The Best 371 Colleges, 2010 Edition (College Admissions Guides) |  | Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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ISBN: 0375429387
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Product Description
What makes The Best 371 Colleges the most popular college guide?
The Best 371 Colleges is a comprehensive college guide written for any student or parent mystified by the confusing college admissions process. This essential college-planning guide, from the experts at The Princeton Review, provides the facts about the best schools in the country, popular college ranking lists, and the information needed to make a smart decision about which schools to consider.
Revealing answers from college students cover each school’s unique character and give you extensive insight into their classes, financial aid, social life, and everything in between. Students are the experts, after all, and we talked to 122,000 of them!
•One-of-a-kind college rankings reveal the top colleges in 62 categories based on how students at the schools–the real experts! –rated their colleges. The ranking lists include:
-Top Professors
-Best Financial Aid
-Best Career/Job Placement Services
-Best Classroom Experiences
-Top Party Schools
-Dorms Like Palaces
-Best Athletic Facilities
-Best Campus Food
-Most Politically Active Students
-Most Diverse Student Population
-Class Discussions Encouraged
-Best College Newspaper
-…and many more!
•Learn what you can do in high school to prepare yourself for admission to a selective college
•Get all the application essentials–tuition, admissions criteria, deadlines, phone numbers, addresses, demographics, student/faculty ratios, and most popular majors–for quick reference and easy comparison when you’re narrowing down your choices
•Green college ratings help readers find out if schools are environmentally friendly
•Special section on great colleges for the 15 most popular majors
•An Index of Schools by Cost allows you to search all colleges in the book by price
What the media is saying about The Best 371 Colleges from The Princeton Review:
“The offbeat indexes, along with the chattily written descriptions of each school, provide
a colorful picture of each campus.”–The New York Times
“The most efficient of the college guidebooks. Has entertaining profiles larded with quotes from students.”–Rolling Stone
“A great book…it’s a bargain.” –CNN
“Our favorite college guidebook.” –Seventeen
“Provides the kind of feedback students would get from other students in a campus visit.” –USA Today
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Everything from dorms to career centers, financial aid, academics and setting are rated November 13, 2009
Midwest Book Review (Oregon, WI USA)
The 2010 edition of Robert Franek with Tom Meltzer, et.al.'s THE BEST 371 COLLEGES is based on 122,000 student ratings and covers the top 20 colleges in 62 categories. Everything from dorms to career centers, financial aid, academics and setting are rated in extensive descriptions to help any student decide. From planning for the test to using resources, this is a top reference for any student's study collection.
Best 371 Colleges October 29, 2009
Nancy E. Selavka
This was extremely informative and put my college search into perspective. Well written and up to date.
Good, Useful Data for Parents; Lots of Student Feedback October 14, 2009
Christy Pinheiro EA ABA (www.ChristyPinheiro.com, http://selfpublishingreview.blogspot.com)
My daughter just applied to four colleges last week. This book is a good overview of colleges, with rankings based on student input as well as a variety of other factors, including cost ($$$ are so important right now).
The thing that sets it apart from other college guide books is that this book is actually fun to read. It's not just a collection of facts and figures. There's a lot of student feedback, which is important-- I remember having strong opinions about things at my college when I attended, including the dorms that I thought were the best, etc.
There's also information on alcohol consumption (interesting!) best and worst professors, etc. I think it is a good resource for parents, especially if you are trying to get your son/daughter into the best school you can afford.
SUPER SERVICE September 14, 2009
M. Biety (London, England)
I ORDERED THIS HEAVY BOOK FROM THE USA and was expecting it in two months but it arrived in perfect shape and packing IN TWO WEEKS. HURRAH.
Kid friendly September 13, 2009
R. Burnell (Mendocino, CA)
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
We used the last edition for our son and found it to be very well designed with information for both parents and kids. This edition has lived in our daughter's room as she combs through it. With all the access information right at the top of the page contacting the schools is made easy. Also the student's point of view area rings true. It is a good buy.
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