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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
One of the most useful guidesReviewed by S. Russell, 2010-02-26
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.
Everything from dorms to career centers, financial aid, academics
and setting are ratedReviewed by Midwest Book Review, 2009-11-13
The 2010 edition of Robert Franek with Tom Meltzer, et.al.'s THE BEST 371 COLLEGES is based on 122,000 student ratings and covers the top 20 colleges in 62 categories. Everything from dorms to career centers, financial aid, academics and setting are rated in extensive descriptions to help any student decide. From planning for the test to using resources, this is a top reference for any student's study collection.
Best 371 CollegesReviewed by Nancy E. Selavka, 2009-10-29
This was extremely informative and put my college search into perspective. Well written and up to date.
Good, Useful Data for Parents; Lots of Student FeedbackReviewed by Tax Writer, 2009-10-14
My daughter just applied to four colleges last week. This book is a
good overview of colleges, with rankings based on student input as
well as a variety of other factors, including cost ($$$ are so
important right now).
The thing that sets it apart from other college guide books is that
this book is actually fun to read. It's not just a collection of
facts and figures. There's a lot of student feedback, which is
important-- I remember having strong opinions about things at my
college when I attended, including the dorms that I thought were
the best, etc.
There's also information on alcohol consumption (interesting!) best
and worst professors, etc. I think it is a good resource for
parents, especially if you are trying to get your son/daughter into
the best school you can afford.
SUPER SERVICEReviewed by M. Biety, 2009-09-14
I ORDERED THIS HEAVY BOOK FROM THE USA and was expecting it in two months but it arrived in perfect shape and packing IN TWO WEEKS. HURRAH.
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