Your Best Application
Websites you will need: The Common Application, College Board
College Admission Information:
Hernández, Michele A. Acing the College Application: How to Maximize Your Chances
for Admission to the College of Your Choice. New York: Ballantine, 2002.
Springer, Sally P., Jon Reider, and Marion R. Franck. Admission Matters: What Students
and Parents Need to Know about Getting into College. San Francisco: Jossey-Bass,
2009.
How to write:
Bauld, Harry. On Writing the College Application Essay. New York, NY: Collins, 2005.
Cronk, Robert. Concise Advice: Jump-Starting Your College Admissions Essays, 2011.
Some good essays to ponder:
Jay Allison and Dan Gediman, editors. This I Believe: The Personal Philosophies of
Remarkable Men and Women, 2007
The importance of “soft factors”:
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. New York, NY: Gotham, 2007.
"The Match Between You And MIT | MIT Admissions." MIT Admissions | MIT Admissions.
Web. 23 Oct. 2011. <http://mitadmissions.org/apply/process/match>.
