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College Counseling Service has found the following resources helpful in navigating the college process.  Post graduate planning centers and career centers in high schools have many of these books.  Some bookstores will carry a few of these books or you may want to order them through www.amazon.com. You are always welcome to visit and relax in our College Counseling Service library as you browse through these resources. 

 GUIDEBOOKS

College guidebooks fall mainly into two categories:  objective and subjective guides.  The objective or comparative guides obtain their information directly from the admissions offices of the colleges and universities.  They provide statistics and quick reference information on each institution.  The subjective guides provide a narrative and rate various aspects of the institution.  Rankings always use a formula of criteria the people involved have created in order to judge the colleges. 

 

OBJECTIVE/COMPREHENSIVE GUIDEBOOKS

  • The College Handbook, College Board, New York, NY 2006.  3600+ two-year and four-year colleges, indexes by size, type, religion, sports, table of Early plans,  Great introduction, updates annually.  The detailed descriptions are compiled from surveys completed by the actual colleges’ administrators. 
  • Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges, Barron’s Educational Series, Hauppauge, NY, 2006. CD-ROM included in 27th edition. Index of majors, college admission selector, published every other year. 
  • Competitive Colleges: Top Colleges for Top Students, Thomson Peterson’s, Lawrenceville, NJ 2006.  Good overview of admission and aid process, brief profiles with most popular majors, internet links, no ads. 
  • Complete Book of Colleges, Princeton Review Publishing, New York, NY, 2006.  Factual descriptions of nearly 1700 four-year colleges, popular Admissions Wizard feature, some Peterson’s style-ads. 

 

NARRATIVE/SUBJECTIVE GUIDEBOOKS

  • The Fiske Guide to Colleges, Edward Fiske, Sourcebooks, Naperville, IL, 2006.  Most widely respected and accepted book in growing category began life two decades ago as controversial NY Times Guide, larger book from new publisher profiles more than 300 colleges, includes Best Buys, great advice. 
  • The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges, Yale Daily News staff, St. Martin’s Griffin, New York, NY, 2006.  Written by students, excellent “College Spectrum” introduction.  Breezy, upbeat tone, good Fiske complement.
  • Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools You Should Know About Even I f You’re Not a Straight-A-Student, Loren Pope, Penguin Books, New York, NY, 2000.  Required Reading preface is must reading! Revised 2nd edition adds Agnes Scott, Ursinus, Wabash, drops Bard, Franklin & Marshall, Grinnell.
  • Barron’s Guide to the Most Competitive Colleges, Barron’s Educational Series, Hauppauge, NY, 2003.,  New third edition includes lengthy, meaty profiles, each ten pages or longer, of more than 50 institutions.
  • 100 Colleges Where Average Students Can Excel, Joanne Adler: Arco, Macmillan, New York, NY, 1997.  Average defined as C grades, 950-1050 SAT or comparable ACT.  Two page profiles, great resource. 
  • Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different, Donald Asher, Ten Speed Press, Berkeley, CA, 2000.  Great book of “schools where you’ll be challenged and inspired” includes narrative profiles of 30+ distinctive colleges, brief paragraphs on many more. 
  • The Hidden Ivies: Thirty Colleges of Excellence, Howard Greene and Matthew Greene, Greenes’ Guides, Cliff Street Books, HarperCollins Publishers, New York, NY, 2000.  Father-son consultant team. 
  • The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 331 Most Interesting Colleges, Kaplan, Simon & Schuster, New York, NY, 2004.  Clever icons and sidebars, list of recommended schools by category, overlaps added.

 

STUDENTS WITH SPECIAL NEEDS/ INTERESTS GUIDEBOOKS

  • Catholic Colleges,  Princeton Review
  • The Official Catholic College & University Guidebook- 2005-2007
  • Colleges with Programs for Students with Learning Disabilities
  • College Guide for Students with Learning Disabilities
  • 100 Best Colleges for African American Students
  • The K & W Guide to Colleges for the Learning Disabled
  • Historically Black Colleges and Universities Resource Book
  • The Black Student’s Guide to Colleges
  • The Multi-cultural Students’ Guide to Colleges
  • The Performing Arts Majors’ College Guide

 

FINANCIAL AID/SCHOLARSHIPS GUIDES

  • Meeting College Costs:  what You Need to Know Before Your Child and Your Money Leave Home, The College Board, 2005.
  • Don’t Miss Out: the Ambitious Student’s Guide to Scholarships and Loans, Leider, Robert and Anna Leider.  Alexandria, VA:  Octameron Associates.
  • The A’s and B’s of Academic Scholarships: 100,000 Scholarships for Top Students, Leider, Anna,  Alexandria, VA: Octameron Associates.
  • Discounts and Deals at the Nation’s 360 Best Colleges, Hammond. 1999.

 

WORLD WIDE WEBSITES EXPLORING COLLEGE OPTIONS

 

EXPLORING FINANCIAL AID & SCHOLARSHIP WEBSITES

 

TEST PREPARATION AND INFORMATION WEBSITES

 

MISCELLANEOUS WEBSITES

 

College Counseling Service wants to thank Bruce Hunter, Director of College Counseling, Rowland Hall-St. Mark’s School in Salt Lake City, UT for the use of sections of his Recommended College References Bibliography.        

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