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"The best college guide you can buy." —USA Today
For more than 25 years, this leading guide to more than 310 colleges and universities—fully updated and expanded every year—has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Helpful, 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 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 school's 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
- 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
For more than 25 years, this leading guide to more than 310 colleges and universities—fully updated and expanded every year—has been an indispensable source of information for college-bound students and their parents. Helpful, 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 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 school's 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
- 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
About the Author
Edward B Fiske
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.Reviews
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This is the encyclopedia of colleges. It covers the most competitive 300 colleges in the U.S., including SAT ranges, size of the student body, most popular majors, class size, information on the surrounding area, student life and crossover colleges. There is also a wonderful intro section that lists “best colleges” by area of study, like business, theatre or engineering. If you only buy one college book, this should be it.
This guidebook makes an excellent effort to give students good, relative info for school-to-school comparisons.
The guide is notable as much for its focus on each school's personality and quality of life as for its statistical data and admissions information.
I'm a fan of the Fiske Guide to Colleges. Each profiled school is described by a well-crafted 1,000 to 2,500 word essay that draws on information from students, administrators, and independent research. The book is pleasingly readable with concise side boxes containing numerical data on SAT scores, retention rates, acceptance rates, and so on.
Don't expect a ton of objective data in the Fiske Guide to Colleges. The lover of numbers would do better with the U.S. News and World Report Ultimate College Guide or Peterson's Four-Year Colleges. That said, numbers rarely tell the story of a school effectively. The essays in the Fiske Guide employ both subjective and objective information to capture the real "feel" of a school. Since picking the perfect college is more about a personality match than anything numerical, Fiske's efforts to capture the personalities of the schools should be applauded.
Any prospective college student should certainly purchase a copy of this book. Fiske's Guide to College 2008 will become your virtual bible as you begin and progress through the difficult and often overwhelming college admissions process.
Specs
Format: Paperback
Dimensions
Length: 10.5 in
Width: 8.25 in
Weight: 53.12 oz
Page Count: 864 pages
Dimensions
Length: 10.5 in
Width: 8.25 in
Weight: 53.12 oz
Page Count: 864 pages
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