The CTO Bookshelf

In no particular order, we recommend:

• Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions by Jeff Selingo

• The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions by Timothy L. Fields and Shereem Hernondon-Brown

• The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber

• Taking Flight by Perry LaRoque

• Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be: An Anecdote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni

• In Defense of a Liberal Arts Education by Fareed Zakaria

• Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite by William Deresiewicz

• Beyond the University by Michael S. Roth

• Outliers: The Story of Success by Malcolm Gladwell

• How to Raise an Adult: Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your Kid for Success by Julie Lythcott-Haims

• College Admission: From Application to Acceptance, Step by Step by Robin Mamlet and Christine VanDeVelde

• The Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College by Jacques Steinberg

• Winning the College Admission Game: Strategies for Parents & Students by Peter Van Buskirk

• Rewarding Strivers by Richard D. Kahlenberg

• The Rise and Fall of the American Teenager by Thomas Hine

• Increasing Access to College: Extending Possibilities for All Students by William G. Tierney

• The Admissions by Meg Mitchell Moore

• Admission by Jean Hanff Korelitz

• The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League by Jeff Hobbs

• Taming the River: Negotiating the Academic, Financial, and Social Currents in Selective Colleges and Universities by Camille Z. Charles

• Crossing the Finish Line: Completing College at America’s Public Universities by William G. Bowen

• Parenting Out of Control: Anxious Parents in Uncertain Times by Margaret Nelson

• College: What it Was, Is, and Should Be by Andrew Delbanco

• What Is College For?: The Public Purpose of Higher Education by Ellen Condliffe Lagemann

• Class Warfare: Class, Race, and College Admissions in Top-Tier Secondary Schools by Lois Weis, Kristin Cipollone, Heather Jenkins

• Scoreboard, Baby: A Story of College Football, Crime, and Complicity by Ken Armstrong

• The Price of Privilege: How Parental Pressure and Material Advantage Are Creating a Generation of Disconnected and Unhappy Kids by Madeline Levine

• Liberal Arts at the Brink by Victor E. Ferrall Jr.

• Shakespeare, Einstein, and the Bottom Line: The Marketing of Higher Education by David L. Kirp

• After Admission: From College Access to College Success: From College Access to College Success by James E. Rosenbaum, Regina Deil-amen, Ann E. Person

• Standardized Minds: The High Price Of America’s Testing Culture And What We Can Do To Change It by Peter Sacks

• Tearing Down the Gates: Confronting the Class Divide in American Education by Peter Sacks

• The Overachievers: The Secret Lives of Driven Kids by Alexandra Robbins

• The Big Test: The Secret History of the American Meritocracy by Nicholas Lemann

• The Chosen: The Hidden History of Admission and Exclusion at Harvard, Yale, and Princeton by Jerome Karabel

• Ready, Willing, and Able: A Developmental Approach to College Access and Success by Mandy Savitz-Romer, Suzanne M. Bouffard

• Beyond College For All: Career Paths for the Forgotten Half: Career Paths for the Forgotten Half by James E. Rosenbaum

• Speaking of Race and Class: The Student Experience at an Elite College by Elizabeth Aries, Richard Berman

• Paying for the Party: How College Maintains Inequality by Elizabeth A. Armstrong, Laura Hamilton

• Cheated: The UNC Scandal, the Education of Athletes, and the Future of Big-Time College Sports by Jay M Smith, Mary Willingham

• College Unbound: The Future of Higher Education and What It Means for Students by Jeffrey J. Selingo

• Why Choose the Liberal Arts? by Mark William Roche

• The Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way into Elite Colleges — and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates by Daniel Golden

• Missoula: Rape and the Justice System in a College Town by Jon Krakauer

• The Blessing of a B Minus: Using Jewish Teachings to Raise Resilient Teenagers by Wendy Mogel, Ph.D.

• A Hope in the Unseen: An American Odyssey from the Inner City to the Ivy League by Ron Suskind

• Looking Beyond the Ivy League and Colleges That Change Lives by Loren Pope

• Acceptance: A Legendary Guidance Counselor Helps Seven Kids Find the Right Colleges — and Find Themselves by David L. Marcus

• Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know about Getting into College by Sally P. Springer, Jon Reider, Joyce Vining Morgan

• The Privileged Poor by Anthony Jack

• The Years that Matter Most: How College Makes and Breaks Us by Paul Tough