Admission Guidebooks

Our College Admission Guidebooks serve as a resource to facilitate the navigation of the college application process for students, families, and educators. There are four individual guidebooks with the understanding that students arrive at the college admission process with different needs and concerns.

Each individual guidebook is named after our four main pillars: Leadership, Enrichment, Advocacy, and Discovery. While created with the intention for readers to begin with the Leadership guidebook and end with the Discovery guidebook, readers can jump around and explore the guidebooks that will best support their needs. We encourage readers to familiarize themselves with the topics in each guidebook by reviewing the table of contents. Readers can then search for keywords, jump between topics, or read each section from cover to cover!

The hope is that our LEADs College Admission Guidebooks will be a starting point for further conversation and reflection throughout the college application process.

Our revised College Admission Guidebooks for the Fall 2025 LEADs program will be available by late summer.