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The Best 371 Colleges, 2010 Edition (College Admissions Guides)
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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
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
Product Details
The Best 371 Colleges, 2010 Edition (College Admissions Guides)
- Paperback: 10 pages (2009-07-28)
- Publisher: Princeton Review; 2009-07-28
- Label: Princeton Review
- Studio: Princeton Review
- ISBN: 0375429387
- Sales Rank in Books: #407433
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42 of 42 people found the following review helpful:  The best college-search book, bar none, By This review is from: The Best 371 Colleges, 2010 Edition (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback) The Princetown Review publishes a number of college search-related books, including the "Complete Book of Colleges" and this one. This book is essentially a distilled version of the "Complete Book", and frankly a lot more useful (but for people completely new to the college-searching process, definitely check that out too). "The Best 371 Colleges (2010 Edition)" (832 pages) is similar to last year's edition. After holding the number of best colleges at 368 last year (remember this book started off in 1992 with the best 350), this time there are 5 new "best" colleges and 2 that didn't make the cut anymore, and so now we have 371 (if the inflation of "best" colleges continues, I surmise we'll get to 400 eventually). Those 5 new colleges are Angelo State University, Green Mountain College, Marywood University, Stonehill College, and the University of Charleston. There is a fun-to-browse 62 lists of best/worst, such as "Most Beautiful Campus", "Students Study the Most",...Read more 9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:  missing some very crucial information, By Gilgamesh "desert runner" (Arizona, USA) - See all my reviews Amazon Verified Purchase(What's this?) This review is from: The Best 371 Colleges, 2010 Edition (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback) This book has good info on SAT scores and GPA's and college costs. It gives insight into the admissions philosophies of the colleges. It gives very heavy emphasis to students' views of the feel and social/party aspects of the schools, and many schools end up sounding alike - I would say over half of them in this book feature comments like 'hard liquor is popular on campus', 'social life is dominated by frats', etc. That is certainly good info to have.
The major shortcoming of this book, as I see it, is that it says virtually nothing substantive about the college's actual academic programs and requirements. My son is looking at Ivy League schools, and there is no info in this book about the differences in core requirements between the different Ivy League schools. It wasn't until we were on the student tour at Princeton that we learned that Princeton has a required senior thesis that averages, according to our guide, 80 pages, and that, because of this, virtually no...Read more 6 of 6 people found the following review helpful: Kid friendly, By This review is from: The Best 371 Colleges, 2010 Edition (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback) We used the last edition for our son and found it to be very well designed with information for both parents and kids. This edition has lived in our daughter's room as she combs through it. With all the access information right at the top of the page contacting the schools is made easy. Also the student's point of view area rings true. It is a good buy. |
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