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4.0 out of 5 stars
4.5 Stars... One of the best guides to colleges, September 3, 2006
This review is from: The Best 361 Colleges, 2007 Edition (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback)
The Princetown Review publishes a number of college search-related books, including the "Complete Book of Colleges" and this one. This book is essentially a distilled version of the "Complete Book", and frankly a lot more useful.
"The Best 361 Colleges (2007 Edition)" (795 pages)is very similar to last year's edition. For once the number of the "best" colleges has not increased, and that's a good thing in my opinion. Two colleges no longer made the cut and in their place are newcomers Occidental College and Westminster College. The best feature of this guide remains the 2 page layout for each of the colleges, with in-depth information on campus life, academic selectivity, tuiion and room/board costs, etc. Having the latest "hard data and figures" is the main reason to buy this book again, even though otherwise it is very similar to last year's edition.
The proof is in the pudding: of the many college guides out there, my daughter (now a junior) is spending more time with this book than with any other. This book is not the first palce to start the college search, but once your son or daughter has narrowed down his/her field of choice, and assuming those colleges are featured in the "best 361", this book clearly is the best resource and the last step before a campus visit.
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19 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Our family's favorite college guide, September 2, 2006
This review is from: The Best 361 Colleges, 2007 Edition (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback)
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 son continually used this book to help make his choice. I highly reccomend this book! My daughter used an earlier version to pick her school.
You will continually come back to using this book.
One qualifier there is very little difference between the 2007 and the 2006 editions.
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8 of 8 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars
Great information, January 17, 2007
This review is from: The Best 361 Colleges, 2007 Edition (College Admissions Guides) (Paperback)
We read and re-read this book, cross-referencing with other like material, but this one is good at comparing apples to apples between most of the colleges we would consider. We have the book and I bought this one as a gift for my niece. Would recommend to anyone researching a quality education for use with other materials on the vast and ever-interesting subject of college selection.
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