tests and setting goals; all of these skills are very useful in college. These are all skills taught in classes like UNIV, to give freshman an advantage at the University level.
On pg 81, "Persistence with Difficult Tasks" this section is about the difficulty of college assignments and ambiguity in contrast to the work that high school students are used to. This section briefly mentions how writing well requires persistence and discusses revising and how writing is important in many subject areas in college.
Knowing one strengths and weaknesses is crucial in the University setting. For a lot of college Freshman, that first C is a shocker. This section discusses how even someone who is the best student in high school can be a mediocre student in a college setting. They may be "academic stars" but find out that an instructor in the college level could care less about your background but only focuses on quality of your work. "The shattered self image phenomen" is what a 4.0 student may have when he does poorly in his first semester. The only thing I couldn't stand was all this talk about first generation college students and the correlation to being members of minority groups. Really?
"College Knowledge" is as simple as making all students in high school aware of their opportunities to attend post-secondary institutions.
College students must be able to adjust to the college culture. Knowing that college has it's own culture is very useful for college students and proves that by having "cultural captital" that is the knowledge and experience etc to succeed in the post-secondary world of education includes all of aforementioned, time management skills and studying, and esp communicating with professors.
The rest of the chapter discusses how high schools can support "post-secondary participation" through counselors following the same group of students through out their careers in h.s. promoting college readiness.
High schools should definitely better prepare their students by realizing that the transition is what makes or breaks the students. Knowing a few of these basic skills can definitely give the entering college student an advantage.