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Recommended Reading
General Guidebooks
The College Handbook. New York: The College Entrance Examination Board.
Exhaustive, complete and accurate. Available in the College Office.
Fiske, Edward. 2025. The Fiske Guide to Colleges. New York: Random House, Inc.
This is a balanced, intelligent basic guidebook; no home or school should be without it.
Franek, Robert. 2025 The Princeton Review: The Best 391 Colleges, 2026. New York: Penguin Random House, LLC.
Pope, Loren. 2012. Colleges That Change Lives. New York: Penguin. And, 2007. Looking Beyond the Ivy League. New York: Penguin.
Just overall very good thinking and research about various colleges.
Specialized Guidebooks
Barnard, Brennan and Rick Clark. 2023. The Truth about College Admission. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University
Press.
Brown, Stewart. 2018. The Student-Athlete’s Guide to Getting Recruited. Belmont, CA: SuperCollege, L.L.C.
Durso-Finley, Jeffrey and Lewis Stival. 2014. Understanding Athletic Recruiting. Self-published.
Fields, Timothy and Herndon-Brown, Shereem. 2022. The Black Family’s Guide to College Admissions. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press.
Kravets, Marybeth and Imy Wax. 2023. The K&W Guide to Colleges for Students with Learning Disabilities or ADHD. New York, NY: Princeton Review Publishing, L.L.C.
Loveland, Elaina. 2017. Creative College: A Guide for Student Actors, Artists, Dancers, Musicians and Writers. Los Altos, CA: SuperCollege, LLC.
Articles of Interest
The College Counseling Web Board contains links to a number of college-related articles.
Interesting Books on College Admission
Bruni, Frank. 2016. Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be. New York: Grand Central Publishing.
Delahunty, Jennifer. 2010. I’m Going to College – NOT YOU!: Surviving the College Search with Your Child. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin.
Ferguson, Andrew. 2012. Crazy U: One Dad’s Crash Course in Getting His Kid Into College. New York: Simon & Schuster.
Mathews, Jay. 2003. Harvard Schmarvard. New York: Random House, Inc.
Mayher, Bill. 1998. The College Admissions Mystique. New York: The Noonday Press.
A refreshingly honest account of the college admission process.
Selingo, Jeffrey. 2025. Dream School: Finding the College That's Right for You. New York: Scribner
Selingo, Jeffrey. 2020. Who Gets In and Why. New York: Scribner
Steinberg, Jacques. 2003. The Gatekeepers. New York: Penguin Group.
Thacker, Lloyd. 2005. College Unranked: Ending the College Admissions Frenzy. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.
Financial Aid Guidebooks
Chany, Kalman. 2025. Paying for College: Everything You Need to Maximize Financial Aid and Afford College, 2026. New York: Random House, Inc.
Transition to College Books
Coburn, Karen Lenin & Madge Lawrence Treeger. 2016. Letting Go: A Parent’s Guide to Understanding the College Years. New York: Harper Collins.
This is the book on the transition from family and school to college.
Lerner, Daniel, and Alan Schlechter. 2017. U Thrive: How to Succeed in College (and Life). New York: Little, Brown and Company.
Woodacre, Margo & Steffany Bane. 2015. I’ll Miss You Too: An Off-to-College Guide for Parents and Students. Illinois: American Literary Press, Inc.
Recommended Websites
Both students and parents can stay up to date by routinely checking the College Counseling Web Board (login required) on the Friends Seminary website, www.friendsseminary.org
The following websites may also be useful tools in your college searches. The Friends Seminary Library can help students with these sites if no computer is available at home.
The Campus Pride Ultimate Queer College Guide
Campus Reel
Campus Tours Index: Virtual College Tours
This site is linked to a number of college and university websites, some with maps and even live videos of their campuses. This is more convenient than chasing all the sites around the internet itself; it does come with advertising naturally.
College Board Online
This is an enormously helpful site; it contains worthwhile tips, testing dates, registration and reporting services, and access to the CSS Profile.
The College Essay Guy
College Express
College Navigator
https://nces.ed.gov/collegenavigator/
A good place to check the most popular (or oversubscribed) majors on campus.
Colleges That Change Lives
Common Application Online
Common Data Set
Search school name + common data set to access school specific admission and enrollment information.
CUNY Main Website for the Entire System
National Collegiate Athletic Association (NCAA)
Peterson's Website
SUNY Main Website for the Entire System
Universities and Colleges Admission Services