Here is the only college guide designed to meet the needs of students who want a quality education but need extra help to attain it. It profiles 100 top-quality schools renowned for their innovative teaching styles, unique curricula, small class sizes, extensive academic services, and abundant on-campus housing--all features that help average students thrive--and includes information on admissions, tuition, and enrollment.
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34 of 35 people found the following review helpful:
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Great suggestions for your underachiever,
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This review is from: 100 Colleges Where Average Students Can Excel, 1e (Paperback)
After having to admit that my child is a very average student, the rest was easy. This book was very informative and helped me find several serious college options that stress small interactive student/teacher discussions, work/study experiences, and teacher-student mentoring that may help the underachiever grow. Excellent introductions to a variety of colleges/universities I had never heard of before, that look very promising. 5 stars!
20 of 20 people found the following review helpful:
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A descriptive list, good--but not great,
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This review is from: 100 Colleges Where Average Students Can Excel, 1e (Paperback)
Nowhere in this book does the author give any justification for selecting the colleges she includes. There is no real preface, and nothing to guide a student (or a worried parent) to schools with a certain strength, schools in a defined location, schools of a particular size, or schools with any other characteristics.That's it. Just jump in and start reading. Maybe you'll find something that sounds good. This is an easy-to-read, helpful, thorough list. But some kind of serious introduction with a guide to help the reader navigate would have made the book truly useful.
2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
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An "Oldie but Goodie",
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This review is from: 100 Colleges Where Average Students Can Excel, 1e (Paperback)
The book was published in 1997 and has not been revised. That's the bad news. The good news is that most of the descriptions of the colleges in this book are still pretty accurate. Despite outdated statistics and specifics about each school, the "100" continue to be good places for average students. As a practicing high school guidance director, I still refer to this book as a "starting point" for students who just do not have flashy resumes but who are serious and doing the best they can with academics. With all the hype and frenzy generated by the media and annual rankings for a handful of elite institutions, colleges in this book are usually "below the radar" and are definitely worth investigating.
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