America's Best Value Colleges, 2007 Edition (College Admissions Guides) [Paperback]

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Book Description

Series: College Admissions Guides | Publication Date: March 28, 2006

Inside You’ll Find:
• Strategies for choosing the school that best meets your needs
• Tips on tackling the admission process and getting accepted
• The real cost of college once financial aid is applied to your bill
• School- and state-specific scholarships and grant aid
worth checking out
• Snapshots of campus life
• Career prospects for graduates of each profiled college

We offer a range of both public and private colleges, from small liberal arts colleges to large state universities, some well-known and some up-and-coming. A few are expensive (and worth every penny) while several manage to do the seemingly impossible (charge $0.00 for tuition!), but all of the included schools offer students the best value for their college education.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 544 pages
• Publisher: Princeton Review (March 28, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0375765220
• ISBN-13: 978-0375765223
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 1.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.8 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,721,424 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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8 of 10 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars One of several helpful books from The Princeton Review, June 3, 2006

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This review is from: America's Best Value Colleges, 2007 Edition (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback)

I am about to embark on my second college application search for my kids, this time with my daughter who will start her junior HS year in August. We will make our first college campus visits in a few weeks. The Princeton Review issues a number of books on the topic, and this book caught my eye recently.

"America's Best Value Colleges 2007" (531 pages) aims to provide an overview of the 150 colleges in America that provide "best value", as defined by The Princeton Review, i.e. a combination of academic rating, finacial aid rating and "tuition GPA". I will tell you that from my own perspective I found the choices to be somewhat bewildering, albeit informative. Being in Ohio, which has a wealth of both public and private schools, I hard a hard time accepting that only 2 Ohio schools (Denison, OSU) made the cut, the same number as, say, the state of Hawaii (with all due respect to my friends there). But the information provided in the book is quite insightful.

I was about to give this book a lower rating but then I must tell you that the ultimate customer of this book, i.e. my daughter, has spent a lot of time reading through this book, which I can assure you she does not do unless she feels compelled to/is interested in doing so (and some other college books have not captured her imagination). That said, I still feel that The Princeton Review's "Best 361 Colleges" is a better book to get information about the college searching process.