The Best 378 Colleges, 2014 Edition Author: Princeton Review | Language: English | ISBN:
0307946053 | Format: EPUB
The Best 378 Colleges, 2014 Edition Description
What makes The Best 378 Colleges the most popular college guide?
*DIRECT QUOTES FROM STUDENTS that give insight into each school's unique character, classes, financial aid, social scenes, and more. The Best 378 Colleges is the only guide that relies on the real experts, students--and we suveryed over 126,000 students this year!
*ONE-OF-A-KIND RANKING LISTS that reveal the top 20 colleges in 62 categories based on how students rated their school's dorms, professors, food, athletic facilities, and financial aid
*DETAILED ADMISSIONS INFORMATION that gives tuition, application criteria, deadlines, student to faculty ratios, graduation rates, and the most popular majors
*BONUS FEATURES like the "150 Best Value Colleges List," plus unique ratings with all 378 schools scored on Financial Aid, Quality of Life, Fire Safety, Green Ratings, and more!
Written for any student or parent mystified by the confusing college admissions process, The Best 378 Colleges provides the facts and information needed to make a smart decision about which of the country's best schools to consider.
What the media is saying about The Best 378 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
- Series: College Admissions Guides
- Paperback: 864 pages
- Publisher: Princeton Review; 1 edition (August 6, 2013)
- Language: English
- ISBN-10: 0307946053
- ISBN-13: 978-0307946058
- Product Dimensions: 10.2 x 7.5 x 1.8 inches
- Shipping Weight: 2.8 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
*UPDATE 8/7/13*
The 2014 Edition was just released but for whatever reason, Amazon decided to 'cut and paste' all reviews from last year's edition and repeat them here. I have reviewed the 2014 Edition carefully. There are now 378 "best" colleges, with 4 schools dropped from last year's list and 5 new ones added: LeMoyne College, Marquette University, Stephens College, the University of Texas at Dallas, and Trinity College (from Dublin).
My daughter's school in DC dropped from No. 1 to No. 4 on this year's list of "Most Politically Active Students". And yes, the cost of college just keeps on rising! Be that as it may, this book remains by far the market leader and the MUST READ/MUST HAVE of college search guides (assuming your school of interest made the cut).
BELOW IS MY REVIEW OF THE 2013 EDITION:
The Princeton Review publishes a number of college search-related books, including the "Complete Book of Colleges" and this one. This book is essentially a distilled version of the "Complete Book", and frankly a lot more useful (but for people completely new to the college-searching process, definitely check that out too).
"The Best 377 Colleges (2013 Edition)" (837 pages) is similar to last year's edition. After holding the number of best colleges at 376 last year (remember this book started off in 1992 with the best 250, where have the years gone!), this time there are 6 new "best" colleges: Allegheny College, Becker College, City University of New York-City College, University of Hawaii-Manoea, University of Tampa, and Virginia Wesleyan College. Five schools from last year's list were dropped (but if the inflation of "best" colleges continues, I surmise we'll get to 400 by 2020 or so).
Selecting a college is an important decision that can change someone's life, for better or worse. And, it is an EXPENSIVE decision, with four years at a top private college costing $250,000. There are a dozen books available to help in the selection process, and Princeton Review's "Best Colleges" is a one of the best choices.
Tanabe's "Ultimate Guide" is a slightly better book profiling 300 good American colleges. Loren Pope's "Beyond The Ivy League" focuses on the self-evaluation process that is crucial in selecting the college that is best for a given student.
Princeton Review looks at less than 400 colleges and universities, with many good colleges omitted. Princeton Review, as with other college guides, focuses heavily on "old and established" East Coast colleges, and provides a good selection of California colleges, but it omits many good colleges in the South, Mid-West and the Mountain West.
Because each of the "major" guides to colleges omits many good schools, and because each provides some information that the other guides may omit, it is necessary to buy two or three college guides.
What if you want just ONE guide? I might chose Tanabe's "Ultimate Guide". An example of Tanabe's willingness to report ALL the facts is in its Vanderbilt profile. First Tanabe describes the Vanderbilt that is beloved in the Old South: "students are notorious for their preppy style and conservative views...dominated by the wealthy, Caucasian, Greek scene..." Attempts at diversity have resulted in claims of "further segregation among students."
Princeton Review watered down its description of the racist culture at Vanderbilt by merely stating that now "there is much more diversity...
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