Fiske Guide to Colleges 2008

For more than 20 years, this leading guide to more than 300 colleges and universities has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Hip, honest and straightforward, the Fiske Guide to Colleges delivers an insider's look at the academic climates and the social and extracurricular scenes at the best and most interesting schools in the U.S., 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 understand which college is right for a student
-- Vital information on how to apply
-- Overlap listings to help students expand their options
-- Selectivity statistics and SAT and ACT ranges

From the Back Cover
Most readable and informative of all college guides.
-USA Today
For more than 20 years, this leading guide to more than 300 colleges and universities has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Hip, honest and straightforward, the Fiske Guide to Colleges
delivers an insiders look at the academic climates and the social and extracurricular scenes at the best and most interesting schools in the United States, plus Canada and Great Britain.
In addition to the candid essays on each school, you will find:
A self-quiz to help you understand what you are really looking for in a college
Lists of the strongest majors and programs at each college
Vital information on how to apply, including admissions and financial aid deadlines, required tests and each schools essay questions
Overlap listings to help you expand your options
Selectivity statistics and SAT/ACT scores
Indexes that break down schools by price and state
A list of schools with strong programs for learning disabled students
Plus all the basics, including email addresses and university websites
Plus a special section highlighting the 45 public and private Best Buy schools-colleges that provide the best educational value
The guide the San Francisco Chronicle called the bible.
Edward B. Fiske served for 17 years as Education Editor of the New York Times, during which time he realized that college-bound students and their families needed better information on which to base their educational choices. He wrote the Fiske Guide to Colleges to help them. He is also the author, with Bruce G. Hammond, of the Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College.

This book gives you pretty good info on most of America's good colleges(some are not on there because they "weren't good enough") the infos are pretty good, since they obtain most of them through interviews with each college's students. One thing i don't get though,on page 537,for Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, the Quality of Life rating was "HHH" instead of stars...wonder if it is a typo.

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