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Resources for College Planning

Books

Most of the following are available in the CPS College Counseling Office.

*Special recommendation--new this year:

*Thacker, Lloyd (ed.). College Unranked: Affirming Educational Values in College Admissions. Available at www.educationconservancy.org.

Basic Reference Books (*subjective)

Assorted College Board Publications including:

College Costs and Financial Aid Handbook

Index of Majors

The Scholarship Book

The College Handbook

The Guide to 150 Popular College Majors

Fiske, Edward, The Fiske Guide To Selective Colleges, Times Books, Random House

Goldman, Jordan and Buyers, Colleen, Students' Guide to Colleges (The Definitive Guide to America's Top 100 Schools), Penguin Books

Mathews, Jay, Harvard Schmarvard: Getting Beyond the Ivy League

Mitchell, Robert, The Multicultural Students’ Guide to Colleges, The Noonday Press, Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Moll, Richard, Playing The Selective College Admissions Game, Penguin Books, and The Public Ivys, Penguin

Peterson's Guides: Professional Degree Programs in the Visual & Performing Arts

Pope, Lauren, Looking Beyond The Ivy League, (Finding The College That's Right For You), Viking Penguin and Colleges That Change Lives

Princeton Review Series: Complete Book of Colleges, 2006

Slayton Mitchell, Joyce, Winning the Heart of the College Admission Dean, Ten Speed Press

Springer, Sally P. & Franck, Marion R., Admission Matters (What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting Into College), Jossey-Bass*

Solorzano, Lucia, Barron’s Best Buys in College Education, Barron’s

Steinberg, Jacques, The Gatekeepers, Viking Press

Yale Daily News, Insider's Guide To The Colleges, St. Martin's Press

Zuker, R.F., K.C. Hegener, Peterson's Guide To College Admissions, Peterson's Guides

How-To Books

DeOliveira, Paulo and Steve Cohen, Getting In, Workman Press

Kilpatrick, Frances and James, The Winning Edge (for athletes), Octameron

Light, Richard, Making the Most of College, Harvard University Press

McGinty, Sarah, Writing Your College Application Essay, Harper and Row

Robinson, Adam and John Katzman, The Princeton Review: Cracking The SAT and PSAT, Random House

Spencer, Janet and Sandra Maleson, The Princeton Review: Visiting College Campuses, Random House

Financial Guides

Get a Jump! The Financial Aid Answer Book, Thomson Peterson's

Hammond, Bruce G., Discounts and Deals at the Nations 360 Best Colleges, St. Martin's Griffin

Lehman, A.E., E.A. Suber, The College Money Handbook, Peterson's Guides

Paying Less for College, Peterson’s Guides

Of Special Interest To Parents

Coburn, K. Levin and Madge Lawrence Treeger, Letting Go (A Parent's Guide To Today's College Experience), Adler and Adler

MacGowan, Sandra F. and Sarah M. McGinty, 50 College Admissions Directors Speak To Parents, Harcourt, Brace, Jovanovich

Mayher, Bill, The College Admissions Mystique, Farrar, Straus & Givoux

Riera, Michael, Uncommon Sense for Parents of Teenagers, Celestial Arts

Riera, Michael, Field Guide to the American Teenager, Perseus

Johnson, Helen E. and Schelhas-Miller, Christine, Don't Tell Me What to Do, Just Send Money (The Essential Parenting Guide to the College Years), St. Martin's Griffin

For those interested in a “gap” year (year off between high school and college)

Hall and Lieber, Taking Time Off, Noonday Press

In addition to a wide variety of books on the subject of colleges, there is now a great deal of information accessible to you from computers via the Internet. After careful self-assessment, an excellent way to start your college search is to consult the home pages of colleges and universities or to consult www.collegeboard.com, www.petersons.com, or www.princetonreview.com.