Product Description College guides written by students for students.
Your ultimate source for honest, unbiased information, College Prowler delivers an inside look at the top colleges and universities in the United States. Complete with thousands of student quotes, grades, stats, and reviews, this college guide offers a comprehensive collection of college information. See how students rate their campus when it s time to look beyond the brochures and talk about the issues that really matter.
Picking a college is hard, but we’re here to help.
The lists at the beginning of this book group 286 schools in a variety of categories. Interested in location, size, or selectivity? Check the lists. Curious about which schools have the best dining, dorms, or local atmosphere? We rank those, too. Cross-reference between the different lists to find the schools that match all of your needs. Dive into our school-specific sections and find out why those colleges you have your eye on scored well in one category and poor in another. Just like the original College Prowler guidebooks, each school’s section is student-written and provides its own unique dialogue to help you discover if the college is right for you.
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#1 Comprehensive College Guide, from the Top Name in College Rankings
This book offers complete lists of:
Most selective schools
Where applying early may help you most—or not
Schools with the most diverse student bodies
Priciest private schools and cheapest public schools
Best values: Great deals at great schools
Schools whose graduates have the most and least debt
Schools that award the most need-based aid
Major fields of study
Featuring complete data on more than 1,400 colleges and universities, U.S. News Ultimate College Guide 2010 is the best source for the information students and parents need most. It includes the essential step-by-step guide to the often stressful process of choosing a college, getting in, and finding the money, with exclusive lists and indices to help compare schools.
These lists and customized indices give students and parents what they need to make the best decision, including:
The hardest and easiest schools to get into
Schools that award the most need-based aid
The best values: great deals at great schools
Step-by-step advice from the nation’s leading education writers includes:
The only guide with all the accredited colleges in the United States—more than 3,800—including four-year, two-year, and technical schools!
This is the only guide available that contains objective information on every accredited college in the United States—2,100 four-year colleges and universities, and 1,700 two-year community colleges and technical schools. With its clearly laid-out entries and more than 40 indexes, the College Handbook 2010 is also the fastest, easiest way for students to narrow a college search and compare the schools that they’re interested in.
• targeted information for homeschooled students and students considering community college as an option
• useful features for black and Hispanic students
• tables of early-decision and wait-list outcomes show information that can’t be found in any other guide
• comprehensive listings of student services, majors, athletics, on-campus activities, and campus computing
• planning calendar and worksheets help students organize their applications and stay on track
• purchasers qualify for a $10 discount on The Official SAT Online Course™, the only course offered by the test makers
• updated annually by a team of editors who verify information with each college—making the College Handbook 2010 the best reference guide
Product Description Target the schools that best match your interests and goals! The Complete Book of Colleges profiles all of the four-year colleges in the U.S. (more than 1,600!) and is the key to a successful college search.
Complete Book of Colleges is packed with all of the information that prospective applicants need to know, including the details on:
·Academics ·Admissions requirements ·Application procedures ·Tuition and fees ·Transferring options ·Housing ·Financial Aid ·Athletics …and much, much more!
Fully updated for 2010, the Complete Book of Colleges contains all of the latest information about each school. Its unique “Admissions Wizard” questionnaire is designed to help you find schools that meet your individual needs. With competition for college admission at an all-time high, count on The Princeton Review to provide you with the most thorough and accurate guidance on the market.
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The Straight-Talking Student’s Guide to the Best Colleges
For more than thirty-five years, The Insider’s Guide to the Colleges has been the favorite resource of high school students across the country because it is the only comprehensive college reference written and researched by students for students.
In interviews with hundreds of peers on campuses from New York to Hawaii and Florida to Alaska, our writers have gotten the inside scoop on every school on topics ranging from professors and campus life to dorms and student activities.
This thirty-sixth edition has been completely revised and updated to stay on top of campus trends and attitudes. Each school profile in The Insider’s Guide cuts through the veneer of brochures and common stereotypes to reveal colleges as they’re seen through the eyes of their students.
This comprehensive guide includes:
- Revealing profiles of more than 330 top schools in the United States and Canada
- Essential statistics for every school, from acceptance rates to the most popular majors
- An insider’s packing list detailing what every college student really needs to bring
- A college quiz that helps students find the type of school that is right for them
- FYI sections with candid student opinions and outrageous advice
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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
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“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
The #1 bestselling college guide, from the top name in college admissions!
For more than 20 years, this leading guide to more than 330 colleges and universities has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Hip, honest and straightforward, Fiske Guide to Colleges 2010 delivers an insider’s look at the academic climates and the social and extracurricular scenes at the “best and most interesting” schools in the US, plus Canada and Great Britain. Includes:
Fiske’s exclusive academic, social, and quality-of-life ratings
The 40+ schools that deliver the best education at the most reasonable costs
Lists of each school’s strongest majors and programs
Candid tips from each school’s current students
A self-quiz to help students understand which college is right for them
Vital information on how to apply
“Overlap” listings to help students expand their options
FISKE: THE INDEPENDENT VOICE FOR STUDENTS AND PARENTS Why do students, parents and high school counselors trust and recommend Edward B. Fiske and the Fiske Guide to Colleges more than any other guide? Quite simply, they’re fiercely independent:
An author in touch: The incredible write-ups for more than 330 schools come not from a corporation, but from the former education editor of the New York Times, one of the leading experts in college admissions.
No hype from the colleges: The Fiske Guide accepts no consulting, advertising or other fees from colleges and has no outside consortium of colleges working on its behalf.
Nothing to sell: There are no counseling, essay-writing, tutoring, consulting, or other services Fiske Guide is trying to sell; just great information about great schools.
