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Summary: Some Colleges You May Not Know
Review: Useful book is not an at-your-fingertips style guide book. Better to read this cover-to-cover or one chapter at a time.Pope writes in depth about colleges that are not Ivy, not the usual state institutions, not well-known. Plenty of options for alternative curricula and scheduling (like trimester systems, or 'great books' teaching). Some of the schools in the book are already "hot", and some have a narrow scope that would be perfect only for a minority of students. That's the beauty of this book: there is a good variety of schools and systems. Do your own additional research, but use this as a stepping-off point. Generally, the writer takes care to examine each school on its own merit, and each institution gets its own chapter. Nice to see that the author interviews students at each college, asking questions about food, faculty attitude, social life, recreation, as well as academic matters. It's a good read, valuable data for your college search process. Other good references: Fiske Guide, Choosing the Right College (ISI), and the Kaplan Newsweek issue that comes out every summer.
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