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Maya Frost’s ‘The New Global Student’ is a game-changer
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The New Global Student ($14.95, Three Rivers Press) is not your typical college prep book. But then, Maya Frost is not your typical college prep author. An American expatriate living in Buenos Aires, Ms. Frost approaches the subject in the context of sending all four of her daughters to college in an unorthodox way: none of them submitted an SAT score or took an AP course, yet each received amazing educations in places like Germany, Chile, Brazil, and Mexico, and got astonishing good jobs to boot. Surprisingly, the cost for each girl’s education was approximately $35,000, about the cost of one year at a private college in the United States.
In a genre saturated with recent grads focused on scoring high on standardized tests, Ms. Frost offers an alternative avenue by circumventing the ridiculously expensive and hypercompetitive traditional admissions process.
The story behind the book is nearly as incredible as the advice it contains.
In 2005, with college approaching for their four teenagers, Maya and Tom Frost sold their home in Oregon and moved the family to Mexico. They weren’t rich (the couple earned “five figures — together”) but were able to save $3,000 a month to put toward college costs. In the process, they broke the traditional college mold by helping each daughter get a global education while accruing no debt.
Billed as the anticollege prep book, Ms. Frost is hilarious and impassioned in delivering tips, tricks, and personal success stories that enlighten and entertain. In the book, Ms. Frost describes a flexible education model that employs such options as international exchange programs, online study and dual enrollments that allowed students to take high school and college courses at the same time.
The book, with its useful and timely advice, is an easy and enjoyable read, and motivates readers to follow the suggestions in its subtitle: “Skip the SAT, Save Thousands on Tuition, and Get a Truly International Education.” This book has changed the college admissions game by showing parents and students a new alternative—one that offers greater exposure to foreign cultures and languages, enhances students’ real-world education and global awareness, and costs less money than the traditional route.
The New Global Student is available at Amazon.com, Barnes & Noble, and Random House.
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