Now an annual publication, the 2005 edition of Choosing the Right College has been thoroughly revised to reflect the ongoing changes and the impact of significant controversies at each of 125 featured colleges and universities. The editors provide candid assessments of the state of each school’s academic curriculum, political atmosphere, and social life as well as telling campus statistics. They also tell students which courses they can take at each school to provide themselves with a true core curriculum—a course of study that used to be required almost everywhere but now almost never is. This unique build-your-own-core feature is one more reason that Choosing the Right College has become the most valuable and trusted college guide on the market for the student and parent seeking a genuine liberal education.
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In the three editions in which it has appeared during the last five years, the ISI college guide, Choosing the Right College: The Whole Truth about America’s Top Schools, has served as an essential reference resource for prospective students and their parents. Unlike other college guides, which too often read like paraphrases of university public-relations brochures, Choosing the Right College is an independently researched and written volume that covers the things that matter most, such as core curricula, campus crime, student living arrangements, the quality of teaching and student advising, and freshman orientation. The ISI guide also provides specific advice on which professors to seek out—and which courses and departments to avoid.
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Covers the top 125 Schools,
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This review is from: Choosing the Right College 2005: The Whole Truth About America's Top Schools (Paperback)
There are college guides that have something to say about all the colleges in the country. This one is different. In its almost a thousand pages it talks about only a hundred twenty five schools. As the sub-title says, this book talks about America's Top Schools. Here you'll find several pages on Cal Tech and six of the University of California schools. But you won't find San Jose State. You'll find Brigham Young, but not the University of Utah.Again unlike many college guides, this book does not just say complimentary things about the schools. LSU's theater is described as - dirty, depressing, dilapidated and demoralizing. If you're looking at the big name schools, the information provided here will be of great value in helping you to decide if this particular school is for you.
42 of 54 people found the following review helpful:
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The college guide for Conservatives, but all around informative,
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One of the first things you come upon in this book, is Jeremy Beer's nostalgia for "The Core Curriculum" of years past. It is this that truely sets the frame for the rest of the book. Jeremy's beliefs are very narrow, and those colleges that don't conform are thouroughly critized by him. But in his process of critizing these schools, one learns the most about them of any college book. While I happen to disagree at least partially with view of a full two-year core curriculum in great books and history (Like that of Columbia's, which to give him credit, he lauds despite being a very liberal school), in his attempt to describe schools philosphies in comparison to his own, one garner's a lot more information about academic life than any other college book. His boook also manages to give a better view to the reader of the school, both in life at it, and political leanings. However the book is not without fault. I happen to disagree with a lot of his personal views. He believes choice at colleges is a mostly a bad thing. I also wouldn't be surprised to see him wanting to amend the United States constitution to ban Woman's, African, Carribean, (or any other non anglo-saxon and/or non-male) studies. Some of the things he writes are down right offenive to anyone who has ever believed in multiculturalism. Some of his political critisms of schools are right (even if they were a bit hard to take for this self-described liberal). He makes it his job to point out whenever poltiical bias crosses the line in courses from that of the professor's own opinion, to indoctrination of the class, and rightfully so in my opinion. He also often shows his conservtive feathers in descriptions, such as description of Harvard's dedication to stem-cell research, he describes it as "[So controversial that President Bush has decided not to support it]" But in his narrowmindedness (in my opinion) he does provide a much more full picture than any of the other comparable college guides and is worth purchasing.
18 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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The real life guide to colleges,
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This review is from: Choosing the Right College 2005: The Whole Truth About America's Top Schools (Paperback)
The writers do a wonderful job of analyzing where a good liberal arts education can be found in America; the result of doing diligent research about curriculum, quality of teaching and academic and student life. Some people may flinch at the accounts where politically correct colleges gone awry are substituting rigorous study for indoctrination but the truth of the matter is that students are losing out immeasurably when they fall prey to those who would destroy freedom of thought. A great guide which should be read by every thoughtful high school student.
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