Go See Campus is a useful way to find colleges and plan college trips. You can filter colleges based on enrollment numbers, acceptance rates, location, and majors offered. Once you have selected colleges, you can plan the trip based on location of the college and tour times. The website offers campus maps, event calendars, and other information.

When you are visiting a college, it is helpful to ask lots of questions to get the most out of your visit. Here are some good questions to give you a better idea of the school.

Admittedly uses a personality quiz, extracurricular activities, and GPA to match a student with prospective schools. This website also has a mobile app.

Testive offers software to help your student prepare for the SAT and ACT. They also have certified coaches available to help your student weekly over video chat.

Edupath is a mobile app to help your student study for the SAT and ACT in short study sessions.

Offers dorm room packages with all the college necessities for a lower price. They have various options geared to your needs and deliver right to your door. 

Letting Go, Six Edition: A Parents’ Guide to Understanding the College Years by Karen Levin Coburn and Madge Lawrence Treeger

For more than a decade Letting Go has provided hundreds of thousands of parents with valuable insights, information, comfort, and guidance throughout the emotional and social changes of their children’s college years, from the senior year in high school through college graduation. Based on real-life experience and recommended by colleges and universities around the country, this indispensable book has been updated and revised, offering even more compassionate, practical, and up-to-date information.

Where You Go Is Not Who You’ll Be: An Antidote to the College Admissions Mania by Frank Bruni

This book puts the college admissions process into desperately needed perspective. It not only dissects the limited meaning of a rigged and sometimes random admissions process, it also discusses many of the hugely successful Americans who didn’t go to Ivy League schools. It sketches profiles of young adults who were denied their dream colleges but found that the schools where they ended up were perfect for them, making the case that the attitude with which a student approaches college matters more than the college itself.

The Her Campus Guide to College Life: How to Manage Relationships, Stay Safe and Healthy, Handle Stress and Have the Best Years of Your Life by Stephanie Kaplan Lewis and Ann Chandler Wang

This is a frankly-written guide designed to help female students prepare for the reality of college life.