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[quote=Anonymous]Skip any book that focuses on strategy for getting into 'elite colleges'. They will unnecessarily add significant stress to the high school experience.

Read:

Where You Go is not Who You'll Be

The Truth About College Admission

Harvard Schmarvard (older, but still good)

study by Stacy Berg-Dale and Alan Krueger about financial outcomes of elite colleges vs. non-elite colleges

https://papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cfm?abstract_id=1871566

Less High School Stress--website with loads of data showing that what matters is the individual, not the college (same message as Where You Go book). Read the essay linked below plus the section of lists and the rankings section.

https://lesshighschoolstress.com/

Also, MCPS does have Naviance and it is a fantastic resource for seeing what colleges are possible with what GPA and test scores. Ask your counselor about it.

And go ahead and let your kid be a teenager sometimes! If they're putting in 3 hours a day of homework plus 35 hours of school a week, that's 56 hours a week of work, more than the vast majority of adults put in. They'll be fine.[/quote]

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