Regional and State Talent Search Summer Programs
List on the Johns Hopkins Center for Talented Youth (CTY) website:
www.cty.jhu.edu/imagine/linka.htm

Books
These are some books that will help you to understand what colleges are looking for in academics:

Matthews, Arlene. Getting In Without Freaking Out. New York, Three Rivers Press, 2006.
Arlene Matthews offers excellent advice to parents about how they can be a positive force in their children’s lives as they go through the admissions process.

Mathews, Jay. Harvard Schmarvard: Getting Beyond the Ivy League To The College That Is Best For You. Roseville, CA, Prima Publishing, 2003.
A renowned education writer for The Washington Post, Jay Mathews offers down-to-earth, often humorous (but good) insights and advice about all aspects of college admissions.

Springer, Sally P, Jon Reider and Marion R. Franck. Admission Matters: What Students and Parents Need to Know About Getting into College. San Francisco, CA, Jossey-Bass, A Wiley Imprint, 2009.
To truly understand the college admissions process from an insider’s point of view, no authors offer more than Springer, Reider and Franck. In particular, chapters 2 and 3 provide you with what you need to know about grades and courses from the perspective of former admissions people at Stanford and UC Davis.

Steinberg, Jacques. The Gatekeepers: Inside The Admissions Process Of A Premier College. New York, The Penguin Group, 2003.
If you want to know about how the admissions process works from the inside, this is the book to read. An Education Reporter from The New York Times, Steinberg shows how the Wesleyan University Admissions Office deals with admissions A through Z through the eyes and ears of Ralph Figueroa, one of its admissions officers.

Courses, Grades And Intellectual Pursuits: What Colleges Look for In Academic Preparation
First edition
Marjorie Hansen Shaevitz

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