Why College Countdown?

For more than a decade, Sourcebooks has quietly built one of the most successful college-bound trade publishing programs in North America, including the #1 bestselling Fiske Guide to Colleges, Gary Gruber’s highly successful SAT and ACT test-prep books, and Harlan Cohen’s New York Times bestselling off-to-college book, The Naked Roommate.

As the student-to-educator ratio continues to grow and the cost of college education rises exponentially, we started talking about how to more directly tailor our experts and their tools to the educators, parents, and students in real need of help. CollegeCountdown.com is our initiative to help make the whole college process easier. We have broken down the process—selecting colleges that fit you, achieving your best possible test scores, applying to colleges, paying for college without taking on excessive debt, and thriving during your freshman year. We have brought together cutting-edge tools and resources from America’s top going-to-college experts. CollegeCountdown.com also features the most useful bookstore available for college-bound students.

Our mission is to provide students, parents, and educators with the most innovative programs from the top experts. We’ve tasked ourselves with lifting people’s stress—from skill development to test prep to college admissions and beyond. We aim to be modular, affordable, and expert-based.

In a word, we want to help.