Kaplan Guide to College Selection 1999: Find and Get into the School That's Right for You [Paperback]

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Book Description

Publication Date: August 1, 1998 | ISBN-10: 0684852535 | ISBN-13: 978-0684852539

• Personalized College Search featuring helpful self-evaluation tools to find the school that best meets your needs and goals.

• Expert Advice to help you write successful admissions essays, get impressive recommendations, and interview with confidence.

• Revealing Campus Profiles detailing the real academic and social scenes of hundreds of schools.

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What's more important to you--to have your professors know your name, or to go to a famous school with nationwide name recognition? How would you rank the importance of the quality of the library in relation to the record of the football team? Before deciding to invest four years and several thousand dollars in a college, it helps to know what your priorities are. The Kaplan Guide to College Selection 1999 is not merely an alphabetical list of colleges--it's really a workbook to help you decide what you're looking for in a university. The opening section in the book helps you create a priority list by posing questions regarding school size, location, cost, reputation, and other issues. Your top 10 priorities are then used to steer you in the direction of college categories such as "academic shrines," "briefcase factories," and "cultural meccas." Each category is described in an overview that discusses potential pros and cons affecting such schools (for example, the ski slopes near a northern "scenic route" school may sound appealing--but how appealing do six-foot drifts of snow on the way to class sound?) followed by profiles of the individual schools. These profiles contain both concise information about size, setting, and admission requirements and a descriptive essay to help you get a better feeling for the school. The remainder of the book is devoted to helping you get admitted to at least some of the schools you've selected--from how to get organized to ensure you don't miss deadlines (and providing thorough checklists to keep you on track) to how to write successful essays, get good recommendations, and shine at interviews. Additional chapters address special considerations for students of color and students with disabilities. The final section covers issues relating to financial aid and offers advice on how to compare offers (and, possibly, negotiate better ones).

Whether you end up looking for a "sports powerhouse" or an "alternative haven," the Kaplan Guide to College Selection 1999 gives you the tools you need to make an informed decision--and to increase your chances of getting accepted at the schools you choose. --C.B. Delaney

Product Details

• Paperback: 640 pages
• Publisher: Kaplan (August 1, 1998)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0684852535
• ISBN-13: 978-0684852539
• Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 8.4 x 1.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 2.1 pounds
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #9,521,079 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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5.0 out of 5 stars Excellent book for selection of colleges., November 8, 1999

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This review is from: Kaplan Guide to College Selection 1999: Find and Get into the School That's Right for You (Paperback)

For the person who have no idea what colleges they go to, and what to look for in colleges. The book guides you through with a self-assessment survey in the beginning that allows you to prioritize between preferences you may have for colleges.

The most useful part of the book, however, is the catagorized colleges. Unlike other books that list colleges by state or alphabetic order, this book lists the "brain" colleges, the liberal arts colleges, the "specialized" colleges. This allows me to find colleges that are similar to the ones they are interested in.

Also gives significant insights into the colleges with long and informative commentaries on each of the profiled colleges.

Also includes a section on the admissions process itself.

The only shortcoming is the fact that not too many colleges are included, but the ones that are are amazingly done.

I spent an entire junior year trying to choose colleges. This book did the job in a few hours.