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Selected Books

Asher, Donald. Cool Colleges for the Hyper-intelligent, Self-directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different, 2007.

Bauld, Harry. On Writing the College Application Essay, 2005.

Csikszentmihalyi, Mihaly and Schneider, Barbara. Becoming Adult: How Teenagers Prepare for the World of Work, 2001.

Dunbar, Don, and G. F. Lichtenberg.  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, 2007.

Dweck, Carol S. Mindset: the New Psychology of Success, 2006.

Gilbert, Daniel. Stumbling on Happiness, 2007.

Harris, Judith Rich.  The Nurture Assumption: Why Children Turn Out the Way They Do. 2009

Newport, Cal. How to Become a Straight-A Student: the Unconventional Strategies Real College Student Use to Score High While Studying Less, 2007.

Newport, Cal. How to Be a High School Superstar: a Revolutionary Plan to Get into College by Standing Out (Without Burning Out), 2007.

Pink, Daniel H. Drive: the Surprising Truth about What Motivates Us, 2009.

Pope, Loren. Colleges that Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way Your Think about Colleges, 2006.

Seligman, Martin, K. Reivich, L. Jaycox, and J. Gillham.  The Optimistic Child: a Proven Program to Safeguard Children against Depression and Build Lifelong Resilience, 2007.

Seligman, Martin. Learned Optimism: How to Change Your Mind and Your Life, 2007.

Springer, Sally P., John Reider, and Marion R. Franck. Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know about Getting into College, 2009.

Wissner-Gross, Elizabeth. What High Schools Don’t Tel You: Create a Long-term Plan for Your 7th to 10th Grader for Getting into the Top Colleges, 2008.

Wissner-Gross, Elizabeth.  What Colleges Don’t Tell You: 272 Secrets for Getting Your Kid into the Top Schools, 2006.

College Guides - Fiske, Princeton Review’s 371 Colleges, College Prowler, etc.

Websites: The Common Application, College Board, Naviance, CollegeConfidential.