College Office: Recommended Reading
College Guidebooks/ Books & Websites about the Process:
- ACT
- Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic And What We Can Do About It, Jennifer Breheny Wallace
- Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote To the College Admissions Mania, Frank Bruni
- Campus Pride Index
- Colleges That Change Lives
- Common Application
- College: What It Was, Is, and Should Be, Andrew Delbanco
- The Black Family’s Guide to College Admissions, Timothy Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown
- Edward B. Fiske Guide To Colleges 2025.
- The College Conversation: A Practical Companion for Parents to Guide Their Children Along the Path to Higher Education, Eric Furda and Jacques Steinberg
- Class Dismissed: When Colleges Ignore Inequality and Students Pay the Price, Anthony Jack
- The Privileged Poor: How Elite Colleges Are Failing Disadvantaged Students, Anthony Jack
- How to Raise An Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success, Julie Lythcott-Haims
- Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think about College, Loren Pope and Hilary Masell
- Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions, Jeffrey Selingo
- The CollegeBoard
Helpful Articles:
- “This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity.” The New York Times, 2024.
- “Before Heading to College, Make a Mental Health Checklist”, The New York Times, 2022
- “What to Know About College Admissions Now That Affirmative Action Is Gone.” The New York Times, 2023.
- “How the Ivy League Broke America”, The Atlantic, 2024
- “What Happened to Enrollment at Top Colleges After Affirmative Action Ended.” The New York Times, 2025.
- “This Is Peak College Admissions Insanity.” The New York Times, 2024.
- “Stop Asking About My Kid’s College Plans.” The New York Times, 2018.
- “Dear Therapist: I’m Worried The College-Admissions Process Is Rigged Against My Son”. The Atlantic, 2019.
- “Where Does Affirmative Action Leave Asian Americans?” The New York Times Magazine, 2019.
- “What to Know About College Admissions Now That Affirmative Action Is Gone.” The New York Times, 2023.
- “More Women Than Men Are Going to College. That May Change the Economy.” The New York Times, 2021.