Print Resources

Magazines

(Published in August-September)

  • The Best College for You, by Time and Princeton Review.
  •  How to Get Into College, by Newsweek and Kaplan.
  • America’s Best Colleges, by US News.

Comprehensive Guide Books

(new editions available in Sept./Oct.)

  • Barron’s Profiles of American Colleges
  • Complete Book of Colleges (Princeton Review)
  • Peterson’s Four Year Colleges (Peterson’s Guides)

Focused Guide Books

(new editions available in Sept./Oct.)

  • The Best Buys in College Education (Barron’s)
  • The Best 300 Plus Colleges (Princeton Review)
  •  Fiske Guide (Times Books/Random House)
  • Colleges that Change Lives, Loren Pope
  • Looking Beyond the Ivy  League,  Loren Pope

Reference Materials on the Transition to College

  • Almost Grown, Patricia Pasick
  • Get Out of My Life, but first would you drive me and Cheryl to the Mall,  Anthony Wolf
  • Letting Go! A Parent’s Guide to Today’s College Experience, Coburn and Treeger
  • College 101 Answers to Questions about College Life, Ronald Farrar
  • College is Only the Beginning, John Gardner