Westminster College Office Resource Guides

General Guidebooks

• Barron’s: Profiles of American Colleges • The College Board: The College Handbook • Peterson’s: Guide to Four Year Colleges • Fiske: The Fiske Guide to the Colleges • U .S . News and World Report: Annual Guide to

America’s Best Colleges • The Princeton Review: The Best 375 Colleges

Recommended Reading for Parents

• Mayher: The College Admissions Mystique • McGowan and McGinty: 50 College Admissions

Directors Speak to Parents • Steve Goodman: College Admissions Together • The College Board: The College Guide for Parents • Fiske & Hammond: The Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College • Hayden: Handbook for College Admissions - a

Family Guide • Loren Pope: Colleges that Change Lives • Loren Pope: Looking Beyond The Ivy League • Coburn & Treeger: Letting Go, A Parents’ Guide to the College Years • Johnson & Schelhas-Miller: Don’t Tell Me What To

Do, Just Send Money

Special Interest

• Isaac Black: African American Student’s College

Guide • Mitchell: The Multicultural Student’s Guide to

Colleges • The Princeton Review: Student Athlete’s Guide to

Colleges • Summer Opportunities for Kids and Teenagers,

Peterson’s Guides, Princeton, NJ • The Teenager’s Guide to Study, Travel and

Adventure Abroad, St . Martin’s Press, Council on

International Educational Exchange, 205 East 42nd

Street, Dept . 16, New York, NY 10017 • Tyler: Been There Should’ve Done That (student guide) • Jill Charles: Directory of Theatre Training

Programs

Majors

• The College Board: Index of Majors • Ruggs: Recommendations on the Colleges

Websites

• https://student .naviance .com/westminster • www .collegeboard .com • www .act .org • www .fastweb .com (Scholarship and college search site) • www .collegenet .com (Online applications, complete college search process) • www .petersons .com ( College search resource) • www .usnews .com/usnews/edu/college/corank .htm (College rankings) • www .commonapp .org (the common application online) • www .ed .gov/topics/topics .jsp?&top=Financial+Aid (Financial Aid ) • www .college-scholarships .com/ (College guide, scholarships and financial aid) • www .review .com (the Princeton Review)