Loren Pope is a nationally renown college advisor with several national publicatons on colleges and universities in the United States. His best-seller publication, Colleges That Change Lives (Penguin, 2000), profiles his top 40 choices—schools that "he claims will do as much as, and perhaps even more than, any name-brand schools to fully educate students and to give them rich, full lives".

His other publication include, The Right College: How to Get In, Stay In, Get Back In (Macmillan, 1970), nationally syndicated article series “Twenty Myths That Can Jinx Your College Choice,” published in The Washington Post Magazine and Looking Beyond the Ivy League: Finding the College That’s Right for You (Penguin, 1995).