Test Prep » Four-Year Colleges 2012 (Peterson's Four Year Colleges)
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Kindle Edition: 1624 pages: 1 item
Publisher: Peterson's; 2011-12-01
Author: Peterson's
Format: Kindle eBook
Sales Rank in Books: #323903
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Peterson's Four-Year Colleges 2012 is the trusted guide of high school guidance counselors, parents, and students. This valuable resource includes information on accredited four-year undergraduate institutions in the United States and Canada (and many international schools)—more than 2,500 institutions in all. It also includes detailed two-page descriptions, written by admissions personnel, for more than 400 colleges and universities. College-bound students and their parents can access important information, including campus setting, enrollment, academic programs, entrance difficulty, expenses, student-faculty ratio, application deadlines, and contact information, as well as the most frequently chosen baccalaureate fields. The Advice Center provides helpful articles on specialized college options, such as Honors Programs and Colleges, Online Learning, Women's Colleges, and Public vs. Private institutions. Other articles offer advice on making a list of your “Top-Ten” colleges, surviving standardized tests, preparing to get into college, paying for college, scholarship guidance, and advice for international students applying to U.S. colleges an d universities. Indexes include Majors or Fields of Study, Entrance Difficulty, Cost Ranges, and geographic and alphabetical listings of all schools.
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3.5 stars... OK but not great start for the college search, July 25, 2011
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This review is from: Four-Year Colleges 2012 (Peterson's Four Year Colleges) (Paperback)
Peterson's yearly overview of "Four Year Colleges" used to be one of THE standard bearers in the industry for many years. I used to think of it as the "Big Mac" of college-search books, for one because it was so darn huge. How things have changed.
"Peterson's Four Year Colleges - 2012 Edition" (1,990 pages, which is about 500 pages more than last year's edition--but still many pages less than earlier editions) is still basically 2 books in 1. The first 900 pages or so (called "College Profiles") provide the 'hard cold facts', presenting a very short summary of about 2,500 four year colleges around the US. This year's edition has expanded from last's year and thankfully it provides more information on colleges (I'm guessing there was a huge outcry over last year's very slimmed-down and almost useless entries). Not sure how in the book's introduction they dare write that "College Profiles" provide a complete picture of need-to-know information about accredited four year...Read more