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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 5 public and private Best Buy schools-colleges that provide the best educational value
The guide the
San Francisco Chronicle called "the bible." (20100801)
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Average Customer Review
(28 customer reviews) 66 of 67 people found the following review helpful
A Standard Guide to Colleges,
November 13, 2008 Henry W. Gilligan (Maryland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fiske Guide to Colleges 2009, 25E (Paperback)
The "Fiske Guide to Colleges" is probably the best known college guide in the country. This is the guide you will want to buy when you would like to read descriptions of most of the colleges that you have probably heard of. Most of the colleges and universities that the average high school student would be interested in are included. One feature that will appeal to many high school students is the ratings of a college's academics, social life, and quality of life. The social life opportunities at a college are an important consideration to a lot of today's teens. The guide rates the college's social life possibilities on a scale of 1 to 5 - with 5 being the highest. It has a similar 1 to 5 rating of each college's academic credentials that is based upon the school's reputation, the quality of its faculty, the quality of its facilities, the academic abilities of its students, and the academic seriousness of its students and faculty. There is also a 1 to 5 rating for the quality...Read more
58 of 60 people found the following review helpful
3.5 stars... Not your first stop for college searching,
July 9, 2009 This review is from: Fiske Guide to Colleges 2010, 26E (Paperback)
Is it just me or are these college search/guidance books coming out sooner every year? I mean, we are barely into July, and here already is the 2010 edition of The Fisk Guide to Colleges. I am well aware that the publishing business on college search/guidance books is a multi-million business, but still.
"Fiske Guide to Colleges 2010" (774 pages) is a curious college-guidance/search book in my opinion. It lists the "best and most interesting" colleges in the country, about 300 out of 2,200 four year colleges in the US are written up. According to the introduction, they were selected on the basis of academic quality, geographic diversity, a balance of public and private schools, and schools that are currently popular for certain programs (engineering and technical schools, religious emphasis, etc.). Being from Ohio, I look at the list of schools that "made the cut" and inexplicably Xavier University (a fine Jesuit college here in Cincinnati) is left out of the book. Huh...Read more
19 of 20 people found the following review helpful
Detailed information with useful student feedback,
August 25, 2008 Laura Boyle (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Fiske Guide to Colleges 2009, 25E (Paperback)
This is one of the best college guides out there. It has a lot of great detailed information on the colleges including quotes from students. The number of colleges profiled is just right--enough to provide some options but not so many that it's overwhelming. I really like how Fiske shares which colleges are similar to the one you're interested in. That makes the college search a little easier.
