Choosing the Right College: 2008-2009: The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools [Paperback]

John Zmirak (Editor), Mr. Walter E. Williams (Introduction)

Book Description

Publication Date: June 15, 2007 | Series: Choosing the Right College

The ISI guide also provides specific advice on which professors to seek out—and which courses and departments to avoid.

 

As an exclusive feature, Choosing the Right College advises students which courses they should take at each school to provide themselves with a true core curriculum. 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 students seeking a genuine liberal education.

 

This 2008–9 edition includes essays on thirteen institutions not previously covered: Agnes Scott College, Case Western Reserve University, Centre College, Fordham University, George Washington University, Gettysburg College, University of King’s College (Halifax), Lehigh University, Occidental College, University of Rochester, Trinity Western University (British Columbia), University of Tulsa, and Union College.

Product Details

• Paperback: 1000 pages
• Publisher: Intercollegiate Studies Institute (June 15, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1933859237
• ISBN-13: 978-1933859231
• Product Dimensions: 8.9 x 7 x 2.3 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.3 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (18 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,030,128 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Too selective, April 29, 2008

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J. Klumpenhower - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Choosing the Right College: 2008-2009: The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools (Paperback)

I was worried about this when I bought the book. It only gives reviews on about 130 colleges, leaving out all the ones my daughter was interested in--most of them being large, state universities. Maybe this was mentioned somewhere, but I didn't see it. It would be helpful if we knew which colleges were reviewed before buying.

FYI, these are the ones they review:

New England:
Amherst College
Bates College
Boston College
Boston University
Bowdoin College
Brandeis University
Brown University
Colby College
Connecticut College
Dartmouth College
Harvard University
College of the Holy Cross
MIT
Middlebury College
Mount Holyoke College
Providence College
Smith College
Thomas More College of Liberal Arts
Tufts University
Wellesley College
Wesleyan University
Williams College
Yale University

Mid-Atlantic:
Bard College
Barnard College
Bryn Mawr College
Bucknell University
Carnegie Mellon University
Catholic University of America
Colgate University
Columbia University
Cooper Union
Cornell University
Fordham University
Georgetown University
George Washington University
Gettysburg College
Grove City College
Hamilton College
Haverford College
Johns Hopkins University
Lafayette College
Lehigh University
New York University
University of Pennsylvania
Penn State
Princeton
University of Rochester
St. John's College
Seton Hall University
Swarthmore College
Union College
United States Military Academy
United States Naval Academy
Vassar College
Villanova University

South:
Agnes Scott College
Auburn University
Centre College
Christendom College
Clemson University
Davidson College
Duke University
Emory University
University of Florida
Furman University
George Mason University
University of Georgia
Georgia Institute of Technology
Hampden-Sydney College
Louisiana State University
University of Mississippi
Morehouse College
University of North Carolina
Oglethorpe University
Rhodes College
University of the South
Spelman College
Tulane University
Vanderbilt University
University of Virginia
Wake Forest University
Washington and Lee University
College of William and Mary
Wofford College

Midwest:
Calvin College
Carleton College
Case Western Reserve University
University of Chicago
Franciscan University of Steubenville
Grinnell College
Hillsdale College
Indiana University
University of Iowa
University of Kansas
Kenyon College
Macalester College
University of Michigan
University of Minnesota-Twin Cities
Northwestern University
University of Notre Dame
Oberlin College
St. Olaf College
University of Tulsa
Wabash College
Washington University in St. Louis
Wheaton College
University of Wisconsin

West:
Baylor University
BYU
UC Berkely
UC LA
UC San Diego
UC Santa Barbara
California Institute of Technology
Claremont Colleges
University of colorado at Boulder
Colorado College
University of Dallas
Gonzaga University
Occidental College
Pepperdine University
Reed College
Rice University
University of Southern California
Southern Methodist University
Stanford University
University of Texas at Austin
Texas A&M University
Thomas Aquinas College
United States Air Force Academy
Whitman College

Canada:
Trinity Western University
Tyndale University College

18 of 18 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars There's nothing even close to this guide, September 16, 2007

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K Michals - See all my reviews

This review is from: Choosing the Right College: 2008-2009: The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools (Paperback)

This college guide is hands down better than any guide I've seen. If actually getting an education rooted in a core curriculum is important to you, or knowing whethter or not the dorms your son or daughter will be living in have co-ed showers is something you might like to be aware of, than this guide stands alone in how it reviews schools. If the above (and so much more like it) is "conservative" or "Christian", than so be it. To me is just makes good sense. Choosing the Right College is an amazing resource.

18 of 19 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars twenty years of schoolin' and they put you on the dayshift, Bob Dylan, September 27, 2007

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Robert C. Cheeks "IC BkRevEditor" - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Choosing the Right College: 2008-2009: The Whole Truth about America's Top Schools (Paperback)

An impressive guide for those about to get a "higher" education. This book will save you time, money, and a great deal of anxiety. Details the best colleges (i.e. those that actually seek to educate the student) and the best professors (i.e. those that actually seek to educate the student, as compared to those colleges and faculty that are determined to indoctrinate the student.