College guides are a must for any teenager trying to choose the right school. Unfortunately, most guidebooks are vague, boring tomes written by administrators and journalists, instead of the real experts–the college students that actually go there. Students’ Guide to Colleges is different. Entirely student-written and edited, this invaluable resource cuts through the cant with comprehensive listings of the vital statistics and requirements for America’s top 100 schools accompanied by three totally honest, fresh, fun-to-read descriptions penned by attending undergrads from different walks of life. Want to know how big classes really are? How rigorous the academics get? Or how greek or granola, chill or up-tight, homogenous or diverse, gay or straight, a campus really is? Lively, irreverent, and insightful, the Students’ Guide to Colleges is the only guidebook that offers multiple perspectives on each school and tells it like it is so that college applicants can make the best choice when deciding where they want to spend their college years.
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Jordan Goldman and Colleen Buyers started creating the Students’ Guide when they were freshmen at Wesleyan University. Recent graduates, they live in New Jersey and British Columbia, respectively. This is their first book.
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27 of 27 people found the following review helpful:
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Excellent resource for high school students,
By Anne (Philadelphia, PA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Students' Guide to Colleges: The Definitive Guide to America's Top 100 Schools Written by the Real Experts--the Students Who Attend Them (Paperback)
I have been a professional college counselor for more than 10 years, and I can't recommend this book highly enough. It's an upstart title in the college guidebook industry - this is the first edition - but it has such a novel take on the process, and offers such innovative features, that I'll be very surprised if it isn't here to stay.
A colleague of mine recently said this book is the next best thing to spending a week on each college's campus. I usually shy away from cliches like that - but, in this case, it's very close to the truth. If you're looking at any of America's top 100 colleges and universities, I highly recommend it.
25 of 25 people found the following review helpful:
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This review is from: Students' Guide to Colleges: The Definitive Guide to America's Top 100 Schools Written by the Real Experts--the Students Who Attend Them (Paperback)
As a prospective college student, I have to tell you how much I appreciate Students' Guide to Colleges. It combines many of the best features of the Princeton Review and Fiske guides with much more comprehensiveness. I also appreciate that it is without any trying-to-sound-hip blather because these are not editor-interjected profiles, they're written by actual students. This is a great compliment--I have been looking at colleges seriously for about a year, and this is the best guide to colleges among the many I've seen. I also just read the Oberlin College profile in this book with an Oberlin alum and relative. She said that this was this most comprehensive and accurate Oberlin portrayal she's read in a guide. Among other things, she and I loved the different student perspectives and the unthinkable-in-previous-guides questions like "what aspect of your school would a prospective student not see on a college tour?" The guide's honesty also impressed me, as the Fiske guide lauded Vassar's "diversity," for example, where Students' Guide admits "Although Vassar likes to talk about diversity a lot, most students are actually wealthy and white." I am confident in saying that anyone applying anywhere from Hampshire to Harvard will find this book incredibly useful!!
-Josh
24 of 24 people found the following review helpful:
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I loved this college guide!!!,
This review is from: Students' Guide to Colleges: The Definitive Guide to America's Top 100 Schools Written by the Real Experts--the Students Who Attend Them (Paperback)
As a prospective college student, I have to tell you how much I appreciate Students' Guide to Colleges. It combines many of the best features of the Princeton Review and Fiske guides with much more comprehensiveness. I also appreciate that it is without any trying-to-sound-hip blather because these are not editor-interjected profiles, they're written by actual students. This is a great compliment--I have been looking at colleges seriously for about a year, and this is the best guide to colleges among the many I've seen. I also just read the Oberlin College profile in this book with an Oberlin alum and relative. She said that this was this most comprehensive and accurate Oberlin portrayal she's read in a guide. Among other things, she and I loved the different student perspectives and the unthinkable-in-previous-guides questions like "what aspect of your school would a prospective student not see on a college tour?" The guide's honesty also impressed me, as the Fiske guide lauded Vassar's "diversity," for example, where Students' Guide admits "Although Vassar likes to talk about diversity a lot, most students are actually wealthy and white." I am confident in saying that anyone applying anywhere from Hampshire to Harvard will find this book incredibly useful!!
-Josh
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students talk about academics, reputation accurate, personal attention from professors, campus tour, prospective student, admissions officer, frat scene, class year, competition between students, queer students, big party school, strongest departments, south quad, intro classes, naked party, cappella groups, dorm life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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students talk about academics, reputation accurate, personal attention from professors, campus tour, prospective student, admissions officer, frat scene, class year, competition between students, queer students, big party school, strongest departments, south quad, intro classes, naked party, cappella groups, dorm life Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Application Deadline, Number of Graduate Students, Number of Undergraduates, Alumni Include, Laid-back Politically, Never Nightlife, Notable Majors, Split Diversity, Bryn Mawr, Junior Major, Large Location, Sophomore Major, Notre Dame, Ivy League, Senior Major, Wake Forest, Freshman Major, Santa Cruz, New Jersey, Penn State, The Activities There, Holy Cross, Harvey Mudd, Mount Holyoke New!
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