College Reading List

College Reading List

College Guides and Reference Materials

John C. Hoy, Choosing A College (New York: Delacorte Press, 1967)

Richard Moll, Playing the Private College Admissions Game (New York: Times Books, 1979)

Richard Moll, The Public Ivies (New York: Times Books, 1985)

Zola D. Scheider and Betty G. Edelson, The College Connection, How to Help Yourself Into College (Middleton, CT: Xerox Education Publications, 1980)

Mimi Schwartz, "How to Write College Application Essays," (Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides)

Edward B. Wall, "How We Do It: Student Selection at the Nation's Most Prestigious Colleges" (Alexandria, VA: Octameron, 1982)

Zucker and Hegener, College Admissions: Getting Into the College of Your Choice (Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides, 1980)

GENERAL GUIDES

Barron's Profiles of American Colleges (Woodbury, NY: Barron) (revised yearly)

The Black Student's Guide to Colleges (New York, NY: EP Dutton, Inc., 1982)

Cass and Birnbaum, Comparative Guide to American Colleges (New York: Harper and Row)

The College Handbook (New York: College Entrance Examination Board) (revised yearly)

Edward B. Fiske, Selective Guide to Colleges (New York, NY: Times Books) (revised yearly)

The Insider's Guide to the Colleges (compiled and edited by the staff of the Yale Daily News) (New York: Congdon and Weed) (revised yearly)

Lovejoy's College Guide (New York, NY: Monarch Press) (revised yearly)

John McClintock, 100 Top Colleges (New York, NY: John Wiley)

Sandra F. MacGowan, Sarah M. McGinty, 50 College Admissions Directors Speak to Parents (New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1988)

Peterson's Annual Guide to Undergraduate Study (Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides)

Loren Pope, Colleges That Change Lives (Pentuin Books, 1996)

Charles J. Shields, The College Guide for Parents (College Board Publications, 1995)

Susan Newman with Janet Spencer King, Getting Your Child Into College (St. Martin's Griffin, 1996)

Ernest L. Boyer, Smart Parents Guide to College (Peterson's, 1996)

Joe Anne Adler, 100 Colleges Where Average Students Can Excel (MacMillan USA)

Essays That Worked, edited by Boykin Curry & Brian Kasbar (Fawcett Columbine Book, 1986)

Edward B. Fiske, The Fiske Guide to Colleges (Times Books [Random House]) (updated yearly)

Peterson's Guide to Four-Year Colleges (Peterson's) (updated yearly)

Lovejoy's College Guide, edited by Charles T. Straughn II and Barbarasue Lovejoy Straughn (MacMillan USA) (updated yearly)

Susan D. Van Raalte, College Applications & Essays (MacMillan USA, 1997)

Frederick E. Rugg, Rugg's Recommendations on the Colleges (East Hampton, MA:Whitebrook Books, 1984) (revised periodically)

Thomas C. Hayden, Handbook for College Admissions, A Family Guide (Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides, 1986)

The Best Colleges (Princeton Review) (revised yearly)

Visiting College Campus (Princeton Review) (revised yearly)

Complete Book of Colleges (Princeton Review) (revised yearly)

Four Year Colleges (Peterson's Guides) (revised yearly)

Lauren Pope, Colleges That Change Lives (Penguin Books, 1996)

SPECIAL GUIDES

Architecture Schools in North America (Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides)

"College Programs for Learning Disabled Students," (Skokie, IL: National Association of College Admissions Counselors)

Peterson's Guide to Undergraduate Engineering Study (Princeton, NJ: Peterson's Guides) (revised yearly)

Curry and Kashar, Essays That Worked, 1986

Colleges with Programs for Students With Learning Disabilities (Peterson's Guides) (revised yearly)

The Black Student's Guide to Colleges, edited by Barry Beckham (Madison Books, 1997)

Robert Mitchell, The Multicultural Student's Guide to Colleges (Noonday Press [Farrar, Straus and Girous], 1993)

Peterson's Guide to Colleges in New England (Peterson's) (updated yearly)

Peterson's Top Colleges for Science, David Davis-Van Atta, consulting editor (Peterson's) (updated yearly)

FINANCIAL AID GUIDES

Federal Student Financial Aid (HEW Publication No. (OE) 79-17701) (revised yearly)

Robert Leider, Your Own Financial Aid Directory (Alexandria, VA: Octameron) (revised yearly)

"Meeting College Costs" (Princeton, NJ: College Scholarship Service) (updated annually; available from the guidance office in December of the senior year)

Paying for College (The Princeton Review) (revised yearly)

Alice Drum & Richard Kneedler, Funding a College Education (Harvard Business School Press, 1996)

College Costs & Financial Aid Handbook (The College Board)