Nelie McNeal, Founder and Managing Partner Grace Farris’s See One, Do One, Teach One: The Art of Becoming a Doctor is one of those rare books that manages to be funny, honest, uncomfortable, and deeply humane all at once. It’s a graphic memoir about medical training, but it doesn’t read [...]

Susan Lutz, College Consultant I recently finished reading Never Enough: When Achievement Culture Becomes Toxic—and What We Can Do About It by Jennifer Breheny Wallace and wow…this one hit me hard! As a College Consultant for more than 20 years, I immediately started thinking about teenagers, college admissions, pressure, burnout, [...]

As we wrap up the school year and begin the summer season, it seemed the right time to recommend some summer reading. Throughout the month of May, the McNeal Sams College Consulting team will suggest some favorite books for students and parents entering or concluding their college choice journey.  Our [...]