What makes The Best 373 Colleges the most popular college guide?
The Best 373 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!
•Unique "Financial Aid Rating" scores for all 373 schools and list of 100 "Best Value" Colleges
•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 Liberal Students -Most Conservative Students -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
What the media is saying about The Best 373 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
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Sample Top 10 Rankings from The Best 373 Colleges
Best Career Services
Northeastern University
Pennsylvania State University - University Park
Yale University
University of Florida
Barnard College
Bentley University
Claremont McKenna College
Sweet Briar College
Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
The University of Texas at Austin
Dorms Like Palaces
Bryn Mawr College
Smith College
Loyola University Maryland
Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
Bennington College
Bowdoin College
Washington University in St. Louis
Claremont McKenna College
Scripps College
The George Washington University
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The Best 373 Colleges, 2011 Edition (College Admissions Guides)
This review is from: The Best 373 Colleges, 2011 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 373 Colleges (2011 Edition)" (840 pages) is similar to last year's edition. After holding the number of best colleges at 371 last year (remember this book started off in 1992 with the best 350), this time there are 2 new "best" colleges: Austin College and the University of Missouri-Columbia. Not a single school from last year's list was dropped (if the inflation of "best" colleges continues, I surmise we'll get to 400 by 2020 or so). There are over 60 fun-to-browse top 20 lists of best/worst, such as "Most Beautiful Campus", "Students Study the Most", "Party Schools", and "Most Politically Active Students" (my daughter is attending the #1...Read more
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This review is from: The Best 373 Colleges, 2011 Edition (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback)
My pre-order came in today, and thank goodness! I've been doing summer college visits with my niece, and in looking through Best 373, we found some more potential options for her to tack on before school starts up again. The rankings are great, as are the college info pages - everything you need to know, and then a little more. Highly recommended for families/students planning their college visits, or starting to research college options. A college bible, if you will.
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This review is from: The Best 373 Colleges, 2011 Edition (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback)
The 2011 edition of The Best 373 Colleges should be in every high school and many a general lending library. It's the most popular college guide in print, juxtaposing direct quotes from students and unique rankings of the top 20 colleges in 62 categories with detailed admissions information from applications to majors and tuition. Highly recommended!
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