Articles of interest:
The Right Way to Choose A College
http://www.challengesuccess.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/The-Right-Way-to-Choose-a-College-WSJ.pdf
A Majority of US Colleges Admit Most Students Who Apply
https://www.pewresearch.org/
The "Best Fit" College
https://www.bestcollegefit.
The Ideal College—A Place That Values You for What You Have to Offer!
Please download the article here.
On creating a quality list of college options and choices:
https://www.forbes.com/sites/w
Various words of advice from College Admission professionals:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/parenting/wp/2016/08/30/what-21-college-admissions-officers-say-they-want-in-a-candidate/?utm_term=.c7a7f4b62ef1
How to make Sense of College Rankings
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/10/30/opinion/sunday/how-to-make-sense-of-college-rankings.html?_r=0
How the University of Alabama Became a National Player
(note: this article is about state and public universities, not college football!)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/06/education/edlife/survival-strategies-for-public-universities.html?emc=eta1
David Ramsey: Soccer great Mia Hamm asks sports parents to stop being so childish
http://gazette.com/david-ramsey-soccer-great-mia-hamm-asks-sports-parents-to-stop-being-so-childish/article/1589756
(Note: this article is not only about parenting and how to help your child accept a loss, it is applicable to any adversity, poor grade, undesirable admission decision…)
Recommended Reading:
The 7 Best Things (Smart) Teens Do by J. Friel and L Friel
What Color Is Your Parachute? for Teens, Third Edition: Discover Yourself, Design Your Future, and Plan for Your Dream Job by C. Christen
Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be F. Bruni
The Enlightened College Applicant: A New Approach to the Search and Admissions Process A. Belasco and D. Bergman
8 First Choices, 2nd edition J. Slayton-Mitchell
Mistakes to Avoid When Deciding on Your College Dr. Norman Smith
Untangled - Guiding Teenage Girls Through The Seven Transitions Into Adulthood by Lisa Damour, PhD (Ballantine Books, 2016)
An excerpt from Untangled:
Get Out of My Life, but first could you drive me and Cheryl to the mall? A Parent's Guide to the New Teenager by Anthony E. Wolf, PhD (Farrar Straus Giroux 2002 revised ed.)