a few of my favorite things

DOWNLOADABLES

High School to College Homeschool Mindmap

Evaluating Online Courses for Fit

A woman with glasses working on a laptop. The image includes text about evaluating online courses for fit by Michele Evard, PhD, and a logo for Evard Educational Consulting.

Sample Pages from my Homeschool Guide

Book cover titled 'College UnMazed: Your Guide to Design & Document Your Homeschool,' authored by Dr. Michele Evard and Holly Ramsey, with a background of a maze and small illustrations of two girls on either side.

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MY BOOK & COLLEGE UNMAZED BOOKS 

College UnMazed: Your Guide to Design & Document Your Homeschool

Book cover titled "College UnMazed" with a maze background, a graduation cap icon, and text "Your Guide to Design & Document Your Homeschool" by Dr. Michele Evard and Holly Ramsey.

College UnMazed Student Workbook

A book cover titled 'College UnMazed' with a maze background, a white circle containing the title, and a small graduation cap icon. The subtitle reads, 'Your Guide to Successfully Complete the High School to College Maze,' and the authors' names: Dr. Amanda Sterk, Dr. Timothy Poynton, and Dr. Richard Lapan.

College UnMazed: Your Guide to Dual Enrollment

Book cover titled "College UnMazed: Your Guide to Dual Enrollment" by Dr. Amanda Sterk and Dr. Sarah Stashkiw. The background features a yellow maze with black pathways, and there are two small illustrated students in graduation caps on the edges of the maze.

ADMISSIONS RELATED

The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions

Book cover titled 'The Black Family's Guide to College Admissions,' second edition. Subtitle: 'A Conversation about Education, Parenting, and Race.' Authors are Timothy L. Fields and Shereem Herndon-Brown. Foreword by Akil Bello.

7 Steps to College Success

Book cover titled '7 Steps to College Success: A Pathway for Students with Disabilities' by Elizabeth C. Hamblet, third edition. The cover features a red number 7, a black graduation cap, and a white diploma scroll on a blue background.

The Truth about College Admission

Red book cover titled "The Truth about College Admission," second edition, with yellow and white text, featuring a yellow circle with red and black text promoting positive college search and admission experience, and listing authors Brennan Barnard and Rick Clark.

Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be

Book cover titled 'Where You Go Is Not Who You'll Be' by Frank Bruni, featuring a graduation cap with a yellow tassel on a red background, with text indicating it's an updated and expanded version and a bestseller.

Valedictorians at the Gate

Book cover titled "Valedictorians at the Gate" by Becky Munsterer Sabky, with green and yellow leaves on a blue background.

Who Gets in and Why

Book cover titled "Who Gets In and Why: A Year Inside College Admissions" by Jeffrey Selingo. The cover features a yellow background with red and blue text, and a quote from Frank Bruni at the top. There's a red banner indicating the book is updated for 2022. The title highlights the words "Who" and "College Admissions," with some words underlined or emphasized.

The Price You Pay for College

Book cover titled 'The Price You Pay for College' by Ron Lieber, with a subtitle about a new road map for financial decisions, featuring an image of a rolled-up dollar bill and a red ribbon.

The Privileged Poor

Book cover titled 'The Privileged Poor' by Anthony Abraham Jack, with a red shield emblem on a dark blue background.

COLLEGE SUCCESS

Hacking College

Cover of a book titled 'Hacking College' with the subtitle 'Why the Major Doesn't Matter—and What Really Does' by Ned Scott Laff and Scott Carlson, with a red background and large white and yellow text.

COLLEGE RESEARCH

College Match

Book cover titled 'College Match: A Blueprint for Choosing the Best School for You' by Steven R. Antonoff. The cover features a colorful background with a girl sitting on the ground, wearing jeans and a striped shirt, with purple curly hair, and a girl in a swimming pool upside down, reflecting in the water.

Campus Antisemitism Report Card™

PARENTING

How To Raise An Adult

Book cover titled 'Break Free of the Overparenting Trap and Prepare Your An Adult Kid for Success' by Julie Lythcott-Haims, with a yellow background and bold red and blue text.

A Place to Belong

Book cover titled 'A Place to Belong' by Amber O'Neal Johnston with a foreword by Julie Bogart. The subtitle reads 'Celebrating Diversity and Kinship in the Home and Beyond.' The cover features an illustration of a circle of diverse people holding hands against a red background.

Never Enough

Book cover for 'Never Enough' by Jennifer Brehony Wallace, featuring a pencil with an eraser painted to resemble a burning matchstick, and a yellow sticker indicating it is a New York Times bestseller.

periodicals

Inside Higher Ed

Logo with orange square containing white letters 'IHE' and text 'Inside Higher Ed' to the right.

Chronicle

Blue square with a white letter C inside
The word 'Diverse' in large blue text

Diverse: Issues In Higher Education

Black background with white text saying "The Hechinger Report"

The Hechinger Report

paying for college

College Board Expected Family Contribution (EFC) Calculator

Big Future logo with an apple icon and bold black text

Finaid

Finaid logo in white text on a black background
Logo for My in Tuition with text 'Quick College Cost Estimator' on blue background.

