<p>Please list your favorite books on the college admissions process.</p>
<p>I posted this on the "College Admissions" Board and this is what I got: </p>
<p>Fat Envelope Frenzy by Joie Jager-Hyman
Admissions Confidential: An Insider's Account of the Elite College Selection Process by Rachel Toor
What You Don't Know Can Keep You Out of College: A Top Consultant Explains the 13 Fatal Application Mistakes and Why Character Is the Key to College Admissions_ by Don Dunbar and G.F. Lichtenberg.
The Price of Admission_ by Daniel Golden
Admission Matters by Jon Reider
The College Solution by Lynn O'Shaughnessy</p>
<p>The GateKeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
Harvard Schmarvard
Finding the College That’s Right for you
Colleges That Change Lives
Letting Go</p>
<p>Colleges That Changed Lives by Loren Pope
Harry Bauld’s book on writing essays (forget the exact title, but someone out there will help me on that!)</p>
<p>Not so much for admissions, but Paying for College Without Going Broke by the Princeton Review is a nice tool as well…</p>
<p>Because you can always use a laugh to relieve stress:
Accept My Kid, Please! by Hank Herman</p>
<p>I’m of the opinion that you do the things in high school that help you become the person you want to be then and THEN apply to college. We didn’t advocate her doing any ECs solely for the purpose of the college application. In that spirit, I’ve listed the following in order of how useful they were to us. </p>
<p>A Is for Admission: The Insider’s Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges by Michele A. Hern</p>