Recommended Reading List

Recommended Reading

• College Admission: from Application to Acceptance (Mamlet & Valdevelde)
• Colleges That Change Lives (Pope)
• College Unranked (Thacker)
• The College Solution (O’Shaughnessy)
• Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be (Bruni)
• The Hidden Ivies (Greene & Greene)
• The Public Ivies (Greene & Greene)

Also, explore the following:

Blogs

• Collegewise
• DIY College Rankings (check out their 50-50 lists!)
• The College Solution (about paying for college)
• True Admissions (from College Admissions from Application to Acceptance book)

Podcasts

• Getting In Your College Admissions Companion
• College Essay Guy (podcast features many more topics than just essay advice)

Alternatives to Rankings

• National Survey of Student Engagement - Information from hundreds of four-year colleges and universities nationwide about student participation in programs and activities that institutions provide for their learning and personal development.
• What Will They Learn - “Exploring the state of general education, those courses designed to give college students a firm grounding in the areas of knowledge they will use for a lifetime.”
• The Alumni Factor - “What kind of person comes out of that college and what kind of success in life they can expect going forward.”
• The Outcomes Survey - “Provides rich insights on how recent grads fare immediately after commencement and at three, six and 12 months after finishing their studies at specific schools.”