Search - A Is for Admission : The Insider's Guide to Getting into the Ivy League and Other Top Colleges

Excellent book - I would recommend it to any college-bound high school student and/or their parents!

If you are gung ho for an Ivy League school for your child, this guide will take you behind the doors of the admissions committee to processes you wouldn't imagine to be so complex and, sometimes, irrational. If you want to know how to game this system, here's the book for you. For our family, it was a real eye opener, and we ended up looking for high quality educational alternatives.