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Best 331 Colleges, 2001 Edition (Best Colleges, 2001)

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I would highly recommend this book to anyone who is beginning his or her college search. It not only gives you the facts, but student opinions too. That combination is the best jumping off point to make your college choice. You won't need another college reference book as long as you have this one.

I have recently graduated from the college I found using this book. I probably never would have made the choices I did or attended the college I did, if it hadn't been for this book. I am completely happy with my college choice, and it has gotten me into Harvard for graduate school.

When I began my college search, I felt overwhelmed by all of my choices. After buying this book, I narrowed my search to only the colleges listed in this book. I figured 306 (a lot less in my day than the 331 of today) colleges provided enough choices, and if a school didn't make the cut for the book, it could be skipped in my search. From that point I began looking at schools that kept popping up in the lists for good things (students happy with financial aid, dorms like palaces, schools run like butter, happy students, etc). I never thought I'd attend a women's college, but after I saw all the wonderful things students had to say about their own women's colleges, I started to visit a few. In the end, I attended the school that first drew my interest in this book.

Again, with this book, you won't need any of the other books out there. This one will be the most valuable resource in your college search.

I really like this book. But I have a problem with it being almost exactly the same as the year before, and the year before that, and the year before that........ They need to get diffrent student opinions and go to more colleges

This book goes even more indepth than the Princeton Review's web site. How they talk to not just the people that run the colleges, they also talk to current students. Also, how they rate the different schools is very interesting. A great buy for selecting a college!!!!

I bought this book looking forward to the "candid feedback" from students on the schools. Instead I found a very limited number of schools that I was interested in (North Carolina), and the unique info from the student interviews was very limited. If you are just beginning your search, this might be helpful, but if you have some idea of schools you are interested in, you should make sure they are included before buying this book.

My son and I used this as our guide to college tours. We found we agreed with the information provided for coleges we visited such as Villanova and Priceton. I particularly liked the student perspective. Since we agreed with the author's point of view, we were able to elimate some potential colleges off our visitation list and thus save time. This is a comprehensive, well written bible for all during the college search.