Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
By: Jeffrey J. Selingo
4.26
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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By: Daniel Golden
4.15
Format: None pages,
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2. How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success
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Format: None pages, Hardcover
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3. The Gatekeepers : Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College
By: Jacques Steinberg
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Format: 64 pages,
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4. Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges
By: Loren Pope
2.65
Format: 34 pages, Paperback
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5. How to Be a High School Superstar: A Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out
By: Cal Newport
3.58
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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6. Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
By: Frank Bruni
3.51
Format: 383 pages, Hardcover
Over the last few decades, Americans have turned college admissions into a terrifying and occasiona… read more
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7. I Hate the Ivy League: Riffs and Rants on Elite Education
By: Malcolm Gladwell
4.30
Format: 6 pages, Audible Audio
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8. Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic-and What We Can Do About It
By: Jennifer Breheny Wallace
4.17
Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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9. The Price You Pay for College: An Entirely New Road Map for the Biggest Financial Decision Your Family Will Ever Make
By: Ron Lieber
4.13
Format: 368 pages, Hardcover
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10. Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions
By: Jeffrey J. Selingo
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Format: 320 pages, Hardcover
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11. Valedictorians at the Gate: Standing Out, Getting In, and Staying Sane While Applying to College
By: Becky Munsterer Sabky
4.19
Format: 240 pages, Hardcover
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12. The Emotional Lives of Teenagers: Raising Connected, Capable, and Compassionate Adolescents
By: Lisa Damour
4.47
Format: 229 pages, Hardcover
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13. The Years That Matter Most: How College Makes or Breaks Us
By: Paul Tough
4.40
Format: 400 pages, Hardcover
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14. The Golden Ticket: A Life in College Admissions Essays
By: Irena Smith
4.40
Format: 256 pages, Paperback
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15. Guilty Admissions: The Bribes, Favors, and Phonies behind the College Cheating Scandal
By: Nicole LaPorte
3.78
Format: None pages, Audiobook
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16. The College Conversation: A Practical Companion for Parents to Guide Their Children Along the Path to Higher Education
By: Eric J. Furda
4.04
Format: 249 pages, Hardcover
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17. Erasing the Finish Line: The New Blueprint for Success Beyond Grades and College Admission
By: Ana Homayoun
3.94
Format: 256 pages, Hardcover
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18. The Truth about College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together
By: Brennan Barnard
4.30
Format: 242 pages, Kindle Edition
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19. Grown and Flown: How to Support Your Teen, Stay Close as a Family, and Raise Independent Adults
By: Lisa Heffernan
3.90
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20. Soundbite: The Admissions Secret that Gets You Into College and Beyond
By: Sara Harberson
3.84
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
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21. The Truth about College Admission: A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together
By: Brennan E Barnard
4.30
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
A high school counselor and a college admission director help families on the path to a positive co… read more
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