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REFERENCE READING SOURCES [ top ]
Admissions:
Four Year College Admissions Index of Majors & Sports/ Orchard House

College Search:
African-American Students Guide to College/ Princeton Review
Barron’s Best Buys in College Education/ Barron’s
Cass & Birnbaum’s Guide to American Colleges/ Harper Perennial
Internet Guide For College-Bound Students/ The College Board
Kaplan’s College Catalog/ Simon & Schuster
Lovejoy’s College Guide/ Macmillan
Peterson’s Competitive Colleges/ Petersons
Peterson’s Four-Year Colleges/ Petersons
Peterson’s Study Abroad/ Petersons
Peterson’s Visual Performing Arts/ Petersons
Peterson’s 2 Year Colleges/ Petersons
The Fiske Guide to Colleges by Edward B. Fiske
The Gourman Report by Jack Gourman
The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges/ St. Martin’s Griffin
The Multicultural Student’s Guide to Colleges by Robert Mitchell
The Performing Arts Major’s College Guide/ MacMillan
Rugg’s Recommendations on the Colleges by Frederick Ruggs

Essay’s:

Admissions:
Accepted! 50 Successful College Admissions Essay (book) Amazon.com
Brody's Guide to the College Admissions Essay (book) Amazon.com
College Essays That Made a Difference, 2nd Edition (book) Amazon.com
Peterson's Best College Admission Essays (book) Amazon.com

Financial Aid:
College Financial Aide For Dummies by Davis & Kennedy
College Money Handbook/ Petersons
Don’t Miss out/ Octameron
USA TODAY Financial Aid for College

Scholarships and Grants:
Financing Graduate School
Peterson’s Grants for Graduate & Postdoctoral Study
Peterson’s Scholarship Almanac
Peterson’s Scholarships for Study in the USA and Canada
Peterson’s Scholarships, Grants & Prizes
Peterson’s Sports Scholarships and Athletic Programs
Scholarship, Grants and Prizes/ Petersons
Winning Money for College

Testing:
Arco Publishing:
ACT Supercourse (book)
ACT: User’s Manual with Study Planning Software (book & disc)
ACT with Sutdy Planning Software: “User’s Manual (book & disk)
Everything You Need to Score High on the ACT (book)
Everything You Need to Score High on the SAT and PSAT (book)
10 Minute Guide to Upping Your SAT Score (book)

Barron’s Educational Series:
Barron’s How to Prepare for ACT (book & disk)
Barron’s SAT I: How to Prepare for the SAT I
How to Prepare for SAT I Edition (book)
SAT Supercourse with Tests on Disk (book & disk)

Cliffs Notes:
Cliffs American College Testing Preparation Guide (book)

College Entrance Examination Board:
10 Real SATs (book & disk)

Harcourt Brace:
Getting Into the ACT: Official Guide to the ACT Assessment (book)

Harper Collins:
Gruber’s Complete Preparation for the New SAT: Featuring Critical Thinking Skills (book)

IDG Books Worldwide:
The ACT for Dummies (book)
The SAT I for Dummies (book)

Mostly Bright Ideas:
100 SAT Math Tips & How to Master Them Now (book)

Petersons Guides:
ACT English Flash Proven Techniques for Building English Power for the ACT (book)
ACT Math Flash: Proven Techniques for Building Math Power for the ACT (book)
Panic Plan for the ACT in Just 2 Weeks (book)
Peterson's Best College Admission Essays (book) Amazon.com
SAT Word Flash The Quick Way to Build Verbal Power for the New SAT-And Beyond (book)

Princeton Review:
Cracking the ACT (book)
Cracking the SAT & PSAT (book)
Inside the SAT (book & CD)

Research & Education Assn.:
The Very Best Coaching & Study Course for the ACT Assessment with Software (book)
The Very Best Coaching & Study Course for the SAT I: Reasoning Test (book)

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