Students' Guide to Colleges: The Definitive Guide to America's Top 100 Schools Written by the Real Experts--the Students Who Attend Them

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Students' Guide to Colleges: The Definitive Guide to America's Top 100 Schools Written by the Real Experts--the Students Who Attend Them Pub. Date: 7/26/2005 Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated

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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.

More than 30,000 students surveryed
Preface by Chuck Hughes, former seniior dean of admissions at Harvard University

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780143035589
Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
Publication date: 7/26/2005
Pages: 672
Sales rank: 532,236
Product dimensions: 7.52 (w) x 9.32 (h) x 1.25 (d)

Meet the Author

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. Student's Guide to Colleges is their first book.

Colleen Buyers and Jordan Goldman started creating the Students’ Guide when they were freshmen at Wesleyan University. Recent graduates, they live in New Jersey and British Columbia, respectively. Student's Guide to Colleges is their first book.

Students' Guide To Colleges Acknowledgments Preface Letter from the Editors Frequently Asked Questions I Wish I Knew Then School Indexes By Size By Setting By Region By State By Intellectual Fervor By Intensity of Nightlife By Political Leaning By Diversity Miscellaneous Indexes

Amherst College Antioch College Bard College Barnard College Bates College Berea College Boston College Boston University Bowdoin College Brandeis University Brown University Bryn Mawr College Bucknell University University of California-Berkeley University of California-Los Angeles University of California-San Diego University of California-Santa Cruz California Institute of Technology Carleton College Carnegie Mellon University Case Western Reserve University University of Chicago Claremont McKenna College Colby College Colgate University University of Colorado at Boulder Colorado College Columbia University Connecticut College Cornell University Dartmouth College Davidson College Duke University Emory University Evergreen State College Furman University George Washington University Georgetown University Georgia Institute of Technology Gettysburg College Grinnell College Hamilton College Hampshire College Harvard University Harvey Mudd College Haverford College Hendrix College College of the Holy Cross Howard University Johns Hopkins University Kenyon College Lehigh University Lewis & Clark College Macalester College University of Massachusetts Amherst Massachusetts Institute of Technology University of Michigan Middlebury College Morehouse College Mount Holyoke College New York University University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill Northwestern University University of Notre Dame Oberlin College University of Pennsylvania Pennsylvania State University Pitzer College Pomona College Princeton University Reed College Rice University Rutgers University Sarah Lawrence College Scripps College Smith College University of Southern California Spelman College Stanford University SUNY-Binghamton Swarthmore College University of Texas at Austin Trinity College Tufts University Tulane University Vanderbilt University Vassar College University of Virginia Wabash College Wake Forest University University of Washington Washington University in St. Louis Washington and Lee University Wellesley College Wesleyan University Whitman College College of William and Mary Williams College University of Wisconsin-Madison Yale University

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Posted April 8, 2010

Lots of great information. Pretty humorous at times.

I purchased this book as my daughter is a junior in high school and just beginning the college search process. We have some HUGE books, like the Princeton Review with a TON of statistics and information on every college in America. But I was looking for some students' input. I wanted to hear the pros and cons of a school straight from the students, as I feel you can probably learn a great deal more about the school from the student than the administration. This book seemed to fit that criteria, and that's why I bought it. I must say, I have not been disappointed in the purchase.

I really liked this book. The overall layout and format is easy to follow and an easy read. It's not just a myriad of stats - it's useful, honest opinions about a variety of academic and social factors. It's not the usual rose-colored propaganda you get directly from school administrations. The students who have contributed to the book seem to give honest appraisals of their respective schools - both the positives and the negatives. I think it seems more honest when the writer admits the negatives of the institution.

I also found this book surprisingly humorous also. A lot of these college students are extremely intelligent and very witty in their writing. But, more importantly, they get their points across very well.

Overall, a very useful resource and I recommend it.
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Anonymous

Posted September 5, 2005

Students Guide to Colleges: The Definitive Guide to America's Top 100 Schools Written by the Real Experts--the Students Who Attend Them

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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Posted September 5, 2005

Students Guide to Colleges: The Definitive Guide to America's Top 100 Schools Written by the Real Experts--the Students Who Attend Them

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.
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