A sampling of useful resources can be found below.

Blogs Publications and Guides
  • Art College Admissions: An Insider's Guide to Art Portfolio Preparation, Selecting the Right College, and Gaining Admission with Scholarships (Wook Choi, 2012)
  • Colleges That Pay You Back: The 200 Schools That Give You the Best Bang for Your Tuition Buck (Princeton Review and Robert Franek, 2018)
  • College UnBound (Jeffrey Selingo, 2015) - An editor at large at The Chronicle of Higher Education, Selingo chronicles the many maladies plaguing colleges and universities, and argues that the outrageous cost of college is going to force changes in the higher-ed business model.
  • Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges (Loren Pope; Hilary Masell Oswald, ed. 2012) - An updated version of the 1995 classic, which persuasively argues that looking beyond “prestige” and “name” often leads students to schools that have a lasting, powerful impact on them.
Websites
  • American College Test (ACT)
  • Cappex (Includes merit scholarship search engines that identify college and corporate offerings)
  • Coalition for College (A group of more than 150 selective US colleges and universities that joined together with the mission to increase students’ access to higher education; produces the Coalition Application)
  • College Affordability and Transparency Center (Information center set up by the federal government to help families compare college costs.)
  • College Board Big Future (An excellent searchable data base with tons of individual college stats, including the essential “Financial Aid by the Numbers” in the paying section.)
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