Oy Vey, It's Time to Apply: A Cultural Guide to Colleges for Jewish Parents

Oy Vey, It's Time to Apply: A Cultural Guide to Colleges for Jewish Parents is Jerome Ostrov's gift to all Jewish families facing the college selection enigma. Despite American Jews having enjoyed a long and high-achieving academic history, Jewish parents and their children still approach the college application process with trepidation. With insight and understanding, Ostrov creates a logical roadmap for families engaged in the application process, bringing a sense of sanity and practicality to this often stressful and always bitter-sweet rite of passage. Parents who value their kids' Jewish college experience will discover a goldmine of information, with profiles on more than 120 large and small colleges where Jewish students thrive. From straight talk about campus life, historical information, and an extensive appendix of religious information, this unique book is the perfect antidote to the application blahs.