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The Best 371 Colleges, 2010 Edition (College Admissions Guides) |  | Author: Princeton Review
Publisher: Princeton Review
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Pages: 832
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ISBN: 0375429387
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Publication Date: July 28, 2009
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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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 Best College Search Book I Found July 19, 2010
Toni Logue (Baldwin, NY United States)
I first saw this book at the library after reviewing many of the big names in College Guide books. The comments are helpful and gives you a real flavor for the work load and the student body. In addition, the format presented makes it eay to compare schools quickly. I decided to get my own copy because I have an 11th grader and a 10th grader. The book has helped them focus in on what they each want out of their college experience, and to start planning on which schools to visit. When there are so many options out there, it is nice to have a reference source that narrows the field.
Fantastic! July 16, 2010
Closm1174
I am a rising high school senior, and this book has been absolutely imperative for me in picking out colleges that interest me. First, there are the funny, irreverent, but nevertheless informative lists, such as "Clove-smoking, Birkenstock-wearing, tree-hugging vegetarians" and "dodgeball targets" and (everyone's favorite) "party schools". These, though, will just whet your appetite for the main course: two page analyses of Academics, Life (what students do outside of classes), and Student Body. I have flipped through both Insider's Guide and Fiske, and I have preferred this one by far. Fiske is a bit too glowing in his reviews; you don't get the whole picture. Insider's Guide does not have as many direct quotes from students, who after all, are the best source of information.
 missing some very crucial information June 26, 2010
Gilgamesh (Arizona, USA)
4 out of 4 found this review helpful
This book has good info on SAT scores and GPA's and college costs. It gives insight into the admissions philosophies of the colleges. It gives very heavy emphasis to students' views of the feel and social/party aspects of the schools, and many schools end up sounding alike - I would say over half of them in this book feature comments like 'hard liquor is popular on campus', 'social life is dominated by frats', etc. That is certainly good info to have.
The major shortcoming of this book, as I see it, is that it says virtually nothing substantive about the college's actual academic programs and requirements. My son is looking at Ivy League schools, and there is no info in this book about the differences in core requirements between the different Ivy League schools. It wasn't until we were on the student tour at Princeton that we learned that Princeton has a required senior thesis that averages, according to our guide, 80 pages, and that, because of this, virtually no student double majors. This same guide informed us about Columbia's Core Curriculum, heavily based on the Classics, that every student must take. Brown, he told us, is the most flexible Ivy, and has no core requirements. Well, for my son, anyway, all that was vital information and it mattered a lot more to him than some subjective student comments such as 'Everyone likes the Tigers' or 'All the students here are really friendly.'
The info we were seeking is all available online, at each college's website, of course. But it sure would be nice if college guide book writers would actually do a bit more work and write some substantive information about the academic requirements of each school.
 useless book May 26, 2010
al
1 out of 3 found this review helpful
It is shipped fast and good condition, but the book is useless.
The descriptions for colleges are all good words instead of real words, it seems that all the colleges are same. The admission requirements are not accurate, you can not reley on them. I don't know which year's tuition and fees they are following, datas seem too old. Anyway I can not find any inside features of colleges and can not trust the datas.
One of the most useful guides February 26, 2010
S. Russell (Boulder, CO USA)
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
My daughter and I have found this and the Fiske Guide to Colleges 2010, 26E the two most useful books to help her narrow down her choices. We started off on the [..] website (also useful--and free) to find colleges that offered her major. We used some of the statistics on that site to further narrow it down. More than half of the colleges left were in this or Fiske (there is a lot of overlap--not many in one book but not the other, at least for the colleges on her list). This book gave much more "real life" information than the dry statistics on the college board website. My daughter chose to eliminate colleges where life revolved around football and/or the Greek system (which could be a plus for other students--the book doesn't make any moral judgments!) It includes the academic atmosphere: easy, hard, lots of red tape, large or small classes, cold and distant profs vs. enthusiastic profs who interact with students. It also gives a bit of feel for the types of students you are likely to find: political leanings, preppies, jocks, nerds, hippies, etc. Whatever a student's preferences in these areas, they will be able to get a better feel for which colleges may be worth a visit and which ones they almost certainly won't like. I would add though, that only students looking at more selective schools are likely to find many of interest here. Judging from the schools we browsed, it seems to start (selectivity-wise) around the big state universities and go up to the top Ivy League schools.
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