Cost Estimator

Student Aid Index (SAI) Calculator

MEFA logo in white text on a dark purple background

FAFSA (Free Application for Federal Student Aid)

Federal Student Aid logo with text 'An OFFICE of the U.S. DEPARTMENT of EDUCATION'

MEFA’s Paying for College

MEFA logo in green and white
CSS Profile logo with white text on purple background and an acorn icon on a black strip

CSS Profile

Scholarship Finder

Logo for Career Onestop with a stylized blue pin and red flag, and the text 'career onestop'

BigJ Educational Consulting’s Financial Aid Chart

Logo with a green background, featuring a stylized letter 'J' in pink and yellow.

College Data

Logo with a slice of orange and vertical bars on a circular background

scholarship SITES

Fastweb

Fastweb logo with the words 'fast' in dark blue and 'web' in light blue.

Appily

Appily logo with orange checkmark symbol and the word 'apply' in black text

Unigo

Unigo logo in white and pink letters on a blue background.

Niche

Niche logo with stylized 'N' and wave symbols

Scholarships

Logo of Scholarships.com with stylized 'S' and the site name

Outside Scholarships

Text that reads "Your College-Bound Kid" in blue font.

standardized testing

Fairtest

FairTest logo in black text with a blue dot above the letter 'i'.

ACT

ACT logo with blue and red text.

College Board

CollegeBoard logo with an acorn icon and text

Khan Academy

Khan Academy logo with green icon and white text on a dark blue background

ACT Academy

ACT logo with blue, red, and black lettering

researching colleges

SEARCH TOOLS

Logo for COLLEGE Navigator with a compass icon.

College Navigator

Logo with the word 'NICHE' and a stylized 'N' inside a circle, with three wavy lines.

Niche

College Scorecard

U.S. Department of Education College Scorecard logo with seal and text

Appily

Appily logo with orange check mark and gray text

CollgeXpress

College Xpress logo

The Princeton Review

Logo of The Princeton Review with black, white, and yellow design elements.
Peterson's logo with a red abstract icon and black text

Peterson’s College Search Tool

APPS

Loper

Line drawing of a dog's face with tongue out, labeled 'Loper'

LISTS

Sourcebooks logo with orange circle and white lightbulb icon

Fiske Guide

Text on a webpage that reads 'Public University Honors' with a subtitle 'The site for public university honors colleges and programs'.

Public University Honors

Colleges That Change Lives

Logo for CTC, Colleges That Change Lives, with the tagline.
College express logo with blue and black text

CollegeXpress

Colleges of Distinction logo with a stylized flame and green base

Colleges of Distinction

INDEXES OF HOW COLLEGES SERVE THEIR STUDENTS

Campus Pride Index

Text reads 'College Equity First, Inc.'
Campus Pride Index logo with orange and purple text

Campus Equity Index

Third Way logo with a compass icon

Economic Mobility Index

Social Mobility Index

CollegeNET logo with white text on a pink background
BigFuture logo with an apple icon

Big Future

specific populations

Logo of College Equity First, Inc.

College Equity Index

NCAA Eligibility Center logo on a black background

NCAA Eligibility Center

HBCUConnect.com logo with a yellow clock tower and red text.

HBCU Connect

Big Future logo with an acorn icon

Big Future Communities

Six Things Undocumented Students Need to Know About College

BigFuture logo with an acorn icon
Logo with the text 'Poets & Quants for Undergrads' featuring a graduation cap on the letter 'P' and a drone on the letter 'Q'.

Poets & Quants

Campus Pride

Campus Pride logo with the word 'Pride' in orange, purple outline, and a white arrow pointing right above it.
Barrier Breakers logo with the words 'barrier' in blue and 'breakers' in black cursive

Barrier Breakers

Hillel International

Hillel International logo in blue and white.

Campus Antisemitism Report Card™

ADL logo with white letters on a blue background

TCC - Neurodiversity in College

Logo of Top College Consultants featuring a stylized graduation cap and the text 'TCC Top College Consultants' in blue and green.

explore majors

Find a Major - Princeton Review

Explore College Majors & Degrees

Majors to Career

explore careers

O*NET

Logo of O*net with a blue background, white text, and a yellow swoosh underneath.

Big Future

Big Future logo with an acorn icon

Career Cluster Guidebook

Cover page of a guidebook titled 'Career Clusters: Pathways to College & Career Readiness' with a colorful circular logo and subtitle, and a table of contents.

Occupational Outlook Handbook

Roadtrip Nation

Career Roadmap Tool by Roadtrip Nation

me3 Career Quiz

college tour video series

Screenshot of a webpage promoting the series 'The College Tour,' with a photo of a college campus building featuring red brick, beige stone accents, and a central clock tower with a red roof. The title 'The College Tour' is at the top, along with episode details, ratings, and options to watch or share.

application platforms

Common App

Common App logo with white text and a blue ribbon-like icon on a black background.

AXS Companion to the Common App

Logo for AXS Companion featuring a blue key icon and bold white and orange text on a blue, white, and orange background.

Coalition For College

Logo of the Coalition for College, featuring a stylized 'C' in red, white, and blue with the organization's name to the right.

Common Black College App

Text that reads 'GET EDUcated!' with emphasis on 'EDU'.

UCAS

UCAS logo with black and red lettering

surveys + tools

VIA Character Strength

Logo of the Institute on Character with stylized VIA initials in blue and the words 'INSTITUTE ON CHARACTER' beside it.

College Match Self Survey

Logo of schoolbuff.com with stylized text and a smiling cartoon owl