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Best 311 Colleges, 1999 Edition (Annual) |
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When faced with a difficult decision, most people ask their friends for advice. When faced with the difficulty of selecting a college, however, most people lack a large enough circle of friends to advise them on the best choice out of the 3,500 or so colleges in the United States. That's where the Princeton Review's The Best 311 Colleges can help. This book differs from the rest of the college guides in that the vast majority of information comes from students at the schools themselves. Some 56,000 students were surveyed and asked to rate everything from their professors and the hours they spent studying to campus food, dorms, and social life. The results were compiled into the Princeton Review's famous annual survey (which ranks schools under categories such as "party schools," "jock schools," and schools with "great libraries" and "dorms like palaces") and the helpful two-page profiles of each college designed to help you get a "feel" for the place. All the profiles have an identical layout, allowing for quick comparison between schools, and they feature essays on campus life peppered with representative quotations from students, a section on factors considered (and not considered) by the admissions committee, and an at-a-glance list of deadlines, student body profile, and admissions percentages. While the "what's hot/what's not" lists are a bit hokey (for example: beer and hard liquor are "hot" at Lehigh University, while town-gown relations are "not"), this book is for the most part helpful. As the editors point out, "What could be more useful to students choosing a college than the opinions of current college students about their campuses?" The Princeton Review's The Best 311 Colleges is an excellent starting point to help you find the best school for you. --C.B. Delaney
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