College Resource Books in the Carlyle Fraser Library

Posted April 27, 2007


Guides and Profiles
Specialized Programs
Specific Colleges and Universities
Testing
Admissions Process
Financial Information
Advice and Guidance


  • Guides and Profiles

4 year colleges. Peterson’s Guides. Current edition.

The Best 373 Colleges / The Princeton Review. Random House. Current edition.

Best Buys in College Education. Barron’s Educational Series. Current edition.

The College Handbook. College Entrance Examination Board. Current edition.

Colleges in New England. Peterson’s Guides. Current edition.

Colleges in New York. Peterson’s Guides. Current edition.

Colleges That Change Lives : 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About Colleges. 2nd Rev. ed., by Lauren Pope. Penguin Bks., 2006.

The Fiske Guide to Colleges, by Edward B. Fiske. Times Books. Current edition.

Four Year Colleges. Peterson's Guides. Current edition.

The Insiders’ Guide to the Colleges. St. Martin’s Press. Current Edition.

Profiles of American Colleges: Descriptions of the Colleges. Barron’s Educational Series. Current edition.

Profiles of American Colleges / Northeast. Barron’s Educational Series. Current edition.

Ultimate College Guide, by the staff of U.S. News & World Report. Sourcebooks. Current edition.

  • Specialized Programs

College Guide for Performing Arts Majors. Peterson’s Guides. Current edition.

College Guide for Visual Arts Majors. Peterson's Guides. Current edition.

Culinary Schools. Peterson's. 10th edition, 2007.

The K&W Guide to Colleges for Students With Learning Disabilities or Attention Deficit Disorders. Random House. Current edition.

Making a Difference Colleges. SageWorks Press. Current edition.

Study Abroad. Peterson’s Guides. 2008 edition.

  • Specific Colleges and Universities

The Air Force Academy : an Illustrated History, by George V. Fagan. Johnson Books, 1988.

Celebrating the Humanities : a Half-century of the Search Course atRhodes College. Vanderbilt University Press, 1996.

Centre College, by William Strode. Harmony House Publishers, 1985.

The Clark College Legacy: an Interpretive History of RevelantEducation 1869-1975, by James P. Brawley. Clark College, 1977.

Damn Good Dogs! : The Real Story of Uga, the University of Georgia’s Bulldog Mascots, by Sonny Seiler. Hill Street Press, 2002.

Dress Her in White and Gold; a Biography of Georgia Tech, by Robert B. Wallace. Georgia Tech Foundation, 1963.

Engineering the New South; Georgia Tech, 1885-1985. Ed. by Robert C. McMath. University of Georgia Press, 1985.

The First Hundred Years of Wesleyan College: 1836-1936, by Samuel Luttrell Akers. Beehive Press, 1976.

The First State University; a Pictorial History of the University of North Carolina, by William Stevens Powell. University of North Carolina Press, 1972.

Georgia Southern: Seventy-five Years of Progress and Service, by Thomas Ray Shurbutt. Georgia Southern College Foundation, Inc., 1982.

Georgia Tech Trivia, by Tim Darnell. Hill Street Press, 2004.

Harvard A to Z, by John T. Bethell. Harvard University Press, 1991.

Hospitality Leadership: the Cornell Hotel School, by Brad Edmondson. Cornell Society of Hotelmen, 1996.

Images & Memories: Georgia Tech, 1885-1985, by B. Eugene Griessman. Georgia Tech Foundation, 1985.

Images & Reflections: Virginia Tech, 1872-1997, by Todd Buchanan. Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1997.

McGill, a Celebration. Published for the Graduates’ Society of McGill University by McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1991.

Presbyterian College: the Things That Last, by Ted Ramsaur. Presbyterian College, 1992.

Purdue Visions. Purdue University in Association with Harmony House Publishers, 1992.

Rhodes College, by William Strode. Harmony House Publishers, 1985.

Rice University : a 75th Anniversary Portrait, by Geoff Winningham. Rice University Press, 1987.

Story of Georgia Tech, by Marion Luther Brittain. University of North Carolina Press, 1948.

Tulane; the Biography of a University, 1834-1965, by John Percy Dyer.Harper & Row, 1966.

University of Georgia: a Bicentennial History, 1785-1985, by Thomas G. Dyer. University of Georgia Press, 1985.

Valparaiso University : Through Years That Come and Go. Carleton Graphics, 1996.

