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firefly, your Gilmore Girls suggestion rocks. I actually turned around and asked my mom for season 3 of Gilmore Girls right when I read that (I used to watch it all the time but then I got too busy, and I was just accepted into Yale, so now I want to revisit all of those episodes when I used to want to be just like Rory!)
But on a more serious note... I'm a high school senior girl right now, and I tackled the whole college-process thing head-on with no prior knowledge about anything. I began the entire process......... three months ago.
No one in my family ever went to college, my high school never provided us with any sort of valuable information, and so I had to figure out everything by myself.
When I took the ACT, I had never had a single practice book, let alone any tutors. I scored a 33, but I don't think most in my situation would have.
My point is, as a high school junior, college application guidebooks and ACT/ SAT prep books would have been VERY welcome. Even as Christmas presents.
Now, coming from a teenager, my only advice is this:
If you give these things as Christmas presents, please counterbalance the college stuff with cute clothes, cool electronics, video games, and all that stuff. Make them open the books first, then they can open the cool junk and forget about their initial disappointment. Then, when all the excitement about these material things wears off, they will dig the books out from the depths of their closets and be VERY thankful for them.
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