Customer Reviews

100 Colleges Where Average Students Can Excel, 1e

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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!

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.

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 Despite outdated statistics and specifics about each school, the "100" continue to be good places for average students.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.

Considering the age of this publication, it was a helpful beginning to exploring how competitive those schools are now. For a counselor, who ostensibly knows what she's doing, it's a good resource. Parents and students would be better served with a new publication.

I didn't read this book, I saw it because a friend that was looking for a college to study. Of course, no one will ever read it all! It's a list of colleges (the title say that) but is very well organize and easy to use. I'm not a reader of lists, but I like this one.