The Best 366 Colleges, 2008 Edition (College Admissions Guides)
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The Princeton Review guide is not the last word in college guides, but it probably should be the first word for those seeking a top college for their strong student. If you are new to the college search process, this guide allows you to quickly winnow your search to a group of schools that would be a good fit for your child, at least on paper. The strength of the Princeton Review guide is the numbers. Detailed statistical profiles of the student body and of the recently admitted freshman class allows potential applicants to quickly see how they stack up against their competition for a spot at that school. If you want to go Ivy League, the guide will quickly let you know if you're being realistic or not. By the same token, maybe the numbers tell you that you have a real chance at getting into some schools you previously thought were out of reach.
The narratives included for each school are not the best part of the book. They provide good overview info for a first-look at a school, but you start to wonder how insightful they really are when you read the 25th review that says "the students at [fill in the blank] college work hard, but play hard too." To me, the narratives are too brief and anecdotal to be really useful. As you narrow your search from 2200 schools to 300 schools to 20 or 25, you'll want to augment your library with something like [[ASIN:1402208367 Fiske Guide to Colleges 2008 (Fiske Guide to Colleges)]], which I think makes an excellent companion to the Princeton Review guide. It's a little less numbers-intensive and provides narratives that, in my view, give a better feel for the learning and living environments at these colleges.
All-in-all, the Princeton Review guide is a must-have for families looking at top schools, but not the whole story. |
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