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Title: The Best 351 Colleges, 2004 Edition by Robert Franek, Princeton Review ISBN: 0-375-76337-6 Publisher: Princeton Review Pub. Date: 19 August, 2003 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $21.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.8 (15 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Useful Resource
Comment: This is an excellent source of college-bound students' information pertaining to the best 10% of higher educations institutions in the country (and two in Canada, I believe). I would recommend this for high school sophomores and juniors in the upper third of their high school graduating class who still have only vague ideas of where they wish to attend college.
The information in here is both pertinent and useful. The book includes such facts as diversity profiles, student survey results, average high school GPA of entering freshmen, and school-specific admissions advice.
Pick up The Best 351 Colleges today. You won't regret this purchase.
Rating: 2
Summary: Stonewalled by the college industry or too passive?
Comment: Editor John Katzman restates in this year's foreword how colleges and universities stonewalled some of his data requests: "We couldn't get any answers to these questions from many colleges. In fact, we couldn't get any answers to any questions from some schools. ... Until the schools demystify the admissions process, this book is your best bet." That's chutzpah.
Publishing industry representatives participate in the common data set initiative (see www.commondataset.org). Why can't they pressure colleges and universities to release their data? Furthermore, many of the 351 top schools are public institutions and subject to state Freedom of Information Acts. The college guidebook industry needs to become more assertive.
As it is, drawing on the common data set for most of its hard data, this guide resembles most other available college guides. No better, no worse. It provides some impressionistic information under the general rubric "students speak out," but putting this anecdotal information into any meaningful context is almost impossible.
Totally absent is score information from tests taken by students in college, such as the Medical College Admissions Test, Law School Admissions Test, Graduate Record Examinations, or Graduate Management Admissions Test; yet, these scores would seem to reflect college achievement. This guide only lists information on test scores taken by entering high school students (for example, the SAT I, ACT, etc.).
Little evident use is made of the National Survey of Student Engagement (NSSE). All freshmen and seniors at participating schools must take the survey, which questions students about their classroom experience, study habits and homework assignments, and asks them to evaluate the quality of education they receive. Unlike standardized tests, the survey depends entirely on subjective responses, and no attempt is made to assess what is actually learned in the classroom. Granted most schools try to hide NSSE information, but a proactive publishing industry should be able to obtain it.
College guidebook publishers seem content to generate public interest by upgrading and downgrading schools in their rankings. They expend minimal resources in seeking new information or attempting new ways of viewing how well colleges and universities educate. That's a shame, for they shortchange the American consumer who is being asked to spend increasingly large sums, often going into debt for years, on higher educational services.
Rating: 5
Summary: Best College Guide for Above Average Students
Comment: This is the best college guide for students with SAT scores above 1100. I don't reccomend it for students will lower scores because it concentrates on schools that expect a higher SAT.
This book rates college on academic as well as social factors so you can see if you fit in to that campus. You can read about dorms, party atmosphere, and what current students are like.
One feature that I felt was great was... "if you like a certain college you may want to look at"... This allows you to add new schools to consider.
My high school daughter continually used this book to make her choice. I highly reccomend this book!
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Title: The Fiske Guide to Colleges 2004 (Fiske Guide to Colleges) by Edward B. Fiske, Robert Logue ISBN: 1402200609 Publisher: Sourcebooks Trade Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $22.95 |
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Title: The Insider's Guide to the Colleges 2004: 30th Edition by Daily News Yale ISBN: 0312316186 Publisher: St. Martin's Press Pub. Date: 18 July, 2003 List Price(USD): $17.99 |
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Title: The Unofficial, Unbiased Guide to the 328 Most Interesting Colleges 2004 : A Trent and Seppy Guide by Kaplan ISBN: 0743241452 Publisher: Kaplan Press Pub. Date: 01 August, 2003 List Price(USD): $20.00 |
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Title: Colleges That Change Lives: 40 Schools You Should Know About Even If You're Not a Straight-A Student by Loren Pope ISBN: 0140296166 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: 08 August, 2000 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Fiske Guide to Getting into the Right College (Fiske Gide to Getting into the Right College) by Edward B. Fiske, Bruce G. Hammond ISBN: 1570719063 Publisher: Sourcebooks Trade Pub. Date: April, 2002 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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