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This is by no means an exhaustive list, but it will serve as a pretty good starting place.
Books
David and Micki Colfax. Homeschooling for Excellence.
The account of a homeschooling family with three sons, focusing mostly on their education at home but with a valuable chapter on the sons' college searches and eventual acceptances into Harvard.
Edward B. Fiske. The Fiske Guide to Colleges.
Mr. Fiske's opinionated guide to fairly well-known colleges.
John Holt. How Children Fail and Teach Your Own.
Arguably the single two books that gave birth to homeschooling.
Tamra Orr. After Homeschool.
Interviews with fifteen grown homeschoolers, detailing their various paths, with essays interspersed, including one by ME.
-- Tamra Orr is also the author of A Parent's Guide to Homeschooling: A complete guide, which I haven't gotten ahold of yet but which has received rave reviews from Home Education Magazine, Homeschool.com, and others.
Peterson's Guide to Four Year Colleges.
Standard statistical guide to four year colleges. Barron's version is also useful, and has slightly different categories.
Marguerite Smith. Paying for Your Child's College Education.
Information on financial aid and scholarships; various strategies for getting a good bargain; and a useful list of colleges based on academic rankings and average cost after financial aid is awarded.
Lucia Solóorzano. Barron's Best Buys in College Education.
Colleges chosen for price as well as academics; rather than being merely statistical, each college is described, with frequent quotations from students.
Thomas Sowell. Choosing a College.
Very useful but unfortunately out of print; try the library. An attempt to guide the student into thinking about what he or she wants, with much information along the way on various colleges and what they're like.
Charles Sykes and Brad Miner. The National Review College Guide.
Also out of print, this is National Review's selection of colleges that are truly academically rigorous; the program of each college is described (some in considerably more detail than others). Many if not most of the colleges are conservative, but not all. The main criterion is that the colleges require students to take a certain core curriculum, so if that's what you're after, this is a good place to look.
The Yale Insider's Guide to the Colleges.
Similar to the Fiske guide in principle, but more entertaining. If you want to know what colleges are really like, this is the guide to consult.
Sites
Colleges and Universities...Homeschool Admissions Policies.
Small but useful site.
Home School Central
A sort of clearing house for homeschooling
information on the web, with links to many home school sites.
Home School Friendly Colleges and Universities.
Large listing of colleges that designate themselves as "homeschooler-friendly;" some are more advertisements than anything else but still worth a look.
Homeschool--Teens--College.
Useful information on the subject by a mother of two children,
both of whom got into college, with scholarships.
HSLDA 1999 Survey on College Policies on Homeschoolers.
Large listing of colleges, which are ranked into three
groups based on the types of homeschool admissions policies they
have.
School is Dead--Learn in Freedom.
Has a very comprehensive list of colleges that have admitted homeschoolers.
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