A Healthier Approach
to College Admissions

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• Read a summary of the main topics of the program as featured in the MI Reporter.
  
  
• Read the executive summary of the white paper "A “Fit” Over Rankings: Why College Engagement Matters More Than Selectivity" from Challenge Success.
  
  
• View more resources from Challenge Success.
  
  
• Hear Mercer Island student voices shared as part of the "I Wish..." Project.
  
  
• Complete the Essential Criteria ranking activity with your student to get a sense of what factors are important for your student in selecting a college
  
  
• Share feedback with Challenge Success on the program via a brief survey
  
  
• Watch a CBS Sunday Morning News story featuring MIHS: Helping Students Cope with the Pressure to Succeed 
  
  
  
• Read additional articles on the topic:
  • Are You Putting Too Much Pressure on Your Child During the College Admission Process? Here Are Some Red Flags for Parents. - Making Caring Common Project, Harvard School of Education

     

  • How To Be an Ethical Parent in the College Admissions Process – Making Caring Common Project, Harvard Graduate School of Education
    
    

  • College Rankings: Reject Or Reimagine - Forbes
    
    

  • Moving from Parent to Partner In the College Admissions Experience – Grown and Flown
    
    

  • Students from high achieving schools are now named an at-risk group - The Washington Post
    
    

  • Pressure on teens to achieve is real, Here's how parents can help. - Grown and Flown
    
    

  • Science Says the Most Successful Kids Have Parents Who Refuse to Embrace This Common Parenting Approach - Inc.
    
    

  • Playtime, Downtime and Family Time:  PDF for Teens - Common-Sense strategies for promoting teen health and wellbeing. - Challenge Success
    
    

• Read books on the topic:
  

  • Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be – Frank Bruni
    
    

  • The Price You Pay for College - Ron Leiber
    
    

  • The Inequality Machine:  How College Divides Us - Paul Tough
    
    

  • The College Conversation:  A Practical Companion for Parents - Eric Furda
    
    

  • The Truth About College Admission:  A Family Guide to Getting In and Staying Together - Brennan Barnard/Making Caring Common Project
    
    

  • Excellent Sheep: The Miseducation of the American Elite and the Way to a Meaningful Life - William Deresiewicz
    
    

  • How to Raise an Adult – Julie Lythcott-Haims 
    
    
  • Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions – Jeffrey Selingo 
    
    

  • The 13 Best Books for College Admissions and How to Pay for College - Grown and Flown

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