Library
Books
The Truth About College Admissions: A Family's Guide to Getting In and Staying Together by Rick Clark and Brennan Barnard
Show Them You're Good by Jeff Hobbs
Who Gets In and Why by Jeff Selingo
The Price You Pay for College by Ron Lieber
Colleges That Change Lives by Loren Pope
College Admission Essentials by Ethan Sawyer
The Privileged Poor by Anthony Abraham Jack
Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be by Frank Bruni
Articles
"New SAT Data Highlights the Deep Inequality at the Heart of American Education," New York Times, October 2023
"An Aspiring Doctor Dreamed of Spelman. But Could She Afford It?" Chronicle of Higher Education, May 2022
"When a sudden, small expense threatens an entire college career," Washington Post, Feb. 2022
"Is That a Good School?" Georgia Tech Admissions Blog, Oct. 2021 (Their entire blog is excellent!)
Thriving Because of, Not Despite, Their Identity, Inside Higher Ed, Nov. 2020
Whose job is it to “nag” first generation kids into applying for college?, The Hechinger Report, Jun. 2015
"Parent PLUS Borrowers: The Hidden Casualties of the Student Debt Crisis," The Century Foundation, May 2022
Videos
Every kid needs a champion. Rita Pierson, Ted Talk (7:35)
What I have learned as a first-generation college student. Lyric Swinton, TedXUof SC (4:50)
The Test & The Art of Thinking (1h 25)
Websites
The College Investor (Also a podcast)
Loper (A college search tool)