“You may never know what results come of your action, but if you do nothing there will be no result.”
– Mahatma Ghandi
Resources
There are many great resources to help you navigate the college admissions process. We have compiled what we believe to be some of the best free resources to help you in building your college list, assessing your chances of acceptance, reading about and researching schools, test preparation and writing great essays.
College Research
Big Future (CollegeBoard) website
CollegeVine website
CollegeSimply | search by SAT, ACT, GPA
PrepScholar College Acceptance Calculator
SchooLinks | account created through Bend-La Pine Schools
WUE (Western Undergraduate Exchange)
Naviance
Colleges That Change Lives
ACT and SAT Test Preparation
CollegeBoard SAT website
CollegeBoard full length SAT practice tests
Khan Academy SAT preparation
schoolhouse free peer-to-peer tutoring
ACT website
ACT test preparation
Compass Education Group
Financial Aid
Federal Student Aid FAFSA
CSS Profile
Oregon Student Aid
Oregon Promise
College Athletics
Books We Love
Who Gets In and Why
A Year Inside College Admissions
Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be
An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania
Podcast Episodes
Lord of the Rankings
Revisionist History | Malcolm Gladwell