Books About College and Other Options
- Bear's Guide to Earning College Degrees Nontraditionally, by John B. Bear & Mariah Bear. A thick, information-packed book (now in 13th edition) listing out of the ordinary ways to go about getting an education, with close to 2,000 programs listed.
- The Best 366 Colleges, 2008 Edition, by Princeton Review. "College students (120,000 of them) reveal what life is really like at the nation's top schools."
Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools That Will Change the Way You Think About College, by Loren Pope. Assurance about prospects for college admission, and profiles 40 colleges that excel at developing potential, values, initiative and risk-taking in a wide range of students.
- Cool Colleges for the Hyper-Intelligent, Self-Directed, Late Blooming, and Just Plain Different , by Donald Asher. Good tips on academia facts with lots of comments from students—a very interesting and useful college guide!
- The Fiske Guide to Colleges, by Edward B. Fiske. A helpful guide to colleges, with opinions based on surveys of college officials and students.
- From Homeschool to College and Work: Turning Your Homeschooled Experiences into College and Job Portfolios, by Alison McKee
- Homeschoolers' College Admissions Handbook, by Cafi Cohen: ideas about preparing for the college application, with input submitted by many experienced families.
- The Independent Study Catalog (7th Ed) - Peterson Guides. Listings of over 10,000 correspondence courses in arts and sciences at many accredited schools and universities—some appropriate for high school level.
- Looking Beyond the Ivy League, by Loren Pope. Offers advice and alternatives to standard college routes and myths, as well as guidelines to college applications.
- Opportunities After "High School": Thoughts, Documents, Resources, by Wes Beach. Includes a number of transcripts Beach has written for his students; these transcripts can be used as models for homeschool transcripts. Also discusses community college enrollment; preparing for, choosing, and applying to four-year colleges; and opportunities other than formal academic study. A number of resource books are described. Available from HSC for $15: Make checks payable to Wes Beach, and send to HSC Book Order, 5520 Old San Jose Road, Soquel, CA 95073. His talks can be arranged through HSC by emailing the teen adviser or at (831) 462-5867.
- The Question is College: On Finding and Doing Work You Love, by Herbert Kohl, explores the question of whether you actually want or need to go to college in order to meet your career goals.
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