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The Best 373 Colleges, 2011 Edition (College Admissions Guides) [Paperback]

Princeton Review
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August 3, 2010 College Admissions Guides (Book 373)
What makes The Best 373 Colleges the most popular college guide?

The Best 373 Colleges is a comprehensive college guide written for any student or parent mystified by the confusing college admissions process. This essential college-planning guide, from the experts at The Princeton Review, provides the facts about the best schools in the country, popular college ranking lists, and the information needed to make a smart decision about which schools to consider.

Revealing answers from college students cover each school’s unique character and give you extensive insight into their classes, financial aid, social life, and everything in between. Students are the experts, after all, and we talked to 122,000 of them!

•Unique "Financial Aid Rating" scores for all 373 schools and list of 100 "Best Value" Colleges

•One-of-a-kind college rankings reveal the top colleges in 62 categories based on how students at the schools–the real experts! –rated their colleges. The ranking lists include:
-Top Professors  
-Best Financial Aid
-Best Career/Job Placement Services
-Best Classroom Experiences
-Top Party Schools
-Dorms Like Palaces 
-Best Athletic Facilities 
-Best Campus Food
-Most Politically Active Students
-Most Liberal Students
-Most Conservative Students
-Best College Newspaper 
-…and many more!    

•Learn what you can do in high school to prepare yourself for admission to a selective college  

•Get all the application essentials–tuition, admissions criteria, deadlines, phone numbers, addresses, demographics, student/faculty ratios, and most popular majors–for quick reference and easy comparison when you’re narrowing down your choices

•Green college ratings help readers find out if schools are environmentally friendly

•Special section on great colleges for the 15 most popular majors
   

 What the media is saying about The Best 373 Colleges from The Princeton Review: 

“The offbeat indexes, along with the chattily written descriptions of each school, provide a colorful picture of each campus.”–The New York Times

“The most efficient of the college guidebooks. Has entertaining profiles larded with quotes from students.”–Rolling Stone

“A great book…it’s a bargain.” –CNN

“Our favorite college guidebook.” –Seventeen

“Provides the kind of feedback students would get from other students in a campus visit.” –USA Today


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Sample Top 10 Rankings from The Best 373 Colleges

Best Career Services

  1. Northeastern University
  2. Pennsylvania State University - University Park
  3. Yale University
  4. University of Florida
  5. Barnard College
  6. Bentley University
  7. Claremont McKenna College
  8. Sweet Briar College
  9. Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology
  10. The University of Texas at Austin

Dorms Like Palaces

  1. Bryn Mawr College
  2. Smith College
  3. Loyola University Maryland
  4. Franklin W. Olin College of Engineering
  5. Bennington College
  6. Bowdoin College
  7. Washington University in St. Louis
  8. Claremont McKenna College
  9. Scripps College
  10. The George Washington University



Product Details

  • Paperback: 848 pages
  • Publisher: Princeton Review; 2011 Edition edition (August 3, 2010)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0375429875
  • ISBN-13: 978-0375429873
  • Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 1.7 x 10.3 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.6 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (22 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #335,247 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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48 of 48 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars The best college-search book, period. August 3, 2010
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 (but for people completely new to the college-searching process, definitely check that out too).

"The Best 373 Colleges (2011 Edition)" (840 pages) is similar to last year's edition. After holding the number of best colleges at 371 last year (remember this book started off in 1992 with the best 350), this time there are 2 new "best" colleges: Austin College and the University of Missouri-Columbia. Not a single school from last year's list was dropped (if the inflation of "best" colleges continues, I surmise we'll get to 400 by 2020 or so). There are over 60 fun-to-browse top 20 lists of best/worst, such as "Most Beautiful Campus", "Students Study the Most", "Party Schools", and "Most Politically Active Students" (my daughter is attending the #1 ranked school on that list, it was ranked #2 last year, so yes these rankings change from year to year).

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 (the number of applicants, how many were accepted, and of those how many actually decided to attend), up-to-date tuition and room/board costs (I checked the numbers of the college that my daughter is now attending, and they are accurate), etc. Another aspect that is very helpful is the "Survey says" sidebar, in which the essence of the university is distilled from the college students themselves, and "The Inside Word" segment on how tough it really is to gain admission when all is said and done.

The proof is in the pudding: of the many college guides out there, my daughter spent more time with this book (when she was looking at colleges a few years ago) than with any other. This book is not the first place to start the college search, but once your son or daughter has narrowed down his/her colleges of choice, and assuming those colleges are featured in the "best 373", this book clearly is the best resource, the last step before a campus visit, and can be used again following the campus visits. I've looked at a lot of college-search books and if I was forced to recommend only one book among all the college search guides, this book is clearly it.
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4.0 out of 5 stars College planning BIBLE August 3, 2010
By Jel212
My pre-order came in today, and thank goodness! I've been doing summer college visits with my niece, and in looking through Best 373, we found some more potential options for her to tack on before school starts up again. The rankings are great, as are the college info pages - everything you need to know, and then a little more. Highly recommended for families/students planning their college visits, or starting to research college options. A college bible, if you will.
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5.0 out of 5 stars Highly recommended! September 14, 2010
The 2011 edition of The Best 373 Colleges should be in every high school and many a general lending library. It's the most popular college guide in print, juxtaposing direct quotes from students and unique rankings of the top 20 colleges in 62 categories with detailed admissions information from applications to majors and tuition. Highly recommended!
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Most Recent Customer Reviews
4.0 out of 5 stars Great layout for comprehensive overview of colleges
Like any guide, it cannot be taken as the gospel truth, but this is a great starting point for comprehensive overview of colleges with both the factual profile information, as well... Read more
Published 16 months ago by katupnorth
5.0 out of 5 stars very informative
we are just beginning the college search process, but this gave us a lot of important information and started us down the path to making an informed choice.
Published 17 months ago by MamieJ
5.0 out of 5 stars GOOD!
The book is really helpful in telling the real opinions of real students from the school. That was the best part.
Published 22 months ago by PlacestoGo_Girl
4.0 out of 5 stars A Helpful Guide to Colleges
There is no "perfect" guide to colleges. The guides that focus on "rankings" and numbers generally fail to capture the personality of a school... Read more
Published 23 months ago by Alan Houston
2.0 out of 5 stars Eh...
One Cal State? And out of all the Cal States they could have chosen, they choose Cal State University Stanislaus? This book sucks. It's not at all like I thought it would be. Read more
Published on April 26, 2011 by Monique Gray
5.0 out of 5 stars BEST book
This book is designed with two pages per college. Typically, the left side is for the student (atmosphere, snapshot of typical student, most popular majors, lifestyle) and the... Read more
Published on March 30, 2011 by Central PA
5.0 out of 5 stars Provides the Students view
The nice thing about this book is its philosophy of asking the students at the schools (some 122,000 students nationwide) to rate the colleges they attend. Read more
Published on March 10, 2011 by John Matlock
5.0 out of 5 stars Great!!
If you're looking for the best colleges, this book is for you! It gives great statistics of many colleges and gives the right information. I would definitely recommend this.
Published on February 12, 2011 by Mark
5.0 out of 5 stars Good for parents and students
We have really enjoyed having this book around while my daughter tries to figure out which colleges fit her needs and desires. Read more
Published on January 30, 2011 by A. Helms
4.0 out of 5 stars Good Starter Book
Good book for basic information on colleges nationwide. We found some of the information was contradicted by the schools websites. Read more
Published on January 2, 2011 by Connie G
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