Vanderbilt : a University Portrait, by Will McIntyre. Fort Church Publishers, 1987.

Washington, a University Portrait, by William Strode. Fort Church Publications, 1985.

Wesleyan: a Living Portrait, by William Mercer. Royalston Press, 1990

Wofford College, by Tommy L. Thompson. Harmony House Publishers, 1989.

  • Testing

ACT Assessment. Barron’s. Current edition.

Barron's SAT. Barron's. Current edition.

Best Test Preparation for the AP Advanced Placement Examination. European History. 9th ed., by Miles E. Campbell. Updated and edited by Jere Link. Research & Education Association, 2007.

Conquering the SAT : How Parents Can Help Teens Overcomethe Pressure and Succeed, by Ned Johnson. Palgrave, 2007.

Cracking the ACT / The Princeton Review. Villard Books. Current edition.

Master the SAT. Thomson Peterson’s. Current edition.

New SAT Critical Reading Workbook / by the Staff of KaplanPrep and Admissions. Simon & Schuster, 2004.

Official SAT Study Guide. College Entrance Examination Board, 2005.

Official SAT Subject Tests in U.S. and World History. College Entrance Examination Board, 2006.

Official Study Guide for All SAT Subject Tests. College Board. Current edition.

Real SAT Subject Tests. College Board, 2002.

  • Admissions Process

Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need To Know About Getting Into College, by Sally P. Springer and Marion R. Franck.. Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Early Admissions Game: Joining the Elite, by Christopher Avery. Harvard University Press, 2003.

Effect of Financial Aid Policies On Admission `and Enrollment, by James J. Scannell. College Entrance Examination Board, 1992.

Gatekeepers: Inside the Admissions Process of a Premier College, by Jacques Steinberg. Viking, 2002.

New rules of College Admissions: Ten Former Admissions Officers Reveal What it Takes to Get into College Today, by Stephen Kramer. Simon & Schuster, 2006.

Price of Admission: How America’s Ruling Class Buys Its Way Into Elite Colleges—and Who Gets Left Outside the Gates, by Daniel Golden. Crown Publishers, 2006.

Visiting College Campuses / The Princeton Review. Random House. Current edition.

What Colleges Don’t Tell You, and Other Parents, by Elizabeth Wissner-Gross. Hudson Street Press, 2006.

  • Financial Information

Best Buys in College Education. Barron’s Educational Series. Current edition.

College Board Scholarship Handbook. College Entrance Examination Board. Current edition.

Financial Aid for African Americans. Reference Service Press. Current edition.

Financial Aid Officers. Octameron Associates. 11th edition, 2001.

Guide to Getting Financial Aid. College Entrance Examination Board. Current edition.

How to Get Money for College. Peterson's. Current edition.

Road to Athletic Scholarship : What Every Student-athlete, Parent, and Coach Needs to Know, by Kim McQuilken. New York University Press, 1996.

Scholarships. Simon & Schuster. Current edition.

Scholarships for Asian-American Students. Peterson’s, 2003.

Scholarships for Hispanic Students. Peterson’s, 2003.

Scholarships, Grants & Prizes. Peterson’s. Current edition.

Sports Scholarships and College Athletic Programs. Peterson’s Guides. Current edition.

  • Advice and Guidance

College; the Undergraduate Experience in America, by Ernest L. Boyer. Harper, 1987.

College Girls : Bluestockings, Sex Kittens, and coeds, Then and Now, by Lynn Peril. W. W. Norton & Co., 2006.

College Majors that Work., by Michael P. Viollt. Octameron Associates. 2004.

College.edu : On-line Resources for the Cyber-savvy Student. Octameron Associates, 2007.

Complete Guide to the Gap Year: the Best Things To Do Between High School and College, by Kristin White. Jossey-Bass, 2009.

Complete Handbook for College Women : Making the Most of YourCollege Experience, by Carol Weinbert. New York University Press, 1994.

The Dorm Room Diet : the 8-step Program for Creating a Healthy Plan that Really Works, by Daphne Oz. Newmarket Press, 2006.

Gender on Campus : Issues for College Women, by Sharon Gmelch. Rutgers University Press, 1998.

How College Affects Students : Findings and Insights fromTwenty Years of Research, by Ernest T. Pascarella. Jossey-Bass, 1991.

How College Affects Students : a Third Decade of Research, by Ernest T. Pascarella. Jossey-Bass, 2005.

Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College that is Right for You, by Loren Pope. Penguin, 2007.


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